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By David Edwards
Sunday, March 16, 2014 11:21 EDT
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Sunday explained that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) had recently blamed poverty on inner cities because he was working hard to help those communities.
In an interview with conservative radio host Bill Bennett last week, Ryan quoted the work of Charles Murray, a white nationalist, who has used racist pseudoscience and misleading statistics to argue that social inequality is caused by the genetic inferiority, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
We have got this tailspin of culture in our inner cities in particular of men not working, and just generations of men not even thinking about working and learning the value and culture of work, Ryan opined. So, theres a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with.
The Wisconsin Republican later admitted that his comments were inarticulate.
On Sunday, CNNs Candy Crowley asked Priebus if he thought the remarks were artfully phrased.
Im not sure, Priebus shrugged. Heres what I would say, why was Paul even talking about this? The reason he was talking about it is he devoted a large part of his life starting back when he worked for Jack Kemp on finding ways to tackle poverty, to free up capital, to create opportunities in urban areas around this country.
Whatever race, whatever gender, we are the ones leading the way, I think, in this country on these issues, he added. And so I commend Paul for his work that hes doing around country.
Watch the video below from CNNs State of the Union, broadcast March 16, 2014.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/16/reince-priebus-paul-ryan-demonized-inner-cities-to-help-them/
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shenmue
(38,506 posts)He should just bug off.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)Can people not tell they are lying? Seriously?
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)reason for attacking LGBT people 'we love them and want to save them, so we say they are the devil's way of attacking God'.
William Seger
(10,779 posts)No, he was too articulate; everyone understood exactly what he meant.
hankthecrank
(653 posts)This guy should take up farming would not have to spend any money on fertilizer
Blue Owl
(50,443 posts)Spirochete
(5,264 posts)because he makes Steele look absolutely brilliant in comparison...
Aerows
(39,961 posts)butterfly77
(17,609 posts)the authority on work and the only people who work.especially RepubliCON men in government who think they are working.