Clyburn: Tom Cotton should be 'ashamed of himself'

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Source: the hill





By Scott Wong - 06/08/20 01:35 PM EDT



House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.), the highest-ranking African American in Congress, said Monday that Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) “ought to be ashamed of himself” after penning a controversial op-ed in The New York Times calling for the U.S. military to put down rioting in American cities sparked by the death of George Floyd.

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Clyburn challenged Cotton to read “Unexampled Courage,” a 2019 book about Isaac Woodard, a black World War II veteran who was brutally assaulted and blinded by South Carolina police officers hours after he was honorably discharged in 1946.

“He was taken off a bus in Batesburg, South Carolina, by a deputy sheriff; he was in his uniform. And that deputy sheriff took his billy stick and punched his eyes out,” Clyburn said. “And that has been the foundation upon which law enforcement in many parts of this country have been established.”

Cotton’s opinion piece, titled “Send in the Troops,” triggered a fierce backlash from Democrats and many of the thousands of protesters who have taken to the streets to draw attention to police brutality after a Minneapolis officer knelt on the neck of Floyd for nearly nine minutes before he died two weeks ago................

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Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/501665-clyburn-tom-cotton-should-be-ashamed-of-himself

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Now the nyt has this note attached to the opinion piece:

"After internal criticism from readers and some Times journalists, the newspaper added an editor’s note to the Cotton essay, saying it “fell short of our standards and should not have been published.”

[lonely bird]

1. F-ing prick

Iirc, he was involved in that letter to Iran bullshit during Obama’s administration. His ass should have kicked out for that. Enough of these racist asshats.

[old guy]

2. Is it possible to shame a repub?

I don't think so.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Not Tom Cotton.

[rurallib]

7. and 50 others in the Senate

[not fooled]

4. How many of cotton's mouthbreathing adherents

know that he is one o'them evil educated folks--attended Harvard and, I think, Oxford.

Sure sounds "elitist" to me.

[MyOwnPeace]

6. Looks to me....

he attended no classes and must have paid somebody to sign him in to prove he was there to actually learn something.
As for me, I'm thinking he's a "Road's Scholar" from Trump University...............

[SWBTATTReg]

5. cotton is so full of himself and he was still adhering to his gutter speech on 'send in the troops'

scree this Sunday...I didn't watch his appearance, being that he is so full of it and himself that he needs to have a competent competitor against him in the next Senate contest so he can be voted out of office. A typical full of it gop legislator who needs some serious therapy for anger management.

[Cyrano]

8. Cotton's wet dream is becoming the American Fuhrer

He's educated and has visions of himself in absolute power. And this makes him an extremely dangerous man.

[paleotn]

9. Senator Tom Cotton should charged with violating his oath...

to uphold and protect The Constitution and in a broad sense, treason.

[Skittles]

10. I don't think fascists have the capability to feel shame

fuck him