The Republican Establishment is actually attacking Alabama
Senate Candidate Judge Roy Moore for using a Christian analogy of the old
Christian children’s song that uses the lines “Red, Yellow, Black and White;
they are precious in His sight” in a Moore speech about divisiveness in America
today. The Establishment twist Moore’s words to call him a racist.
JRH 9/20/17 (Hat Tip: Jim McCormack – Yahoo Group Conservative Christian Counselors
[Restricted Group])
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Establishment Attacks Roy Moore for Condemning Racial
Strife Among ‘Black, White, Red, and Yellow,’ As Media Lose Minds
By IAN MASON
September 19, 2017
After a recording emerged
Monday from a Judge Roy Moore campaign rally at which the Senate candidate
called for racial reconciliation amid strife nationwide, the mainstream media
and leftist and establishment activists dug into Moore for his choice of
language.
In an extended discussion of
the dangers of sectional, partisan, and racial divisions within America and the
terrible bloodshed of the time our country allowed these divisions to boil
over, the Civil War, Moore told rally-goers:
Now
we have blacks and whites fighting, reds and yellows fighting, Democrats and
Republicans fighting, men and women fighting. What’s going to unite us? What’s
going to bring us back together? A president? A Congress? No. It’s going
to be God.
Moore is locked in a tight
GOP primary run-off for U.S. Senate with establishment-backed ex-lobbyist
candidate Luther Strange. A “Republican monitoring the race” sent video of the
event to The Hill, which
in turn began the media pile-on over what it said was Moore’s
“racially insensitive terms to describe Native Americans and Asians.”
In response, the Moore
campaign simply pointed out that his comments match a still-ubiquitous Sunday
school rhyme. “Red, yellow, black and white they are precious in His sight.
Jesus loves the little children of the world…This
is the gospel. If we take it seriously, America can once again be united as one
nation under God,” the Moore campaign wrote in a Facebook statement.
It appears as though the
“Republican monitoring the race” between Moore and Strange is from the GOP
establishment, and attempted yet again to frame Moore’s comments here as some
kind of mistake–similar to recent stories about 9/11 comments and shootings
comments that Moore has made, referencing the lack of God in American society.
Within minutes of The
Hill‘s story going live, Senate Leadership Fund (SLF) Communications
Director Chris Pack tweeted the story and five others from mostly liberal
journalists taking Moore to task for saying “red” and “yellow” people.
.@washingtonpost: @MooreSenate includes ‘reds and yellows’ on list of racially divided groups #ALSen https://t.co/0eLK9YDdTJ— Chris Pack (@ChrisPack716) September 18, 2017
The SLF itself also quickly
made hay with the video on their own website. The SLF, a
political action committee connected to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
(R-KY), has already
spent millions supporting Luther Strange in this race to the
chagrin of Moore and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), the
third-place finisher in the primary’s first round. Last week, Moore
attacked a debate co-sponsor for failing to disclose his own
ties to the SLF.
Slate’s Ben Mathis-Lilley,
in one of the
outrage-pushing articles Pack retweeted, mockingly calls for
Moore to receive divine punishment for his word-choice:
Ironically,
one way God could improve white Americans’ relationships with Native Americans
and Americans of Asian ancestry is by coming down hard on people like Roy Moore
who still refer to Native Americans and Americans of Asian ancestry by using
racial terms that were already considered insulting and antiquated 50 years
ago.
Please
smite Roy Moore, God! Do it!
In another
piece Pack cited, NBC News’ Alex Sietz-Wald dismisses Roy Moore’s
reference to “Jesus Loves the Little Children” because it was “written in the
1800s.”
Mashable’s Gianluca
Mezzofiore goes further than his
colleagues, turning to former President Bill Clinton’s and failed
2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton’s daughter Chelsea
Clinton as arbiter of racial semantics. Referring to Moore’s words as “racial
slurs,” Mezzofiore appears to believe the younger Ms. Clinton put the former
Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in his place, claiming: “Clinton
used just one perfect tweet to shut him down.”
This is the tweet in
question:
Mr. Moore, red & yellow are 2 of the colors in the @Crayola 8 crayons box. Charlotte has an extra box I would be happy to send you. https://t.co/m6GhU5Ohpk— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) September 19, 2017
Interestingly, not one of the
journalists quoted above made any objection to the use of “black” or “white” in
the same Moore quotation.
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