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CNN Guest Argues ‘Drain The Swamp’ Phrase Is Racist [VIDEO] (#FakeNews)
Daily Caller ^ | November 22, 2016 | Christian Datoc

Posted on 11/22/2016 9:59:22 AM PST by maggief

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Ryan Lenz made a wild claim on CNN Monday morning, that Donald Trump’s popular “drain the swamp” phrase, which refers to removing corruption and “pay-for-play” politics from the federal government, is racist.

“Drain the swam was a meme, a Twitter hashtag that grew, exploded, really, after Donald Trump came forward with allegations it was a rigged election,” Lenz told “At This Hour” host John Berman. “It was spread specifically — or among the people that were spreading the drain the swamp hashtag were avowed racists, white supremacists who exist on Twitter to harass and demean various ethnic groups.”

“So we have a little bit of a two-sided message here,” Lenz added, oblivious to the audacity of the point he was trying to make. “Yeah, he’s saying stop it, but he’s also, you know, giving a wink-wink, nod-nod to the very people he’s asking to step away from their violence.”

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To: maggief

SPLC is a racist coven!


41 posted on 11/22/2016 11:15:36 AM PST by Redleg Duke (Time for a new party for We the People, to restore a two-party system!)
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To: maggief

The Southern Poverty Law Center is a racist hate group.


42 posted on 11/22/2016 11:26:39 AM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: maggief

The crazy leftist fascist media is on full on war. Time to stand firm with President Elect Trump. It will be war 24/7 with lies and misrepresented reports by the fascist media.

And you thought the election was tough.

The crazy leftists fascist do not want the policies that we the people and Trump want.


43 posted on 11/22/2016 11:33:09 AM PST by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: maggief
Racism, the catchall answer to everything.

Vapid.

“Drain the Swamp” is an arrow pointed almost exclusively at white men.

44 posted on 11/22/2016 11:38:44 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Ride To The Sound Of The Guns)
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To: maggief

How stupid is Ryan Lenz??


45 posted on 11/22/2016 11:44:07 AM PST by lonestar (Texan for Trump)
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To: maggief

No, no. I think they’re confusing “drain the swamp” with “clean out the watermelon patch”.


46 posted on 11/22/2016 11:46:13 AM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: maggief

Ah, yes, the SPLC. There once was big money in witch-finding, too, and it is amazing how the numbers of witches proliferated once it got started. So too with the SPLC. If racism isn’t there, they find it anyway because it fills the pocketbook. Anyone who owns a bed sheet, for example, is only two eye-holes short of the KKK. And so it goes.


47 posted on 11/22/2016 11:48:08 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: maggief

I would post the “That’s Racist” kid but photobucket has become unusable.


48 posted on 11/22/2016 1:15:20 PM PST by Organic Panic (Gentrification in America. Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: maggief
If he had said, "Clean house," that's racist because black people clean houses for y'all!

49 posted on 11/22/2016 1:29:13 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill TWITTER !! Kill FACEBOOK !! Free MILO !!)
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To: maggief

Anyone who consistently interprets their view of the world in terms of racial perspectives and implications is a racist.......


50 posted on 11/22/2016 2:51:25 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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