It's amazing that Mark Meadows would have the temerity of using a black woman's body as a prop...

[MrScorpio]

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1. meadows is a spoiled shit sandwich

[Basement Beat]

2. Well said.

He literally went on a panic attack after being called out by his tactics.

[gratuitous]

3. I don't know what to call it

Amusing? Astonishing? Totally expected?

But you KNOW that Meadows is accustomed to the "how can it be racist if" tropes. In the circles he runs in, that is the irrefutable point, the one that shuts down all further mock discussion of racism as everyone guffaws about how easy it is to prove you're not racist (especially when you really are). Then, he goes out into public, which doesn't see things qui-i-i-i-te the way Meadows does. But he trots out his irrefutable point, expecting it to be every bit as successful as it is with his buddies.

Then it isn't effective. Huh. In fact, some people have the temerity to point out the glaring hole in his irrefutable point. And they're just so MEAN about it! Meadows' friends are never like that.

I guess it is by turns amusing, astonishing, totally expected, and more than just a little sad.

[DeminPennswoods]

4. And then get mad when called out for it

Man, his face got really red, too, when he was "protesting too much".

[Baitball Blogger]

5. So, now we will call Meadowing, someone who parades a member of a minority

group to deflect any suspicion of racism.

[fishwax]

7. I like that term

[Baitball Blogger]

8. It was known behavior, just looking for a label.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Yup, for those curious

[csziggy]

10. She sure looks thrilled to be there

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Props don't have to be "thrilled"

They are just "props". There "for show". "Background scenery".

[fishwax]

9. And he said just the suggestion that it might be racist was racist itself

So, essentially, he did exactly what Tlaib did in calling a specific action racist, except that (a) he didn't get called out for it and (b) his claim was intellectually dishonest bullshit.

[GulfCoast66]

11. Clear example of their panic!!

go find a black person we can drag out and parade around. Hurry!

Sickening.

[eleny]

13. His two-act play did not cut it

And wait for his third act in front of the press. That's coming.

[NewJeffCT]

14. Mark Meadows in 2012

"2012 is the time we are going to send Mr. Obama home to Kenya or wherever it is"

[Enoki33]

15. A friend sitting beside me angrily responded when she saw the lady

being used as a prop that she felt like she was being personally insulted. I felt angry.