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applegrove

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Thu Mar 17, 2016, 08:27 PM Mar 2016

The 5 craziest things about Ted Cruz’s extremist, neo-McCarthyist, anti-Muslim foreign policy advise

The 5 craziest things about Ted Cruz’s extremist, neo-McCarthyist, anti-Muslim foreign policy adviser Frank Gaffney

by Ben Norton at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2016/03/17/the_5_craziest_things_about_ted_cruzs_extremist_neo_mccarthyist_anti_muslim_foreign_policy_adviser_frank_gaffney/

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. Applauded a prominent white supremacist on his radio show

Gaffney hosted white supremacist Jared Taylor on his nationally syndicated Secure Freedom Radio program in September 2015, as watchdog Media Matters documented .

“I’m very pleased to have him with us,” Gaffney said, introducing the white supremacist leader. The two discussed how Muslim refugees are “invading” the West. Cruz’s new foreign policy adviser warned that, “if President Obama has his way,” Muslim refugees will flood the U.S. and implement Sharia law.

“He is the editor of a wonderful online publication, American Renaissance,” Gaffney said, “and the author of six books, including ‘White Identity,'” he added, applauding Taylor. As is evident from the title, “White Identity” is an openly racist book.

The SPLC calls Taylor one of the country’s “most outspoken and prominent white nationalists,” noting he hosted a conference “where racist intellectuals rub shoulders with Klansmen, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists.”



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The 5 craziest things about Ted Cruz’s extremist, neo-McCarthyist, anti-Muslim foreign policy advise (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2016 OP
If Cruz won we would have WWIII--guaranteed. Kingofalldems Mar 2016 #1
Gee, I thought Ted's advisor was God! n/t TexasBushwhacker Mar 2016 #2
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