Rapper Kanye West had conservatives intrigued when he went on Tucker Carlson’s program on Fox News to explain why he wore a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt at Paris fashion week. But they dropped him like a hot rock the following day when he tweeted about going DEFCON 3 on the Jews — yeah, so maybe this guy isn’t one of us after all.
The incident, however, inspired Business Insider’s Warren Rojas to contact 38 Republicans (and zero Democrats) and ask if they’re concerned about growing anti-Semitic sentiments in their party. That’s right: We read the whole piece and there’s not a single Democrat mentioned.
Insider asked 38 Republicans whether they're concerned about growing anti-Semitic sentiments in their party. Their responses included silence, deflection, and rehashing old statements. https://t.co/rY2FErvybg
— Insider Politics (@insiderpolitics) October 22, 2022
The completely objective Rojas writes:
Insider contacted more than three dozen Republicans, both in and out of Congress, to find out what’s kept them from denouncing recent antisemitic outbursts by the party’s current idols.
Almost everyone ignored the multiple emails, calls, and text messages asking whatever happened to the cookie-cutter “there’s-no-place-for-INSERT DESPICABLE THING-in-the-Republican-party” statements politicians typically fired off as soon as someone baselessly attacked anyone’s race, religion or ethnicity.
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“Every time he says something — anything — about the Jewish people, he knows that he is speaking to a group that has a deep-seated hatred,” [Christine] Rosen said of Trump’s affinity for the far-right.
Did you ask Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib the same questions?
— Kenny Webster (@KennethRWebster) October 22, 2022
Did you ask them if they stopped beating their wives too?
— Dan M (@DanMprime) October 22, 2022
Loaded question much?
It is impossible to defend yourself against the negative, that’s why people don’t engage.
Thanks for being a major source of the problem.
— 🇺🇸🇺🇸BohemiaBB2🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@Bb2Bohemia) October 22, 2022
Those republicans at Berkeley actually have JEW FREE ZONES 😮😮😮. Oh that’s Democrats 😖
— Joseph Blow (@hootabon1) October 22, 2022
Anti-Semitism based on what? Kanye West? He's a conservative now? LOL.
Media is inventing a narrative on this. Though there are all those videos of Hasidic Jews being beaten in NYC. Are those conservatives doing that? Hmmmm…..
— Chris Condict (@chriscondict) October 22, 2022
— Dan Van 🍊rangeberg (@vanorangeberg) October 22, 2022
Insider is framing Kanye west’s anti-semitic outburst as “growing anti-semitism within the Republican Party”. And they expect to be taken seriously.
— Vasoconstricted (@uchchris) October 22, 2022
Considering you would take any responses and rearrange them to suit your own narrative I don’t blame them for not answering.
— William (@WNWayb) October 22, 2022
Nobody would take our bait and give us a story, so we wrote a story about how no one took our bait.
— Luke is the dog, dummies (@iamdogluke) October 22, 2022
— Mr. Misadventure (@Untimelyreload) October 22, 2022
https://twitter.com/LeoNYC/status/1583853834081689602
— Mike (@battlingsiki) October 22, 2022
Have you asked Democrats the same question? No? Then GFY
— Chris Fiorentino (@GpkChris) October 22, 2022
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Related:
WOW: Person interviewing Ilhan Omar in controversial video is RADICAL anti-Semite who refers to Israel as ‘Jewish ISIS’ (watch) https://t.co/zsr74p1Z8n
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 15, 2019
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