WTF? Ryan says to Brian Kilmeade that he wasn't saying Trump is a racist, just that his comment was.

[kpete]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/jun/07/hillary-clinton-nomination-calfornia-primary-live

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. Ryan raises splitting hairs to a science, or more like, a religion.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

2. Sounds more like

Sarah Failin' wurd salidz

[Journeyman]

3. Everyone misspeaks, says stupid, hurtful things without meaning to. They're not racists . . .

just careless people who need to apologize and try to do better.

When it's a pattern of racist rants, however, that nitwit's a racist. Doesn't matter how you parse it. In fact, to parse it too finely might serve to expose your own inner heart.

Et tu, Ryan?

[gratuitous]

4. Hilarious

Let a Democrat use the wrong word during a lengthy answer to a question, and the Republicans have no problem hauling out the broad brush and painting the Democrat and the entire party with some smear or another. Trump consistently and repeatedly makes racist comments, both ad libbed and well-rehearsed, and golly! Paul Ryan doesn't know what's in Donald Trump's heart. He couldn't possibly make a judgment on whether Trump's a racist, despite Trump's extensive record of public utterances.

What's a poor boy to do?

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. It's how we argue posts on DU

"I said you used a right wing meme, not that you're right wing - it wasn't a personal attack, so my post shouldn't be hidden".

[spanone]

6. no one wants to offend the would-be king of the republican potty

it has nothing to do with his 'heart'. it's about money to don and..
keeping his racist bonafides

[mac56]

7. What a kissass.

[Rex]

8. What the fuck did I just read?

[yellowcanine]

9. "I don't know what is in his heart." "and I am not a scientist"

"So I don't know if he is a racist and I don't know if he is wrong about global warming. Any more questions, because I believe I have it covered now?"