jeudi 29 août 2013

Why didn't the GOP send any speakers to the MLK 50 yr event?

So Bill O'Reilly, the fact checker, went on a rant saying no Republicans were invited as speakers. Turns out all the top GOP leaders except McConnell were invited to speak and all had other engagements. This was planned well in advance so that in itself is odd.



Republicans absent from March on Washington



OK, let's see:

The elder Bush was too ill. I can believe that.

GW was supposedly still recovering from the stint they put in. Unless he had some unexpected complication, being unable to get out 3 weeks later is hard to believe. Most people are back to work in a week after a stint.

Jeb Bush didn't come. Guess they were trying to be fair inviting him?



Cantor, Boehner, and John McCain all turned down invitations to speak, too busy fund raising.



And apparently the one black GOP Senator was left off the invitation list along with McConnell.



Some claimed formal invitations coming only a month ago wasn't enough notice. :rolleyes: Because they didn't know the 50 yr event was scheduled?



If Michael Steele spends much more time with MSNBC, I wonder it he'll change parties?


Quote:








Michael Steele, the first black Republican lieutenant governor of Maryland and a former Republican National Committee chairman, said event organizers told him that they were having difficulty attracting Republican speakers. He faulted GOP leaders for not making time to attend.



“It’s part of a continuing narrative that the party finds itself in with these big deals for minority communities around the country and how they perceive our response to them,” he said.



To be fair, Reid and Pelosi stayed in their home states, but it's not like the Democratic Party wasn't represented at the event.





I wonder if O'Reilly will correct his error or claim not enough notice for the speakers was a plot to make the GOP look bad.





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