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Tapper: Confederate Statues in Congress Are ‘Tributes to Traitors,’ Honors ‘Political Violence’
Breitbart ^ | 01/09/2022 | Pam Key

Posted on 01/09/2022 8:16:11 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

CNN anchor Jake Tapper said Sunday on his show “State of the Union” that the statues of Confederate leaders in Congress are “tributes to traders” that honor political violence like the events of January 6, 2021.

Tapper said, “On Thursday night, the one-year anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol, CNN hosted an event at the Capitol to talk about that horrible day.”

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KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; confederate; fakefapper; fapperisapos; statues; tapper; traitors
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To: Levy78

“Pretty sure Jake Tapper is a pedophile.”

You’d be surprised what people will do to stay out of trouble with the FBI.

Step and fetch Jake. Yessir. Nawsir.


21 posted on 01/09/2022 8:36:53 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s called “reconcilliation” which was done in the hopes that they wouldn’t be so ill treated after the war that it’d be worth it to fight again. You actually saw this occur years later with Germany, between WWI and WWI.

But socialists prefer to bulldoze bodies into pits.


22 posted on 01/09/2022 8:44:29 AM PST by fruser1
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What a sad state of affairs, as too many here on FR will actually agree with this pathetic anti-southern sentiment.

By this standard the American Revolutionaries would be considered traitors - as they were certainly regarded by their enemies at the time.

This sort of ignorance about history will be the death of us if we forget that a government unchecked is the enemy of patriots - and such a government will always call the people who try to reign it in “traitors”.


23 posted on 01/09/2022 8:46:35 AM PST by enumerated (I’m)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I recommend that everyone do their own search for “Jan 6 capitol damage” and then search again for “Summer 2020 riot damage” and just look at the photos for yourselves to compare. Just look!

You’ll see just how little damage was done to the capitol building and how much real damage was done by BLM/Antifa riots.

I saw a photo of Biden at the other day at the “celebration” standing in the capitol in front of a bunch of statues. Now, look again at the photos from Jan.6. Not a single statue was damaged and not a single painting was pulled off the wall and burned.


24 posted on 01/09/2022 8:48:56 AM PST by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Tapper is a loathsome creature who reminds us of Gollum in the movie “Lord of the Rings”. Perhaps a competent, well meaning Hobbit before he was corrupted by the illusion of the power of the ring. His fate will mirror that of Gollum, when he burns in the lake of fire, searching for his magical ring...


25 posted on 01/09/2022 8:54:40 AM PST by silent majority rising
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To: drSteve78

Agree


26 posted on 01/09/2022 8:55:25 AM PST by Vaduz ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Founding Fathers, violent insurrectionists par excellence. The victors write the history.


27 posted on 01/09/2022 8:55:48 AM PST by all the best
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Tributes to Democrats. Lol what a moron


28 posted on 01/09/2022 8:55:58 AM PST by databoss
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To: ChicagoConservative27

America itself is founded on political violence. Get used to that fact.


29 posted on 01/09/2022 8:56:31 AM PST by blackdog (Jab Dodger. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Did he point out the Democrats fought the Civil War for their right to keep slaves? How about the Democrats being behind Jim Crow, the KKK, Segregation in the South and filibustering the Civil Rights Bill 75 days? Of course the Lame Street Media will find a way to blame Republicans for all of that.


30 posted on 01/09/2022 9:07:41 AM PST by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti Astronomers see white dwarf 'switch on and off' for first time)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
And Jake Tapper is an utter dope about history. Beginning at Appomattox with the generous terms of surrender for Lee and his army, the North set about trying to both reconstruct the South and to foster reconciliation with those whom it had defeated in a long and brutal war.

Toward that end, Southerners were permitted to erect monuments and memorials honoring their men for their sacrifice in the war. In effect, the North was acknowledging that the Confederates had for the most part fought honorably and heroically. Within a generation, the country had knitted itself back together, and Confederate and Union veterans groups often held joint memorial ceremonies.

Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest can be seen as demonstrating this process of reconciliation. With little formal education and naturally stubborn and of a fighting disposition, Forrest became a founder of the Klan after the war. Yet he publicly repudiated the Klan when it turned toward wide scale racial violence, and near the end of Forrest's life, he became an open advocate for sectional and racial reconciliation and progress.

I would like to pose this question to Tapper and other critics of statues and monuments to Confederate leaders. Do you also mean to reject the sectional and racial reconciliation that such gestures fostered? Do you prefer that we forget the Confederacy and its heroes, or that we recognize and accept its chastening lesson that a supposed dedication to principle can lead even good men to folly and tragedy?

Of course, Tapper has none of this in mind but is simply mouthing the Democratic Party talking points designed to spur racial grievances for the sake of political gain. Hateful POS is right.

31 posted on 01/09/2022 9:15:11 AM PST by Rockingham
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To: antidemoncrat
“Did he point out the Democrats fought the Civil War for their right to keep slaves?”

That is an interesting comment.

If Democrats in the South were fighting to keep slavery, who was fighting to overthrow slavery?

32 posted on 01/09/2022 9:17:08 AM PST by jeffersondem
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Tear down the statue of Confederate spy master and Masonic wizard Albert Pike and I wouldn’t mind a bit.


33 posted on 01/09/2022 9:33:44 AM PST by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: ChicagoConservative27
And Communists murdered between 110 million and 259 million of their own citizens in the 20th century alone, but you are OK with Communist "political violence."

https://hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM


34 posted on 01/09/2022 9:33:57 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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To: Rockingham

I think the confederate monuments were meant to try to encourage reconciliation and national unity after CWI. Democrats don’t know anything about those kind of ideas . They just mouth the words. It’s either my way or the highway with them.


35 posted on 01/09/2022 10:20:15 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They represent free political thought. That’s what Tapper and deep state fear. They know many Americans don’t like the direction of the country.


36 posted on 01/09/2022 12:09:56 PM PST by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Then imagine if monkeys flew out of Liz Cheney’s patootie.


37 posted on 01/09/2022 12:32:49 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: jeffersondem

” If Democrats in the South were fighting to keep slavery, who was fighting to overthrow slavery?”

Since Abraham Lincoln is considered the founder of the Republican Party, I guess the answer is Republicans.


38 posted on 01/09/2022 12:54:11 PM PST by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti Astronomers see white dwarf 'switch on and off' for first time)
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To: ChicagoConservative27; allendale; Phoenix8; enumerated; all the best; Rockingham; jeffersondem; ...
I guess one could raise the point that treason was on the part of the North. Fewer than one in fifteen would have been motivated to defend slavery, though the institution was woven into the culture and economy of the Southern states. However, all believed even a most restrictive meaning for states’ rights precluded any faction from promoting their agenda by using the federal government as an instrument of military conquest.

Winston Churchill puts slavery into perspective in volume three of his History of the English Speaking People, when he begins discussion of the subject by saying, ”An aristocracy of planters living in rural magnificence and almost feudal state, and a multitude of smallholders, grew cotton for the world by slave labour. Of the six million white inhabitants of the so-called ‘southern states’ less than three hundred and fifty thousand owned slaves, and only forty thousand controlled plantations requiring a working unit of more than twenty field hands. But the three or four thousand principal slave-owners generally ruled the politics of the South as effectively as the medieval baronage had ruled England.”

39 posted on 01/09/2022 12:58:48 PM PST by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They’re all Democrats and were put there by Democrats, Jake.


40 posted on 01/09/2022 1:12:14 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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