Clyburn: Romney Reminiscent Of Racists Who Kept Rosa Parks In Back Of Bus

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

How pathetic. Jim Clyburn chose Martin Luther King Day to smear Mitt Romney with the shop-worn charge of racism.

Straining absurdly to make his accusation, the South Carolina Dem, appearing on Al Sharpton's MSNBC show, somehow managed to equate Romney's criticism of the politics of envy with the people who sought to keep Rosa Parks in the back of the bus.

[SoConPubbie]

Several anti Mormon FReepers did the same thing. Strange bedfellows.

Really Sandra?!?

Why don't you provide proof, because until you do, all this is is a smear.

[Colofornian]

Several anti Mormon FReepers did the same thing. Strange bedfellows.

Hey, it wasn't Romney's politics that have been racist.

It was what he failed to do before he ran for any public office...in the fact that there he was...age 31...and what? Still no peep from him as to why an organization he gave 10% of its income to an organization that said "no" to priesthood & temple privileges to blacks

SINCE the MSM made a huge deal about a racist rocked turned upside down on the Perry family hunting ground, what do you think the MSM are going to do with a potential Romney vs. Obama match-up anyway? Throw away the race card when with Romney, there's actual traction? (Not on your life)

[Colofornian]

Partial headline: Romney remniscient of Racists Who Kept Rosa Parks In Back Of Bus

Why do these people need to make up stuff about Romney when you don't need to point to anything political about Romney to highlight his outright racism thru early 1978??!

Romney and his Mormons didn't keep blacks to the "back" of their temples; no...they told blacks "Absolutely no access."

Why? Because Mormons were overtly racist then...including Romney!

[af_vet_rr]

Several anti Mormon FReepers did the same thing. Strange bedfellows.

I don't get it either, the Mormons were a very forward thinking people. They even gave equal rights to blacks back in 1978!

[SoConPubbie]

Romney and his Mormons didn't keep blacks to the "back" of their temples; no...they told blacks "Absolutely no access."

Why? Because Mormons were overtly racist then...including Romney!

Hey Sandra,

There's the proof you didn't post, probably because you knew it would actually prove the opposite of your accusation.

[freekitty]

Hey Clyburn. Why don’t you tell it like it is? You kept your people in the back of the bus because it suited your interests. Go ahead ask your people. Are they better off; especially the ones in the ghetto.z/ Why are there ghettos? Because of people like you. Stop putting the boodgie woodgie on your people.

[LZ_Bayonet]

"That’s not a nice thing to say about somebody whose Dad marched with Martin Luther King. /s"

"Shirley Basore, 72, says she was sitting in the hairdresser’s chair in wealthy Grosse Pointe, Mich., back in 1963 when a rumpus started and she discovered that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and her governor, George Romney, were marching for civil rights — right past the window."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1207/7524.html

[dfwgator]

Well money will make you say anything.

[VeniVidiVici]

Clyburn reminds me of the House Slave who whips the others to make sure none stray from his massah’s Democrat Plantation.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Clyburn: Romney Reminiscent Of Racists Who Kept Rosa Parks In Back Of Bus .. well Sharpton and Clyburn remind me of the blacks in the 1960s who would go around shouting "Take ten!" -- meaning of course that whites outnumbered blacks 10-to-1 so each black had to kill ten whites. MLK was not one of those hate mongers like Sharpton and Clyburn.

[LZ_Bayonet]

2007 FR thread with photo of Mitt Romney’s mother talking with MLK.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1943384/posts

[elcid1970]

Here in South Carolina the cong. James Clyburn is absolutely undiselectable. His gerrymandered district insures that.

If you live in Columbia and drive north to take I-77N to Charlotte, you have to pass under the conspicuously labeled “James W. Clyburn Pedestrian Overpass”, an overilluminated gingerbread roccoco monstrosity that cost millions and sits astride the fourlane as a gigantic “in your face!” to taxpayers.

Sharpton and Clyburn calling Romney a racist will elevate his numbers tremendously around here. Just sayin’.

[Lancey Howard]

appearing on Al Sharpton's MSNBC show

LOL!
Man, you must have a stomach of steel to be able to sit and watch Ubama's fellow "community organizer" host a TV show. I didn't even know that lying sack of sh!+ even had a show, but then I've never watched MSNBC.

In any event, as always, thanks for the pings, and thanks for your yeoman's work keeping a careful eye on the scum of the earth so the rest of us don't have to.

FRegards,
LH

[VeniVidiVici]

Why do these people need to make up stuff about Romney when you don't need to point to anything political about Romney to highlight his outright racism thru early 1978??!

So what happened after 1978?

[Disambiguator]

These two sourpusses remind me of this little gem:

Did Sharpton cut his hair? He looks, well, smaller.

[SaraJohnson]

As a leader of the Klan with a Tan, Clayburn would know all about racists.

[no dems]

appearing on Al Sharpton’s MSNBC show
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All 8 people in Sharpton’s viewing audience probably won’t vote for Romney now, if he is the GOP nominee.

[Redmen4ever]

And a devious Mexican at that, passing for white. Even got Clyburn fooled.

[puppypusher]

It looks like that racist Clyburn really needs to leave the plantation.He also needs to learn some skills to become an Independant thinker.Something that is highly unusual for democrats.

[vette6387]

“Who still listens to these low IQ, idiot, Black racists?”

Nancy Pelosi had to “create a special position” for Clyburn when she “stepped down” as Speaker. Maybe he shines her shoes now when he’s not busy race baiting. What a shameful man!