The Arkansas GOP official who reportedly said that Hillary Clinton would “probably get shot” if she entered the state as a presidential candidate asserted on Tuesday that he had been taken out of context.
“That comment was taken way out of context,” 2nd Congressional District party chairman Johnny Rhoda told Business Insider about the U.S. News report on his remarks. “It certainly was not meant in a threatening or hostile way at all. It was just a comment. Perhaps I used the wrong word.”
“It was completely blown out of proportion,” he added.
The U.S. News reporter who reported Rhoda’s initial quote, David Catanese, wasn’t having it.
“Oh, yes, ‘taken out of context,'” Catanese told Business Insider in an email. “As in — taken out of our on-the-record conversation and into print.”
“Perhaps I should have used a different word. I didn’t meant ‘shot.’ I meant executed. Sorry for the confusion.”
Another douchebag who forgets that everything is recorded, especially when you say stupid, violent things.
This is how it works. It’s called representative government.
Elected officials.
Presently, according to the latest figures, there is no group of voters in the U.S. with the zeal, persistence and enthusiasm of TeaBaggers. For their Gerrymandered base of voters (brought to you by the 75% of Democratic voters who stayed home in 2010), all that is needed for those House members in those Gerrymandered districts is to keep tossing Red Meat to the Base.
For statewide offices this also applies to most of Dixie, Plains states, Mountain states like Idaho and Wyoming and large LARGE swaths of voters in the Northeast, Midwest and Southwest.
The question of “what constitites Red Meat” is being answered on a daily and weekly basis, as we approach the the 2014 and 2016 elections. And it will get uglier and uglier.
In addition, as the bar of “news” permissable without lawsuits gets lower and lower…
What is bad becomes good
What is horrible becomes “I was taken out of context”
What is depraved becomes “patriot”
'Perhaps I used the wrong word."
“It was completely blown out of proportion,” he added.
Which is it?
But Mr. Rhoda still thinks his home state is full of violent psychopaths?