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New Yorker cover depicts Trump sailing with the Klan
thehill.com ^ | 8/17/2017 | John Bowden

Posted on 08/18/2017 7:48:51 AM PDT by rktman

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To: GreenHornet

At Byrd’s funeral, Bill Clinton gave a eulogy in which he justified Byrd’s membership in the Klan. It’s funny how the left didn’t have a problem with that.


Maybe someone should dig that speech of Slick’s up, make a graphic, spread it all over the inter webs/social media.


21 posted on 08/18/2017 8:16:57 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: GreenHornet

Here’s the youtube of Bill Clinton justifying Sheets Byrd’s KKK membership....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fg3XNTMzNo

Maybe we need to send this to the New Yorker...as a friendly reminder :-)


22 posted on 08/18/2017 8:19:10 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Jane Long

> Remember that time they did same cover with Sen. Byrd, an actual KKK member? <

Well, to be fair, Sen. Byrd only had a marginal involvement with the Klan. All he did was join the Klan, then organize a new Klan chapter. He was later elected to a high Klan position, that of Exalted Cyclops.

Oh, wait a minute. That doesn’t sound like a marginal involvement at all.


23 posted on 08/18/2017 8:20:43 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Leaning Right
Like Billy Jeff sez.....it depends on what your definition of 'involvement' is. 😎
24 posted on 08/18/2017 8:24:13 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: dp0622
The msm SO OEVERPLAYED its card. Thank God they NEVER know when to stop.

Agreed, they outrun their blockers and then run into a brick wall.

25 posted on 08/18/2017 8:25:13 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Crucial
Are you suggesting that there is some basic difference in the moral compass of those waving Nazi flags & those on the "Antifa" faction who employed the exact same tactics that Roehm's Brownshirts employed on the streets of major German cities, before the 1933 takeover?

Were the Nazi flag wavers in any sense more committed to the tactics of thuggery than the "Antifa" thugs who appear to have initiated the rumble?

Please explain. To me, the better organized "neo-Nazis" were the "Antifa" examples. As for the media interpretation? I believe that the pro-Nazi media in the then Socialist Germany reported that the "Kristol Nacht" thuggery was provoked. Was it? Was the "Antifa" thuggery in anyway better juetified?

The President's comments last Tuesday were spot on. Any equivocation will not show him more offended by Nazi tactics; rather exactly the opposite.

26 posted on 08/18/2017 8:28:06 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: dp0622

I am sure that The New Yorker is very pleased with itself.
They can congratulate themselves on a magazine cover that very few Americans will ever see.


27 posted on 08/18/2017 8:28:53 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: rktman

New Yorker, CNN, WaPo et al imbibe each others lies while their shrinking influence dies. They talked themselves into believing Clinton would win and ignored the obvious: that she could not reliably draw a crowd of a few hundred while Trump drew 10-20 thousand people twice a day. They knew their polls oversampled Democrats but ignored that fact. They were so intent on shaping rather than reporting that they became blind to reality. They are victims of their own lies.

And they’re still doing it.

They’ve learned nothing.

They’re damaged goods.


28 posted on 08/18/2017 8:39:01 AM PDT by Ray76 (Republicans are a Democrat party front group.)
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To: Army Air Corps
The New Yorker used to have great cartoons. They still have cartoons, but most of them are pretty lame in recent years.

I don't know the makeup of the crowd in Charlottesville, but I assume that the pro-statue group was not all extremists and neo-Nazis but included people there out of curiosity or because they don't like the Left's attack on Southern heritage.

The Nazis in WWII (and before) were horrible. Some of my relatives were killed in WWII fighting the Germans, but I am sure there were lots of decent men in the German army who were not Nazis, just citizens who had to serve because their country was at war.

29 posted on 08/18/2017 8:40:21 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Ohioan

You argue very well. That’s a skill most of the Left sorely lacks. I just think it would be better if Trump specifically and clearly denounce both sides. His opposition to the Antifa thuggery can be clarified. The danger here is for Trump to be misunderstood. A President’s stances have to be clear. He doesn’t have to be a puppet of the press in doing so. He needs to illuminate the path forward in the minds of Americans.


30 posted on 08/18/2017 8:59:19 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: Crucial
No problem with further clarification. It depends on how it is nuanced. He needs to not appear to be wavering.

Again, it is all in how it is nuanced!

31 posted on 08/18/2017 9:12:33 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Ohioan

Agreed


32 posted on 08/18/2017 10:56:53 AM PDT by Crucial
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