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Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith wore Confederate rebel hat in Facebook (trunc)
CNBC ^ | November 20th, 2018 | Dan Mangan

Posted on 11/20/2018 1:49:02 PM PST by Mariner

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith smilingly posed for a photo in 2014 while wearing a Confederate cap and holding a rifle, then put the image on her Facebook page with the words "Mississippi history at its best!"

That image, taken at a Mississippi museum, resurfaced Tuesday as AT&T, Leidos and Walmart joined two other companies, Union Pacific and Boston Scientific, in asking Hyde-Smith, a Republican, to return campaign contributions because of controversy over her recent jest about being willing to attend a public "hanging."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: blacklist; corporateliberalism; fakenews; hitpiece; mississippi
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To: Mariner

There are more racists in Boston than there is in Birmingham.


81 posted on 11/20/2018 3:08:48 PM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: ought-six

cnbc is just being cnbc. the OP is being a sh*t disturber.


82 posted on 11/20/2018 3:09:34 PM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Sorry, Correction Required....we the POTUS, Trump GOP “Deplorables” own the Executive branch, The U.S. Senate and the Federal Judiciary. The Democrats own the House...maybe...we shall see!!! Was not so “BLUE” after all!!!


83 posted on 11/20/2018 3:10:42 PM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Mariner

BIg deal. She was touring a museum!


84 posted on 11/20/2018 3:10:46 PM PST by lone star annie
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To: Mariner

I voted for Chris McDaniels...I thought Cindy was a RINO and she may be.

But I’m beginning to love this woman!


85 posted on 11/20/2018 3:24:15 PM PST by Ammo Republic 15
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To: Mariner

She is not obligated to return a cent. Keep every nickle Senator.


86 posted on 11/20/2018 3:29:35 PM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: jmacusa
There is a lot more to it than that, and the North was not without blame also. I am reading “Hamilton” by Ron Cernow and so much of what happened had it's roots in the founding of the country. Excellent read and i recommend it.
87 posted on 11/20/2018 3:39:00 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Captain Peter Blood

follow chernow’s “hamilton” up with mccullough’s “john adams”. trust me on this one.


88 posted on 11/20/2018 3:42:09 PM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: Snickering Hound

Thanks for the photo. I had a friend who was a reenactor. Didn’t mean he supported slavery or wanted a big federal government - depending on what side he was on in a given reenactment!

My great-grandfather fought for the North (Indiana). He named one of his sons after Robert E Lee. Heck, two generations later, I was named after him! I find much to admire about Nathan Bedford Forrest without excusing slave trading, his violent temper, etc. I also find much to admire in Gen Sherman. Yegads!

Thinking people can admire folks without wanting to imitate everything about them. Soldiers on both sides often wrote with admiration about the courage of the other side. Or specific generals, for specific reasons.

This sort of anti-history bigotry pushed by anti-American leftist assholes pisses me off. “Mississippi history at its best!” - works for me. And it would have worked for my great-grandfather, even though he fought for the North for 4 years...then came home and, as I said, named his next son “Robert Lee”!


89 posted on 11/20/2018 3:55:11 PM PST by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: jmacusa

The Disaster had been looming for over a decade before Sumter. John C. Calhoun was the intellectual father of secessionist thought.


90 posted on 11/20/2018 3:58:06 PM PST by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: Captain Peter Blood
Nope. Not buying it. The South chose a path of violent secession and lost. Men like Jeff Davis and Robert E. Lee have the blood of some 700,000 Americans on their hands and Lincoln never prosecuted them for what they did. Of course political expediency had a lot to do with that decision but Lincoln would have been well within the Constitution to have had them both hung. The North didn't open fire first. The South did.
91 posted on 11/20/2018 4:08:07 PM PST by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: arrogantsob
The disaster was looming because the South wanted to expand slavery into new states and territories and the North opposed it.
92 posted on 11/20/2018 4:12:18 PM PST by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: jmacusa

“The South chose a path of violent secession and lost.”

Except for the “lost” part, it sounds like the Founding Fathers.


93 posted on 11/20/2018 4:13:16 PM PST by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: jmacusa

Yep, and the Mexican War only made matters worse.


94 posted on 11/20/2018 4:17:48 PM PST by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: Mariner
Seriously?

From the faux-outrage article, I was expecting this:


95 posted on 11/20/2018 4:35:29 PM PST by Drew68 (Twitter @TheRealDrew68 // Click my profile page for great Russian pop music videos.)
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To: jmacusa
Nope. Not buying it. The South chose a path of violent secession and lost. Men like Jeff Davis and Robert E. Lee have the blood of some 700,000 Americans on their hands and Lincoln never prosecuted them for what they did. Of course political expediency had a lot to do with that decision but Lincoln would have been well within the Constitution to have had them both hung. The North didn't open fire first. The South did.

Now in the truest sense, I have no dog in this fight (my ancestors immigrated to the US after the Civil War). However, I am from the North (PA). The whole story is much more complex than you would make it out to be—there were mixed motives all around, with some of the "villains" having their moments of decency and honor, and some of the "heroes" having their moments of treachery and inhumanity.

Lincoln certainly had the right to see both Davis and Lee hanged... but reconciling a broken nation required the magnanimity of welcoming them back as brothers and fellow Americans—from Lee and Davis all the way down to every ordinary farmer who donned the Confederate gray. Lincoln let them keep a shred of their dignity even in defeat. Lincoln's magnanimity allows us to see him as one of the great leaders of history (and allows us to overlook some of his more unfortunate views/decisions, such as the suspension of habeas corpus in Maryland and his racism toward blacks).

Rubbing a loss into the losers' faces rarely endears them to the winners, and more often than not, leads the former losers to rise up again (and if you need an example, look at the way the Germans were shamed by the French actions in the Rhone Valley following WWI, and how that contributed to the rise of Hitler). Hanging Davis and Lee would have made some folks feel better for a time, but it would have run at cross-purposes to Lincoln's primary goal: preserving the Union. That is far more than mere "political expediency."

Finally, If I were visiting the Jefferson Davis museum, even I would wear the hat. The haters need to get over themselves.

96 posted on 11/20/2018 4:35:34 PM PST by GCC Catholic (Trump doesn't suffer fools, but fools will suffer Trump. Make America Great Again!)
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To: Mr Rogers
“The South chose a path of violent secession and lost.”

Except for the “lost” part, it sounds like the Founding Fathers.

Well and succinctly said.

97 posted on 11/20/2018 4:36:51 PM PST by GCC Catholic (Trump doesn't suffer fools, but fools will suffer Trump. Make America Great Again!)
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To: Ammo Republic 15

Cindy is a RINO, but she’s worlds better than Espy who is a flat out crook. She’s being Kavanaughed with the public hanging comment, there was absolutely nothing racial about her comment but it’s being portrayed as such by the media. The manufactured outrage over the pictures at Beauvoir are ridiculous. Beauvoir is a museum and a very good one at that, everyone should see it if they’re in Biloxi no matter what their color or political persuasion.

She could make a comment about macaroni and cheese being good and she’d be deemed a racist for it. There’s no avoiding it with democrats these days, the racist label is 98% of their campaign strategy.


98 posted on 11/20/2018 4:37:08 PM PST by GaryCrow
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To: GCC Catholic

My only Civil War comment and I will make no others.

The South took the right principle and applied it wrongly & paid dearly!


99 posted on 11/20/2018 4:42:14 PM PST by Reily
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To: MayflowerMadam
It's DemocRAT !
100 posted on 11/20/2018 5:14:06 PM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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