House Majority Whip and White Supremacists.

[Nice Squirrel]

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/house-gop-leader-confirms-role-white-supremacist-event

Earlier today, the Huffington Post reported that House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) is “facing questions about allegations that he was a featured speaker” at a white-supremacist event in 2002. According to the allegations, first reported by blogger Lamar White Jr., Scalise “spoke at an international conference of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization headed by Nazi and former Klan leader David Duke.”

Oh dear.

 

[ksen]

fake story?

 

[Davka]

Washington Post:

House Majority Whip Scalise confirms he spoke to white nationalists in 2002

The 48-year-old Scalise, who ascended to the House GOP’s third-ranking post earlier this year, confirmed through an adviser that he once appeared at a convention of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization.

That organization, founded by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, has been called a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

“Beyond hosting a website, whitecivilrights.com, and staging an occasional conference, EURO is a paper tiger, serving primarily as a vehicle to publicize Duke’s writing and sell his books,” the SPLC writes on its Web site.

Well I guess it's marginally better than cancelling food stamps...

 

[ksen]

(((Davka)))

 

[laughing dog]

I think whether there is a problem with this person speaking to white supremacists rests on what he said, not solely his audience.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

ld has a point. Really hard to tell the difference between a white supremicist meeting and a Republican meeting... probably just fewer people with hoodies on.

Could play "gotcha!" but unless we know what he said, who knows. Was this a one off thing? If he is a bad guy, then there were other meetings he spoke at.

Oddly enough, this could backfire another way:

The statement added, “He has never been affiliated with the abhorrent group in question. The hate-fueled ignorance and intolerance that group projects is in stark contradiction to what Mr. Scalise believes and practices as a father, a husband, and a devoted Catholic.”

A devoted Catholic?! Tea baggers may be bagging up on him.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

ld has a point. Really hard to tell the difference between a white supremicist meeting and a Republican meeting... probably just fewer people with hoodies on.

Could play "gotcha!" but unless we know what he said, who knows. Was this a one off thing? If he is a bad guy, then there were other meetings he spoke at.

Let who amongst us who have not posted on Stormfront cast the first stone.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

ld has a point. Really hard to tell the difference between a white supremicist meeting and a Republican meeting... probably just fewer people with hoodies on.

Could play "gotcha!" but unless we know what he said, who knows. Was this a one off thing? If he is a bad guy, then there were other meetings he spoke at.

Let who amongst us who have not posted on Stormfront cast the first stone.

You made me think of DrewJ. He'd been able to have told us the deal behind the new Majority Whip.

DrewJ, Jebus, am I showing my age on this web board.

 

[ksen]

guys, don't forget that the tea party has nothing to do with racism

 

[Valjean]

When the shoe's on the other foot you never hear the end of it.
Remember Obama's "black power" pastor, Jeremiah Wright; or Bill Ayers, his "commie, terrorist" friend?

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I think whether there is a problem with this person speaking to white supremacists rests on what he said, not solely his audience.

True, but would they have had him as a speaker if he wasn't going to say something they liked?

 

[repoman]

There are a lot of crypto-racist groups around.

 

[Keith&Co.]

I think whether there is a problem with this person speaking to white supremacists rests on what he said, not solely his audience.

True, but would they have had him as a speaker if he wasn't going to say something they liked?

If someone with, or who wanted a political career was invited to speak to white supremacists, and they said 'yes,' you have to wonder at that fact alone.

 

[Davka]

guys, don't forget that the tea party has nothing to do with racism

Damned Straight!

 

[Keith&Co.]

Obama's plan is prostitution?

 

[untermensche]

When the shoe's on the other foot you never hear the end of it.
Remember Obama's "black power" pastor, Jeremiah Wright; or Bill Ayers, his "commie, terrorist" friend?

There is a difference between sitting in the audience and listening to a speaker, and being a speaker desired by a particular audience.

 

[laughing dog]

I think whether there is a problem with this person speaking to white supremacists rests on what he said, not solely his audience.

True, but would they have had him as a speaker if he wasn't going to say something they liked?

They would want him as a speaker if they expected he was going to say something they liked, but that does not require him to do so. I think it would take some fortitude as a politician to stand in front of a crowd of white supremicists and tell them why their views were unwanted.

Now, I would be terribly surprised if this particular Republican did such a thing. But I am willing to entertain the slim hope that he did until I provided the expected evidence to the contrary.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Even if Obama addressed the Legion of Doom, it would be better than addressing this group.

 

[AthenaAwakened]

Even if Obama addressed the Legion of Doom, it would be better than addressing this group.

Well the LoD just wants to rob everybody in the world, like any transnational corporation. If it wasn't for the whole fighting the Justice League all the time, the LoD would probably be traded on the NYSE

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Even if Obama addressed the Legion of Doom, it would be better than addressing this group.

Well the LoD just wants to rob everybody in the world, like any transnational corporation. If it wasn't for the whole fighting the Justice League all the time, the LoD would probably be traded on the NYSE

Isn't dick Cheney a member?