Blackburn Called 'White Supremacist' During Moment of Silence Honoring Minorities White Man Killed
Tennessee GOP senatorial candidate Rep. Marsha Blackburn was called a “white supremacist” during a moment of silence remembering the victims of the white supremacist killing in Pittsburgh on Saturday, The Tennesseean reported.
“Signaling how high the stakes have become in Tennessee’s U.S. Senate race, seven protesters were forcibly removed Sunday from a campaign event in Davidson County hosted by Republican nominee Marsha Blackburn,” the paper noted.
“Moments before Blackburn took the stage — which came just nine days before Blackburn squares off against Democrat Phil Bredesen in the Nov. 6 general election — several protesters yelled their opposition to the congressman and were taken from the event.”
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“The interruptions began as Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Scott Golden tried to introduce Blackburn, with several protesters loudly objecting by calling Blackburn a white supremacist. The crowd, many of whom were standing, began chanting ‘U-S-A, U-S-A’ in an effort to drown out the protests.”
Things went downhill from there.
Here are some videos of the protesters being removed pic.twitter.com/NFHAikv5nh
— Joel Ebert (@joelebert29) October 28, 2018
And one more pic.twitter.com/3lYsBZKJ1x
— Joel Ebert (@joelebert29) October 28, 2018
The protesters had been asked to quietly vacate the Davidson County event, but of course they didn’t.
“They said, ‘you’re going to have to call the cops,’ and we called the cops,” Gillum Ferguson, press secretary for the Tennessee Republican Party, told The Tennesseean.
After the event was back under control, Blackburn — who is running against Democratic former Gov. Phil Bredesen in the nationally watched race — condemned the mob.
“How despicable that you cannot even have a moment of silence,” Blackburn said, according to the The Washington Times.
“I have never in my life heard of people interrupting a moment of silence,” she added after the event. “I think that’s despicable.”
Reached for comment, Bredesen’s camp engaged in what liberals usually like to dismiss as “bothsidesism.”
“It a shame that people disrupted Congresswoman Blackburn’s event and it is a shame that Congresswoman Blackburn’s campaign staffers have been proudly screaming at 37 of Governor Bredesen’s events,” campaign spokeswoman Alyssa Hansen told The Washington Times.
“This is not what this election is about and it is time to get back to bringing attention to fixing problems for the people of Tennessee.”
Yes, this all sounds well and good, except none of these interruptions involved calling Bredesen a “white supremacist” during a moment of silence to remember the victims of an anti-Semitic white supremacist.
Thankfully, Lindsey Graham was there — and if there’s anyone who can shed some much-needed common sense on this sort of thing, it’s the senator from South Carolina.
“All the people who want to yell at me would turn the country into a mob,” Graham said after the incident.
We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. This is an unthinking mob, something straight out of Orwell or some other dystopian fiction.
It’s now our reality. Let that sink in.
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