Wingnutty peckerwood Tennessee senator goes on Twitter attack against "Cassius Clay"

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Proving once again that "holding conservative values" is just shorthand for "being a massive, sociopathic fucking asshole"

@RepMartinDaniel 7h7 hours ago
Cassius Clay was a skilled, great boxer, but failure to to enlist in the US military when the call was made is black cloud on his character

@RepMartinDaniel 4h4 hours ago
Dutiful, patriotic, brave black and white men died in jungles while Cassius sat warm and cozy in USA

@RepMartinDaniel 4h4 hours ago
Ok to rejoice when conservative Supreme Court J dies; not ok to question Clay's character? #tcot #RedNationRising

@RepMartinDaniel 5h5 hours ago
In 5/67, Cassius Clay was indicted for refusal to be drafted into the armed forces. The S Ct reversed lower Ct conviction on technicality

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@KeithOlbermann 4h4 hours ago

So, @RepMartinDaniel we can infer that you think @RealDonaldTrump's "failure to enlist" is also a "black mark"?

?@KeithOlbermann 4h4 hours ago

And by the way, @RepMartinDaniel his name was Muhammad Ali and you're a racist clown unfit to represent parakeets.

[Different Drummer]

1. I love Olbermann's responses! n/t

[madaboutharry]

2. Confederate senator wants to tell

a black man what his name is.

Someone needs to tell this a-hole it is no longer 1850.

[Takket]

10. ironic because.........

I just starting watching the remake of Roots today on DVR. The white woman names her new slave "Toby" and he keeps insisting his name in Kunta (his real name).

and now here we are 250 years later............. same thing.

[beachbumbob]

3. Ali was a nightmare for white america....

A brash out spoken young black man unafraid....the opposite of the "Uncle Tom" black man that kept white america comfortable...I was a 8 yrs old when he won his gold medal and was taken by the kid...he was like 19.,.,,my mother hated him....as so many did....when he crushed Sony Liston...I was like the only white kid that cheered.....when he later proclaim to the conversion to Islam..like so what...when he fought the govt and was banned from boxing I thought like WTF....When he finally beat the govt at the Supreme Court...he was and remained a hero to me....

[raging moderate]

8. He was not a nightmare for me!

I loved him. (And so, eventually, did my funny sweet little mother). After he told the truth about those horrible wars against brown people, speaking as Martin Luther is said to have done, saying he could not do otherwise, put him in jail, I thanked God for him.

[raging moderate]

12. PLUS, am I remembering right?

Didn't he deliberately flunk the IQ test for induction into the army? And I wonder how many young men he gave the courage, showing them the way, to do something like that? How many lives did he save that way?

I am sorry if this offends some men who bravely served in that war. If you honorably did your best, then I honor you for that. But so many men from my generation, of all races, were killed in that war, and so many people of all ages in Vietnam, I just cry when I think about it! And here this man stood up against the entire war machine and said, "My conscience won't let me do that. Just put me in jail."

[gratuitous]

4. How conveeeenient for Sen. Daniel

Born in 1956, he was too young to go to Vietnam, and in fact never had to register with Selective Service. But that doesn't stop him from criticizing someone else's stand nearly 40 years after the event, after the man has died, and then whines about getting some backlash for his churlish ways.

[madaboutharry]

16. Actually, every male at age 18 has to register with the Selective Service.

It is mandatory.

[gratuitous]

17. Nope

There was a window of about two years at the end of Vietnam. Both my brother and I slipped into that gap when men didn't have to register. It looks like the Tennessee State Senator was in the same gap, which makes his criticism that much higher on the prickitude scale.

[madaboutharry]

20. I didn't know that.

That is interesting.

[malaise]

5. Love KO's response

What about Don the Con, Cheney et al

This a$$hole is looking for attention.

[DemoTex]

6. And the AWOL Bu$h ..

To paraphrase the Sonny & Cher tune, "The List Goes On."

[malaise]

18. +1,000

Ali was a real man - he paid the price

[Action_Patrol]

7. Assholes like this

Celebrate shit like the Hobby Lobby decision but want to vilify Muhammad Ali for sticking with his 'sincerely held religious beliefs'. They are hypocrites of the highest order.

[spanone]

9. i'm embarrassed to live in the same state as this fuckwad

[malaise]

19. Why do they all have that

constipated look on their faces - they are full of shite!

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. Same attitude in freeperville. One started thread to honor Ali's sport achievements

Got shouted down with claims that MA is traitor. Ended with guy saying freeperville is mean place sometimes. Lol

[47of74]

14. Sometimes?

More like all the time.

Is RimJob still running that dump?

[lastlib]

13. "...unfit to represent parakeets."

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[rusty quoin]

15. Leave it to a Republican to shout out with no sense of hypocrisy.

[Duppers]

21. Daniels: why does a 4th grader need to know about race?

Racist as asshole.

http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2016/05/10/state-rep-martin-daniel-why-does-a-fourth-grader-need-to-learn-about-race

[d_r]

26. Wow

Just a speechless wow

[Actorvist]

22. is he gonna bash both GWB, Mitt Romney too?

both of them dodged the draft too! Dan Quayle as well..

[Paladin]

23. Get him, Keith O.

Will somebody please bite the bullet and get Olbermann back on the air? He is desperately needed.

Oh, and Senator Daniel? Fuck yourself.

[felix_numinous]

24. K&R For Wingnutty Peckerwood

[lpbk2713]

25. I served 1965 - 1969.

The same time Ali was standing up for what he believed.

I admired him for it then and I still admire him now for living an exemplary life.

Piss on that chicken hawk.