[Ads-l] QOTY?

[Laurence Horn]

> On Feb 29, 2016, at 12:07 PM, Joel Berson <berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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> Lord's statement (a quote) applies to the Reconstruction period, nearly 150 years ago, and apparently not to the KKK but to the White League (see Wikipedia).  

Right; there are many variants of that line during the period, when the Democratic party really was (inter alia) racist and the Republicans really were the party of Lincoln.  Autre temps, autre moeurs.  But Jeff Lord, who was hired by CNN to add a sensible conservative voice to the network, really does claiming that *today's* KKK is an arm of the Democrats or, in some of his statements, an leftist organization.  cf. e.g.

http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/02/29/cnns-jeffrey-lord-defends-trumps-refusal-to-dis/208874

The argument seems to be:

1) The KKK (as reflected by David Duke) is an anti-semitic hate group
2) Trump can't be anti-semitic (some of his best relatives are Jewish)
3) So Trump and the KKK are diametrically opposed
4) Trump is a right-thinking conservative
Therefore, the KKK is a leftist hate group.

Mr. Lord or I might be missing a step in the logic here, or if any of the premises are mistaken.  There's something in there about FDR and Social Security but I wasn't able to follow the point.

LH



> I hope it will appear on Twitter, be also contrasted with Trump's excuse about not knowing what Duke and the KKK were (that he had a faulty earpiece and didn't hear the question -- clearly a lie, since he answered the question about Duke's endorsement by naming Duke), and be derided as deliberately deceptive in making something from a century and a half ago seem to apply to today's Democratic party.
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> Joel 
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>      From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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> Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 7:39 AM
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> Trump spokesman Jeffrey Lord on CNN: "The Ku Klux Klan...is the military
> arm of the Democratic party."
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> JL...
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> On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 8:17 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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>> The original isn't yet online, but this is a close paraphrase.
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>> Jake Tapper, CNN, Feb.19: "When George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and the Pope
>> attack Donald Trump in the same week - it's a great week for Donald Trump."
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>> JL
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