Republicans COMPLETELY Absent from MLK 50th Anniversary Event

By the way, Walsh is considered to be a "deadbeat" father, because of the unpaid child-support he owed.

 

Bill O'Reilly got a few things wrong about the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington on Wednesday.

Some had wondered why no Republicans appeared to be involved in commemorating the historic day. Though three Democratic presidents spoke at the event marking the moment, no Republicans did, and there were no other GOP officials who participated.

Answers were quickly given for this state of affairs. Both presidents Bush had bowed out of the event, citing health issues. Speaker of the House John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor were both invited, but declined to attend. (Cantor had a meeting with oil lobbyists instead, and Boehner spoke at a Congressional event.) Jeb Bush and John McCain also declined. Moreover, every member of Congress was invited.

O'Reilly must not have seen all of this information, because he got angry that, in his words, "no Republican or conservative" was invited to the event. They were!

He even mentioned George W. Bush as an example of this unfortunate (but false) turn of events.

"I do not know if he wasn't invited," guest James Carville said of Bush.

"He wasn't," O'Reilly said. (Wrong!) "No Republican or conservative was invited." (Also wrong!)

 

I'm sure it was just a coincidence that every single Republican was busy that day.

 

Will, I will give one specific. Tim Scott is a member of Congress and he was not invited. So, let me see. Either CNN, Washington Examiner, Washington Times, Fox, and more were lying or you (oh, and Huffington) are lying. Just guess who I am going to believe.

BTW, and you in post #7.

 

You listen to lies because you want to believe those lies.


Tim Scott Didn’t Speak At MLK Event Because He Declined Invitation To Attend

CATHERINE THOMPSON 3:24 PM EDT, THURSDAY AUGUST 29, 2013


A source connected to the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington said Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), the only sitting black senator, was not invited to speak at the event because his office had declined an invitation to attend the commemoration as a spectator, Roll Call reported.

An email exchange obtained by Roll Call showed that an invitation to the 50th anniversary commemoration appeared to be sent to all members of Congress, as the form letter identified the recipient as "Representative" rather than by name.

The exchange showed that a staff assistant to Scott, Rachel Shelbourne, sent a reply to the invitation that read in part, "Unfortunately, the Senator will be in South Carolina during this time, so he will be unable to attend the event. Please do, however, keep him in mind for future events you may be hosting," as quoted by Roll Call.

The source explained to Roll Call that the speaking program was largely drafted according to who was able to confirm availability to attend the event.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) reportedly were invited to speak at the ceremony, but declined.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/tim-scott-didnt-speak-at-mlk-event-because

 

I guess you can check Fox off your list Rimmer.

Bill O'Reilly apologized Thursday night for his erroneous comments about the 50th anniversary celebrations of the March on Washington the previous day.

O'Reilly had complained that no Republicans had been invited to the event. In fact, many, including both living Republican presidents, John McCain, Jeb Bush and John Boehner had been asked to attend. All declined for various reasons.

O'Reilly admitted that he had been wrong.

"The mistake? Entirely on me," he said. "I simply assumed ... Republicans were excluded."

He advised viewers to "always check out the facts when you make a definitive statement, and added that he was "sorry I made that mistake."

 

How do you think minorities should react to the GOP slight? I mean it is pretty blatant and highly disrespectful. Do minority voters really have any reason whatsoever to vote for the GOP? I ain't seeing it.

 

Maybe republicans are just busier trying to figure out what happened to their party, than democrats who had no problem scheduling an event 50 years in the making.

 

I figured that they were too busy passing state laws to disenfranchise as many minorities, seniors, and student voters as possible to attend a celebration for the same people they are disenfranchising in the first place. You can only do so much to for people. Geesh!

 

I saw that, too. Republicans that were invited opted out. It was big of O'Reilly to set the record straight.

What he didn't say was that Republicans didn't want to participate in a blatantly Black-Racial event. There's plenty of racism left in the country, but 80% of it is State-Sponsored Black racism. It's a good thing that Republicans support equal rights and opportunities and not these orchestrated (reverse-KKK) racist rallies.

 

The road to nowhere never climbs...

 

...OK...and it never falls, either.

The point of my comment was that Walsh was applying his "Dream" to blacks, where it should simply be applied to everyone, regardless of skin-tone.

In other words: It was racist.

In the next post I revealed that Walsh himself didn't follow his "dream", because he was an absent father and didn't provide the family-structure he was lecturing blacks about.

In other words: He's a hypocrite.

 

I like the other "Joe Walsh"...the singer lol

(begins to sing)

"...I have a mansion, forget the price...

...Ain't never been there, they tell me it's nice..."

What can I say? I love the classics lol

 

What can I say...when you're right, you're right!

Btw, do you feel Rev. King's speech was racist?

 

Like I said, the Right-wing believes that indifference and callous disregard equals caring while anyone who actually cares must be enabling the victims for nefarious purposes. How God damn convenient is that perspective?

 

Do you have anything to substantiate that comment/opinion? ...other than to simply claim, "It's a well-known fact"?

 

What I said pretty much defines exactly the Right's approach. You would just rather hear it in BS terms like "personal responsibility" and "nanny state" but the fact is the only solution the Right believes in is doing absolutely nothing and then blaming anyone else for doing anything. Damn conveniently self-serving approach to any problem wouldn't you say?

It's sort of like the arsonist criticizing the way the fire department puts out an apartment fire and blaming the dead tenants for renting in that building in the first place.

 

First off...keep in mind that the "Right" represents 50% +/- of the overall population, but you would characterize them all as the "1%". 49.5% of the "Right" are in the same economic boat as you and I.

The "Right" pay a considerable amount of their hard earned wages in Federal, State, and Local taxes...not to mention their charitable work and "tide" they pay their churches. To say the "Right" does "absolutely nothing" is quite an insult.

The "Right" has never blamed anyone else for contributing their money and time to address these problems, either...the more the merrier! However, to suggest that the "Right" is the cause of life's misery and they do nothing to elevate the human condition is incredibly disingenuous and insulting.

...perhaps that's your goal. (not mine)

 

Here's the deal on racism, in regard to the question of if blacks are racist:

Hell yeah, a lot of them are, and for good reason.

Why? Holy chit, you have to ask THAT?

When was the last time a white person was tied-up to the bumper of a truck and dragged behind until all that remained was a bloody pulp?

The last time that happened to a black man, to my knowledge, was June 7th, 1998.

Yeah, blacks have a reason to be pissed off and racist towards white people. If you don't get why, you must be really really white.

 

Hey that response had chutzpah! I just keep liking you better and better Yaky.

The truth is that lots of us pay taxes and lots of us go to church but for some dang reason, we still have those pesky social issues of institutional racism, social injustice, discrimination, poverty,.... Well I could go on, but you get the idea. The "Right" collectively never stops finding ways to blame those most affected by these issues. The more the merrier indeed, well as long as nobody asks you to contribute a penny more. I wouldn't say that the Right is the cause of life's misery but I certainly see them as the greatest impediment to the eventual solution of that misery. It's not so much that the Right wants these people to be in this situation of desperation and hardship, it's more like they see it as not their problem. Now this brings us back to the my indifference and callous disregard characterization of the Right. I could be wrong but didn't the last guy you guys ran call 47% of the country a bunch of mooches and takers to a room full of nodding supporters? I mean maybe Romney tripped over his tongue and didn't mean to say that (yeah, right!) but did the whole audience hear a different comment that got them to nod in agreement or was Romney speaking from a heart that he couldn't possibly have to people with the same medical condition? You can keep insisting that just reading my opinion is giving you the vapors and then suggesting that is perhaps my goal or stop blaming me for your own discomfort with my characterization of a very obvious behavior you are defending and not all that well. I calls 'em as I sees 'em! I'm so tired...must sleep, must sle....