Facing massive blowback, RNC's McDaniel changes "legitimate political discourse" censure language.

[SunSeeker]

The RNC'c censure resolution yesterday claimed Cheney and Kinzinger, the only Republicans on the nine-member select committee investigating the Capitol riot, "are participating in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse, and they are both utilizing their past professed political affiliation to mask Democrat abuse of prosecutorial power for partisan purposes."

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel echoed that language in an interview with The Washington Post. But McDaniel modified that language in a statement to NBC later Friday afternoon, distinguishing the so-called legitimate political discourse from the violent riot.

Cheney and Kinzinger "chose to join [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens who engaged in legitimate political discourse that had nothing to do with violence at the Capitol," McDaniel's latest statement said. The text of the resolution itself made no such distinction.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/04/rnc-censures-liz-cheney-adam-kinzinger-for-investigating-jan-6-pro-trump-riot.html

[onecaliberal]

1. Nope. We know they side with terrorists and hostile foreign actors.

[SunSeeker]

2. Correct. Plus, the RNC Censure Resolution itself remains unchanged.

And even if the RNC officially changes the language as Ronna McDaniel now words it, what she is saying is totally false. The Jan. 6 Committee is not investigating, let alone "persecuting," people who had "nothing to do with the violence."

[NCjack]

3. The foundation of sand of this attack is shifting now, and by primary time, it will be

another embarrassment to the NRC.

[lame54]

4. It's their "Defund the police"

[True Blue American]

5. Then to have Mitt

Repudiate his own niece! Where is Jon Huntsman? He was an upstanding man
And to have his daughter finishing off the party.

David Bossie is rumored to be running against her. What an improvement, yeah, right! This is what is left of the Grand Old Party.

[leftieNanner]

6. She is their own pliant and useful idiot

And when things go very far south, they will toss her overboard without a backward glance.

[EleanorR]

7. Even the conservative Washington Examiner agrees this can't be cleaned up.

Too late, the ads are already being made.

Link to tweet

[Ohio Joe]

8. Ok Ronna...

Name names… who is the 1/6 committee persecuting that had nothing to do with it?

[Journeyman]

9. That was my question, as well . . .

It's like those who claim their idiocy is "taken out of context." OK. I've got a few minutes. What is the context that makes that bonehead statement reasonable?

[maxsolomon]

10. LOL, I predicted yesterday they'd qualify the statement

What they mean as legitimate is all the Eastman blueprint shit, all the Mike Flynn/Mike Lindell horseshit, all the President's lying, all the alternate Elector slates, all the lawsuits, all the Willard Hotel Warroom scheming.

Outside of the Alternate Electors submitting ballots to the National Archives, you can argue (and they do) that none of that is a crime. For all that talk, they didn't actually get Pence to carry any of it out. Much of what they did in Congress is in our anachronistic joke of a Constitution.

[keithbvadu2]

11. Sounds like revisionist history.

[sinkingfeeling]

12. Haha, so humorous.

[Crunchy Frog]

13. These news organizations need to start using [sic] after the word "Democrat"

when they use it in that grammatically incorrect way. They're making themselves look as illiterate as the people they quote.

[SunSeeker]

15. YES!!

A pet peeve of mine for sure.

[Takket]

14. there is not a single Democratic party candidate in 2022 that should not be

BLUDGEONING their opponent with that phrase for the entire election season.

HANG THEM with that phrase like they planned on literally hanging Democrats on Jan 6

[SunSeeker]

16. I sure hope so!