MSNBC's Thomas Roberts: GOP Candidates Want To Return To Time When 'Slavery Was Cool' (VIDEO)

[Hissyspit]

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Thomas Roberts: GOP Candidates Want To Return To Time When 'Slavery Was Cool' (VIDEO)

First Posted: 9/24/11 12:27 PM ET Updated: 9/24/11 01:11 PM ET

MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts condemned some members of the audience at the recent Republican debate for booing an openly gay soldier.

The crowd at Thursday's debate provided yet another controversial moment when some people booed a video of a soldier asking about the candidates' policy on the Don't Ask Don't Tell law. Roberts called the moment "strange," and noted that none of the candidates or anyone in the audience praised the soldier for his service.

He also criticized the GOP hopefuls for not denouncing the boos. One of the candidates, Rick Santorum, later claimed not to have heard them. But Roberts did not like Santorum referring to the lifting of the ban on openly gay soldiers as "social experimentation."

"I get out of all of these things that many of these candidates would rather take legislation to build a time machine and go back in time to where we had no women voting, slavery was cool," he said.

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[opihimoimoi]

1. GOPers are not Progressive....mostly repressive...they like digging Foxholes DEEPER

[saras]

2. Slavery was never cool. The evil just had more power.

[provis99]

3. Thomas Roberts took a stand???

He seemed to be the perfect representation of the bland, non-confrontational talking head anchor with no opinions. So he moves up in my esteem with this statement.

[butterfly77]

4. I believe he is gay,...

and he usually is outspoken about certain issues and he usually confronts wingnuts,the republiCON kind..