DNC Reviewing Stories on Politico before Publication?

[whell]

Originally Posted by icenine

If I did not know better I would think you have Turrets Syndrome Whell since every other word you type is "deflection." In fact I have heard a rumor that in Detroit there is a certain Human Resources guy who greets his co-workers every morning with a hearty " Good Deflection Morning"!

If you guys could find a way to address the substance of the post, you might get a different response. Trying to change the subject - like this post tries to do - is just another example of deflec....

...oh, never mind.

[whell]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Roger Ailes

Lame. Strike one.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by whell

Lame. Strike one.

Armstrong Williams.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Boreas

These things aren't as easy to dismiss as you'd like to believe, Bob.

Right, because no one ever in the history of politics and the often hostile press has done these things.

[finnbow]

Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Armstrong Williams.

and Morning Blow.

[CarlV]

Deflect this.

A former building superintendent working for the Trumps explained that he was told to code any application by a black person with the letter C, for colored, apparently so the office would know to reject it. A Trump rental agent said the Trumps wanted to rent only to “Jews and executives,” and discouraged renting to blacks.

Donald Trump furiously fought the civil rights suit in the courts and the media, but the Trumps eventually settled on terms that were widely regarded as a victory for the government. Three years later, the government sued the Trumps again, for continuing to discriminate.

In fairness, those suits date from long ago, and the discriminatory policies were probably put in place not by Donald Trump but by his father. Fred Trump appears to have been arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally in 1927; Woody Guthrie, who lived in a Trump property in the 1950s, lambasted Fred Trump in recently discovered papers for stirring racial hatred.

Yet even if Donald Trump inherited his firm’s discriminatory policies, he allied himself decisively in the 1970s housing battle against the civil rights movement.

Another revealing moment came in 1989, when New York City was convulsed by the “Central Park jogger” case, a rape and beating of a young white woman. Five black and Latino teenagers were arrested.
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Trump stepped in, denounced Mayor Ed Koch’s call for peace and bought full-page newspaper ads calling for the death penalty. The five teenagers spent years in prison before being exonerated. In retrospect, they suffered a modern version of a lynching, and Trump played a part in whipping up the crowds.

As Trump moved into casinos, discrimination followed. In the 1980s, according to a former Trump casino worker, Kip Brown, who was quoted by The New Yorker: “When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor. … They put us all in the back.”

In 1991, a book by John O’Donnell, who had been president of the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, quoted Trump as criticizing a black accountant and saying: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.” O’Donnell wrote that for months afterward, Trump pressed him to fire the black accountant, until the man resigned of his own accord.

Trump eventually denied making those comments. But in 1997 in a Playboy interview, he conceded “the stuff O’Donnell wrote about me is probably true.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/op...-a-racist.html


Carl

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Right, because no one ever in the history of politics and the often hostile press has done these things.

Individual corruption is different from institutional corruption. The DNC, as an institution, has shown itself to be corrupt. That should matter to you, Bob. It did once.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Individual corruption is different from institutional corruption. The DNC, as an institution, has shown itself to be corrupt. That should matter to you, Bob. It did once.

Concern trolling me now, John? How droll of you. How about you provide some evidence of said corruption because all I've seen from Whell is complaints about sausage making.

[icenine]

Originally Posted by CarlV

Deflect this.


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/op...-a-racist.html


Carl

You have nailed it Carl. This is the reality behind the phrase "I like him because he is not politically correct."