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TexasTowelie

(117,207 posts)
Sat Feb 15, 2020, 07:04 AM Feb 2020

Delaware GOP says Democratic Sen. Bryan Townsend should resign over Rush Limbaugh meme

The head of the Delaware Republican Party says a Democratic state senator should resign after the lawmaker posted a meme on social media likening conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh to a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

"As a member of the Senate, he's demeaned the entire body of the state Senate," said Delaware GOP Chairwoman Jane Brady. "What he did is offensive. ... I've already heard some people calling for his resignation."

She's referring to a meme that Sen. Bryan Townsend, D-Newark, posted on Twitter on Saturday.

It was a cartoon of several hooded figures in white cloaks, presumably made to look like members of the KKK. One of the figures appears to be wearing a medal, similar to the Presidential Medal of Freedom that President Donald Trump awarded Limbaugh during the State of the Union speech last week. Shortly before receiving the medial, Limbaugh had revealed he has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.

Read more: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/02/11/delaware-gop-says-democratic-senator-should-resign-over-rush-limbaugh-meme/4727057002/

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Delaware GOP says Democratic Sen. Bryan Townsend should resign over Rush Limbaugh meme (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2020 OP
Snowflake. DEbluedude Feb 2020 #1
Snowflakes! sinkingfeeling Feb 2020 #2
Fuck off !!! SamKnause Feb 2020 #3
So we have a guy The Wizard Feb 2020 #4
In refering to the King of AM Radio blowhards concreteblue Feb 2020 #12
"People are what they are,you can't change people" said Mr. Christianity Expert. czarjak Feb 2020 #5
I guess the truth hurts! Ohiogal Feb 2020 #6
Resign? He should be given the Freedom Medal! RAB910 Feb 2020 #7
The graphic is brilliant. n/t Laelth Feb 2020 #8
Wonder who her "coach" is? MyOwnPeace Feb 2020 #9
A lecture on "civility"from the GOP! LMAO bronxiteforever Feb 2020 #10
What is demeaning Midnightwalk Feb 2020 #11

DEbluedude

(827 posts)
1. Snowflake.
Sat Feb 15, 2020, 07:25 AM
Feb 2020

"What he did is offensive. ... I've already heard some people calling for his resignation."
Really? Fuck her!

The Wizard

(12,905 posts)
4. So we have a guy
Sat Feb 15, 2020, 07:40 AM
Feb 2020

who insults and degrades the disadvantaged, the infirm and just about everyone who isn't a an outright Nazi who is wrongfully awarded the Medal of Freedom by fascist gangster occupying the White House. A guy who's paid millions to demonize other Americans is somehow harmed by a drawing that suggests he's a virulent bigot. Maybe the Repubics should look at some of Rash Limbaugh's verbal assaults against military veterans and public servants who aren't to the right of Attila The Hun.
Does the demand of the head of the Delaware Republican Party indicate the Republicans are the Party of the Klan?

MyOwnPeace

(17,280 posts)
9. Wonder who her "coach" is?
Sat Feb 15, 2020, 09:05 AM
Feb 2020
"I've already heard some people calling for his resignation."

Recognize this particular speech pattern?

"Many people are saying.........."


Gee, who do we know that talks like that?



bronxiteforever

(9,492 posts)
10. A lecture on "civility"from the GOP! LMAO
Sat Feb 15, 2020, 09:31 AM
Feb 2020

Politically correct attitudes are dead according to the GOP and Trump.
“Fuck your feelings” is a GOP slogan
Remember how their POTUS talked about cancer John McCain? Even in death?

AND the truth is a defense. Limbaugh is a race baiting tobacco industry shill.

"Obama's America, white kids getting beat up on school buses now. You put your kids on a school bus, you expect safety but in Obama's America the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, 'Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on,' and, of course, everybody says the white kid deserved it, he was born a racist, he's white."

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/the-gop-must-choose-rush-limbaugh-or-minority-voters/265002/

Midnightwalk

(3,131 posts)
11. What is demeaning
Sat Feb 15, 2020, 10:35 AM
Feb 2020

Is the republicans scurrying to defend that racist pervert.

Limbaugh has done more to divide America than anyone and he’s done it for decades.

We should call him out as the scum he is.

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