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undeterred

(34,658 posts)
Thu Mar 27, 2014, 02:00 PM Mar 2014

Paul Ryan’s endless “I am not a racist” tour

If he wanted to prove his racial good will, why didn’t Ryan object when O’Reilly called Barbara Lee a race hustler?
Joan Walsh


Paul Ryan, Bill O'Reilly (Credit: AP/Susan Walsh/Matt Sayles/photo collage by Salon)

Will Rep. Paul Ryan ever finish his self-serving “I am not a racist” tour? Maybe not, if he keeps coming up with new ways to be offensive. What was Ryan thinking Tuesday night, when he let Bill O’Reilly attack Rep. Barbara Lee as a “race hustler,” without even trying to come to her defense?

O’Reilly built a whole segment around Lee’s condemnation of Ryan’s comments about “inner city” culture as “a thinly veiled racial attack.” He invited Ryan on the show to talk about his conversation with Lee, and what he most wanted to know was whether the Oakland Democrat had apologized to Ryan. Ryan didn’t exactly answer, but he used Lee to exonerate him from charges of racism.

“She does not believe that I have these views,” he told O’Reilly. “She knows me well, and she knows that I don’t have a racist bone in my body.”

O’Reilly wasn’t satisfied: “Then why did she imply you did?”

“Well, you’ll have to ask Barbara that,” Ryan averred. The host jumped in again:

“Are you mad at her? I would be…”

“No, I’m not mad at her. I’m a big boy. I understand that if you challenge the status quo sometimes you’ll be misinterpreted…”

And that’s when O’Reilly got to the point of his segment: trashing Lee and other black leaders as “race hustlers.”

more at: http://www.salon.com/2014/03/27/paul_ryan%E2%80%99s_endless_%E2%80%9Ci_am_not_a_racist%E2%80%9D_tour/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

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Paul Ryan’s endless “I am not a racist” tour (Original Post) undeterred Mar 2014 OP
Goon. giftedgirl77 Mar 2014 #1
Paul Ryan has to be justhanginon Mar 2014 #2
We have a good candidate to defeat him dragonlady Mar 2014 #4
'Ol Paul still hasn't figured out he's the "machine" we're all raging against Blue Owl Mar 2014 #3

justhanginon

(3,287 posts)
2. Paul Ryan has to be
Thu Mar 27, 2014, 03:25 PM
Mar 2014

the most overrated congressman in the history of the state of Wisconsin, maybe the most overrated in the history of the country. Oh what the hell, history of the world!
This darling of the MSM has damn few accomplishments to show for his years collecting a check from the taxpayers. As of 2012 he passed two bills with his name on them, renaming a post office and adjusting the tax on arrows. Fooking arrows as in bow and arrows.
Janesville, you can do better than this.
Jeeeeez!

dragonlady

(3,577 posts)
4. We have a good candidate to defeat him
Thu Mar 27, 2014, 04:58 PM
Mar 2014

Rob Zerban came reasonably close last time and will win this year, with help from us. I really wish I could vote for him, but I can at least post his name here..

http://www.robzerban.com/

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