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Thursday, April 21, 2016

Rangel Backtracks on KKK

Tuesday on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings With Maria Bartiromo,” Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) said he misspoke when he accused Republicans of being “a party that has the Ku Klux Klan.”

Partial transcript as follows:

SERRANO: Congressman I think there are plenty of Republicans that can learn from Democrats like you about race relations and criminal justice reform, but yesterday on another network you said the Republican party has the Ku Klux Klan. Now, congressman, that’s only not true, but it’s not constructive. Did you say that yesterday?

RANGEL: Well, I probably said it and misspoke. What I really meant was that Trump is saying he was unaware that [David] Duke was connected to the Ku Klux Klan...

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10 comments:

Concerned Retiree said...

Who listens to this idiot? He will not admit the DemocRATS are the party of the New Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam to name two radical groups that are directly tied to the DemocRAT party.

Anonymous said...

The voting rights act was fought against by the democrats as well. They are just too ignorant to say that they are happy they enslaved the black people again.

Anonymous said...

5:38, All of baltimore

Anonymous said...

Every election the Democrats cover their tracks by calling the Republicans racist.

Steve said...

Hey, guys! Just back off old Charlie!

Look, anybody that has told so many lies to so many people over the years has trouble remembering all those sticky little details! Jeeze, and with him getting older and more forgetful, he now has the right to be on one side today and on the other tomorrow, and deny he's ever taken sides!

Give the old guy a BREAK, will ya?

Anonymous said...

Let's not mention the connection between KKK and Freemasonry.

Anonymous said...

Rangel is dirty. He has had his share of scandals. The KKK evolved as the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party. Democrats are always trying to rewrite history.

Anonymous said...

He is a racist and those idiots in New York keep bringing him back

Anonymous said...


KKK was founded in the South after the Civil War by Democrats because freed slaves were getting elected to state legislatures and to Congress. The freed slaves had a strong bond to the Republicans because they were the political party that had freed them. KKK went on to hate Catholics and Jews as well.

Robert Byrd, now deceased, was a long serving Democrat senator. He was a KKK leader before his election to the Senate. Good luck finding any Democrat on record opposing his election, re-elections or ascension up the Democrat leadership ranks.

Al Gore's father was a Democrat senator who voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Republican votes enabled it to pass against strong Democrat opposition.

Charlie Rangel is slipperier than a can of STP!

Anonymous said...

Free Mason's had no ties to the Democrat klan.