Rep. Ellison Breaks Into Tears Explaining Story Of Muslim First Responder Who Died To Save Americans

[swag]

Run time: 02:05 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Faxbht2lCoQ   Posted on YouTube: March 10, 2011 By YouTube Member: thinkprogress5 Views on YouTube: 6   Posted on DU: March 10, 2011 By DU Member: swag Views on DU: 1415

 

[babylonsister]

1. Heartbreaking-recommend! Mr. King needs to hear this. nt

[go west young man]

2. Very moving.

This should be on the greatest page.

[Dookiestix]

3. This is what America SHOULD be about

And yet to many rightwingers, their xenophobic hatred towards law abiding Muslims is clearly indicative of an ignorance born from the ashes of Nazi Germany.

Shame, shame, shame.

[hamsterjill]

5. +1

And welcome to DU!

[Joey Liberal]

4. The republican party is EVIL. nt

[hamsterjill]

6. I share his tears.

Literally. Watching this made me cry.

[geardaddy]

7. I'm proud to be represented by Keith.

He speaks for me.

[MNBrewer]

8. Ditto!

Rep. Ellison,

If you happen to read DU, please know that I am SO proud to be represented by you (the FIRST Muslim elected to Congress). I am an atheist, but I stand with you as a brother in horror at what Rep. King is perpetrating. Keep up the fight, keep the faith!

[shireen]

11. +1 nt

[JBoy]

9. K&R. Just heard this played on Lawrence O'Donnell.

Very moving.

Exposes King's "hearings" as bigoted bullshit.

[garthranzz]

10. An orthodox Jew applauds you, Mr. Ellison

and, it goes without saying, the Muslim First Responder whose story you told.

[UrbScotty]

12. Thank you so much, Rep. Ellison, from a Catholic. (nt)

[Paka]

13. John Boehner take note...

these are real tears that pull at your heartstrings. Not the phony version you have subjected us to. :evilgrin:

[underpants]

14. Eillison and Jefferson's Koran

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/underpants/84

Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, found himself under attack last month when he announced he'd take his oath of office on the Koran -- especially from Virginia Rep. Virgil Goode, who called it a threat to American values.

Yet the holy book at tomorrow's ceremony has an unassailably all-American provenance. We've learned that the new congressman -- in a savvy bit of political symbolism -- will hold the personal copy once owned by Thomas Jefferson.

[florida08]

15. Congressman Ellison

is a testimony that not all Americans are as maniacal as Peter King. Feels like what McCarthyism was in the 50's. What did it accomplish? Not a damn thing except to hurt innocent people. He was a republican too. They're a hopeless group of misanthropes. The problem is not American muslims it's American rightwing extremism as Napolitano said and got castigated for it. Pretty obvious now though.