Dan Rather's take on Lindsey Graham

[Va Lefty]

Link to tweet

[skylucy]

1. Dan Rather is a gem.

[busterbrown]

21. Yep Luv the man..

But I did not agree with his decision to back down on Bush Story.

[jcgoldie]

2. You chose the wrong side of history Lindsey

What happened to him makes no sense other than blackmail.

[erronis]

11. Blackmail or other forms of coercion. All of them are pwned by someone/thing.

Guesses might include kompromat (US or foreign), shady financial transactions (unreported).

For Graham, it wouldn't take much to have some photos in flagrante delicto, from what I've heard.

[pazzyanne]

18. Lindsay is eyeing a position in the tRump administration.

My guess is he is eyeing State Attorney General when Sessions is fired. It would explain the butter job he is doing on tRump. I'm hoping that John McCain comes back to do a major haunting for Lindsay.

[Hortensis]

31. Yes, more than one job interview going on apparently.

Well, if McCain doesn't haunt Graham, that video certainly will. Rather nailed it. It's a new classic in its genre.

[George Eliot]

36. McCain sure is an angel now that he's passed.

Does anybody think he'd have voted against Obamacare repeal had he not seen the "light?" He was a Republican through and through. Obviousy a very likable one.

[True Blue American]

51. Your guess is the same as mine

Starting with Lindsey inviting Jared and Ivanka to the funeral he knew they were not wanted, to his about face from McCain hanger on the Trump sycophant he has done a 360. Sorry 180.

[pazzyanne]

56. Bingo, we have a winner!

[INdemo]

54. Why ..as Attorney General he would only have a max term of 1 year and 4 months.

Trump will resign before then

[pazzyanne]

55. Maybe they know something we don't know?

They have steamrollered everybody and everything for the last 2 years. There is a long term Stephen Miller plan being played out. Everyone needs to GOTV!!!

[True Blue American]

50. In Lindsey's book

He talked about the few relationships he had. He talked about 3 women. They all left. That was in his early years. None since then?

[BigGermanGuy]

59. when you

refuse to admit who you are sexually, the anger builds.

[dlk]

3. Lindsey Made it Clear for the World to See How Much He Hates Women

[CousinIT]

4. Aww c'mon. Lindsey Graham doesn't hate women.

He just doesn't GIVE A DAMN about them. He and his Republican friends want Kavanaugh up there to preserve male power over women.

The opposite of love isn't hate. It's indifference. And Republicans have got a LOT of that for America's women. They truly just don't give a damn about them as human beings. At ALL (hell they don't even consider them human beings, mostly).

[LisaM]

16. Yes, I think this is the more accurate assessment.

Women just don't figure into his worldview of how things should work.

[zentrum]

57. More important than women

...is the economic takeover of Democracy that Repugs will lock in once he's on the court. It's a very big lasting corporate sea change that they are enacting. End of all environmental regulations, all worker's rights, all financial regulation, all consumer protection. Woe to immigrants and non-white people.

Domination of women is merely a perk--a symbol of all that to them.

[BarbD]

65. Being ignored and dismissed as irrelevant has been around since

St. Paul observed, "Women have three rights: To obey, to serve, and to remain silent."

[Izzy Blue]

5. Graham hates women

because he always wanted to be one.

[obamanut2012]

6. Stop this bigoted garbage

[erronis]

14. Agree. Disparaging sexual persuasions is wrong and not helpful.

[Tipperary]

19. Two of these type comments in this thread.

Sickening.

[Hortensis]

32. Thanks. Agree.

[stonecutter357]

27. Disgusting comment !

[pansypoo53219]

41. he played one today. well, a silly version of one.

[LenaBaby61]

37. Lindsey Made it Clear for the World to See How Much He Hates Women.

He sure couldn't love them:

Woman who identifies herself as a rape survivor confronts Lindsey Graham.

Washington (CNN)A woman who identified herself as a survivor of rape confronted Sen. Lindsey Graham on Thursday, while the South Carolina Republican was speaking to reporters outside a Senate hearing where Christine Blasey Ford was testifying over sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Graham, who is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was discussing Ford's testimony, when a woman who later identified herself on Twitter as Robyn Swirling spoke to Graham.

"Sen. Graham, I was raped 13 years ago," Swirling told Graham, adding later, "I don't remember the exact date, but do you believe me?"

Graham said he was sorry for what happened to Swirling and that she needed to go to the cops.

Given his former line of work, damn. He speaks to a rape survivor like this? And he spoke badly about Dr. Ford too.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/27/politics/lindsey-graham-rape-survivor-go-to-the-cops/index.html

Sorry, but that's more that indifference IMHO. How damn ROTTEN can you be? Acting like he does, and most other thuglicans, it's no wonder many women (And probably men/boys as well) are scared or too embarrassed to come forward to report rape/sexual assault.

[atreides1]

39. Not true

There is one woman who he doesn't hate...his sister!

[dalton99a]

7. Lindsey Graham completely revealed himself today as a vile traitor and a hyperpartisan scumbag.

[warmfeet]

9. He was always so.

He has taken the mask off to reveal the true ugliness underneath.

[Augiedog]

8. Graham was play acting, he was not extemporaneously speaking. This was a setup, planned and

only effective if you are easily duped.

[BigmanPigman]

12. You said it!!!!!!

[pangaia]

23. The entire republican side of the committee was a set-up.

Game plan was clear to all...

Don;t ask any questions.. Keep mum.
The attack dems and thus the left, liberals,

Take over the courts, they are on easy street and american democracy is toast.

[BigmanPigman]

10. Chris Hayes and a guest said that his performance

was planned by the GOP and the timing of removing the female they hired to ask questions. This was part of their plan. It makes sense and looks that way to me. Lindsey wants to be the next Atty General too.

[Hortensis]

33. Brian Williams: "Since the death of John McCain, I think you

can draw a line to the kind of dizzyingly fast degree with which he has become an unquestioning Trump supporter."

Steve Schmidt said he's corrupted by ambition, corrupted by politics. This was in the context of America needing a statesman and that Graham could have been that man. Quite a condemnation.

For years I've been bouncing right along with Graham's perambulations, between appreciating some position Graham took (weighted for a southern Republican) and, more often, disapproving. In some weird way I'm almost vaguely mourning the death of the Lindsey Graham he used to be with, apparently, McCain's strong influence. Now we get Graham undiluted, no longer bipolar.

[BigmanPigman]

34. I just called one of his local offices and his mailbox is full.

I called Sen. Collins at two different local offices and those mailboxes are full too. Those are the only ones I tried tonight but I imagine that the same would be true for other members of the committee as well as the borderline senators. Graham is third on the list of people I hate, right behind the fucking moron and McConnell.

I hope the ghost of McCain haunts him until he loses what's left of his evil mind. 😱👻

[Hortensis]

38. It looks like The Real Lindsey Graham should be hated.

He's in part a product and victim of this era, though. I strongly believe that politically, which has increasingly affected all areas of their lives of course, many conservatives have been trained to be the worst versions of themselves. What they will support is determined by who leads them.

We're seeing more and more break away now, even if only weakly and tentatively. Not Graham, though. He's among the many millions whose intellect and moral core weren't strong enough to stand against the corrupting influences, and his prop is gone.

Guess I'd better go call some senators too, the committee votes at 9:30. One of my (blood red) senator's lines was answered by a person the other day. That hadn't happened in months.

[firstwife]

13. Miss Lindsey should be very worried

that one or more of his former conquests don't get pissed off enough to out him. Take a number, Next!

[cwydro]

17. Miss?

Seriously?

You should edit your bigoted post.

[pretzel4gore]

40. You're living on a dying planet

And typifying this goofy punk concerns you? The fascists love this stuff. PC is partly what got us here in 1st place.
And this don't make bigotry anyway ok, but we're a team (the nazipoohs sure are) after an entire generation of losing....let's try to win

[cwydro]

42. "P.C. is partly what got us here in the first place"

Oh really?

So using the n-word, etc. is ok with you too? Or is it just gay folk and women that you think it ok to denigrate?

Btw, you might want to work on your grammar skills.

[pretzel4gore]

62. fukk i failed kindergarten!

yes i need work, but im just saying the fascasti CONTROL the stage, they manage the reportage, they pass gas and giggle then mock up the publics' reactions (regan's 37% poll in 1980 called a'landslide' for example)...i have been outraged by the way the 'poohs have used 'PC' to denigrate criticism of the bastards' hideous schemes to injure the world, and that's it. Graham is a punk, and the fact he's gay shouldn't protect him, as his gangoassholes routinely attack LGBTQ ppl all the time for that very thing (see 'god hates fags')!
btw thanks for defending the good, but there's lotsa people here who are rough and harsh when getting into the fascist's faces, and they too shouldn't be forced into silence due to their 'bigotry'
we aint bigots, i don't think

[rzemanfl]

52. I'm told that is a name Stephanie Miller uses for him on her show. That was the excuse I got

when someone I know used the same label in an email.

[cwydro]

67. That's very nice.

How progressive.

[stonecutter357]

28. Disgusting comment !

[rzemanfl]

53. Thank you for reminding me I need to wash socks this morning. n/t

[tblue37]

15. And there will be horrifying still shots of LG, the other GOP senators, & Kavanaugh,

just as there are of Hazel Bryan screaming at Elizabeth Eckford:

[madaboutharry]

29. I read a book about this photo.

It is called Elizabeth and Hazel by David Margolick. It tells the story of the photo and tracks their lives. Elizabeth’s life was particularly sad.

[LiberalFighter]

20. Gone With the Wind lost Lindsey Graham

[Hermit-The-Prog]

22. text for those without twitter

@DanRather
It may very well be that Senator Graham's comments in the wake of Dr. Ford's testimony will be played in future documentaries of these times - sort of like we hear from segregationists when talking about the history of the Civil Rights era.
2:31 PM - Sep 27, 2018

[Permanut]

24. A kind of immortality..

Like McCarthy, Nixon, Poindexter, Mitchell, Agnew, Roy Moore, Sarah Palin, Dennis Hastert, Steve Stockman, Lewis Libby, Oliver North, John Ehrlichman, H R Haldeman, Charles Colson and about 500 others.

[autorank]

25. Graham was channeling George Wallace in the door at U of A n/t

[Garrett78]

26. None of these racist, sexist assholes seem to care that they're on the wrong side of history.

Or that they're just plain wrong.

[mr_lebowski]

30. Lindsey today proved to the Universe he's the walkin', talkin' embodiment of Bob Dylan's Wisdom ...

(with Mark Knopfler on the tasty riffs, in case it wasn't obvious )

Now that's what I call 3 chords ... and the TRUTH ...

[George Eliot]

35. Feel sorry a tad. Wise man would have said don't remember, drank a lot as a kid, and I apologize.

It would be over. A little more genuinely perhaps. But Republicans can never see down the road. They only know bombast, blustery, lying and cheating. And I think they'll vote tomorrow because that conservative vote on Court is all they care about. Disgusting.

Hope I'm wrong and we can push it beyond November. Honestly, I think some minds were changed today.

[IluvPitties]

43. Lindsey is probably afraid of things coming out.

Things most people already suspect.

[cwydro]

44. No doubt you think that's clever.

[IluvPitties]

45. Lindsey is a hypocrite.

[cwydro]

48. There's plenty to say about that asshole without making comments about sexuality.

These sniggering, sneering, oh-so-sly comments about Graham’s sexuality are all over DU.

Call him an asshole, a tRump toadie, a misogynist, a dinosaur, whatever. But no, it’s so much more fun to giggle and point at someone who may or may not be gay.

It’s eye opening to me. And very sad.

[IluvPitties]

49. I honestly think you are taking my post the wrong way.

However, point taken.

[GoCubsGo]

46. I don't think that's what he's afraid of.

I think he's either hiding something heinous, or he's covering for something his sister, whom he raised after their parents died, did. And/or he took a hell of a lot more Russian money than is being reported.

[IluvPitties]

47. I guess what I am saying is...

The problem might be... legal in nature, like so many other GOPers caught red handed...

[Texin]

58. I love Dan Rather, but history is written by the "winners" & We The People lost yesterday.

We, The People will never be allowed to write anything much longer. We'll all be lucky to be able to read and write, but what of our children and grandchildren? Their plan is to relegate the next generations - those born to the less than 1%ers that is - to servility and desperate poverty, grateful for the crumbs that fall off the tables of the kleptocrats in charge of everything.

[BlueJac]

60. Graham sucks for what he said, not what he is!

[Hekate]

61. Very perceptive way of putting it into context

[murielm99]

63. I keep thinking about the Army-McCarthy hearings.

Those were contentious. I was too young to remember them, and my family did not have TV then.

I saw the "Point of Order" documentary on PBS during the Watergate era.

The Watergate hearings were more restrained.

The repiggies may win this one, but they will pay a high price.

[Nitram]

64. Brilliant! And very probably correct!