Priebus Claims GOPers Never Questioned Obama's Legitimacy As President

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo

By ESME CRIBB Published JANUARY 15, 2017, 11:55 AM EDT

Incoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus claimed during a Sunday interview that Republicans never questioned the legitimacy of President Barack Obama's election victory, despite the fact that President-elect Donald Trump himself spent years pushing the so-called birther movement.

In an interview on ABC's "This Week," Priebus responded to Rep. John Lewis' (D-GA) comment that Trump is not "a legitimate president" by denying that Republicans ever questioned the legitimacy of Obama's election victory.

"I and we look up to John Lewis and his historic contribution to civil rights and voting rights," Priebus said. "And in particular his—"

"But the President-elect said he was all talk and no action!" George Stephanopoulos interrupted, referring to tweets Trump posted Saturday morning lashing out at the Georgia congressman and civil rights icon.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/priebus-claims-republicans-never-questioned-obama-legitimacy

[Judi Lynn]

1. "You lie!"

[Arkansas Granny]

5. Seriously, do they really think that people won't remember or that there's no video of remarks

and statements that can be found, easily, with very little effort.

[tblue37]

30. Remember, the GOP is not constrained by "reality-based" thinking. nt

[CincyDem]

9. The "problem" with Dems is...

...that we just can't go low enough to match these asshats. And unfortunately, in today's world - when they go low and we go high, we end up watching them take over the world as we know it. Not suggesting that we go low, but we will never see a Dem debase themselves so much as insulting the Office of the President - no matter who is sitting in that chair.

[Lanius]

36. Exactly

It's hard for people of principles to compete against others who will say and do anything to win.

[LiberalLovinLug]

37. Killing them with kindness just does not work

What is maddening to me is that Democrats in office on talk shows seem to think just pounding out TRUE points that show the ugliness of the GOP is going too low.

Meanwhile the GOP has no qualms about pounding out lies over and over until there is a "where there's smoke there's fire" effect.

[Alice11111]

39. Agree!

Call out their lies and say the truth (not couched in meek hints) even though it's going to piss them off, and make them go crazy!

Come on journalists. It's now or never. You are looking back and saying that you should have done a better job during the election. ..which is an understatement. At least, start now

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. And that is all he has to do, now the new truth is they never did question Obama's legitimacy.

We could have done more to prevent liars and unpatriotic people like Priebus from rewriting history had we all showed up on election day and not voted 3rd party.

But too many of us were concerned about that private server.

History has very little time left anyway, fasten your seat belts because we are going on a fast, short roller coaster ride that ends in world war.

[yardwork]

44. You're right about what happened.

[guillaumeb]

3. The GOP spent 8 years obstructing the President.

And 4 election cycles suppressing votes.

[CincyDem]

4. OMG this hurts...

Please, help me stop. It hurts to laugh this much...



Unfortunately, the second I stop laughing at these asshats I will weep with the knowledge that, independent of the means, this f'cker is truly "the most powerful man in the world" come next friday.

f'ck me...that's what really hurts.

[dalton99a]

6. Trump has been tweeting about Obama's birthplace since 2011.

[rtracey]

7. yeah

Ok so to break it down, here is the only answer (IMO).... ATTN DEMOCRATS....IF YOU DIDN'T VOTE THIS ELECTION, TRY GETTING OFF YOUR LAZY SOFA-FAT ASS AND VOTE. THIS IS WHY FUCKUMP AND THE RIGHT WINGED SHITS ARE KILLING ALL THINGS TO HELP PEOPLE. WILL THIS MOVE YOU, WILL THIS BE THE ONE THING TO GET YOU UP AND OUT. IF NOT...THEN FUCK YOU.

[secondwind]

24. 3 million more votes for Hillary. 300,000 were not able to vote in WI, 87 machines in blackest

district in MI "broke"... voter suppression in NC, etc., this is how they win

[Lanius]

38. Good point

But only 58 percent of eligible voters went to the polls on Nov. 9. That is a 20-year low. This country, supposedly a model of democracy, can do much better. And I believe if we vote closer to 90 percent we'll get a more representative government (both at federal and state levels) than we have now.

[rtracey]

40. and

And this was one of the lowest voter turnout in 20 years, 55% voting age voters......terrible.

[COLGATE4]

8. Rinse Penis is a slimy little fuck

whose highest calling in life is being the 'spokesperson' for the Rethugs. Consider the source when he speaks.

[47of74]

47. That's insulting

To slimy little fucks, to compare them to Rinced Peenus.

[uhnope]

10. Don't forget what "Reince Priebus" spells when you remove the vowels. nt

[WhiteTara]

11. Rancid Penis opens his mouth and lies

and hoptoads and scorpions fall out.

[Hokie]

12. Priebus must have forgotten about those 226 unsuccessful Birther lawsuits

Also the Maricopa County Sheriff's office Cold Case Posse investigation into President Obama's birth certificate has been going on for 64 months.

Birther case list:

http://tesibria.typepad.com/whats_your_evidence/BIRTHER%20CASE%20LIST.pdf|http://tesibria.typepad.com/whats_your_evidence/BIRTHER%20CASE%20LIST.pdf

[truthisfreedom]

13. Who gives a fuck what that fetid stench pile says?

We're not listening to any repuke revisionism.

[ladym55]

14. Say, what?

Calling President Obama a Kenyan Muslim and demanding his birth certificate?

Oh, sure.

Sadly, I'm guessing there was no follow-up to this comment. I didn't see the segment, so I don't know.

[2naSalit]

15. Chief of

shit-talk, rinsed penis.

[Historic NY]

16. Yeah sure they didn't

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/6/8/1098434/-Eric-Cantor-Paul-Ryan-Kevin-McCarthy-Plot-To-Sabotage-US-Economy-with-Frank-Luntz

http://www.politico.com/story/2009/01/obama-to-gop-i-won-017862

[Gothmog]

17. AMJOY laughed at Preibus lies here

[neeksgeek]

18. Nobody said it better than Al Pacino...

In The Godfather:

"Don't tell me you're innocent. Because it insults my intelligence and makes me very angry."

[doc03]

19. They claimed Clinton wasn't legit

because he didn"t 50% in a three man race.

[Tatiana]

20. See how the Republicans stay on offense?

The obvious response is that there was never the suggestion that Obama was working with a foreign power against American interests, while Trump is.

John Lewis is a hero. It took courage to actually go on offense against these evil people and publicly say the PEOTUS was illegitimate. That's a model. The rest of the Dems need to get out there and follow his lead by continuing to pound home the theme that Trump didn't win and that he is illegitimate.

[bucolic_frolic]

21. Guffaw!!! Choke!!

You couldn't break the hypocrisy with a sledgehammer

This is just more Reince Elitism

[MojoWrkn]

22. The rethugs were obviously not paying attention! They questioned President Obama's legitimacy

at every opportunity! Trumputin was one of the worst with his YEARS of claiming President Obama was not a citizen! A practice he only stopped late last year!

[Blue Idaho]

23. Liar!

We must prepare ourselves for a new level of outrageous hypocrisy from the party of Lee Atwater.

[Baitball Blogger]

25. Trouser Inferno Alert!

[BumRushDaShow]

26. The GOP's conscientious stupidity

#NMP

[HassleCat]

27. That's a relief.

There never was any birtherism. It was all a bad dream.

[J_William_Ryan]

28. Further confirmation

of the fact that Priebus is a liar, as are most others on the right.

[Thinkingabout]

29. Priebus has hung around Trump so long he can not tell the truth anymore either. If you

can lie and dance around then you can't work for Trump. Trump wasn't the only one calling President Obama illegitimate, there was many more like Joe Arpaio.

[trueblue2007]

31. PEIWBUS IS A LIAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Vinca]

32. Okay, there is only one way to explain this.

Someone euthanized Reince Priebus and the person appearing on the shows is a giant piece of taxidermy being controlled by a remote and programmed to say ludicrous statements. No one could possibly say this with a straight face.

[mountain grammy]

33. Mike Coffman says Obama not an American at heart, then apologizes

ELBERT COUNTY — Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.) is backpedaling after 9News obtained an audio recording of his comments at a recent fundraiser where he raised the issue of President Barack Obama’s birthplace and said the president, “in his heart, he’s not an American.”

At a May 12 fundraiser at the Elbert County Fairgrounds, Coffman wrapped up a 12-minute speech to donors with an unprompted discussion of President Obama’s citizenship and national identification.

“I don’t know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don’t know that,” Coffman said. “But I do know this, that in his heart, he’s not an American. He’s just not an American.”

http://www.denverpost.com/2012/05/16/mike-coffman-says-obama-not-an-american-at-heart-then-apologizes/

[Blue Owl]

34. Um, so what was that whole birther thing again?

n/t

[BeyondGeography]

35. And who was the Birther-in-Chief?

These people have no shame. They don't even have the concept of shame.

[orangecrush]

41. ...

[pansypoo53219]

42. YOU LIE!

#1 evidence. STFU.

[tclambert]

43. This is the official history now, Mr. Smith. O'Brien will escort you to the Ministry of Love.

Report to Room 101 for a special re-education session. Always remember "Ignorance is Strength."

[MurrayDelph]

45. Blather, Reince

Repeat

[47of74]

46. Hey, Rancid Penis, this....

[burrowowl]

48. What a bald faced LIAR!

[Solly Mack]

49. Only an idiot would believe that lie.

Which means republican voters will repeat the lie as true.

[6000eliot]

50. If by "never" he means "every fucking hour of every fucking day for eight years," then I'll agree.

[ProfessorGAC]

60. Well, There Was That 10 Minutes. . .

. . .where all of them were sleeping at the same time. Just being fair.

[HopeAgain]

51. We have to understand that none of these people

from the New Ministry of Propaganda are speaking to us. They are gaslighting the press and screaming into the Fox News echo chamber. they don't give a rats ass that we know they are making rediculous statements and lying their asses off.

[napi21]

52. Jesus Riance, are you getting senile? I might be old, but I haven't forgotten the "BIRTHER" BS.

I haven't forgotten the signs that said Born in Kenya. If you've forgotten those things after such a short time, you need to be tested for dementia.

[liberal N proud]

53. The selective history per the gopee.

[blueseas]

54. You are on a different planet

This is earth

[Salviati]

55. If trump weren't so opposed to clean energy sources...

He could power the nation for a century by hooking up generators to all the eyes rolling at this statement.

[earthside]

56. A bunch of them (including Trump) questioned Obama's legality.

Birtherism maintained that Barack Obama wasn't even legally president since he wasn't born in the U.S.

A Trump presidency maybe legal, but it is arguably not legitimate.

Legal: complying with law.

Legitimate: fair, morally or ethically acceptable.

[3catwoman3]

57. Many, many years ago, a friend of ours wh had been a fighter...

...pilot asked me if I knew how to tell if a fighter pilot wa lying to me. I'm sure you all know the answer - if his lips are moving.

That bit of wisdom is obviously applicable to Republican'ts as well.

[cstanleytech]

58. Whoa, now thats one whopper of a lie Reince.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

59. Joseph Goebbels: On the "Big Lie"

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/goebbelslie.html

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

61. OK-mustve been some other alt-universe I was in where that birther thing was happening and

gop pact to block anything and everything that could be construed as an Obama success. Refusing to vote up or down on Garland - wtf was that except delegitimizing the sitting president.

[W T F]

62. His style of propaganda is very reminiscent of the old Soviet Union..........Hmmmmm

[Rex]

63. He can lie all he wants to, it is on record as a fact.

One day people will realize the GOP stays in power by lying, causing general panic and stealing as much money from the Treasury as humanly possible.