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New Day show, CNN Tonight host Don Lemon showed sympathy for liberals who hate Senator Tim Scott and other black conservatives as he suggested that it would be acceptable to call them by racial epithets in private conversations. His comments came as he reacted to a Texas Democratic official who recently derided Senator Scott as an "Oreo." Instead of unequivocally condemning the vitriol, he advised against engaging in such name-calling publicly, hinting at political optics, and, as if Senator Scott had done something just as offensive, referred to it as "stooping" to the Republican Senator's ...

Texas GOP Rep. Pat Fallon sounds off after the Texas Democrat Party rejects the resignation of a county chairman who used a racial slur against GOP Sen. Tim Scott. Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, joined "The Faulkner Focus" Friday after introducing a House resolution condemning the entire TexasDemocratic Party for one county's refusal to accept the resignation of a chairman who used a racial slur against Republican Sen. Tim Scott. PAT FALLON: I'll tell you what, if the Texas Democrats didn't have double standards, they would have no standards at all. You have liberals like Joy Behar and Jimmy K...

Jen Psaki admitting that Biden taking impromptu questions from reporters is not something the White House recommends and more round out today's top media headlines. On CNN's "New Day" on Friday, Don Lemon appeared to downplay a Texas Democrat's use of the racial slur "oreo" to describe Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., referring to it as merely "name-calling" and reasoning that many Black Americans are probably calling the Republican the same thing in the privacy of their own homes. Lamar County Democratic Party chair Gary O’Connor called Scott the demeaning name in a now-deleted Facebook post las...

  Share Source: Senate Television via AP A Texas county’s Democratic Party is refusing to accept the resignation of Lamar County Democratic Party Chairman Gary O’Connor, who announced he would step down after calling Sen. Tim Scott an “oreo with no real principles.” O’Connor, who is white, made the comment in a Facebook post after the GOP senator’s rebuttal to President Biden’s address to Congress last week.  He later apologized for using the “racist term” against the black South Carolina Republican. “It was insensitive and I have embarrassed myself and my party by its ...

5 May 2021 Texas Republican Chairman Allen West will mail a “package of Oreos” to the Texas Democrat Party after the Lamar County Democrat Party’s refusal to accept Gary O’Connor’s resignation for his use of a racist slur. “Well, some Texas Democrat County chairman from Lamar County Gary O’Connor referred to Sen. Tim Scott as an Oreo,” West stated in a tweeted video. West explained that, until O’Connor resigns, “I’m going to stand up and speak out against the party of systemic racism” by “mailing” the Democrat Party “a nice little package of Oreos.” West cont...