Gephardt's Hypocrisy on the Confederate Flag Matter

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Gephardt Courted White-Rights Group Cited by Lott's Critics

Smelling blood in the water, Democrats and their media sharks have renewed their complaints about Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott's speeches in the 1990s to the Southern white-rights group, the Council of Conservative Citizens.

But there's a reason Democrats stopped pretending in 1999 they were outraged by Lott's visits to the allegedly racist group. That's because top House Democrat Richard Gephardt did the same thing in the early 1980s, when he courted a Missouri chapter of the group's more extreme precursor, the Metro South Citizens Council.

News of Gephardt's ties to the white-rights group was an open secret in Missouri, but the news didn't get any national attention until NewsMax.com followed up on a brief mention of the former House minority leader's CCC ties in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Here's the March 1999 NewsMax expose that put an end to all the complaining about Republicans and the CCC three years ago:

House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt spoke before a prominent St. Louis white-rights organization during his first run for Congress and attended two of the group's picnics after his election, says Gordon Baum, head of the Council of Conservative Citizens.

Interviewed by NewsMax.com, Baum explained that Gephardt had come to a meeting of the Metro South Citizens Council to debate his primary-election opponent.

"The hall was adorned on one side of the speaker's platform with the Confederate flag, and on the other side was the American flag," said Baum. "And Dick Gephardt addressed the group and asked them openly for their endorsement."

Link can be found here at:
http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2002/12/16/112750

This also was referenced in the St.Louis Dispatch---are you also going to call it a right-wing paper? Excerpt below from St.Louis Dispatch.

"Gephardt is one of many local officials who dropped by the Metro South Citizens Council's gatherings in the early 1980s," according to a March 7, 1999, report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

I am merely pointing out that you can't have the kettle calling the pot black in this case. Hypocrisy is everywhere, especially in politics.

[quinnox]

1. Using newsmax ?

did you know that you have to give your opinion about a right wing site piece when you post something from it?

[DemPopulist]

2. Great

You made me click on that link and get a "Do you support Rush?" pop-up. :eyes:

[billbuckhead]

6. Gephardt said he wanted to be the candidate of people with American

Gepphardt said he wanted to be the candidate of people with Americanflags on their pickups and he was attacked for that. I never thought I'd see Du'ers defending the Confederate flag over the American one. The ironic thing is that over in FreepRepubliKKK they are are criticizing Gephardt for his standing up for the American flag over the Confederate flag. They're are also laughing at Deans gullibility thinking that he could ever win these Confederate flag voters over. This is a low point for this forum.

[Padraig18]

7. Is that a cut and paste?

I've seen that identical post in 2 forums and about umpteen threads now. Sheer repetition does not add to its validity... :eyes:

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3. :kick:

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4. :kicks for hypocrisy:

[Isome]

5. Try here instead...

http://www.ferris.edu/isar/Institut/CCC/disavow.htm

Scroll about 2/3 of the way down the page to find this:

"Back in the early '80s, Gephardt dropped by at least one meeting of the group, which was organized to oppose busing and has been described as a precursor to the Council of Conservative Citizens. When the local group disbanded, many of its members joined the CCC. During his 1988 presidential campaign, Gephardt couldn't recall his visit but said he didn't support any group "that expresses any kind of racial motives or sentiments." He said he wasn't aware of Metro South's positions.

"It wasn't the CCC initially," said Gephardt spokeswoman Laura Nichols. "When it became apparent to Gephardt that they were the CCC, he denounced them.""

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9. uh-uh?

And he stood there on the stage with the confederate flag and the american flag, and spoke to those people. Anyone who didn't know about the conservative make-up of that group before speaking to them is lying. Any politician would have background info on a group before he is invited to speak at that group. Gephardt is lying on this matter.

[Skinner]

8. Sorry, I'm locking this thread.

Please discuss the Confederate Flag Flap in this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=634990&mesg_id=634990

Skinner
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