As Twitchy reported, South Carolina’s Republican Gov. Nikki Haley received her fair share of Twitter hate after a tearful press conference the morning after the #CharlestonShooting. While many surprisingly criticized Haley, the daughter of Indian immigrants, for trying to pass as white, others argued that it was her party affiliation that drove her to defend the flying of the Confederate flag over South Carolina, inferring state support of the Confederacy and slavery.
Has everyone forgotten that rapper Kanye West has claimed the flag as his own? It his now.
Kanye draped in a confederate flag: "It's my flag now" pic.twitter.com/y7u8z6p68D
— Byron Crawford (@byroncrawford) October 31, 2013
Richochet editor Jon Gabriel notes that every national tragedy is followed quickly by a campaign to blame Republicans. For the record, while Kanye West featured the Confederate flag on tour merchandise, Gabriel, a Republican, isn’t attached to it.
I’d be thrilled if SC ripped down the flag a year ago. But does this act of terror still happen? Of course it does.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) June 20, 2015
If the flag is banned tomorrow, what do we say, "There! All fixed!" Of course not.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) June 20, 2015
It would be symbolic gesture. But symbolic gestures can be important & necessary. Confederate flag in tht category. https://t.co/1qZcWYRypJ
— Toby Harnden (@tobyharnden) June 20, 2015
.@tobyharnden It's would be a symbolic gesture I fully support. But it has no bearing on the mass murder in Charleston.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) June 20, 2015
I guess it's only human to see a senseless and evil act of terror and think, "we need to do SOMETHING," even if that something is unrelated.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) June 20, 2015
Take a lighter to the flag, I don't give a sh!t about it. But it doesn't solve the problem of evil monsters murdering innocent people.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) June 20, 2015
Every time a crazy person shoots up a place, the press demands Republicans — who had nothing to do with it — answer for the crime.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) June 20, 2015
Tucson: “But what about targets drawn on maps?”
Newtown: But what about guns?”
Charleston: “But what about flags?”— jon gabriel (@exjon) June 20, 2015
Avowed communist crashes plane into Texas IRS: “But what about anti-gov’t rhetoric?”
— jon gabriel (@exjon) June 20, 2015
It really is insidious.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) June 20, 2015
It's been this way for years. A Soviet-loving Oswald murdered JFK. The press asks, "But what about the climate of hate in Dallas?"
— jon gabriel (@exjon) June 20, 2015
https://twitter.com/kesgardner/status/612376477120622592
@exjon Garland: "But what about cartoons?"
— Joe Pesky (@JoePesky) June 20, 2015
@exjon navy yard: the mental health system let us down
— Kevin (@Chug_A_Lugg) June 20, 2015
https://twitter.com/JKirk777/status/612377167066996736
@Chug_A_Lugg @exjon
Ft hood: Meh. Random shit happens— Smittie™ GED (Hons), BS (D-) (@smittie61984) June 20, 2015
When two cops got shot in NYC, Dems didn’t say the problem was guns, they said the problem was cops.
— Eric H. (@ericinva) June 20, 2015
#Hillary Blames Donald Trump and Talk Radio for Charleston Murders – Hilliary is a fool @HilliaryClinton http://t.co/y69hHNAlzC
— cattinks (@cattinks) June 20, 2015
Every Republican now gets asked about a Flag. A Democrat candidate has a quote from a KKK member on his website pic.twitter.com/StVkLEpSWQ
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) June 20, 2015
Don't forget that flag was placed on top of the state capitol by Fritz Hollings & moved down to its current place amid great controversy
— David Freddoso (@freddoso) June 19, 2015
Would that be Gov. Ernest “Fritz” Hollings? What was his party again?
7/7
That would be the sitting governor in 1962 — the man who fought integration and was a stalwart congressman, DEMOCRAT Fritz Hollings.— Brad Slager: It's Lt-Col-VP-Rev-Kaiser, SIR ? ? (@MartiniShark) June 19, 2015
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