Uhh no, you mentioned an opinion piece about the Violence Against Women Act (which Sessions voted against) as that what Warren was reading when she was interrupted.
Where is the fake news story that you are so interested in?
Pocahontas Censured
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Uhh no, you mentioned an opinion piece about the Violence Against Women Act (which Sessions voted against) as that what Warren was reading when she was interrupted.
Where is the fake news story that you are so interested in?
NYTime said it was a Mass Opinion piece.."what difference does it make at this point" (Clinton on Bengazi)
It wasn't the C.King letter- as reported widely which got everybody upset.
Oh, for the good old days when republicans said character counted for something. And now we have trump.
The claim about Warren’s use of her Native American heritage to obtain a high-paying job at Harvard University appears to date from her 2012 bid against incumbent Scott Brown for his Senate seat. Brown alleged during a debate in 2012:
"I think character is important. I think what you’re referring to is the fact that Professor Warren claimed that she was a Native American, a person of color, and as you can see, she’s not. That being said, she checked the box and she had an opportunity actually to make a decision throughout her career when she applied to Penn and Harvard and she checked the box claiming she was a Native American."
http://www.snopes.com/politics/politicians/warren.asp
The claim about Warren’s use of her Native American heritage to obtain a high-paying job at Harvard University appears to date from her 2012 bid against incumbent Scott Brown for his Senate seat. Brown alleged during a debate in 2012:
"I think character is important. I think what you’re referring to is the fact that Professor Warren claimed that she was a Native American, a person of color, and as you can see, she’s not. That being said, she checked the box and she had an opportunity actually to make a decision throughout her career when she applied to Penn and Harvard and she checked the box claiming she was a Native American."
http://www.snopes.com/politics/politicians/warren.asp
It was an opinion piece from a Massachusetts paper about the Violence Against Women Act.
She quoted Kennedy as recorded in the congressional record and that came before she read King's letter.
For someone so worried about "fake" news you sure don't show much concern for accuracy.
Put up or shut up. Where is the fake news story?
either way ( and I can only rely on scanty reportage) it was more then the King letter -which is what all the fuss is about.
and again post to somebody else that cares enough about the minutia to get into this.
Yes, we certainly can't believe a black woman from Alabama who was actually there when Sessions working to suppress voter rights in Alabama.
You can watch her entire speech just like I did.
You claimed there was a fake news story but asking you to actually cite one is minutia? You are full of shit and spreading false information.
*barf* you watched all of that??? are you a masochist?
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The point being (again) in whatever sequence it happened it was more then the C.King letter that was reported
to gin up outrage. i.e Fake News.
You claimed in your first post that she was reading from something other King's letter when interrupted. When I corrected your claims about what it is she was reading when interrupted you claimed I was focusing on minutia. LOL
So you are so interested in fake news stories (that you can't cite) that you are completely unwilling to go to the source? LOL
Who claimed it was only King's letter?
You are just full of shit and only interested in spreading false information.
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
not when we know it isn't true anyway.....the left hates Sessions for something he said about the KKK forty years ago, but embraced Byrd who LED the KKK forty years ago......you shouldn't be throwing the word "character" around, dear.......
According to Pmp people like this are liars.
I tried to help black people vote. Jeff Sessions tried to put me in jail: Voices
While my husband and I were trying to help black people vote in Alabama, Jeff Sessions was trying to put us in jail.
Perry County in the 1960s was a hostile place to be black. To register to vote, a black resident needed to have a white “well to do” citizen to vouch for them. To enter the county courthouse, blacks had to use the back door. And to fight for our basic rights as Americans, we had to gather in the woods because so many black residents were afraid to be seen meeting in town. Despite vicious segregation and this climate of fear, civil rights leaders and ordinary black residents organized to seek the right to vote.
My husband, Albert Turner, served as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Alabama field director and helped to lead voter registration efforts in Marion and Perry County. The U.S. Department of Justice and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy helped to support our voter registration efforts and secure our basic rights. Federal registrars sent by Kennedy worked out of the Marion post office basement and helped to register hundreds of black voters.
In 1965, during a peaceful voting rights march in Marion, state troopers beat and shot Jimmie Lee Jackson, an Army veteran who had tried unsuccessfully to register to vote five different times. Jackson’s killing sparked the first Selma-to-Montgomery March and Bloody Sunday. His death, and too many others, played a significant role in the passage of the federal Voting Rights Act later that year. We relied on the power of that legislation and the commitment of both Kennedy and then Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach in supporting access to the ballot box for the black people of Perry County. After the passage of the Voting Rights Act, I was proud to see that black voting registration in our region grew by tens of thousands and I was proud of my late husband’s well-earned nickname, “Mr. Voter Registration.” I also was proud to work alongside him to continue to build and grow our community’s political voice. But as black political power grew, so did resistance.
In 1985, U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions indicted me, my husband, and another civil rights worker, Spencer Hogue, on false charges of election fraud for assisting elderly black citizens with absentee voting ballots. Until the day I die, I will believe that our arrests were because of our successful political activism and were designed to intimidate black voters and dampen black voting enthusiasm. Meanwhile, Sessions declined to investigate claims of unlawful white voting.
Despite none of us having any history of criminal activity, Sessions wanted to give us the maximum sentences, adding up to two centuries in prison. My husband was willing to plead guilty for crimes he didn’t commit if it would keep me from going to jail. But I knew we were innocent and refused the offer. Thankfully, the case against us, the “Marion 3,” was weak. The vast majority of charges were dismissed outright for lack of evidence, and a racially-mixed jury only took four hours of deliberation before acquitting us.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...r-fraud-evelyn-turner-column-voices/97572474/
I tried to help black people vote. Jeff Sessions tried to put me in jail: Voices
While my husband and I were trying to help black people vote in Alabama, Jeff Sessions was trying to put us in jail.
Perry County in the 1960s was a hostile place to be black. To register to vote, a black resident needed to have a white “well to do” citizen to vouch for them. To enter the county courthouse, blacks had to use the back door. And to fight for our basic rights as Americans, we had to gather in the woods because so many black residents were afraid to be seen meeting in town. Despite vicious segregation and this climate of fear, civil rights leaders and ordinary black residents organized to seek the right to vote.
My husband, Albert Turner, served as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Alabama field director and helped to lead voter registration efforts in Marion and Perry County. The U.S. Department of Justice and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy helped to support our voter registration efforts and secure our basic rights. Federal registrars sent by Kennedy worked out of the Marion post office basement and helped to register hundreds of black voters.
In 1965, during a peaceful voting rights march in Marion, state troopers beat and shot Jimmie Lee Jackson, an Army veteran who had tried unsuccessfully to register to vote five different times. Jackson’s killing sparked the first Selma-to-Montgomery March and Bloody Sunday. His death, and too many others, played a significant role in the passage of the federal Voting Rights Act later that year. We relied on the power of that legislation and the commitment of both Kennedy and then Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach in supporting access to the ballot box for the black people of Perry County. After the passage of the Voting Rights Act, I was proud to see that black voting registration in our region grew by tens of thousands and I was proud of my late husband’s well-earned nickname, “Mr. Voter Registration.” I also was proud to work alongside him to continue to build and grow our community’s political voice. But as black political power grew, so did resistance.
In 1985, U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions indicted me, my husband, and another civil rights worker, Spencer Hogue, on false charges of election fraud for assisting elderly black citizens with absentee voting ballots. Until the day I die, I will believe that our arrests were because of our successful political activism and were designed to intimidate black voters and dampen black voting enthusiasm. Meanwhile, Sessions declined to investigate claims of unlawful white voting.
Despite none of us having any history of criminal activity, Sessions wanted to give us the maximum sentences, adding up to two centuries in prison. My husband was willing to plead guilty for crimes he didn’t commit if it would keep me from going to jail. But I knew we were innocent and refused the offer. Thankfully, the case against us, the “Marion 3,” was weak. The vast majority of charges were dismissed outright for lack of evidence, and a racially-mixed jury only took four hours of deliberation before acquitting us.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...r-fraud-evelyn-turner-column-voices/97572474/
The media coverage only talked about King's letter. I had to search thru some stories to find it was about something more.
The sequencing isn't important -that fact the media omitted ( lie of omission) a big part of the story
in attempts to show the Senate was acting in haste and without merit ( whatever you think of Rule XiX)
that poor Warren was to to STFU solely over reading the King letter is the Fake News.
That is disinformation/lies of omission/fake news
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
yes.....people like them and people like you....
She was censured for the comments in King's letter, so that was reported. McConnell specifically cited parts of the letter in his complaint.
You said the sequencing was important. Okay, it isn't (actually it is, she was warned for quoting Kennedy then censured for reading King's letter).
You have not cited any fake news story. You are nothing but a liar trying to spread misinformation.
the fake news is the media presentation it was only about King. No I'm not gonna "cite" it was all over the media as such..you can call it what you will-but clearly the media had an intent to deceive with all the coverage soley about the King letter -again I happened to notice otherwise while reading the hysterics on this
so she was warned and continued anyway? and then she was sanctioned?
so what's her problem?
Citation needed. Do you understand the word?
So then why can't you cite a specific story?
It was about King and she was censured for reading from the letter.
Her problem is that McConnell is a little insecure twit.
Massachusetts has provided politicians like this wannabe, Ted Kennedy, Kerry, Barney Frank, Dukakis. All fucked in the head. All useless as tits on a nun. There should be a rule that anyone from Massachusetts in the house or Senate should be muzzled before entering the chamber.
yes
because you're a Dick from the Internet
it was about more then C King. It's faked news
he's doing his job -she's bloviating without purpose other then to impune
It's not fake news. She was censured for reading from King's letter. That's a fact!
You have offered no proof that anyone reported that she only commented on King. You seem to be making it up as I can't find such a story.
McConnell is a thin skinned twit who was shutting down political discussion.
There is no reason why she should not impugn a nominee. The rule is not even intended to prevent that and McConnell abused the spirit of the rule for nothing more than partisanship.
after being warned to STFU with the Kennedy characterization
Ok I'm simply lying because you're a Dick from the Internet and I lost picayune interest long ago-but you keep trying to engage me.
maybe he's actually concerned with keep the Senate collegial while the Dems only want to throw hissy fits?
Ok. fine. whatever.