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Gianforte wins in Montana — 9 Comments

  1. Personally, I pick door # 3.

    But I’m skeptical that this will entirely fade. I imagine it will be resurrected as needed in the future. It’s too valuable as ‘evidence’ that people on the right really are irredeemable deplorables.

    Here’s an article with great insight into the Leftist/Liberal mind-set. I highly recommend it and it’s insights are relevant to this issue.

    “A JERSEY GIRL DEFENDS ROBERT E. LEE”

  2. Geoffrey Britain:

    Oh, they’ll definitely trot it out again if and when they feel they need to.

  3. Probably more (1) than anything else, but I also think that if there was no early voting, he wins anyway.

    The actual charge as compared to the story the media were telling are at odds with one another, and it indicates to me that the witnesses were telling the police something different than the papers were printing. I am suspecting there is a video of that we are not being shown by the media, otherwise, based on the printed story, Gianforte should have been charged with felony assault, not misdemeanor.

  4. I too suspect there’s a video. It was an interview with a video camaraman ready to record. I can’t imagine he didn’t start recording the instant it got interesting. After all that’s his job, what’s he’s paid to do and woe to the employee that let slips such an opportunity.

    Since the FOX interviewer Acuna blamed Gianforte, if a video exists, it has to tell a different story than hers because if it backed it up, FOX would be drooling over the increased viewership it would bring.

    BTW, last night in lengthy coverage of the incident, ABC did NOT cover Fox’s Acuna walking back the strangling charge nor cover that one witness later admitted to having a blocked view that allowed for just a glimpse of the altercation.

    FOX’s new leadership are RINOs and you can bet that everyone in that organization has gotten the memo.

  5. @Yancey – agree, probably more about #1. If the 2/3 of the votes are locked in, it takes a giant move on the latter third to have a big impact.

    Hard to tell if he would have won anyway, as his margin was only 6%, last I looked – and they were still counting stragglers.

  6. A little bit of 2, 3, and 4. Montana has been invaded by Californians but the invaders are still not the majority. Native Montanans are not going to get their knickers in a twist because a man lost his temper after being treated badly by a reporter. Especially not in these days.

    IMO, things turned out just about right. But it’s likely that this will be used whenever possible by the MSM to show how brutish the Repubs are.

  7. The first comment above, by Geoffrey Britain, has a link to a wonderful article at Front Page Mag. It is well worth reading.

    Geoffrey left a comment upon the article, which is important enough to deserve a posting in its own right. Here I’ll quote only the first two paragraphs:

    Geoffrey Britain – 4 hours ago

    This is indeed an excellent article but one with a caveat. The author states, ” When he was 44, Thomas Jefferson, historians say, and I believe, raped his 14-year-old slave, Sally Hemings, his deceased wife’s half-sister. Hemings bore six children to Jefferson, all of them slaves. This Jefferson is my enemy.” and in that statement she finds Jefferson “guilty until proven innocent.”

    That is because there is NO credible evidence, neither verbal testimony by Sally Henings nor DNA evidence that proves Jefferson ever even had ‘relations’ with Sally Hemings. “The DNA testing demonstrated only that a Jefferson fathered the fifth child of Sally Hemings–not which Jefferson.”

    He quotes at length from the book “In Defense of Thomas Jefferson,” by William G. Hyland. (Use Amazon’s Advanced Search to find the book and reviews.)

    I will add another reference: the History News Network article by Prof. Robert F. Turner. Prof. Turner was the chairman of a committee commissioned by some of Pres. Jefferson’s family to investigate the claim; among others on the committe was Prof. Paul Rahe, the only one who did not fully agree with the committee’s otherwise consensus that the claims were almost certainly unfounded.

    I quote from the beginning of the article:

    7-01-02
    Did Jefferson Sleep with Sally Hemings?
    By Robert F. Turner

    Mr. Turner is the Associate Director at the Center for National Security Law, University of Virginia School of Law.

    .

    In May the descendants of Thomas Jefferson’s daughters (Martha and Maria) voted by a margin of 93 percent to deny admission to the descendants of Sally Hemings, the slave woman who was alleged to have been his “concubine” in Paris and thereafter and to have given him several children. The press and liberal pundits have had a field day denouncing the descendants as racists and bigots. The charge is unfair. Honorable people may disagree about the meaning of the very limited evidence that exists, but the case that Thomas Jefferson fathered children by Sally Hemings is far weaker than is popularly believed.

    Prof. Turner goes on to examine the evidence. I have a copy of the entire article (with comments), which was published on HNN 7/1/02. Unfortunately HNN seems to have removed the article, and the investigation committee’s documentation appears to have vanished as well.

    Wikipedia has an article about the controversy at

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson—Hemings_controversy

    It cites the committee’s report and links to it. Unfortunately the link is broken.

    In the interest of thoroughness: Prof. Turner’s original article was published at

    http://www.historynewsnetwork.org/articles/article.html?id=825

  8. Geoffrey Britain:

    As a native southerner (and graduate of Washington & Lee University) I must thank you for providing that link to Ms Goska’s piece.

    Watching these memorial statutes taken down – especially those of Lee- has been hard.

    This is no different than the defacement and iconoclasty that took place 3400 years ago in ancient Egypt when Akhenaten’s successors began removing all traces of Egypt’s first flirtation with monotheism (the cult of Aten the sun god).

    Some things never change, I guess.

    The South gets hot during summertime but otherwise it’s not as bad as they say.

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