Lindsey Graham: Charleston Shooter May Have Been ‘Looking for Christians to Kill’
Source: Mediaite
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) just happened to be scheduled to appear on The View Thursday morning. But because of the deadly mass shooting at a black church in his home state last night, he did not get the chance to talk much about his presidential campaign.
Instead, Graham joined the hosts to talk about the possible motives of the shooter, who left nine people dead including the churchs pastor and former state senator Clementa C. Pinckney.
Graham wanted to assure viewers that this act is not a window into the soul of South Carolina. Its not who we are, its not who our country is, its about this guy, he said of the assailant, and this guys got tons of problems and to kill people in a church after sitting with them for an hour shows you tells you how whacked out this kid is.
But despite the fact that the Justice Department has labeled the attack a hate crime, Graham was not willing to go that far. There are real people who are organized out there to kill people in religion and based on race, this guys just whacked out, he said. But its 2015. There are people out there looking for Christians to kill them.
Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/lindsey-graham-charleston-shooter-may-have-been-looking-for-christians-to-kill/
Covering and doing spin for the motives of an apartheid-supporting, white supremacist murderer. Utterly shameless.
Somewhere in hell, Graham's racist Senate predecessor, Strom Thurmond, is attempting a smile.
If we had a media worth a damn, not only would Graham be disqualified for any consideration for the GOP nomination, he would be hammered and grilled with questions on these remarks the next time he gets invited to his weekly Sunday show tea time with Chuck Todd and George Snuffleuffagus.
Warpy
(111,466 posts)and he could have found plenty of churches within a mile of his house.
What wee Lindsay doesn't want us to realize is that this BIGOT chose one of the most historical, politically active black churches in the whole country for his slaughter of black people, only.
Lindsay, that dog won't hunt and you know full fucking well it won't. Go away. Eat shit and die, already, you're not helping and never have.
Monk06
(7,675 posts)who was also a state senator who was there in front of him for an hour and whom he killed.
If he knew the significance of the church then he may also have known Sen. Clementa Pinckney was the pastor which makes it a political assassination as well.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)That disgusting excuse for a human is an abomination straight out of hell. There aren't more than a handful of Southern Republicans that are aren't racist bastards. Their hero is the Reagan, a racist pig that cultivated the crackers ignorance into today's Republican Party. Eisenhower would throw-up on the whole damn pack of these trash.
DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)Solly Mack
(90,802 posts)Warpy
(111,466 posts)and it's nowhere near big enough.
Solly Mack
(90,802 posts)Which they will. Oh, how they will.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)"rape our women" etc thing he said then?
heaven05
(18,124 posts)"you're trying to take over". Take over from what lindybaby.... come on speak up...oh never mind, you don't/ never will matter
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)You are not qualified to be President.
...sickening.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)BumRushDaShow
(130,043 posts)calimary
(81,608 posts)This is bullshit. YET AGAIN another effort to explain away a hideous crime that the wrong-wingers really don't want to have to bother looking at, closely.
whathehell
(29,111 posts)You lame ass moron.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)Great, just great. So much for our Hunt tonight. We'll talk about it Friday.
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)One was the flag of the former Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. The other was from the apartheid South Africa.
And his statement that you people are raping our women and taking our country over.
No, Lindsey, you witless dickhead, he was out to kill black people.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)The racist jokes that his friends admitted to (goodness knows what they don't admit to).
bulloney
(4,113 posts)instead of owning up to what it really was - a racist-motivated attack against Blacks in a historically Black church committed by someone from your political party's base.
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)Downwinder
(12,869 posts)in "The Holy City?"
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)None of this would be happening if the Liberals hadn't force the Word of God from our classrooms!!!!
BLAME THEM!!! KILL THEM!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
.......sheeze.......
rurallib
(62,483 posts)Lyndsey lives in a fantasy world fraught with enemies around every corner and a strange obsession with being hunted for his faith.
He should never be president, shouldn't be in government. Maybe he should be a computer game designer with all his imaginary enemies.
erronis
(15,470 posts)And making sure his pocketbook is well stuffed.
Shit, if this asshole spoke with a NJ accent he'd be another Chrispie. Whatever floats his boat.
How do we get stuck with such cretins, over and over?
Skittles
(153,310 posts)OWN IT you piece of SHIT
frylock
(34,825 posts)Fuck this dandy.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)This pos shooter wasn't spouting anti-Christian hate or wearing flags that indicated an Anti-Christian attitudes.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)Nite Owl
(11,303 posts)that Christians are the ones persecuted. Forget that they were Black that's a minor issue to that racist pig.
csziggy
(34,140 posts)When whites would not allow blacks to worship freely, they formed their own church, the African Methodist Episcopal Church:
http://www.ame-church.com/our-church/our-history/
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)"There's not enough troops in the Army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the Nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches.
-- U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., unrepentant racist, conservative icon and mentor to Lindsey Graham
(Front and center on grounds of S.C. capitol)
StevieM
(10,500 posts)radicalliberal
(907 posts)Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)radicalliberal
(907 posts)Its knuckles aren't dragging.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)That was really inappropriate. That is willfully ignorant and Senator Graham should know that.
It's clear that he wasn't looking for Christians, but for black people and knew that a Christian church was a good place to find them.
Chemisse
(30,824 posts)Instead of feeling compassion for the actual victims, he hijacked this to make Christians feel they are persecuted instead of blacks.
It is sick.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)This will be the Right Wing stance on the issue even though the FACTS related to this mass murder, speak loudly otherwise. These Right Wingers have no shame. The Christian Right in this country are taking us all down with them.
dhill926
(16,389 posts)that one of their declared candidates for President would spout this nonsensical shit. And I can only imagine what Santorum will say. They are a sick, morally diseased blight on society...and that's the nice version.
The Wizard
(12,556 posts)Stop playing the professional victim and take responsibility for the fear and hatred you foment.
hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)If he said it was a hate crime and decried racism he probably wouldn't carry his own state.
Republican voters are motivated by the idea that blacks are the recipients of special government largesse, rather than a disproportionate share of death sentences and prison cells. Every republican I know considers hate crime legislation a special giveaway to blacks like they do equal opportunity.
Go to any readers comments section and they will go on about why when a black guy robs a white guy why isn't THAT hate crime, totally oblivious to the difference between that and a white guy murdering 9 black people and posing with racist regalia.
The party of Lincoln is so much now the party of Lee that any candidate who dares insinuate that racism is not greater in black people or stereotypes are somehow justified would never win.
Sad to say but true.
stage left
(2,967 posts)This racist was looking for black people to murder.
LynnTTT
(362 posts)The only living witness says he said " You rape our women and you're taking over our country. You have to go". His room-mate
said he talked about starting a Civil War. Root had apartheid patches on the jacket shown on his Facebook page.
This isn't a war on Christianity
wordpix
(18,652 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....what the guy said as he started shooting? "I want to kill some black people"! Did he hear what he told his friends and family? "Blacks are taking over the country".
sarge43
(28,946 posts)roamer65
(36,748 posts)Garbage mouth Graham.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,514 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)RiverNoord
(1,150 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,327 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)Nice try, though, Lindsey.
truthisfreedom
(23,169 posts)Marginalizing himself with utter ignorance.
RoverSuswade
(641 posts)She will say, "he just picked a church at random. This is not a hate crime."
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)Because, of course, Christians are always under attack.
samsingh
(17,605 posts)Vinca
(50,334 posts)Cosmocat
(14,589 posts)It is an absolute given now, things like this happen and they can't give a fricken inch, so they gin themselves up into some kind of bullshit where THEY are the victims ...
Hopeless ...
brooklynite
(95,006 posts)Better get with the program
nruthie
(466 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)show me where the clown car is
TNNurse
(6,933 posts)but a racist idiot.
mackerel
(4,412 posts)That statement right there makes this a crime of terrorism. Do we charge whites with terrorism in this country?
(Btw McVeigh was 20 years ago.)
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)a christian?
randr
(12,418 posts)guns would have been made illegal long ago.
Martin Eden
(12,887 posts)What I want to know is ...
What excuse does US Senator Lindsay Graham have for his utterly "whacked out" attempt to re-write a blatant act of racially motivated violence as a chapter in the fictional book of persecuting Christians?
Skittles
(153,310 posts)he was targeting black folk for his terror spree and the church was the most convenient way to do that
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Just go and find a rotten mackerel and go eff yourself.
If that's what he was hunting, little POS could have gone to his own church, or the one down the dirt road, across from the liquor store.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)At least that's all I can take away from his statements. There's zero question as to this killer's motivation.
wolfie001
(2,320 posts)Covering for his racist cohorts. Nobody buys that bullshit.
potone
(1,701 posts)My God, the only question now is whether it is to be prosecuted as a hate crime or terrorism: I think the latter charge fits.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)was raised in a Christian household according to his parents. So, there is a better than average chance the POS shooter not Graham Crackers who is also a POS, is in fact a Christian. I think that it's possible that Christian groups could go to war with each other as they have done this, but I am going to take the POS at his word, that he wanted to start a race war. I guess the POS shooter didn't get the memo that a war is already in progress and it is not Black people who are winning.
IHateTheGOP
(1,059 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Days after several Republican presidential candidates downplayed or sidestepped the issue of race in the shooting deaths of nine people inside an historic African-American church in Charleston, S.C., Sen. Lindsey Graham acknowledged that race was the primary factor in the killings.
"There can be no doubt that the shooting on Wednesday night was racially motivated and signals to all of us that the scars of our history are still with us today," Graham, R-S.C., said in a statement Saturday. "Throughout our country, we still have much to do in the name of equality. I want to talk about those issues on the campaign trail."
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/06/20/270687/sen-lindsey-graham-theres-no-doubt.html#storylink=cpy
For what that is worth.
truthisfreedom
(23,169 posts)Dry up.
catbyte
(34,546 posts)abakan
(1,819 posts)He stated clearly, and not just once, his goal was to kill black people. If Lindsey Graham and all his fellow repubs would remove their heads from their asses, they might be able to hear what he is saying.
Missn-Hitch
(1,383 posts)credit to Stephen Colbert, the master.