David Duke Praises Steve Scalise
[su_right_ad]This is just what incoming House Majority Whip Steve Scalise needs after admitting addressing a white supremacist group: praise from David Duke.
In a comment to The Huffington Post, white nationalist and former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke called the Republican congressman “a fine family man and a good person.
Duke was responding to a recently unearthed story that revealed Scalise had given a keynote address at a 2002 event hosted by the neo-Nazi’s white supremacist group.
While Scalise’s office first said they were not sure if the congressman had spoken at the event, they admitted Monday that he had but does not endorse the group’s message. “He has never been affiliated with the abhorrent group in question,” spokeswoman Moira Bagley told the Washington Post. “The hate-fueled ignorance and intolerance that group projects is in stark contradiction to what Mr. Scalise believes and practices as a father, a husband, and a devoted Catholic.”[su_csky_ad]
Carla Akins December 30th, 2014 at 8:19 am
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH – who saw that coming?
Anomaly 100 December 30th, 2014 at 8:26 am
arc99 December 30th, 2014 at 9:41 am
When David Duke also points out that the President is a fine family man and a good person, then and only then will I concede there is nothing to see here, so move along.
ExPFCWintergreen December 30th, 2014 at 9:57 am
C’mon, give the guy a break. It’s perfectly believable that Scalise could speak to a group of racist, anti-government, middle-aged white men without knowing it was a Klavern — how could he tell the difference between that and every other gathering of American conservatives?
crc3 December 30th, 2014 at 10:15 am
Racists always deny they are racist as in this case…
Guy Lauten December 30th, 2014 at 12:05 pm
“The hate-fueled ignorance and intolerance that group projects is in stark contradiction to what Mr. Scalise believes and practices as a father, a husband, and a devoted Catholic.”
So Mr. Scalise is a devoted (or did she mean to say “devout”) Catholic is he? Which means he follows the teachings of the infallible Prince of Peace in Rome, right? And if he doesn’t follow those teachings, he is doomed to “Hell”, right? So Mr. Scalise is all for redistribution of wealth, against global warming, for marriage equality, etc., right?
whatthe46 December 30th, 2014 at 2:16 pm
“Maybe that is evidence he knew what he was doing when he came to the meeting,” Duke said. “Who knows? All I know is that Kenny liked him. He thought Scalise, who remember was just a state representative, was sharp. They’d talk about the Hollywood system, about the war, whatever I was concerned about.” ~David Duke