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Cruz fires back after Joy Reid's 'Django' attack
Quote:Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, fired back at far-left host Joy Reid's latest racially charged attack, wondering Wednesday why MSNBC allowed her to get away with it and saying her "condescension" was leading Hispanics to leave the Democrats.
Reid assailed Cruz and compared him to Stephen, the traitorous house slave in the 2012 movie "Django Unchained," for opposing the Democratic voting overhaul known as the For The People Act. Cruz, mirroring language by President Biden about Georgia's Republican voting law, angered Democrats after he called it "Jim Crow 2.0."
"I appreciate MSNBC lecturing me on how people of 'my race' are supposed to vote. This arrogant condescension is a big reason Hispanic voters are moving right in large numbers. Also, why is MSNBC ok with their hosts using overt racial slurs ('Stephen from Django')?" Cruz tweeted.
Reid, who also has referred to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as "Uncle Clarence" and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., as a token in the Republican Party, took her criticism of Cruz to personal levels on Tuesday.
"Ted Cruz says a lot of stupid things. He does a lot of stupid things. But I personally, as a person of color, as a Black person, am beyond offended that he would dare use the word 'Jim Crow' when his party is literally a 'Jim Crow' party at this point trying to suppress the votes of people, including in his home state," Reid said, later referring to him as "Stephen from Django Unchained."
Reid's use of the term suggested Cruz was a traitor to his own race.
Reid dramatically defended the For The People Act, saying there may never be free or fair elections again if it doesn't pass.
Republicans have criticized the massive bill as federal overreach that would decimate election integrity.
"The legislation would strip states of their constitutional authority to run elections and allow the federal government to decree what’s best," Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., wrote in an op-ed for Fox News. "It would ban voter ID laws, which maintain the integrity of elections in my state and a majority of others ... To put it simply: states don’t need Washington, D.C., to strip them of their authority and impose burdensome requirements to fix problems that do not exist."
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RE: Cruz fires back after Joy Reid's 'Django' attack
"Also, why is MSNBC ok with their hosts using overt racial slurs (“Stephen from Django”)?"
That is what is known as Hypocrisy.
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RE: Cruz fires back after Joy Reid's 'Django' attack
These idiots are completely deranged. To even put some one that whacko on a news station is moronic. And besides she is a journalist? I thought they reported the news rather than push an agenda forwarded by the democrat party.
BTW that “for the voter” act is an unconstitutional power grab and will only farther divide this country and push us toward civil war. Americans out here in the flyover country won’t be ruled by the men in the tower.
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RE: Cruz fires back after Joy Reid's 'Django' attack
They can rule over the ground where they bury me.
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RE: Cruz fires back after Joy Reid's 'Django' attack
Why is every time I see Joy Reid I am reminded of that old Don Imus quote?
(This post was last modified: 05-12-2021 05:21 PM by MemTigers1998.)
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