Huh? He left the reform party because Duke joined it. So what if Duke backed him, he now backs Tulsi Gabbart.....I don't see the media crying about that.....it's all bullshit and you know it.I agree with what you're saying, I'm just saying the media does this stuff on purpose, they know better, but it helps their political cause.....it's deceitful....like Trump didn't disown Duke, he has many times, left the reform party, but again, they didn't bring that up....but a simple Google search does.....Your own text reads "Ku Klux Klan leader". Which is what I just described, Dukey named himself 'leader' of his own little tree house.
That's an entirely different thing from claiming "the leader of the KKK", which does not exist, and has not existed since 1944.
That's like saying US leader......it's Trump, Russian leader is Putin, they don't say high ranking klansmen...they give the impression he is THE leader of the klan.......poll americans and ask them was Duke the leader of the Klan, the would say yes.......the media's perception become reality......if they reported correctly, this wouldn't be an issue.
I mean they say KKK leader
they don't say leader of some local brach.....
It's ambiguous wording but it's not incorrect. Dukey was a "Klan leader" on the basis that he said he was one. And the kkklown BlueGin made reference to did the same thing. But there is no "the head of the Klan". What she's doing there is cherrypicking in order to foment an Association Fallacy. That's why I wrote her a ticket.
Actually the media absolutely DID bring that up. To put the lie to Rump's claim that he 'knew nothing' about David Dukey. Fifteen years prior he knew plenty, but it didn't serve his agenda to play dumb in 2000.
There's a spaghetti post. *WHAT*'s all bullshit?
The Association Fallacy, where being endorsed by Dukey somehow taints you, certainly is bullshit. If that's where you were going, that's a constant. And if so it's not the point here. The point is that even though Rump provably knew perfectly well who Dukey was, he went into a stupid act so he could dance around the awful prospect of losing Dukey's bigot vote if he denounced him in that interview ---- as he did fifteen years earlier. That would cost him a significant base of "very fine people" and he knew it so he played dumb. The fact that it could be proven that he DID know very well who David Dukey is, exposes that little sham.
In other words as usual it's not about David Dukey --- it's about Rump's dishonest pandering. That sounds redundant, but this is even more dishonest than ordinary pandering.
The nugget I keep remembering about those two is that when Rump was campaigning for POTUS and Dukey at the same time was campaiging for Senator, Dukey had more black support in Louisiana than Rump did.
The play-dumb interview also recalls 1924 when the Ku Klux Klan (the real one) was at the height of its influence and endorsed Calvin Coolidge because he was the only major candidate who wouldn't denounce them. No doubt for the same reason --- too risky.