Side by side: Kelly's lies, and Wilson's speech

[EarlG]

Here's the transcript of Kelly statement to the press re: Congresswoman Wilson's speech to the FBI:

I’ll end with this: In October — April, rather, of 2015, I was still on active duty, and I went to the dedication of the new FBI field office in Miami. And it was dedicated to two men who were killed in a firefight in Miami against drug traffickers in 1986 — a guy by the name of Grogan and Duke. Grogan almost retired, 53 years old; Duke, I think less than a year on the job. (Editor’s note: The F.B.I. agent for which the building is named was named Jerry L. Dove, not Duke.)

Anyways, they got in a gunfight and they were killed. Three other FBI agents were there, were wounded, and now retired. So we go down — Jim Comey gave an absolutely brilliant memorial speech to those fallen men and to all of the men and women of the FBI who serve our country so well, and law enforcement so well.

There were family members there. Some of the children that were there were three or four years old when their dads were killed on that street in Miami-Dade. Three of the men that survived the fight were there, and gave a rendition of how brave those men were and how they gave their lives.

And a congresswoman stood up, and in the long tradition of empty barrels making the most noise, stood up there and all of that and talked about how she was instrumental in getting the funding for that building, and how she took care of her constituents because she got the money, and she just called up President Obama, and on that phone call he gave the money — the $20 million — to build the building. And she sat down, and we were stunned. Stunned that she had done it. Even for someone that is that empty a barrel, we were stunned.

But, you know, none of us went to the press and criticized. None of us stood up and were appalled. We just said, O.K., fine.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/us/politics/statement-kelly-gold-star.amp.html

Now here's the actual video that shows she said none of those things:

She was gracious, made polite comments about her fellow Republican lawmakers, and got a standing ovation.

John Kelly is a disgrace.

(Edit: YouTube pulled the video, this one may go missing too.)

(Edit 2: YouTube keeps pulling the video of the whole speech, I've linked to just an excerpt, meanwhile the full video is here.)

[Wellstone ruled]

1. While we are seeing and hearing the

hate speech of two very bigoted white males,and their attempt to discredit a African-American Congresswoman,who grew up in a poor neighborhood,btw,the two white bigot's came from well off neighborhoods,the Republican Party yesterday just passed a budget bill,that will destroy most American Families.

This is now turned into a major diversion that will be the hot news topic through the week end,giving cover fro the GOP and their wealth transfer to the 400 wealthiest families.

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. CNN showed that clip a few minutes ago.

How does Kelly live with the lies he's telling to protect herr drumpf? I just don't know.

[Scarsdale]

9. Birds of a feather?

I saw Kelly's empty eyes, and wondered if he is an inmate of the White House Day Care center, not the person in charge? Is he tainted like his boss, I wonder? Maybe we have been expecting too much from him.

[ChubbyStar]

3. Disgrace is putting it lightly

[Mediumsizedhand]

4. Wouldn't it be nice for media to say, Kelly vous aussi? No one has integrity? All lie under Trump?

[panader0]

5. Is Kelly too dumb to realize that there would be video? n/t

[appleannie1943]

6. The video was just removed.

I listened to most of the speech and click, it was gone.

[Grammy23]

7. So this is the speech Kelly was talking about?

Geeze, Louise! He must have been at a different speech. He owes Congresswoman Wilson an apology. If he has one shred of integrity left (which at this point, I doubt!) he needs to go on Prime Time and give a sincere apology for misrepresenting what HER speech was about.

[oasis]

8. Kelly lied for sure. Commentators are attempting to let him off the hook

by saying he "misspoke".

[billh58]

11. Looks like the NY Times link is gone

as well. CNN still has this:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/20/politics/frederica-wilson-john-kelly-video/index.html

[Corgigal]

12. The whole time Kelly

was serving, to also include his sons and me, he thought we were fools. He still thinks you are, his pedigree doesn't serve.

Tool.

[Tarheel_Dem]

13. K&R!

[erpowers]

14. No Wonder John Kelly and His Friends Never Said Anything About the Speech

After seeing even just a small amount of the speech Representative Wilson gave it is easy to see why John Kelly and his friends did not go to the media and make a big deal about what Rep. Wilson said. The speech she gave was nothing like the speech he claims she gave.