Rendell PRAISES Farrakahn and Nation of Islam

[gaiilonfong]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXum_-8I1TA


Pass it around everyone make it VIRAL


Hillary is TOAST

[gcomeau]

1. Send it to Keith.

He's interviewing Hillary tonight (http://thenewshole.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/21/926848.aspx) , I think it would make a LOVELY question topic. :D

Edit: I just posted it as a comment to that announcement (once it gets through moderation). Hopefully they're reading them. Now where's CNN's contact page...

[helderheid]

7. I'll be tuned in.

[SunsetDreams]

22. me too

[keep_it_real]

2. Deep, deep, deep, somebody ought to make a tv ad out of that

OMG

[SunsetDreams]

11. yes for sure, shows the hypocritical side of that campaign.

[bluestateguy]

3. I think Hillary needs to reject and denounce these remarks

By not doing so, she seems to be suggesting that she implicitly agrees with them.

Tee hee...

[kenny blankenship]

18. She needs to reject and denounce Ed Rendell tonight, this very news cycle

Otherwise how can we know that she's not a secret Muslim terrorist too ?!?!??!

[thewiseguy]

4. The governor of Pennsylvania folks!

Everybody in that state needs to see this.

[GOPNotForMe]

5. uh ooooh....

[TexanDem]

6. Very, very interesting -- has 2 parts! WATCH! Spread it around!

Here's part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCGaIhlvyF4&feature=related

[SunsetDreams]

8. Hillary needs to reject, denounce this

hypocritical of them to do this.

[SunsetDreams]

9. kick

[Hope And Change]

10. K & R!

:kick:

[Lucky 13]

12. The hypocrisy is SO THICK it's a little hard to breathe!

She's such a petty dullard for making THIS an issue. I hope it sinks her.

[SunsetDreams]

13. I hear you, it's rediculous!!

[Danger Mouse]

14. Rendell also thought the ABC debate sucked...

she should give him a call, doesn't seem he's 'on message' with her. :rofl:

[SunsetDreams]

16. yeah no kidding

this is just so RICH!

[Hope And Change]

15. You can the digg the video...

here:

http://digg.com/politics/Pennsylvania_Governor_Rendell_Praises_Farrakhan_and_N_O_I

[kenny blankenship]

17. Hillary is such a fucking two faced hypocrite

but that ain't news to me.

[tishaLA]

19. I remember this event VERY well

The NOI held a march up Grey's Ferry because of a series of racist attacks. I lived at 23rd and St Albans--the garden block you see in the opening scene of The Sixth Sense--which is very close to Grey's Ferry, but about 2 miles from where all the craziness was taking place. The neighborhood was more mixed then than it is now; it has become pretty gentrified, although some of the African American families that used to dominate the area have managed to hang on to their homes. At any rate, the neighborhood was all abuzz that day and it felt very live, very tense.

Rendell did the right thing by going to this event, which was going to happen with or without him, and in praising Rev. Farrakhan. It gave him some degree of control of the event, which he and the city needed. One sensed that it could have gotten out of control if he hadn't embraced the NOI, not because of the NOI, but because tensions further up Grey's Ferry were so high.

And let's remember that Rendell himself didn't dog Obama for Farrakhan. Hillary did. She, I'm sure, doesn't understand big city politics as well as either Rendell or Obama, both of whom know how to soothe people to get them to act. It's just that Hillary is showing her inexperience.

[gaiilonfong]

20. Politico is running the clip now n/t

[SunsetDreams]

21. Do you have a link?

[Hope And Change]

23. SunsetDreams, here`s the link...

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0408/Rendell_and_Farrakhan.html#comments

[SunsetDreams]

25. thanks :)

[FrenchieCat]

24. Is this showing up on TeeVee? Or are they playing "MUM"?

The hypocracy angle, I mean. The fact that Hillary demanded that Obama denounce any link through Farrakhan (link is via pastor).

[SunsetDreams]

26. playing Mum is my guess

Hypocracy is pretty thick in the Clinton Campaign!

[Beer Snob-50]

27. I think rendell is more phrasing Islam and not Farrakhan

I will be so glad when these primaries are over and we can get to talking about what matters, what kind of fuck up Bush and friends have been!!

[BeyondGeography]

28. Rendell's a good politician...Hillary should have known better than to put him in this position

Her little Farrakhan jibes in the last debate got her what, exactly? I've never seen so much destructive short-termism out of one candidate in my life.

[azmouse]

29. K&R

[IsItJustMe]

30. OMB. Hillary done stuck her own foot up her azz again.

[Kahuna]

31. Too little too late. After tomorrow the M$M will have no interest in

Rendell. This would have been potent a couple of weeks ago. But now? Meh.