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JHB

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9. It used to be a RW meme that Hillary snubbed Gold Star mothers...
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 12:29 PM
Jul 2016

It was a RW email that made the rounds when she was a senator.

It was, of course, phony, and slapped the name of a WW2 hero onto it just to give it more fraudulent outrage factor.

The truth of the matter is that the GS mothers dropped by her office while they were in Washington, unplanned and without an appointment, when she wasn't there (and IIRC wasn't in town).

Some anonymous Wingnut spun that into her deliberately spurning them. And tacked the name of the first WW2 Hellcat ace, Hamilton McWorter, onto it to drive the meme among its intended audience. McWorter was mystified as to how or why his name got attached.

Now Trump is doing it for real. Anyone know what the Wingnut email circle jerks are saying?

Wow rjsquirrel Jul 2016 #1
Powerful! Lochloosa Jul 2016 #2
Trump is betting that there are enough racist in this country to put him over the top in November VMA131Marine Jul 2016 #3
Trump knows.... getagrip_already Jul 2016 #5
Indeed. Fox did NOT cover the Khans' appearance. calimary Jul 2016 #10
If Trump had let it drop, the whole thing might have ended right there. But he violated a KingCharlemagne Jul 2016 #13
But they don't care..... getagrip_already Jul 2016 #14
Thanks to Trump's ineptitude, his supporters now have massive cognitive dissonance (read, anxiety) KingCharlemagne Jul 2016 #19
He never stops digging... TipTok Jul 2016 #21
No matter who they back, there isn't a mother in the country that doesn't feel her pain. nolabear Jul 2016 #4
K and R. Your post deserves a thread of its own Ishoutandscream2 Jul 2016 #8
Hear hear!!! calimary Jul 2016 #11
This 1000000000 percent. Dorian Gray Jul 2016 #23
Damn.. a tear just fell into my coffee. Adrahil Jul 2016 #6
winds are shifting - will never touch the 'base' but the NoMoreRepugs Jul 2016 #7
It used to be a RW meme that Hillary snubbed Gold Star mothers... JHB Jul 2016 #9
K&R napkinz Jul 2016 #12
Kick Hissyspit Jul 2016 #15
Trump's going to lose some support from military families IronLionZion Jul 2016 #16
+1, I am a 'Gold Star mother. Whoever saw me felt me in their heart." uponit7771 Jul 2016 #17
K&R gademocrat7 Jul 2016 #18
I swear I could hear that woman's thoughts during the speech lindysalsagal Jul 2016 #20
. Hissyspit Jul 2016 #22
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