Here's Mark Meadows, who just sidetracked the entire House Oversight Committee to assure him he's not racist, saying that "2012 is the time we are going to send Mr. Obama home to Kenya or wherever it is" pic.twitter.com/90L1xnWf6v— Steve Morris (@stevemorris__) February 27, 2019
Now doth protest too much:
Meadows angrily accuses Tlaib of racism for calling him racist pic.twitter.com/4Wj6FcJO6l— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 27, 2019
And, of course, Meadows can't be a racist because he has black people in his family.
So I am apparently missing Mark Meadows having a meltdown about how he can’t be racist because he has black people in his family.... yo Senator Strom Thurmond had a black daughter & blocked the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 24 hours in the US Senate.... really? #CohenHearing— Atima Omara (@atima_omara) February 27, 2019
But I'm using it simply as a way to direct you to this excellent analysis of "racism" at Vox. All this sturm und drang should be worth something, right?
I think he was going for a Lindsay Graham effect, a little.
ReplyDeleteThere were allegations made by GOP committee members that Elijah Cummings was part of a conspiracy with Cohen and others to bring Trump down, but calling Meadows act "racist" was a bridge too far?
ReplyDeleteCongressional umbrage is always about the distraction.