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Marcuse

(7,479 posts)
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 06:14 PM Jan 2020

'Embarrassingly incompetent': NAACP official scolds Kellyanne Conway who can't explain Trump's diss

Source: MSNBC/Raw Story

“What an embarrassingly incompetent answer,” Ifill later told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. “There’s is no answer that she can give that would be acceptable because he’s doing nothing to commemorate MLK Day, and frankly, it would be hypocritical if he tried to do that.”

“Just in the last week, the tweets that he’s put up, knowing that [the pro-gun rally in Virginia] was coming today, knowing that the governor of Virginia had declared a state of emergency today because of credible threats of violence given what happened in 2017 in Charlottesville,” she continued. “We’ve now reset what the president is supposed to do. He’s not supposed to call for calm and peace.”

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/embarrassingly-incompetent-naacp-official-scolds-kellyanne-conway-who-cant-explain-trumps-diss-of-mlk-day/



I would have linked directly to the specific story, but MSNBC makes that difficult by routing me to its main page.
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'Embarrassingly incompetent': NAACP official scolds Kellyanne Conway who can't explain Trump's diss (Original Post) Marcuse Jan 2020 OP
Trump hates black folk and loves gun humping racists Skittles Jan 2020 #1
30 Seconds. C_U_L8R Jan 2020 #2
Truthfully, Don-Don doing absolutely nothing Grokenstein Jan 2020 #3
Here, try this YouTube clip DinahMoeHum Jan 2020 #4
And despite her ludicrous answer, Haggis for Breakfast Jan 2020 #5
Right wing wackos and Bible thumpers like to claim that Dr. MLK was a Republican.. Permanut Jan 2020 #6
"We" have not reset it and it is not reset, just temporarily lowered expectations & bar & Barr. nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2020 #7

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
5. And despite her ludicrous answer,
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 08:53 PM
Jan 2020

she STILL manages to cram in there a criticism of dems for "dividing the country," while trump is uniting us ---- like Dr. King did.

I'm going to go throw up now.

Permanut

(5,602 posts)
6. Right wing wackos and Bible thumpers like to claim that Dr. MLK was a Republican..
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 12:14 AM
Jan 2020

And they conveniently forget to mention that he was in Memphis that day in 1968 in support of a strike of sanitation workers.

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