You can pretty much set your watch by a Media Matters troll twisting a conservative’s words. That’s exactly what MMFA “researcher” Jason Campbell is doing today with Nikki Haley.
Apparently she’s just outed herself as a white supremacist. Or, at the very least, a white supremacist sympathizer:
Nikki Haley says the Confederate flag was about "service, and sacrifice, and heritage" until Dylan Roof "hijacked" it pic.twitter.com/pqdhKIezRl
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) December 6, 2019
The lefty Blue-Check Brigade didn’t waste any time holding that up as evidence of Haley’s latent bigotry:
— Jonathan Landay (@JonathanLanday) December 6, 2019
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it was fine before that
— jordan (@JordanUhl) December 6, 2019
Nikki Haley says the Confederate flag was about “service, sacrifice and heritage” until the Charleston church mass shooting of Black worshippers, and that the media “wanted to make [the shooting] about racism.” The shooter was a white supremacist.
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) December 6, 2019
Nikki Haley cleaning up her one redeeming moment just in case, Trump is looking for a plot twist on the ticket next year https://t.co/tRlW0GWlyR
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) December 6, 2019
This woman is not fit to lead https://t.co/BoAlDmnRSB
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) December 6, 2019
This is the @GOP's bright hope? https://t.co/Z7BObSEgMn
— Jeff Pearlman (@jeffpearlman) December 6, 2019
This is a person Republicans see as a palatable alternative to Trump. https://t.co/4jNfHKIhbN
— marisa kabas (@MarisaKabas) December 6, 2019
bullshit https://t.co/AZH5JMb8CT
— Jon B. Wolfsthal – aka a Globalist (@JBWolfsthal) December 6, 2019
Nikki Haley also says, “The swastika was all about geometry, style, and trains arriving when expected – until my neighbor, Doris Glump, hijacked it last week and turned it into something vaguely sinister and, almost, anti-Jewish. Shame on Mrs. Glump!” https://t.co/H62w0NjHZ8
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) December 6, 2019
Yikes. A wink to needing racists to win a GOP nomination.
— Amy Siskind ?️? (@Amy_Siskind) December 6, 2019
If Media Matters is where people are looking for evidence that Nikki Haley is a racist bigot or racist bigot apologist, that right there should show you how strong their case against her is.
This is quite literally a lie, and not what she says in the actual video in this same tweet.
And yet it's being shared by many people in the media who really should know better… https://t.co/UukWrSQqZH
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) December 6, 2019
That’s literally not what she said, ya bum. https://t.co/tU8tz4I3nq
— “Caitlin” (@thefactualprep) December 6, 2019
You really had to work that wording hard to produce this from what she actually said, my man.
— neontaster (@neontaster) December 6, 2019
Yeah that's not what she said, but I wouldn't expect any less from the MMFA Rapid Response Brigade. https://t.co/CNiB0aow4z
— neontaster (@neontaster) December 6, 2019
That Nikki Haley clip is 1:22 long and nobody has watched it.
— neontaster (@neontaster) December 6, 2019
Yeah, that's it. Nikki Haley: Neo-Confederate. Good work, Jayce. https://t.co/NP8ZkoGaqV
— ?It's?Almost ⛄️Christmas? (@jtLOL) December 6, 2019
What is it about a woman of color that scares these guys? Keep #whitesplaining tho
— ?It's?Almost ⛄️Christmas? (@jtLOL) December 6, 2019
Nikki Haley must've been pissed when the Confederate flag was removed from the South Carolina state capitol by… um… Nikki Haley https://t.co/baFnDTbb78
— ?It's?Almost ⛄️Christmas? (@jtLOL) December 6, 2019
Thought this was a weird statement until
1) Realized it was from Media Matters; and
2) Watched the actual clip, not the purposely misleading tweet.
Haley didn't say the flag was about those things, she's South Carolinians who grew up seeing the flag as those things. https://t.co/gF2qmRt3gw
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) December 6, 2019
This is pretty misleading. Haley doesn't say that was her view, she says "people saw it" that way https://t.co/nsH6nW20CT
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) December 6, 2019
Yeah, you could argue that she was doing a "people are saying" thing, but even so it's worth criticizing on its own terms
— Griswold Christmas Vacation (@HashtagGriswold) December 6, 2019
Could Haley’s remarks have been a little clearer or more articulate? Yes. But anyone with half a brain knows full well that she wasn’t excusing or defending the racism symbolized by the Confederate flag. Which is why so many liberals are so upset with her over this.
Yeah by all means criticize it on the merits. But let's at least be accurate
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) December 6, 2019
That specific line is horrible, and she should admit it was wrong.
But her overall message was fine.
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) December 6, 2019
To be clear, she wasn't saying she viewed the flag that way, but arguing many South Carolinians viewed it that way. (she says "people saw it as…") She used a similar equivocation in her announcement on removing the flag. https://t.co/eeYCSjYkZh https://t.co/wMXjvpYaOJ
— Philip Klein (@philipaklein) December 6, 2019
Here was what she said in her announcement on removing the Confederate flag. You can criticize her for being political and sanitizing the views of South Carolinians who like the flag, but it's clear this was her actual point pic.twitter.com/smgqcAklFC
— Philip Klein (@philipaklein) December 6, 2019
I guess that's the other thing, is I'm not terribly invested in tearing down the person who took down the confederate flag because she later said dumb things when explaining her good decision.
Plus, I don't feel like changing my banner image.
— Griswold Christmas Vacation (@HashtagGriswold) December 6, 2019
If Haley’s comments are really so egregious, why not just post the clip and let people listen for themselves? Why select certain words to take out of context?
Those are rhetorical questions, of course. After all, this is MMFA we’re dealing with.
An @mmfa hack tortures his own video clip to tendentiously twist a conservative woman's words into something completely unlike what she said. Must be a day ending in 'Y'. https://t.co/4ooJwGQh0u
— Dodd (@Amuk3) December 6, 2019
