Deborah Orin looks at some of the things that Charlie Rangel has been saying recently. He's really been losing it.
Charles Rangel has scored plenty of headlines in his 35 years in Congress, but lately, he's outdone himself by comparing President Bush to the revolting Southern racist "Bull" Connor, who sicced attack dogs on black protesters in 1963.
"George Bush is our 'Bull' Connor," claimed the Harlem Democrat — New York's most senior member of Congress — as he charged that the Hurricane Katrina response was slow because many victims were black.
But that's not all.
Rangel raised eyebrows by saying the Iraq war to topple Saddam Hussein was as bad as the Holocaust — "This is just as bad as the 6 million Jews being killed" by the Nazis, he said in June.
In July, Rangel got into a flap after the official Congressional Record ran a statement under his name blaming a fictitious 1712 slave-owner, "Willie Lynch," for tactics that destroyed the black family. Rangel denied saying it.
Then the Washington Times found the Congressional Record with the Rangel "Lynch" statement — based on Internet fake documents.
Rangel aide Emil Milne said an intern wrote it and it somehow got into the Record without Rangel knowing.
Last month, Rangel turned medical expert and told New York 1 that Vice President Dick Cheney is too sick to do his job: "He's got heart disease, but the disease is not restricted to that part of his body. He grunts a lot, so you never really know what he's thinking."
What's up?
Maybe the real Charlie is just shining through. He's so overcome with Bush Derangement Disorder that he doesn't mind downplaying either the Holocaust or the height of the backlash against the civil rights movement in order to get in an insult at Bush. posted by Betsy Newmark permalink 6:33 AM
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Deborah Orin looks at some of the things that Charlie Rangel has been saying recently. He's really been losing it.
Charles Rangel has scored plenty of headlines in his 35 years in Congress, but lately, he's outdone himself by comparing President Bush to the revolting Southern racist "Bull" Connor, who sicced attack dogs on black protesters in 1963.
"George Bush is our 'Bull' Connor," claimed the Harlem Democrat — New York's most senior member of Congress — as he charged that the Hurricane Katrina response was slow because many victims were black.
But that's not all.
Rangel raised eyebrows by saying the Iraq war to topple Saddam Hussein was as bad as the Holocaust — "This is just as bad as the 6 million Jews being killed" by the Nazis, he said in June.
In July, Rangel got into a flap after the official Congressional Record ran a statement under his name blaming a fictitious 1712 slave-owner, "Willie Lynch," for tactics that destroyed the black family. Rangel denied saying it.
Then the Washington Times found the Congressional Record with the Rangel "Lynch" statement — based on Internet fake documents.
Rangel aide Emil Milne said an intern wrote it and it somehow got into the Record without Rangel knowing.
Last month, Rangel turned medical expert and told New York 1 that Vice President Dick Cheney is too sick to do his job: "He's got heart disease, but the disease is not restricted to that part of his body. He grunts a lot, so you never really know what he's thinking."
What's up?
Maybe the real Charlie is just shining through. He's so overcome with Bush Derangement Disorder that he doesn't mind downplaying either the Holocaust or the height of the backlash against the civil rights movement in order to get in an insult at Bush. posted by Betsy Newmark permalink 6:33 AM
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