GOPers Try To Dunk On Dems Over Northam Pic Despite Dem Calls For His Ouster

on August 21, 2018 in Washington, DC.
WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 21: Counselor to U.S. President Donald Trump Kellyanne Conway speaks during an interview with Fox News Channel at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House August 21, 2018 in Was... WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 21: Counselor to U.S. President Donald Trump Kellyanne Conway speaks during an interview with Fox News Channel at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House August 21, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Hours after reports first surfaced of a racist photo on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s yearbook page, top state and national Democratic figures issued impassioned calls for his resignation.

But that didn’t stop conservatives from trying to play the hypocrisy card. Despite all evidence to the contrary, Trump administration officials, conservative activists and far-right journalists claimed that the media and Democrats who often speak out against racism were trying to protect one of their own.

Serial plagiarist and Daily Caller reporter Benny Johnson suggested that 2020 Democratic candidates saw wearing blackface and KKK robes—as two figures in the Northam yearbook page are doing—as “forgivable.”

“This should be easier work than parsing every word and semicolon in the Kavanaugh yearbook,” cracked top White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, invoking Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s yearbook references to a female classmate and being treasurer of the “Keg City Club.”

“This would be all over cable news if this were a Republican governor,” said the Free Beacon’s Liz Harrington.

“The media was much more upset that a teenager was smiling wearing a MAGA hat than they are that a sitting Democrat Governor wore KKK outfits and called for babies to be killed after birth,” Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk offered, referring to the Kentucky teen who made headlines for his smirking standoff with a Native American elder at a D.C. rally.

Virginia state House and Senate Democrats have called on Northam to step down over the photo, along with the NAACP and multiple 2020 Democratic candidates. Northam has so far resisted the calls, apologizing for the “racist” image but insisting he can finish out his term.

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  1. Finally democrats get republicans to denounce racism .

    Took long enough…

  2. This is the media culture we live in now. The GOP can make its snarky point with a 15-second sound bite or tweet + pic. No one is going to wait for the backstory or Northam’s record after the incident. The damage is done.

  3. the next iteration will be something like ;;;;

    Dems don’t really care about racism. They are only criticizing Northam so they can Trump a racist

  4. “Despite all evidence to the contrary, Trump administration officials, conservative activists and far-right journalists claimed that the media and Democrats who often speak out against racism were trying to protect one of their own.”

    Touching concern for minorities from the Southern Strategy Party is duly noted.

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