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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Sat Jun 20, 2015, 12:08 AM Jun 2015

Erick Erickson: Responsibility for the Charleston massacre falls at the feet of…Caitlyn Jenner

Um, not The Onion. And, does Erick have a foot fetish?

http://www.salon.com/2015/06/19/erick_erickson_responsibility_for_the_charleston_massacre_falls_squarely_at_the_feet_of_caitlyn_jenner/

In an argument that resembles the one proffered by the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board this morning — in which they argued that institutionalized racism no longer exists in South Carolina — Erickson claimed that because Governor Nikki Haley is of Indian American descent, and because she put “a black man in charge of the congressional district from which the first shots of the Civil War were fired,” the state “has moved on” beyond racism.

Because of this, Erickson joined the chorus of GOP presidential contenders in insisting that Dylann Roof’s motivation for murdering nine parishioners in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Wednesday could not have racial. Or if they were, racism wasn’t the only motivating factor, or even the main one, taking backseat to the real problems in America today — mental illness and evil.

He conceded that, instead of being mentally ill, it’s more likely that Roof was “a servant of an evil that says some of those created in the image of God are better than others or that some people are not created in the image of God at all.” The problem, Erickson contended, is that America can no longer have a conversation about “real evil” because of people like Caitlyn Jenner.

“A society that looks at a 65 year old male Olympian and, with a straight face, declares him a her and ‘a new normal’ cannot have a conversation about mental health or evil because that society no longer distinguishes normal from crazy and evil from good,” he wrote.

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Erick Erickson: Responsibility for the Charleston massacre falls at the feet of…Caitlyn Jenner (Original Post) KamaAina Jun 2015 OP
Oh, this is wonderful. BlueJazz Jun 2015 #1
Damn Solly Mack Jun 2015 #2
is CNN still going to hire and pay this disgusting fuck to come on their network ? JI7 Jun 2015 #3
No shit? Rex Jun 2015 #5
Who? Never heard of him. Is he blovating about something? Looks like scribble scrabble. Rex Jun 2015 #4
Erick Erickson is the Limbaugh-shaped quarterwit who runs redstate.com jmowreader Jun 2015 #6
 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
1. Oh, this is wonderful.
Sat Jun 20, 2015, 12:36 AM
Jun 2015

“A society that looks at a 65 year old male Olympian and, with a straight face, declares him a her and ‘a new normal’ cannot have a conversation about mental health or evil because that society no longer distinguishes normal from crazy and evil from good,”

Should be..

“A society that looks at a 65 year old male Olympian and, with a straight face, declares him a her and ‘a new normal’ cannot have a conversation about mental health because evil, ignorant, Southern hicks with the IQ of a squirrel will not have the slightest idea what you're talking about.

Solly Mack

(90,769 posts)
2. Damn
Sat Jun 20, 2015, 12:46 AM
Jun 2015

My face hurts from all the face-palming I've done today.

I'll let this grasshopper do it for me this time.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
4. Who? Never heard of him. Is he blovating about something? Looks like scribble scrabble.
Sat Jun 20, 2015, 12:53 AM
Jun 2015

So Erickson is a servant of an evil that says some of those created in the image of God are better than others because of Caitlyn Jenner. Does that mean he has the hots for her?

What is that shit about mental illness and evil? Is this some moron evangelical looking for demons?

jmowreader

(50,559 posts)
6. Erick Erickson is the Limbaugh-shaped quarterwit who runs redstate.com
Sat Jun 20, 2015, 01:22 AM
Jun 2015

The immortal words of Hannover Fiste from the movie Heavy Metal come to mind when thinking of ol' Erick: "Hangin's too good for him! Burnin's too good for him! He should be torn into itsy-bitsy pieces and buried alive!"

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