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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 12:47 PM Jan 2019

Local Tennessee GOP Chair Defends Meme Mocking Ocasio-Cortez

Source: Talking Points Memo



By Matt Shuham

January 23, 2019 11:26 am

The Williamson County, Tennessee Republican Party recently emailed a newsletter with a meme mocking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), drawing criticism from at least one local Republican official.

The county’s GOP chair on Wednesday defended the newsletter to a local paper and blamed “the left manipulating the press” for negative coverage.




Deaver did not immediately return TPM’s request for comment. Neither did Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) nor Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), who both call Williamson County home). But Deaver was defiant in an email to the Tennessean.

“Allowing a few people on the left to whip up media outrage over political satire is just another example of the left manipulating the press to present their narrative as truth and all other views as wrong or worse racist,” she wrote. “The Republican Party of Williamson County will not let those outside our organization tell us what we can or can’t say.”

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/williamson-county-tennessee-gop-chair-meme-ocasio-cortez-roe-v-wade
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Local Tennessee GOP Chair Defends Meme Mocking Ocasio-Cortez (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2019 OP
The push is on, watoos Jan 2019 #1
Republicans have such horrible senses of humor rurallib Jan 2019 #2
GOP so unfunny they never see that their jokes are always on themselves. Snellius Jan 2019 #3
It's a cheap, puerile, racist joke. RVN VET71 Jan 2019 #4
Vile racist republican asshole Yeehah Jan 2019 #5
"manipulating the press to present their narrative as truth and all other views as wrong" LiberalLovinLug Jan 2019 #6
 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
1. The push is on,
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 12:53 PM
Jan 2019

to take down AOC, especially since she has been appointed to the Oversight Committee. We need to have her back.

You go girl.

rurallib

(62,448 posts)
2. Republicans have such horrible senses of humor
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 01:03 PM
Jan 2019

and they always punch down that they must really hate their miserable little lives.
That joke is about 1 day less old than the SCOTUS decision. Of course it wasn't funny then.

If your only amusement comes from making fun of people who have it rough, man you are pathetic.
And the ironic thing about taking on AOC is that she hits them back at least 2X as hard and they have been losing to her from day one.

Snellius

(6,881 posts)
3. GOP so unfunny they never see that their jokes are always on themselves.
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 01:13 PM
Jan 2019

They are always so laughably lame at trying to act cool that they just make fools of themselves. Trying to footloose like AOC? Mainstream media is not mainstream just because they're not Repubs. Fat white elephants can't dance.

RVN VET71

(2,698 posts)
4. It's a cheap, puerile, racist joke.
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 01:13 PM
Jan 2019

Ha-ha-ha! See, I make funny stuff about messicans an' use a mexican to deliver funny, funny line. Did I tell ya the one about the chinamen and the jews? It's a stitch!

And Marsha Blackburn didn't respond to a request for comment? What a surprise. On her behalf, she was probably so busy laughing' an' laughing' because the joke was about "row versus wade" like that was what messicans have to do to get across the river. Did you get it? Sooo funny. Heeehaaa! Right?

The GOP is run by racist lowlife idiots who have no sense of humor and even less a sense of human decency. Just so you know, Ms. Deaver, it isn't the left or any political organization that's telling you what you can and cannot say. It's human decency -- to which you and yours long ago turned a deaf ear.

But do not worry overmuch about your failings as people. Representative Ocasio-Cortez is coming for you. She's both honest and a lot smarter than you. If you listen to her, you might just learn enough to be welcomed into the human family.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,176 posts)
6. "manipulating the press to present their narrative as truth and all other views as wrong"
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 04:01 PM
Jan 2019

And just how are the left "manipulating" the press? By re-publishing their own newsletters?

Sometimes I am aghast at how they can get away with these kinds of blatantly obvious conclusions...then I remember their base. Dumb as fuck deplorables.

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