South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley told reporters “we’ve never in the history of this country passed any laws or done anything based on race or religion.”
Media are heralding South Carolina governor Nikki Haley’s Republican rebuttal to Obama’s State of the Union address. Haley’s call for the party to resist the “siren call of the angriest voices” was, according to AP (1/13/16), a message “of diversity and openness to immigrants that could answer the GOP establishment’s increasingly desperate search for an antidote to the loud pronouncements of presidential front-runner Donald Trump.”
The LA Times (1/12/16) cited her words that “no one who is willing to work hard, abide by our laws, and love our traditions should ever feel unwelcome in this country,” noting that for those just noticing Haley, “she probably seemed like a voice of reason in a campaign that has often featured the opposite.”
And when Trump predictably attacked Haley as “weak on illegal immigration,” many outlets noted her remark, “I stand by what I believe.”
Nikki Haley (cc photo: Albert N. Milliron/Wikimedia)
You might have wanted a little more detail, though, on what it is Haley apparently does believe, which, as Gawker (1/13/16) pointed out, is pretty weird. “When you’ve got immigrants who are coming here legally,” Haley told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl (1/13/16), “we’ve never in the history of this country passed any laws or done anything based on race or religion. Let’s not start that now.”
The LA Times thought Haley’s showing in her rebuttal speech would have “implications for her future.” Maybe in the meanwhile, someone could help her brush up on the past.
Janine Jackson is FAIR’s program director and the host of CounterSpin.
We’ve never required tests of candidates for elective office for their knowledge of history, economics or ethics. Let’s not start now.
“…We have never done anything based on race or Religion…”
It must be nice to live in your own little bubble world, where the Unicorns come out to play, and all of gods children are free and safe; you can make up your own script and always be right.
Oh the buzzing of the bees in the Peppermint trees,
Round the soda water fountains
Where the lemonade springs and the Bluebirds Sing’
In the big rock candy mountain.
Love to hear it, but where is the mp3
Have you dispensed w/ the player? I love to listen & have eyes on other things. And when I find the time I come here-every week. Do I need to do something new?
The lies have become Hitlerian in their proportions. Out and out falsehoods told with the widest grin possible and in complete innocence. The Haleys of the world believe what Hitler said about lying. When you lie tell a big one. The bigger the lie the more likely to be believed.
For those confused, this article seems to have been posted in the wrong place. The current episode of CounterSpin is here.
Gawker in above article seems to have forgotten Japanese internment here by FDR during WW2….Funny how lies get promoted.
So Haley is so ignorant that she doesn’t know that people from India, here perfectly legally, were thrown out of the country in the 1920s?