Check the comments at this link: http://www.fayobserver.com/news/local/churchgoer-taken-aback-by-political-flier-s-lynching-imagery/article_8f572df9-e81b-5dde-894e-0b107d5b1004.html
The meme of the flyer being a GOP FUD campaign conspiracy is a well-organized one.
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Charles Hogan · Top Commenter · Central Piedmont Community College
Really not surprising at all ...
Rep Ron Paul, In the 1990s, gave his official political endorsement to David Duke, a former Klansman and Neo-Nazi, during Duke's two unsuccessful runs for the US Congress and Senate. Paul gave this statement of support for Duke in a 1990 newsletter putting an upbeat spin on Duke's unsuccessful run for the US Senate from the State of Louisiana that year (Duke had just been elected to the Louisiana State House the year before in a special election for the seat of an outgoing representative
Also This should explain much of Ron Paul's support from fascists and racists like David Duke and Don Black of Stormfront, a white supremacist site. Don Black, the site's founder, donated $500 to the Paul campaign in 2007 which kept the donation to the horror of many observers.
Ron Paul is the first candidate to draw wide spread support from the ultra far right including many self avowed fascists and racists. The American Fascist Movement, whose slogan is "fascism forward!", encourages their members to support Ron Paul rather than fielding their own party candidate.
So you can see that the far right ot the Repug party has a dark underbelly seething with KKK and Neo-Nazis a hanging in the background of the flier is quite appropriate for the New Repugs....
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Mark J Smith · Top Commenter · Olivet Nazarene University
Or, the dems are so desperate to stir up the black vote for Nov 4th...
"So you can see..." I can see a logic fallacy called "guilt by association"
I can use the same logical fallacy using all kinds of democrats but won't.
Keep using the race card the more you use it, the quicker it will lose it's power
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Susan Utzinger · Top Commenter · Wright State University
I think you must have gone to a government school since your knowledge of history does not seem to exist (but your lying is monumental!):
For example...*your* history is the party of having an actual, official, presidential campaign slogan of: "It's a white man's world, let the white man rule."
That's YOUR history, not mine.
At that same time, MY party was entering freed slave Frederick Douglass into nomination.
MY party ended slavery while YOUR party instituted it.
That's YOUR, 150-year history.
More of MY party voted for civil rights legislation than did yours.
YOUR party filibustered civil rights legislation.
YOUR party introduced jim crow laws, NOT MINE.
That is YOUR history.
MY party founded the NRA to arm blacks against the militant wing of the Democratic Party (KKK)
YOUR party kept blacks in Selma, AL from having guns.
Y... See More
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Steve Jergins · Top Commenter · HighSchool Life
Your party kept an Exalted Cyclops of the KKK in office as President Pro Tem of the Senate (3rd in line to the presidency) until 2010. And you Democrats are perfectly content to have a racist Senate Majority Leader and Vice President (because ridiculing Asians is just soooo funny). Every villain of the Civl Rights era--Faubus, Maddox, Connor, etc., etc.--was a Democrat. Like you. So spare me your lectures about racism you racist hypocrite.
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Rick Haughton · Follow · Top Commenter · Wilmington, North Carolina
Steve Jergins you do realize the difference between the democrat party of the early 20th century in the South, and how it changed over the last 50 years or so (since integration and the civil rights act), right? I hope so. The rest of us are not stupid enough to buy your crap.
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Steve Jergins · Top Commenter · HighSchool Life
This flyer is incredibly racist. I'm amazed that the Democrats would engage in this kind of racist fear-mongering. But then I remember that it was white Democrats like Kay Hagan who founded the KKK. Not once, but twice. It's also not surprising that the white Democrat-run Fayetteville Observer hasn't even bothered to ask Hagan if she denounces this flyer. Let's remember that the Observer was a strong supporter not only of the Confederacy but also of Black Codes, Jim Crow laws, and the KKK. Racist is as racist does.
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Rick Haughton · Follow · Top Commenter · Wilmington, North Carolina
you didn't read the article, clearly.
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Sara Smith · CEO & Founder at Sara Smith - chef, artist and teacher
This does not seem to me to be at all a 'pro-Hagan' message. I am speaking as an Independent voter. It looks like a message written by someone who does not want Hagan to win and also is wanting Obama to be impeached. The fact that the lynching is depicting a black man illustrates racism and hate being directed towards the President. I think that is really scary that some people in the south are still lynching and/or threatening it. It took a lot of pressure from the family of Lennon Lacy to seek more answers about the lynching of their son at the end of August. According to police, no foul play was involved. That is just crazy.
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Jerry Kae
That's a conspiracy theory if I've ever heard one. You obviously feel the democrats woyuld never stoop so low. Really?!
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Ed Johnson · Top Commenter · New York, New York
Great piece of reporting. Really?? You present no copies of the flyer, you have nothing linking the flyer to Hagan's campaign, you have nothing on the group who supposedly wrote their name on the flyer, and even that has a disclaimer that breaks any linkn to Hagan's campaign.
This sounds more like an irresponsible pro-Tillis anti-Hagan smear than a newspaper story to me.
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