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RandySF

(58,488 posts)
Sat Oct 24, 2020, 03:24 AM Oct 2020

NC-11: A website for a G.O.P. House candidate flings a racist attack at a journalist.

Madison Cawthorn, a Republican candidate for the House from North Carolina, created an attack website accusing a journalist of leaving a job in academia “to work for non-white males, like Cory Booker, who aims to ruin white males running for office.”

The journalist, Tom Fiedler, who had written favorably about Mr. Cawthorn’s opponent, is a former dean of the Boston University College of Communications. He volunteered for the 2020 presidential campaign of Senator Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey.

Mr. Fiedler has since written articles and fact-checks about Mr. Cawthorn for a nonprofit news website in North Carolina’s 11th congressional district, where Mr. Cawthorn is facing Moe Davis, a former Air Force prosecutor.

The attack on Mr. Fiedler was reported by The Bulwark, which called it “a despicable smear” echoing racist remarks by Mr. Trump.

In a statement, Mr. Davis said Mr. Cawthorn had “proven time and time again that he is unfit for public office.”

“Revelations about Madison Cawthorn’s blatantly racist comment come days after over 150 former classmates at Patrick Henry College — more than half the entire student body during his time there — signed a letter and posted it online calling Mr. Cawthorn a ‘sexual predator’ who lied and vandalized property while attending the college for a little over a semester in 2016-17,” Mr. Davis said.




https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/us/elections/a-website-for-a-gop-house-candidate-flings-a-racist-attack-at-a-journalist.html

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NC-11: A website for a G.O.P. House candidate flings a racist attack at a journalist. (Original Post) RandySF Oct 2020 OP
The wheelchair nazi motherfucker Cawthorn needs to be crushed Celerity Oct 2020 #1
That "supreme evil shared laughs" are still (((echoing))). Behind the Aegis Oct 2020 #3
"Macaca is as Macaca does." n/t DFW Oct 2020 #2

Celerity

(43,107 posts)
1. The wheelchair nazi motherfucker Cawthorn needs to be crushed
Sat Oct 24, 2020, 04:28 AM
Oct 2020

He is absolutely a neo nazi stalking horse.

Behind the Aegis

(53,921 posts)
3. That "supreme evil shared laughs" are still (((echoing))).
Sat Oct 24, 2020, 05:13 AM
Oct 2020

Of course, the irony is his story would not end well.

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