Schultz Guest Grayson: Gingrich Running Most 'Overtly Racist' Campaign Since George Wallace
Go ahead, call it shooting fish in a barrel. As soon as Ed Schultz mentioned at the top of his MSNBC show this evening that Alan Grayson would be a guest, you knew the former Dem congressman from Florida would say something outrageous.
Sure enough, the guy who was roundly defeated last time around—but is giving it another go—delivered, claiming that Newt Gingrich is running "the most overtly racist campaign" since George Wallace. Grayson also managed to work in a reference to the Ten Commandment's prohibition of adultery. Video after the jump.
Watch in action the man who set a new standard for congressional buffoonery.
ALAN GRAYSON: I think there's a sort of race between [Newt's] egomania and his racism. And I think he's running the most overtly racist campaign that I've seen in this country since George Wallace. You're talking about presidential campaigns. So I think that, what he tries to do is to do these dog-whistle things to people he thinks he can connect with to make up for his shortcomings frankly as a human being. And I just can't believe people have so much disrespect for the Seventh Commandment that they would give him any serious consideration at all.
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When Alan says George Wallace....
Submitted by bigdaddy on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 12:09am.
...Is he talking about the former DEMOCRATIC Governor of Alabama???
So Easy.
Don't you know
Submitted by Tjexcite on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 1:13am.
You will in time. Jim Crow was a republican governor of a southern state in the 60's. He was the one who wore white sheets with a hood on the floor of the state legislature. When he died he had a confederate flag on his coffin. That are just the nice thing he did you don't want to hear the evil he personally did and got away with to blacks thanks to his republican friends who protected him.
TJ
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 9:35am.
Sarcasm is the only excuse I can find for your post as it makes no sense to me.
Grayson??
Submitted by Samaritan01 on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 1:45am.
Give me a break, that guy is soooo pre-2010!
Laughable
Submitted by HockeyKid on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 12:22pm.
Alan Grayson is the slimiest eel in the entire realm of American politics. Who the h-e-double-hockey-sticks is HE to talk about "shortcomings as a human being"?!
Put Grayson in a room with Debbie Wheresmybrain Schultz and you get Scum and Dumb. What a pair!
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