Foxx Apologizes For Remarks

WXII ^ | 5/1/09

[steve-b]

Rep. Virginia Foxx said in an interview with WXII12 News Friday that she regrets making comments about the Matthew Shepard Bill and plans to move ahead with her work in Congress.

The Fifth District congresswoman has been under fire for calling the gay man's 1998 beating death a "hoax"....

[cvq3842]

Good point.

If a statement isn’t worth defending then it was not worth making in the first place.

[Eagles6]

"The hate crimes bill that's called the Matthew Shepard Bill is named after a very unfortunate incident that happened where a young man was killed, but we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn't because he was gay. This -- the bill was named for him, hate crimes bill was named for him, but it's really a hoax that that continues to be used as an excuse for passing these bills," Foxx said from the floor of the House of Representatives."

Rep. Foxx is absolutely correct, though the word "fraud" may be a better fit. In the 2 other stories link to the one posted her actual statement is cited. Also the fact that she has received death threats from the lavender mafia.

[DesertRhino]

That it wasnt a hate crime, he was a doper, living the bar scene life,,robbed by other dopers. They try to make it because he was gay. It was just a regular murder. If the concept seems tough, white America is familiar with it, we get told the same thing every single time a gang of blacks murders a white couple. “it was just a robbery”.

The sodomite anal-sex mafia seems to always be special for some obscure reason.

[DesertRhino]

Nope, the time for “choosing our words carefully” has passed. Our quiet acquiesence is what has gotten us to where we are now. Now is the time to speak the unvarnished truth.

[Deb]

Don’t be ridiculous. Steveb only posts threads that put Republicans in a bad light.

[Deb]

Doesn’t matter. She’ll be trashed on this thread for being a RINO, weakling, you fill in the blank. That’s steveb’s mission here.

[csmusaret]

He demands perfection. I wonder if he married a ten?

[NoRedTape]

"Did she ever explain what she meant by calling it a hoax? Does she not think Shepard is actually dead?"

--Sadly, Virginia Foxx completely misspoke and bungled her message. She didn't know what she was talking about.
It was already stated by the Police and Prosecutors that the two who murdered Matthew Shepard lured him out of the Bar pretending they were gay.

Here's the video of her making that ludicrous claim. All Foxx did was create more ill will by her blunder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWm2zGTZBM0

[Deb]

He married two fives.

[planter]

--Sadly, Virginia Foxx completely misspoke and bungled her message. She didn't know what she was talking about. It was already stated by the Police and Prosecutors that the two who murdered Matthew Shepard lured him out of the Bar pretending they were gay.

DEBUNKED!

[Navy Patriot]

Nope, the time for “choosing our words carefully” has passed.

I beg to differ. Foxx was quoted as follows:

"The Fifth District congresswoman has been under fire for calling the gay man's 1998 beating death a 'hoax'...."

The use of the word "hoax" allowed the pervert leftist trash to manipulate her words into a propaganda publicity tool that makes her look stupid and hateful.

The use of the words in this manner: "The Fifth District congresswoman has been under fire for calling the gay man's 1998 beating death a 'murder during a robbery, rather than a hate crime'..."

Would prevent lying about a quote by omission, a practice the left ALWAYS uses if you give them the words they need to construct the lying quote.

Again, chose words very carefully, and never, never apologize.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Why are nuanced explanations not allowed by the politically correct crowd? Of course she meant that it was a hoax that he was a gay martyr. I think one of the guys in prison for the killing said they didn’t know he was gay and had nothing to do with it.

The gay lobby in this country decided to use Matthew Shepherd as a gay martyr.

Facts are stubborn things. Of course none of us are happy that he got killed, but he didn’t get killed by beer drinking, Fox News watching bigots.

[Navy Patriot]

It was already stated by the Police and Prosecutors that the two who murdered Matthew Shepard lured him out of the Bar pretending they were gay.

And you assume that this is a true fact, that the police and prosecutors would never lie or have an agenda?

Snicker.

[Navy Patriot]

Why are nuanced explanations not allowed by the politically correct crowd?

Because they are evil, they want to win and "thou shalt not bear false witness" means nothing to them.

[mono]

Well, it was a hate crime against drug dealers. Sarcasm on.

[SkyDancer]

Interesting there was no mention of her party ....

[MitchellC]

It was already stated by the Police and Prosecutors that the two who murdered Matthew Shepard lured him out of the Bar pretending they were gay.

So what?

If you want to lure a horny homosexual in order to rob him, what better way would there be than to do just as they did?

And I guess you haven't heard yet, but Media Matters is completely worthless, either intentionally misleading by nature or the product of incomprehensible stupidity, and should not be used to make a point (unless that point is 'Media Matters is FOS'). Assuming you don't want to be on the fast track to Zot Country.

[NoRedTape]

"Assuming you don't want to be on the fast track to Zot Country."
Lol. Need to cool the jets, dude. Foxx mispoke, horribly. Microphones were not her friend and she didn't realize the facts of the case.

[MitchellC]

Could you point out to me exactly where she misspoke? I didn’t hear it in the clip.

[steve-b]

LOL! Yeah, right, we’re supposed to trust ABC (aka “Always Broadcasting Crap”)....