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What Tim Scott Has Said About Racism On 4/29/21 at 7:50 AM EDT Senator Tim Scott said America was "not a racist country" when he delivered the GOP's rebuttal to President Joe Biden's joint address to Congress on Wednesday. He also described his own experiences of discrimination, however. The South Carolina lawmaker's 14-minute address drew on his backstory as the son of a single mother and the grandson of an illiterate Black man. During the speech, he said: "I get called Uncle Tom and the n-word by progressives, by liberals." This is a reprise of a sentiment Scott expressed in an op-ed for

Almost every communication ends with a plea for cash, all hyperventilating with the frantic, the-house-on-fire-save-the-baby! hysteria that is the official GOP tone: cry doom and rattle the cup. To be fair, Democrats do it, too, though I don’t get nearly as many. I’m not sure why. Maybe the same trolls who sign me up for fringe gun nut groups under the mistaken notion it bothers me also donate in my name to Republican candidates. Maybe the emails are sent to every known address including mine. Who can say? Opinion I usually never click on them or even read the subject line. There are ...

Dem Rep. Karen Bass Defends Black GOP Sen. Tim Scott After 'Cotton to Congress' Fact Check Newsweek 4 hrs ago Benjamin Fearnow © Photo by Liz Lynch/Getty Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) leaves the Senate Floor at the U.S. Capitol on January 1 in Washington, DC. California Democratic congresswoman Karen Bass on Saturday defended GOP South Carolina Senator Tim Scott after a Washington Post fact-checking article highlighted several flaws in his longtime "cotton to Congress" stump speech. The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler wrote a Friday piece in the paper's "Fact Checker" section th...

Journalist Glenn Greenwald said the newspaper's effort to 'debunk' the story did the opposite on 'Fox News Primetime' The Washington Post appears quite selective when it comes to the urgency of its "fact-checks" of certain prominent politicians.  Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., was the subject of a lengthy piece on Friday by the Post's star fact-checker, Glenn Kessler. The piece, "Tim Scott often talks about his grandfather and cotton. There’s more to that tale," examined the "origin stories" of comments the Senator has made over the years about being an ancestor of slaves. Scott has said his gr...

Washington Post Fact Checkers Expose Truth About Tim Scott’s Black Privilege in Triumph of Accountability Journalism Andrew Stiles • April 23, 2021 3:15 pm SHARE If Sen. Tim Scott (R., S.C.) was a Democrat, he'd be one of the most celebrated politicians in the country. Raised in poverty by a single mother, he would go on to become the first black politician to represent a southern state in the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction. Pretty impressive for someone whose grandfather dropped out of elementary school to pick cotton on the family farm. Or is it?  Fans of accountability will be delig...