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Purveyor

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Sat Oct 19, 2013, 05:26 PM Oct 2013

Larry Klayman Defends His Anti-Muslim Remarks And Calls Mitch McConnell ‘A Whore’

Tea Party activist Larry Klayman cited creative license on Friday in defending his recent Islamophobic accusations against President Barack Obama to MSNBC host Martin Bashir after Bashir pressed him for proof that Obama was “a foreign-born Muslim who has hoodwinked the American people.”

“Have you observed him performing the various practices of Islam?” Bashir asked pointedly. “Has he arranged for the White House to be arranged so that it faces Mecca? Have you seen him take the hajj? What is your evidence for making those kinds of public statements?”

“As a journalist and as a writer, Martin, you know that those references were metaphoric,” Klayman answered.

“They were metaphoric?” Bashir shot back, as network contributor James Peterson could be heard laughing in the background.

“Let me finish,” Klayman insisted. “But they ring true, because this president has done everything he can to harm Israel, to harm American interests in the Middle East.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/18/larry-klayman-defends-his-anti-muslim-remarks-and-calls-mitch-mcconnell-a-whore/

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Larry Klayman Defends His Anti-Muslim Remarks And Calls Mitch McConnell ‘A Whore’ (Original Post) Purveyor Oct 2013 OP
larry's just your run of the mill, everyday racist. spanone Oct 2013 #1
He's also a pathological liar malaise Oct 2013 #2
we could go on and on!!! spanone Oct 2013 #3
Larry, Larry, that's awfully harsh rhetoric toward Mitch Zambero Oct 2013 #4
Besides, he's cute! radicalliberal Oct 2013 #5

Zambero

(8,964 posts)
4. Larry, Larry, that's awfully harsh rhetoric toward Mitch
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 06:15 PM
Oct 2013

We would prefer to continue labeling him as an obstructive "turtle".

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