Angry arguments broke out in the West Virginia statehouse on Friday after the state Republican Party allegedly set up an anti-Muslim display in the rotunda linking the 9/11 terror attacks to a freshman congresswoman from Minnesota.
One staff member was physically injured during the morning’s confrontations, and another official resigned after being accused of making anti-Muslim comments.
The display featured a picture of the World Trade Center in New York City as a fireball exploded from the one of the Twin Towers, set above a picture of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, who’s a Muslim.
“‘Never forget’ – you said. . .” read a caption on the first picture. “I am the proof – you have forgotten,” read the caption under the picture of Omar, who is wearing a hijab.
The display was set up as part of “WV GOP Day,” which the party advertised on Facebook as a day when “Republicans Take the Rotunda.”
The Sergeant at Arms was involved in one of the fights and she has now submitted her resignation.
Adam L Silverman
So I’m guessing the West Virginia Tourism Board is not going ahead with their West Virginia welcomes Muslims advertising campaign?
FlyingToaster
You know, in one-party states like the Commonwealth of MA (God save it, since no one else can be bothered), our majority party doesn’t have celebrations in the State House. They have them properly catered in a bar’s function space.
There’s something deeply dysfunctional about having your political party setting up tables for their sychophants like student groups do at the Union in September.
Amir Khalid
Die Gesichterfressendeleopardenpartei von Westvirginia — bless their hearts, they seem like a nice bunch.
A Ghost To Most
If these assholes were going to start their christian fascist rebellion, they would have started already. Gutless fucking loudmouths. I gave them too much credit.
gwangung
No, ASSHOLES, you’ve obvviously forgotten Bosnia.
A Ghost To Most
@Amir Khalid:
In the most southern way.
chopper
oh west virginia, don’t you ever change.
on second thought, please change as quickly as you can.
kindness
The comments the Sgt. At Arms made surprised me. I figured someone in that position knows they have to not say the inside things outside. I don’t know why I keep thinking right wingers shouldn’t fly their hate flags so publicly. We used to shame racists. Now days they have no shame. It’s telling. I miss the days when they were in the closet. Go ahead, call me a liberal hypocrite.
Adam L Silverman
@gwangung: And today is the anniversary of the relief of the siege of Sarajevo.
BCHS Class of 1980
@FlyingToaster: My response is that though WV has been functionally GOP for years, the named party hasn’t held power for that long and they’re pretty insecure about it. Hence the ALEC-driven overreach and the displays of hatred toward the people who are likely their doctors, professors and DC commuters from M-burg and JeffCo.
Baud
I hate when I have to thank God for Manchin.
trollhattan
@Adam L Silverman:
May is still West Virginia Hummus Month, damnit!
Uncle Cosmo
@Amir Khalid: You might want to shorten that in the best German fashion to Gefrele Partei or somesuch.
japa21
Not sure why that word is used. I mean, how likely is it that this poster, set up at the GOP booth, and I assumed staffed by GOP, was not set up by the GOP?
Amir Khalid
@Uncle Cosmo:
I was thinking of initials: GFLP. What do you guys think?
The Midnight Lurker
Pogo.
Another Scott
Wondermark today on how to come clean.
Donnie’s people are probably studying it for tips. ;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
piratedan
ty President Trump for allowing these awesome displays of “Patriotism” that illustrate that to many “good people” that Freedom of Religion should be interpreted “loosely” as both a moral and ethical tenet of our country. Good thing we’re able to get past the idea that the Saudi’s were to blame even though they comprised two-thirds of all of the hijackers Next on the agenda of moral and ethical conundrums solved by the GOP, was slavery really that bad as long as white people were in charge?
Odie Hugh Manatee
…
Misty taste of moonshine,
opioids in my veins.
Country roads…
plato
Why would a muslim woman from another state would scare these WV chickenshits so much?
chris
Blech.
Mary G
This quote from the end of John’s linked article pretty much sums up the modern Republican party in a nutshell:
Adam L Silverman
@trollhattan: I’ll bring the pita!
Amir Khalid
@plato:
They have to pick on someone, and I guess no Muslim politicians from in-state are prominent enough.
Dan B
West Virginny – updating the 18th century right on schedule. (They finely discuvvered thet soshullist Mohammed!)
Shhhh! Doen tellum thars summa thet Mooslim gazoleen in thar gaz tank! They might havva cowr-narey!!
Mnemosyne
@plato:
Because she’s proof that the Mooslims are taking over and will be forcing sharia law down everyone’s throat by next week at the latest. ?
Adam L Silverman
@japa21: Damn Democratic-Socialist infiltrators always making the W. VA GOP looking bad!//
SiubhanDuinne
It’s like Brooks-Sumner all over again.
Adam L Silverman
@plato: The paw paws, they’ve got a plan to taint the paw paws…//
FlyingToaster
@BCHS Class of 1980: I understand, but MA only started turning D with the Kennedys. And most of our governors are Republicans: Weld, Celucci, Swift, Romney, [Patrick was a Democrat], Baker.
Romney did some serious overreach*, but even he didn’t let the Birchers set up tables under the Gold Dome.
* Romney recruited 107 Republicans to run for the Lege (house and senate), many from out of state. He raised $3M to fund their races. All of them lost, plus 7 GOP incumbents. IIRC it left the Lege with 40 Republicans (out of 160); 6 of 40 in the Senate and 34 of 120 in the House. At that point he decided not to run for re-election in 2006.
chris
@Mary G: …OMFG
Dan B
@Mary G: Oh lawd have mercy! I gotta update my homosecksool conspiracy card to LQBTGQ- soshialist-demon-queen-from-hell card.
Jay
@japa21:
The word “alledgedly” refers to the display being possibly “anti-muslim”. The reporter, the Corporations and editor are bound by compact to give the racists, the benifit of the doubt, when no doubt has been established.
FlyingToaster
@japa21: The booth was set up and staffed by ACT for America, which is a SPLC designated hate group. They were invited to do so by the WV GOP.
NotMax
(Crosses West Virginia off the list of states to spend any money in.)
@Mary G
Because white boxer briefs are exactly the same as white robes and hoods.
:)
Raven
@Adam L Silverman: CUMBERLAND — With the nine-time Grammy award-winning band Asleep at the Wheel set to perform in Cumberland in March, lead singer and founder of the band Ray Benson recalls the band’s start in Paw Paw, W.Va.
Adam L Silverman
@FlyingToaster: Brigitte Gabriel: stunning on the outside, ugly clear through to the DNA on the inside.
Adam L Silverman
@Raven: I bet they’re in on the conspiracy…
Plato
Change is in the air?
Caphilldcne
As an unwanted LGBTQ in nearby DC I certainly feel like WV does not need my money. I shall spend elsewhere. All you Lost River and Berkley Springs gays need to figure out how to make this a lot more painful at the state level.
Raven
I other music news
Grace Slick Licenses Song To Chick-fil-A, Gives Proceeds To LGBTQ Rights Organization
Raven
@Adam L Silverman: Their space buggy don’t go that far. . .
Adam L Silverman
@Raven: She’s always been a class act.
Raven
@Adam L Silverman: @Adam L Silverman: I wish it had been Triad instead of that insipid Starship bullshit.
Adam L Silverman
@Raven: Tracking.
Luthe
The ad at the top of the page is offering me a chance to win “breakfast with President Trump.” It’s almost tempting just for the opportunity to puke in his lap.
Jay
@Mary G:
@NotMax:
@Caphilldcne:
The RWNJ’s current ploy is to try to convince their base that the Jewlamist immiblack gaythiest are trying to white genocide them by living their lives and minding their own business, is exactly the same as the KKK.
As they continue to be marginalized, they are going to go with the greater crazy. By the General, they are going to be shouting full QAnon.
“The Trick” is to spend your money in the State with allies.
There are the Rainbow equivalents of the Green Book online.
plato
Bet the rubes are cheering this blatant pay for play by the totus thug.
NotMax
@Jay
Burning Man.
Burning crosses.
Both sides do it.
Completely indistinguishable.
:) :) :)
Steeplejack
@Jay:
Then it should have said “after the state Republican Party
allegedlyset up an allegedly anti-Muslim display in the rotunda.” Adverbs need to go with what they’re modifying.Jay
BTdubs, today is the 6th Anniversary of Still Dead Breibart.
Adam L Silverman
@Steeplejack: If I say your name three times into a mirror while holding a draft of something I’ve written, do you appear?//
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
In a puff of syntax.
;)
WaterGirl
Wowser. That’s a lot of hate, WV. I think you need professional help.
Jay
@Steeplejack:
It should have stated “after the State Republican Party invited a notorious Hate Group, to set up a booth where they displayed Islamophobic slurs about a sitting US Representative.
But the US MSM is gutless and composed of Nazi enablers.
Duane
Utter one word, even a smile, that might question Israel’s actions, you’re anti-Semitic. Muslims however, are open to any lunatic idea there is. No problem.
A bigger bunch of hypocritical assholes could not exist.
Steeplejack
@Adam L Silverman:
Hey, I let you slide on “stationery” downstairs.
Mary G
This thread on CPAC is good if you have a strong stomach:
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Also too, Lantern’s.
kindness
Look at the bright side. We haven’t bitched about Bernie all day.
@Jay: Don’t you think the state Republican Party is responsible for what they allow put up though?
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: I’m definitely sleeping with the lights on tonight…//
A Ghost To Most
Judge Amy Berman Jackson wants to know why Roger Stone just informed her he is releasing a book imminently, and why it doesn’t break her gag order.
Adam L Silverman
@Steeplejack: And it was just sitting there, not moving at all.
Plato
Profiles in courage.
Adam L Silverman
@A Ghost To Most: That boy ain’t right.
CliosFanBoy
can we refer to West Virginia as East Ohio? Or North Tennessee???
Adam L Silverman
What an asshole!
worn
@Steeplejack: If there were still copy editors employed by the newspapers, silly grammatical mistakes like that would most likely not see the light of day. But that is no longer the world we live in. And as someone raised by two newspaper editors, for me this is more or less a daily source of consternation.
Plato
@A Ghost To Most:
She is all about ropes and pillows. Throw the thug in the cell already.
A Ghost To Most
WaPo link to Berman-Stone
WaterGirl
@Plato:
I have never heard that expression before. Rope? Maybe give him enough rope to hang himself (not literally)? But pillows I cannot figure out.
God help me, I started to open up a Google window to type in that phrase and see what it meant. I came to my senses just in time – I can only imagine the horrors that would come up with that particular google search.
NotMax
@worn
as someone reared
/couldn’t resist
If I had a dime for each time I heard “You raise corn, you rear children” while still in short pants, would be financially sitting pretty.
Steeplejack
@worn:
Don’t get me started!
Jay
@kindness:
I think that you have missed my point entirely.
The reporter, editor and Media group was more than willing to whitewash The Rethugs and an infamous hate group’s actions.
“some good people on both sides”.
NotMax
@Jay
Allegedly.
;)
debbie
This fucking shit again. Someone, please point out to these assholes that Germans have murdered far more Americans than Muslims and then demand they be expelled immediately.
@Steeplejack:
My local news constantly misuses allegedly. “He was allegedly murdered.” No, ma’am, he’s positively, absolutely, undeniably, and reliably dead.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Adam L Silverman: I think we already knew that, he’s got a huge tat of Nixon’s face on his back.
Brickle Paiste
@Caphilldcne:
Dude WV is so deep deep deep in the shit that it doesn’t even notice your contribution.
wvng
Shit like this makes me rethink my decision to live in WV.
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
Words are arbitrary things in the first place. These “mistakes” get burned into the standard language over time and are eventually not considered mistakes any more. E.g. centuries ago, the hair colour “auburn” meant blond. Nowadays it means dark brown. So it goes.
Brickley Paiste
@NotMax:
My families was “You raise cattle, you rear children.”
To which my brother would whisper not sotto voce “I prefer to REAR cattle”
Sherparick
@Dan B: Actually, you are being unfair to the 18th century.
NotMax
@debbie
Don’t get me started on the otherwise mostly erudite Rachel Maddow saying pled in place of pleaded, even when she is quoting directly from an article or document which uses pleaded and is being shown on the screen along with her.
Makes the teeth itch each and every time I hear her do that; also throws into question the quality and attention to detail of the rest of her reporting.
Jay
@Amir Khalid:
Given the current state of ReThugs, I’m goona guess that a lot of ‘Merkin’s raise kids, not rear them.
BR
OT, but I am listening to Chris Hayes’s interview with Stacey Abrams and I’m more impressed every time I hear her. She not only understands what needs to be done on so many things but also knows how to do it, why it got the way it is, and crucially can explain in both moral and pragmatic terms why something needs to be done. I think I haven’t heard anyone who strikes me as that deeply impressive since I first heard Obama.
frosty fred
@Amir Khalid: Last I heard, auburn meant red. It may have started out meaning blond, for all I know.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
Auburn now is generally applied to reddish brown hair, not dark brown (AFAIK). The latter is called, well, brown.
And orange as a specific name for a color is (historically) fairly recent. Both what we today call red and what we call orange were previously lumped under the name red.
Sidebar: When it comes to color names, Crayola has much to answer for.
;)
rikyrah
TCM is showing The Age of Innocence?
I have found that you either love it or hate it.
I love it. Always have.
Steve in the ATL
@Raven: Chick-Fil-A deserves the garbage that is Starship, not the good stuff from earlier in her career
NotMax
@Steve in the ATL
Never been to one and never intend to. Is there a Hot Tuna sammich on the menu?
;)
Brickley Paiste
@NotMax:
Yes!!!!
Drives me batty. I know she’s smarter than I am. Why does she get something so easy wrong? She has to have read the correct way hundreds or thousands of times in her life.
zhena gogolia
@rikyrah:
I love it too. It’s my favorite Martin Scorsese film.
Mike in NC
Are there even like six Muslims living in WV?
CatFacts
@rikyrah: The Age of Innocence is amazing.
OldDave
@Raven:
Also known as the Biggest Jew in Country (Benson is 6′ 7″).
DC
@Mike in NC:
I live in New York City. I can literally see the World Trade Center site from my living room. There was recently a terrorist attack on the road outside my building. Why do they think that *they* should tell *me* what to be afraid of? It is really puzzling.
JGabriel
@NotMax:
Must be a Protestant thing. As someone who grew up in the Papist tradition, I’ve never heard anyone say, “I was reared Catholic.”
We were all raised Catholic, not reared Catholic.
I have no idea why – except that the latter sounds weird and vaguely accusatory.
Steve in the ATL
What about the altar boys?
JGabriel
@Steve in the ATL:
Thus the phrase “vaguely accusatory” above.
JGabriel
@DC:
Yeah, it’s always puzzled me that the people who seem to hate New Yorkers most, are the same people who want to believe they themselves are the most patriotic about 9/11 – while simultaneously betraying every American ideal about freedom of speech, freedom of religion, welcoming refugees, etc., and implying that New York deserved it.
Sebastian
@Amir Khalid:
German doesn’t use verbs or adjectives in concatenated nouns. It should be
Gesichtfresserleopardenpartei
Or GFLP.
In Germany it would be DGLFP or GFLPD, respectively.
billcinsd
@debbie: My local news constantly misuses allegedly. “He was allegedly murdered.” No, ma’am, he’s positively, absolutely, undeniably, and reliably dead.
Sure, but they may be dead through manslaughter, or natural causes not murder. So until convicted assuming murder is charged, it is allegedly murder. Partially so they won’t get sued if the alleged murderer is not convicted
ljdramone
@Sebastian: Clearly we need a Silbenkurzwort [syllabic abbreviation] for the Gesichtfresserleopardenpartei.
They’re pretty common in German. Some examples:
“Flak” for Fliegerabwehrkanone [anti-aircraft gun]
“Stasi” for Staatssicherheit [former East German Ministry of State Security]
“Sozi” for Sozialist [Socialist]
“KaDeWe” for Kaufhaus des Westens [a Berlin department store]
GeFreLePa maybe?
Jiminy C.
@Mary G: CPAC theme for 2019 – “Remember that time we beat up that chick? That was great…”