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CATHERINE THOMPSON MAY 23, 2014, 7:49 AM EDT
Joe Scarborough said Friday that he doesn't understand what evidence Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) has to back up his claim that opposition to President Barack Obama's signature health care law is driven by his race.
"I must say, I have been behind closed doors with thousands of conservatives through the years. I have never once heard one of them say in the deep south or in the northeast or in South Boston, 'Boy, I really hate Obamacare because that black president' -- no, I've never heard anybody come close to saying that," Scarborough said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "And I have spoken to some wildly right wing groups. I have never heard it once."
Scarborough was reacting to a tense exchange between Rockefeller and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) Wednesday during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on health care. Johnson took offense when Rockefeller suggested that some of those who oppose the Affordable Care Act don't like the President because he's "of the wrong color."
"He's the only Republican in the room, and Sen. Rockefeller suggested that millions and millions of Americans who opposed the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare as the President likes it to be called, have racist reasons for doing that," Scarborough said. "That's one of the stupidest, most offensive things I've heard a sitting senator say."
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Maeve
(42,283 posts)Sitting in a rural diner, hearing some old fart loudly talking about getting that $%#% out of the White House--his friend told him to keep his bigoted speech down, but it didn't stop him.
And Joe, most folks aren't that blatant. But the racism is there and denying it just makes you look even dumber than dirt.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)In a nice, precise way, Eugene told Joe about the hate mail he gets that is racist. Joe said he gets hate mail, too! I couldn't believe for one minute ANYTHING Joe was saying on this...what a shithead...
Supersedeas
(20,630 posts)greatly from the hatemail directed at Scar
Ino
(3,366 posts)Lori Klausutis <-- Joe's dead intern
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Paladin
(28,266 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,842 posts)Gotta give Joe his due, though, He actually had the nads to argue the issue with Robinson and to counter Robinson's mention of his racist mail by saying he gets hate mail, too. Taking false equivalency to new heights of ridiculousness.