Trump GOP Challenger Joe Walsh: ‘I Wouldn’t Call Myself a Racist, but I’ve Said Racist Things’ – By Rafi Schwartz (Splinter News) / Aug 26 2019
Joe Walsh, former Tea Party congressman turned Republican presidential candidate, is just two days into his quixotic bid to challenge President Donald Trump for his party’s nomination in the 2020 election, and already he’s managed to stick his foot so far down his throat when it comes to his extremely racist past that he’s probably digesting his casual menswear sneakers as we speak.
In an interview on MSNBC on Monday, Walsh offered what I suppose counts for a mea culpa these days, explaining, “I wouldn’t call myself a racist, but I’ve said racist things on Twitter.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VkXfUjSv6M
As a reminder, those “racist things” include pushing the absurd “birther” theory that President Barack Obama is a Muslim who “hates Israel” as recently as 2017.
For the past week, everybody has been asking again why Obama hates Israel. The answer is simple really: I think Obama is Muslim. /1
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) December 29, 2016
Obama is a Muslim
Happy New Year!
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 1, 2017
Walsh also defended his right to call African American’s “lazy.”
.@GovHowardDean You're very wrong. In America, I have a right to say blacks are lazy and the Irish are drunks. Hateful speech is protected. https://t.co/eJy1F6Jn2k
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) April 21, 2017
In 2014, Walsh seemingly whined about his inability to use publicly use racial epithets.
Found out if I said Redskins or Cracker or Redneck Bible Thumper, I could stay on. But if I said Nigger or Spick, they cut me off.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) June 20, 2014
For a self-proclaimed not-racist person, that sure looks like a whole lot of racism.
MSNBC National Affairs analyst John Heilemann was having none of Walsh’s garment-rending. “For a lot of people, the fact is the president’s a stone cold racist, and so are you,” he said.
Walsh then tried to explain himself further to the Washington Post.
https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1166100137795604481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1166100137795604481&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsplinternews.com%2Fajax%2Finset%2Fiframe%3Fid%3Dtwitter-1166100137795604481%26autosize%3D1
https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1166100425357111297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1166100425357111297&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsplinternews.com%2Fajax%2Finset%2Fiframe%3Fid%3Dtwitter-1166100425357111297%26autosize%3D1
Campaign seems to be going great!
https://splinternews.com/trump-gop-challenger-joe-walsh-i-wouldn-t-call-myself-1837592826
