Lindsey Graham: Charleston Shooter May Have Been ‘Looking for Christians to Kill’

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Source: Mediaite



Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) just happened to be scheduled to appear on The View Thursday morning. But because of the deadly mass shooting at a black church in his home state last night, he did not get the chance to talk much about his presidential campaign.

Instead, Graham joined the hosts to talk about the possible motives of the shooter, who left nine people dead including the church’s pastor and former state senator Clementa C. Pinckney.

Graham wanted to assure viewers that this act is not a “window into the soul” of South Carolina. “It’s not who we are, it’s not who our country is, it’s about this guy,” he said of the assailant, “and this guy’s got tons of problems and to kill people in a church after sitting with them for an hour shows you tells you how whacked out this kid is.”

But despite the fact that the Justice Department has labeled the attack a “hate crime,” Graham was not willing to go that far. “There are real people who are organized out there to kill people in religion and based on race, this guy’s just whacked out,” he said. “But it’s 2015. There are people out there looking for Christians to kill them.”

Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/lindsey-graham-charleston-shooter-may-have-been-looking-for-christians-to-kill/

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Covering and doing spin for the motives of an apartheid-supporting, white supremacist murderer. Utterly shameless.

Somewhere in hell, Graham's racist Senate predecessor, Strom Thurmond, is attempting a smile.

If we had a media worth a damn, not only would Graham be disqualified for any consideration for the GOP nomination, he would be hammered and grilled with questions on these remarks the next time he gets invited to his weekly Sunday show tea time with Chuck Todd and George Snuffleuffagus.

[Warpy]

1. I know the area well

and he could have found plenty of churches within a mile of his house.

What wee Lindsay doesn't want us to realize is that this BIGOT chose one of the most historical, politically active black churches in the whole country for his slaughter of black people, only.

Lindsay, that dog won't hunt and you know full fucking well it won't. Go away. Eat shit and die, already, you're not helping and never have.

[daleanime]

4. +1

[LiberalLoner]

22. +1

[Monk06]

26. And a church that was presided over by a black pastor,,

who was also a state senator who was there in front of him for an hour and whom he killed.

If he knew the significance of the church then he may also have known Sen. Clementa Pinckney was the pastor which makes it a political assassination as well.

[Jesus Malverde]

41. +1

[wordpix]

58. +1

[olegramps]

63. Lindsy Graham is a filthy racist just like his constituents whose ass he licks.

That disgusting excuse for a human is an abomination straight out of hell. There aren't more than a handful of Southern Republicans that are aren't racist bastards. Their hero is the Reagan, a racist pig that cultivated the crackers ignorance into today's Republican Party. Eisenhower would throw-up on the whole damn pack of these trash.

[DesertFlower]

71. well said. nt

[Solly Mack]

2. Lindsey Graham is looking for a rock to hide racism under.

[Warpy]

10. There's a 10,660 foot peak just east of town

and it's nowhere near big enough.

[Solly Mack]

11. He doesn't need a big rock - just one he can throw and let others chase.

Which they will. Oh, how they will.

[uppityperson]

3. And he just happened, coincidentally, to pick this church among all the others? What was that

"rape our women" etc thing he said then?

[heaven05]

19. or the

"you're trying to take over". Take over from what lindybaby.... come on speak up...oh never mind, you don't/ never will matter

[SoapBox]

5. Graham...you are just disgusting.

You are not qualified to be President.

...sickening.

[onehandle]

6. Typo: It's spelled N-e-g-r-o-e-s not C-h-r-i-s-t-i-a-n-s. nt

[DebbieCDC]

25. +1

[BumRushDaShow]

30. !!!!!!

[lib87]

87. Lmao!!

[calimary]

7. If he'd been looking for "Christians," he could have gone to a Catholic church.

This is bullshit. YET AGAIN another effort to explain away a hideous crime that the wrong-wingers really don't want to have to bother looking at, closely.

[whathehell]

61. Hey Lindsay: There's not much of anything BUT Christians in the South

You lame ass moron.

[BlueJazz]

83. "There are people out there looking for Christians to kill them.”

Great, just great. So much for our Hunt tonight. We'll talk about it Friday.

[Fuddnik]

8. Not to mention the two flags on his jacket in one photo.

One was the flag of the former Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. The other was from the apartheid South Africa.

And his statement that you people are raping our women and taking our country over.

No, Lindsey, you witless dickhead, he was out to kill black people.

[exboyfil]

13. Also the CSA license plate

The racist jokes that his friends admitted to (goodness knows what they don't admit to).

[bulloney]

9. Yeah, that's it, Lindsey. Try to turn it into another straw-man, poor-Christians-under-attack event

instead of owning up to what it really was - a racist-motivated attack against Blacks in a historically Black church committed by someone from your political party's base.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

56. The War on Christmas raises it's ugly head again!

[Downwinder]

12. You have to drive an hour and a half to find a Christian

in "The Holy City?"

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. Musta been the Godless Secularist Atheist Hedonistic HEATHENS!!!

None of this would be happening if the Liberals hadn't force the Word of God from our classrooms!!!!

BLAME THEM!!! KILL THEM!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!

.......sheeze.......

[rurallib]

15. Like most Republicans and many evangelical christians

Lyndsey lives in a fantasy world fraught with enemies around every corner and a strange obsession with being hunted for his faith.

He should never be president, shouldn't be in government. Maybe he should be a computer game designer with all his imaginary enemies.

[erronis]

69. But we know he doesn't actually believe in anything other than his reelection

And making sure his pocketbook is well stuffed.

Shit, if this asshole spoke with a NJ accent he'd be another Chrispie. Whatever floats his boat.

How do we get stuck with such cretins, over and over?

[Skittles]

16. yeah well the shooter is a gun humping racist paranoid FREAK and usually repuke senators LOVE THEM

OWN IT you piece of SHIT

[frylock]

17. Because Christians are "raping our women"

Fuck this dandy.

[TDale313]

18. Absolute bullshit!

This pos shooter wasn't spouting anti-Christian hate or wearing flags that indicated an Anti-Christian attitudes.

[uppityperson]

20. “He said blacks were taking over the world. Someone needed to do something about it for the..."

http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/shooting-in-downtown-charleston-south-carolina/

“He said blacks were taking over the world. Someone needed to do something about it for the white race. He said he wanted segregation between whites and blacks. I said, ‘that’s not the way it should be.’ But he kept talking about it.”

[Nite Owl]

23. He wants to make the point

that Christians are the ones persecuted. Forget that they were Black that's a minor issue to that racist pig.

[csziggy]

47. He's reverting back to the attitudes that caused the AME church to be formed

When whites would not allow blacks to worship freely, they formed their own church, the African Methodist Episcopal Church:

The AMEC grew out of the Free African Society (FAS) which Richard Allen, Absalom Jones, and others established in Philadelphia in 1787. When officials at St. George’s MEC pulled blacks off their knees while praying, FAS members discovered just how far American Methodists would go to enforce racial discrimination against African Americans. Hence, these members of St. George’s made plans to transform their mutual aid society into an African congregation. Although most wanted to affiliate with the Protestant Episcopal Church, Allen led a small group who resolved to remain history_SAllenMethodists. In 1794 Bethel AME was dedicated with Allen as pastor. To establish Bethel’s independence from interfering white Methodists, Allen, a former Delaware slave, successfully sued in the Pennsylvania courts in 1807 and 1815 for the right of his congregation to exist as an independent institution. Because black Methodists in other middle Atlantic communities encountered racism and desired religious autonomy, Allen called them to meet in Philadelphia to form a new Wesleyan denomination, the AME.
http://www.ame-church.com/our-church/our-history/

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

29. Wonder how he'd get an attitude like that in S.C?

"There's not enough troops in the Army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the Nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches.”
-- U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., unrepentant racist, conservative icon and mentor to Lindsey Graham

(Front and center on grounds of S.C. capitol)

[StevieM]

37. Even having a black daughter wasn't enough to relieve Thurmond of his racism. (eom)

[radicalliberal]

44. The sight of that statue makes me want to retch.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

57. I would pay good money to see that statue blown up!

[wordpix]

59. blech - SC's heroes are white supremacists, how nice

they really know how to honor hatred and hateful people in SC

[radicalliberal]

73. That statue isn't a good likeness of him.

Its knuckles aren't dragging.

[Jack Rabbit]

21. Shut up, Senator

That was really inappropriate. That is willfully ignorant and Senator Graham should know that.

It's clear that he wasn't looking for Christians, but for black people and knew that a Christian church was a good place to find them.

[Chemisse]

24. It's disgusting to use this tragedy to feed a false narrative that Christians are being targeted.

Instead of feeling compassion for the actual victims, he hijacked this to make Christians feel they are persecuted instead of blacks.

It is sick.

[YOHABLO]

27. Oh yeah, he went in that church to kill Christians. They're so persecuted. Right.

This will be the Right Wing stance on the issue even though the FACTS related to this mass murder, speak loudly otherwise. These Right Wingers have no shame. The Christian Right in this country are taking us all down with them.

[dhill926]

28. says everything about republicans...

that one of their declared candidates for President would spout this nonsensical shit. And I can only imagine what Santorum will say. They are a sick, morally diseased blight on society...and that's the nice version.

[The Wizard]

31. Note to Lindsey

Stop playing the professional victim and take responsibility for the fear and hatred you foment.

[hollowdweller]

32. He can't say "Hate Crime" republicans detest the term.

If he said it was a hate crime and decried racism he probably wouldn't carry his own state.

Republican voters are motivated by the idea that blacks are the recipients of special government largesse, rather than a disproportionate share of death sentences and prison cells. Every republican I know considers hate crime legislation a special giveaway to blacks like they do equal opportunity.

Go to any readers comments section and they will go on about why when a black guy robs a white guy why isn't THAT hate crime, totally oblivious to the difference between that and a white guy murdering 9 black people and posing with racist regalia.

The party of Lincoln is so much now the party of Lee that any candidate who dares insinuate that racism is not greater in black people or stereotypes are somehow justified would never win.

Sad to say but true.

[stage left]

33. Lindsey Graham is an idiot.

This racist was looking for black people to murder.

[LynnTTT]

34. Yes, Fox is claiming this is just the war against Christianity

The only living witness says he said " You rape our women and you're taking over our country. You have to go". His room-mate
said he talked about starting a Civil War. Root had apartheid patches on the jacket shown on his Facebook page.
This isn't a war on Christianity

[wordpix]

60. the obvious talking point - let's hope it backfires on these racists and Faux Xtians

[George II]

35. No shit, Sherlock. That's who one finds in a Christian church. But, did Graham hear.....

....what the guy said as he started shooting? "I want to kill some black people"! Did he hear what he told his friends and family? "Blacks are taking over the country".

[sarge43]

36. "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?" n/t

[roamer65]

38. Gotta paint the white Christians as victims again, when they are not.

Garbage mouth Graham.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

39. Of fuck you!!! You self hating piece of shit!! nt

[valerief]

40. Poor persecuted Christians again. FFS!

[RiverNoord]

42. Bastard

[GeorgeGist]

43. Pervert.

[City Lights]

45. Fail.

Nice try, though, Lindsey.

[truthisfreedom]

46. Wow, he's doing our work for us.

Marginalizing himself with utter ignorance.

[RoverSuswade]

48. Wait for Virginia Foxxx to make a similar statement.

She will say, "he just picked a church at random. This is not a hate crime."

[silvershadow]

49. That they were Christians doesn't play into it, in my mind. Try again, Lindsay. nt

[Scuba]

50. "It was another battle in the War on Christmas."

[AngryOldDem]

51. Everything gets twisted around to religion.

Because, of course, Christians are always under attack.

[samsingh]

52. Christians who happen to be in a Black Church? How stupid are these repugs?

[Vinca]

53. I knew the "war on Christians" would surface.What distasteful pandering by Graham.

[Cosmocat]

80. Its amazing

It is an absolute given now, things like this happen and they can't give a fricken inch, so they gin themselves up into some kind of bullshit where THEY are the victims ...

Hopeless ...

[brooklynite]

54. Psst, Lindsey: even Fox News has realized this was a racial issue...

Better get with the program

[nruthie]

55. What a worthless little twerp.

[Angry Dragon]

62. Hello, my name is Lindsey Graham and I am an idiot

show me where the clown car is

[TNNurse]

64. And not just an idiot

but a racist idiot.

[mackerel]

65. May Have Been ‘Looking for Christians to Kill’

That statement right there makes this a crime of terrorism. Do we charge whites with terrorism in this country?
(Btw McVeigh was 20 years ago.)

[underthematrix]

66. so does this mean Miss Lindsey is not

a christian?

[randr]

67. If white "Christians" truely felt they were the target

guns would have been made illegal long ago.

[Martin Eden]

68. Yes, Dylann Roof is "whacked out"

What I want to know is ...

What excuse does US Senator Lindsay Graham have for his utterly "whacked out" attempt to re-write a blatant act of racially motivated violence as a chapter in the fictional book of persecuting Christians?

[Skittles]

70. mmmmm no

he was targeting black folk for his terror spree and the church was the most convenient way to do that

[BlancheSplanchnik]

72. eff you, graham.

Just go and find a rotten mackerel and go eff yourself.

If that's what he was hunting, little POS could have gone to his own church, or the one down the dirt road, across from the liquor store.

[Bradical79]

74. Lindsey Graham is a racist

At least that's all I can take away from his statements. There's zero question as to this killer's motivation.

[wolfie001]

75. Lying asshat!

Covering for his racist cohorts. Nobody buys that bullshit.

[potone]

76. Very odd time to think we're suddenly in a color-blind society.

My God, the only question now is whether it is to be prosecuted as a hate crime or terrorism: I think the latter charge fits.

[Kalidurga]

77. The POS the shooter not Graham Crackers who is also a POS...

was raised in a Christian household according to his parents. So, there is a better than average chance the POS shooter not Graham Crackers who is also a POS, is in fact a Christian. I think that it's possible that Christian groups could go to war with each other as they have done this, but I am going to take the POS at his word, that he wanted to start a race war. I guess the POS shooter didn't get the memo that a war is already in progress and it is not Black people who are winning.

[IHateTheGOP]

78. Yea, and Newtown was an attack on education

[oberliner]

79. Sen. Lindsey Graham: there’s ‘No doubt’ that Charleston church massacre was racially motivated

Days after several Republican presidential candidates downplayed or sidestepped the issue of race in the shooting deaths of nine people inside an historic African-American church in Charleston, S.C., Sen. Lindsey Graham acknowledged that race was the primary factor in the killings.

"There can be no doubt that the shooting on Wednesday night was racially motivated and signals to all of us that the scars of our history are still with us today," Graham, R-S.C., said in a statement Saturday. "Throughout our country, we still have much to do in the name of equality. I want to talk about those issues on the campaign trail."

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/06/20/270687/sen-lindsey-graham-theres-no-doubt.html#storylink=cpy

For what that is worth.

[truthisfreedom]

81. Too late, lindsey, you windbag freak.

Dry up.

[catbyte]

82. And Lindsay Graham "may be a fucking idiot." Or a liar. Probably both.

[abakan]

84. The shooters reason was not unambiguous.

He stated clearly, and not just once, his goal was to kill black people. If Lindsey Graham and all his fellow repubs would remove their heads from their asses, they might be able to hear what he is saying.

[Missn-Hitch]

85. That lesbian is right.

credit to Stephen Colbert, the master.

[struggle4progress]

86. Lindsey Graham May Have Been ‘Desperately Looking for a Way to Sound Relevant’

[DFW]

88. Who did Graham expect to be in an Episcopal church on Sunday? Al Qaeda? n/t

[IHateTheGOP]

89. Nah Lindsey, the revolution against the right hasn't started yet

[Ilsa]

90. WTH? I bet the shooter considers himself a Christian. nt