Your 2016 Republican Presidential candidates have officially found their hot button issue.
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In the manufacturing of a so-called violent rhetoric against police, the conservatives and these 11 people who tried to discredit #BlackLivesMatter are running the same jig Bill Clinton pulled against Sister Souljah in the ‘90s.
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Gov. Nikki Haley
The South Carolina governor seemed to reluctantly throw her weight behind removing the Confederate Flag from the state capital so (even if unintentionally) linking the riots in Baltimore and Ferguson to #BlackLivesMatter is cause for her to have several seats.
dream hampton
By all accounts, hampton has been at the forefront of the movement and also touted working with Jay Z and Beyonce to help bail out protestors. But points must be deducted for slandering Deray McKesson and issuing threat of the fade. This isn’t the time to be messy.
CNN
In the wake of Straight Outta Compton sweeping the box office for three consecutive weeks, CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield had the jig in full effect asking if “F–k Tha Police” was ramping up anti-police rhetoric. She’s consistently run a line of questioning with various linking #BlackLivesMatter to cop killing and what has been described as anti-police rhetoric. GTFOH with all of that.
FOX News/Bill O’Reilly
You would expect nothing less from the Sly Fox. O’Reilly has accused #BlackLivesMatter of “stirring the pot” and “igniting violence against cops.” However, when the always incendiary O’Reilly was hit with the math that police killings are down 17%, he had no choice but to remove his foot from his mouth and keep it pushing.
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Elisabeth Hasselbeck
Conservative mouthpiece Elisabeth Hasselbeck has officially supplanted Raven Symone as the resident imbecile on your television. Flagging #BlackLivesMatter as a hate group isn’t just borderline racist slander, it’s irresponsible “journalism.”
The Fraternal Order Of Police
You can thank these folks for sayings like “Blue Lives Matter” and “I Can Breathe.” Do what you will with that information.
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Stephen A. Smith
It’s one thing to use inflammatory talk and to equivocate about harmless sports drivel on ESPN. It’s another to let some dumb ish like “All Lives Matter” come out of your piehole. Things only got worse when Smith pulled a play out of Bill O’Reilly’s book talmbout, “Where is all the noise about #BlackLivesMatter when black folks are killing black folks?”
Gov. Scott Walker
If you want to see who not to vote for next year, take note of Walker’s blog for Hot Air in which he said under the Obama administration he’s seen “racial tensions worsen and a tendency to use law enforcement as a scapegoat.” It’s not scapegoating when officers are allowed to shoot unarmed citizens in the streets like dogs with no legal recourse. And police brutality kind of predates Obama’s election in 2008…just saying.
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Senator Rand Paul
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has suggested #BlackLivesMatter be changed to #AllLivesMatter or #InnocentLivesMatter. That is about as ludicrous as showing up to a Take Back The Night rally and stating that men get raped too.
Mike Huckabee
Do you really want to know what the gun-toting Bama who said Jay Z was pimping out Beyonce has to say about this?
Lt. Governor Dan Patrick
In the wake of a recent police shooting—which had absolutely nothing to do with #BlackLivesMatter—Patrick suggested the solution was to call officers “sir” and offer to pick up their tabs whenever possible. No words.
