Posted on 03/21/2019 4:57:01 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
President Trump:
“Excuse me, they didn’t put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group – excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.”
Trump became even more explicit:
“I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.”
But like many fake news narratives, repetition has helped cement this one into a reasonably plausible storyline for all but the most skeptical consumers of news. In fact, over the weekend, Fox News host Chris Wallace pressed White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney on why Trump has not given a speech “condemning … white supremacist bigotry.” Well, Chris, he has, and more than once. The most powerful version was from the White House following Charlottesville and the heartbreaking death of Heather Heyer. President Trump’s succinct and direct words:
“Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.”
Instead of hyper-partisan, distorted narratives, as American citizens we should demand adherence to truth -- and adherence to the common values that bind us regardless of politics. In the words of our president: “No matter the color of our skin, we all live under the same laws, we all salute the same great flag, and we are all made by the same almighty God.”
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Robert E. Lee was a Nazi and Trump called the pro-Nazi demonstrators fine people. QED. /s/
Hard to prove a negative.
Best proof: if the Left says it, it is presumptively a lie.
Lee wasn’t`t a member of the NAZI party.
Get a grip.
Trump didn’t call Neo-Nazies fine people.... there is a person named Richard Spencer who is a self-admitted “Agent provacateur” from the University of Chicago no less, who supposedly went from being an “Occupy Wall Street Liberal” to being a “National Socialist Right Winger” (whatever that is) and head of the so-called “Alt Right Movement” which up until then mostly contained groups of people that were sick of the Democrat Party but didn’t really fit into your stereotypical Conservative Republican molds.
By naming this group the Alt-Right and then intentionally associating it with the Klan, people like Spencer and David Duke try to keep Democrats on the plantation so to speak.
With regards to Charleston, they first organized a Klan rally and then at the last minute invited all the pro-Trump people on-line to something called Unite the Right which purported to unite the conservatives and Republicans with the newly named Alt-Right...thus providing a great photo op for lefties and allowing them to say, “See, I told you those Republicans are racists”.
It is all theater, and how no-one has called this guy out is beyond me.
Shout the truth from the rooftops.
The Racism Branding Campaign must be countered NOW!
Oh good grief. What war did Lee participate in? What years did he fight? When did he die? When was the National Socialist Party founded?
Not only did you fail to note the sarcasm tag, but also you fell for a horrible and pitifully obvious anachronism that only a leftists would gloss over.
Really? So he probably didn't praise the Columbine shooter as a "Make America Great Again" patriot either. Next I suppose you're going to tell us that he doesn't bow to the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. You must be an Alt Right Neo-Nazi yourself. Only a far right wing patriarchal sysgendered misogynist would think this way. I bet you kick puppies to you bastard!
Alinsky Rule #5 “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
Don’t argue with them. Show the world they are ridiculous.
Or, I didn’t`t read your tag/nickname line as another rational Freeper figured out.
The title of the article reveals the utter futility of the underlying presumption that a long-winded factual demonstration is necessary or sufficient. Of course Trump never uttered such a ridiculous statement and no one wants to read a tedious article explaining the factual incorrectness of the meme advanced by Trump's critics.
No one. Neither left, nor right because everyone knows that he didn't and the argument is about rhetorical effect, the brazenness of the charge, resting as it does for its effect and its force, on its Ratherian seriousness. The counter rhetoric is not a logic no one wants to wade through but ridicule of the statement and its proponents, and obvious insult and taunt against those on the other side. When the old schoolyard taunt is launched at you, the refutation that your grandmother's feet were below the minimum size required by army induction medical inspectors and therefore she could not have worn the legendary combat boots will only garner more ridicule on your head, not avert the insult that was advanced.
I don't use sarcasm tags. If you can't tell when I'm using sarcasm without the tag, I'm not interested in your opinion anyway. See my earlier post on this thread.
This is from the fb page of Save the Robert E Lee Statue group, which had originally sponsored the rally because the city council had been debating and discussing removing the statue:
“It has come to our attention that several out-of-town groups associated with white supremacy and identarian beliefs conducted events and protests in both Lee and Jackson Parks today. Neither Save the Robert E. Lee Statue nor The Monument Fund were in any way involved in these events and only learned of them though media reports.
We remain committed to preserving the Robert E. Lee Monument in its park through the legal process in the courts because of its historic and artistic value. We soundly and completely reject racism, white supremacy, and any other identity based groups that preach division and hate no matter which side of the issue they happen to support.”
I thought I was expressing agreement with your obvious sarcasm in your previous post. Sorry for trying to agree with you.
Thank you!
I have been using this a lot, but some Leftists says the clip is a picture, not a quote one can look up.
Do you have the source for these comments?
POTUS delivered a “long-winded factual demonstration” with reporters who were advancing the false narrative.
Was POTUS engaging the dominant media on the merits, or lack of, or was he utilizing sarcasm?
Was Mark Levin engaging in sarcasm or acknowledge the media falsehood? If he acknowledged the false narrative why did Levin spend an hour debunking it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQqdeFZt3nw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeZTZUAnveI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcx-ZCYnOoE
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