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Astronaut Scott Kelly apologizes after quoting, praising Winston Churchill
Washington Examiner ^ | October 7, 2018 | Daniel Chaitin

Posted on 10/07/2018 7:00:17 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie

Scott Kelly, a retired American astronaut with multiple space flights under his belt, apologized Sunday after quoting Winston Churchill and calling the 20th century British prime minister "one of the greatest leaders of modern times."

"Did not mean to offend by quoting Churchill. My apologies. I will go and educate myself further on his atrocities, racist views which I do not support. My point was we need to come together as one nation. We are all Americans. That should transcend partisan politics," Kelly wrote on Twitter in the evening.

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To: Governor Dinwiddie
I would love to have Scott Kelly run a little experiment for me.

He should tweet out some quotes from Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt two of the most racist president since the Civil War and see how much blow back he gets from these arbiters of Political Correctness

41 posted on 10/07/2018 7:16:08 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

My point was we need to come together as one nation.

someone clue Kelly in that it’s the media and the Rats dividing the nation with their gasslighting BS.


42 posted on 10/07/2018 7:16:09 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Scott Kelly will be lucky to be a footnote in the history books.


43 posted on 10/07/2018 7:16:40 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Kelly spent too much time in space, and got his brain radiation-fried.

Either that or he’s spent too much time hanging around his sister-in-law, Gabrielle Gifford.


44 posted on 10/07/2018 7:17:12 PM PDT by adorno
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“Educate yourself” and maybe in the meantime your grandparents would have been killed by Hitler. Luckily they weren’t so pathetic, but maybe we’ll lose the next generation.


45 posted on 10/07/2018 7:17:42 PM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: madrastex
#38: "Kelly is the husband of Gabby Giffords. Enough said."

OK! That explains it. Thanks, did not know that. What a pair of losers.
 

46 posted on 10/07/2018 7:18:00 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Whenever someone calls me out as insensitive or demands an apology, I just ask my WWDD. (What would Donald Do?)

Then I double down on whatever touched a nerve...lol


47 posted on 10/07/2018 7:18:03 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Surely you jest. This HAS to be satire. The Examiner’s editor is asleep on the damn job!


48 posted on 10/07/2018 7:18:03 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks ( The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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To: johniegrad
(Y)our tax moneys helped propel CAPT Kelly from NJ into a position from which the lamestream media will quote him as an unquestioned authority ad libitum.
49 posted on 10/07/2018 7:19:44 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

What a Maroon...


50 posted on 10/07/2018 7:20:15 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: wardamneagle
My point was we need to come together as one nation.

No we don't.

51 posted on 10/07/2018 7:20:18 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

He shouldn’t have even replied to them.
Some people will go out of the way to stick pins into anyone who is deemed to be a Hero of the Western Culture.
Anyone foolish enough to complain that Churchill was not perfect, are never going to show him any respect anyway.
We are all flawed in some way, so get over it.


52 posted on 10/07/2018 7:21:11 PM PDT by lee martell (AT)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Kelly thinks it is that easy to avoid the penalties for thoughtcrime?

Room 101!


53 posted on 10/07/2018 7:21:48 PM PDT by gasport (The dung beatle should be the symbol of the Democrat Party)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Twin brother and both were astronauts. The only siblings who exist where both have been launched into space. Scott was on the space station for a year.


54 posted on 10/07/2018 7:22:41 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
This will end when people STOP APOLOGIZING.
55 posted on 10/07/2018 7:22:45 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Churchill saved the entire world from racism. Racism of the worst sort.


56 posted on 10/07/2018 7:23:40 PM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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To: logi_cal869
He helped stop the Holocaust that never happened in the minds of loonie lefties.

Churchill had to be dragged kicking and screaming into Normandy in 44' by Marshall and the Americans.

He vetoed the Cross-Channel invasion planned in 43'.

Americans were in no position to argue after Kasserine.

57 posted on 10/07/2018 7:23:53 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

for pete’s sake, Britain was literally fighting for it’s national life in 1943. The Germans were constantly bombing the island nation and preparing for an invasion. I can’t imagine much attention being paid to any other part of the Empire.

Of course, Obama hated his guts and had a statue of Churchill (bust) removed from the Oval Office and returned to England.

Winston Churchill is one of my heroes.


58 posted on 10/07/2018 7:23:57 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Tennessean4Bush

Amen.

Someone needs to tweet THAT, to fool Kelly.


59 posted on 10/07/2018 7:24:39 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

To my mind, Churchill was the “man of the century.” If the evils of Naziism or Communism that Churchill opposed had won, the Progressives would likely be surf-riding a different “wave of the future.”


60 posted on 10/07/2018 7:27:21 PM PDT by buridan
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