Who is defending MTJ? I’m simply saying you are the company you keep and Warnock keeps the company of anti-semites.
So if Kelly was endorsed or even attended rallies with a QAnon anti-semite like MTJ then the same standard would apply to her, right?
SMYRNA — Speaking to a large crowd gathered in the Adventure Outdoors parking lot Saturday, former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr said he recently attended a National Rifle Association board meeting
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"Struggling to coalesce GOP support in next month's special election in Georgia, appointed Sen. Kelly Loeffler
celebrated an endorsement Thursday from Marjorie Taylor Greene, the controversial congressional candidate who has embraced elements of the QAnon conspiracy theory and
has a history of making racist and bigoted comments."
The appointed Georgia senator is still trying to lock down GOP support in next month's special election.
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"What impressed me with Kelly is I found out that she believes a lot of the same things that I believe," Greene said during the event Tuesday, which Loeffler's campaign live-streamed on its Facebook page. "And I found out that she's actually the most conservative Republican in the race."
Loeffler called Greene a "much needed voice" in Washington and compared the two of them with President Donald Trump, who is set to host a rally in the state Friday, for their business backgrounds. She also touted her voting record and said she was fighting for "conservative values" and against the "radical left."
So you want to tar Warnock for what you label the anti-semite views of Rev Wright, and yet completely ignore the 2020 endorsement and joint appearances of Loeffler connected to someone actually in Govt? More of that "objetivity" that mcm values in your posting?
Here's the Kelly ad you appear to be mimicking...
I believe the same "speech" was used vs Obama, and the fact checklists it as 2003, but first used in the 2008 campaign. Are you going to claim that Warnock "honored" Wright (another Loeffler lie) as well?
Strange how you take Warnock to task over his past relationship with a non-political figure from 2003 or 2008, and yet remain stubbornly mute when it comes to worse transgressions from this year regarding Kelly and her relationship with an actual POLITICAL figure?
Loeffler’s attack
Loeffler attacked Warnock in an ad that uses a black-and-white clip of Wright preaching, "not God bless America, God damn America," but with the word damn bleeped.
Wright was Obama’s longtime pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. During the 2008 campaign, ABC News aired a report that included excerpts of Wright’s sermons against racism and war.
In the most controversial video, from a 2003 sermon, Wright said that the government "wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, not ‘God Bless America.’ God damn America — that's in the Bible — for killing innocent people. God damn America, for treating our citizens as less than human. ... The United States government has failed the vast majority of her citizens of African descent."
At the time of the report, Obama distanced himself from Wright and then
resigned from Wright’s church.
"In Loeffler’s current ad, separate pictures of Wright and Warnock appear on the screen. A narrator says: "Warnock defended Jeremiah Wright's hatred, then gave him an award for truth telling."
Next comes a split screen, with Wright shown preaching on the right. On the left, Warnock says in a TV interview: "We celebrate Reverend Wright." His quote is cut off and the narrator says: "Warnock celebrated anti-American hatred," before a clip of Wright’s "God (bleep) America" is replayed.
Loeffler has used the Wright clip in two
other ads attacking Warnock and in an interview for a conservative
podcast. The clip is also used in an
ad by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and an
ad by the Georgia Republican Party that attacks Warnock.
Loeffler’s campaign did not reply to our requests for information to back up Loeffler’s claim. But her ad cites sources, as does a website created by Loeffler campaign’s,
RadicalRaphael.com.
The ad cites an
interview Warnock did in 2008 with Greta Van Susteren, a Fox News talk show host. Asked if he embraced Wright’s comments, Warnock replied:
"We celebrate Reverend Wright in the same way that we celebrate the truth telling tradition of the Black church — which, when preachers tell the truth, very often it makes people uncomfortable. And I think that the country has been done a disservice by this constant playing over and over again of the same sound bite outside of context."
Warnock noted that King was working on a
sermon entitled, "Why America May Go to Hell" shortly before he was assassinated."
The website created by Loeffler’s campaign says that in 2013 Warnock defended Wright’s sermon as a "very fine homily" on God and government and had said the sermon was consistent with Black prophetic preaching.
Warnock did say those things in what was a 45-minute academic speech
entitled, "Piety or Protest: Black Theology and the Divided Mind of the Black Church." But he explained that what Wright’s homily did was rail against injustice against Black people in America."
Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., has repeatedly used a video clip of a minister saying "God damn America" to attack her Democ
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FEATURED FACT-CHECK
"A Loeffler campaign
document says Warnock was to give Wright an award at the Black Church Summit in Dallas in 2008, but that Wright did not attend the summit, citing security concerns amid the reaction to the ABC News story.
Warnock attended the summit as an invited speaker, but he wasn’t involved with selecting Wright for an award.
The summit was hosted by Brite Divinity School,
which is
affiliated with Texas Christian University and located on the TCU campus in Fort Worth, Texas.
Brite had decided months before the ABC News story to make Wright the honoree of its fourth annual summit, based on his long career in ministry. Brite stayed with its plan following controversy over the ABC story, saying at the time: "Contrary to media claims that Wright preaches racial hatred, church leaders who have observed his ministry describe him as a faithful preacher of the gospel who has ministered in a context radically different from that of many middle class Americans."
Wright did not attend the event, and other events around that time, out of security concerns following the ABC story.
Warnock’s campaign said he had no affiliation with Brite prior to the summit. Brite’s president, Newell Williams, who was also president at the time, said he does not believe Warnock had any prior connection to the school, did not recall that Warnock attended the summit and does not think he has ever met Warnock.
Texas Christian University’s student news publication, in a news story cited by Loeffler’s campaign,
reported at the time that Warnock said the public had confused moral outrage with hatred in response to claims that Black preachers promote hate from the pulpit. "In fact, it’s inappropriate not to feel outrage in the face of injustice," he said.
Warnock also said at the summit about the reaction to Wright’s sermons: "Part of the reason the public is so shocked ... is that they have not heard the public voice of the liberated black church in a very long time. In a very real sense, it's an indictment of us."
Our ruling
Loeffler claimed that Warnock defended the "hatred" of Wright, the pastor who said in a 2003 sermon, "not God bless America, God damn America," and that Warnock gave Wright "an award for truth telling."
Wright’s sermon decried America’s historical mistreatment of Black people. What Warnock defended was Wright’s role as a preacher in the "truth telling" about that mistreatment.
A Texas divinity school, not Warnock, honored Wright for his career in ministry.
Loeffler’s statement contains an element of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. That’s our definition of Mostly False.
This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here, for more."
Still don't get the anti-semitic angle? Can you elaborate how Warnock earns your "righteous anger" and accusations of "associating with anti-semites, yet when Kelly actually appears at Campaign rallies with an avowed racist and anti-semite she gets a complete pass? Just trying to get a grasp of where that "factual objectivity" you have enthralled mcm with emanates from?