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NBC’s David Gregory Apologizes for Veiled KKK Remark About Herman Cain Allegations

David Gregorys KKK Remark About Herman Cain: No Grand Wizard Who Can Force Him Out“Meet the Press” host David Gregory has apologized after using the term “Grand Wizard” when discussing the fallout from accusations of sexual harassment against GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain.

“Grand Wizard” is a title once given to the leader of the Ku Klux Klan.

Gregory made the remark Wednesday on NBC’s “Today” after anchor Ann Curry asked him whether some in the Republican Party wish Cain would just “go away” in the wake of the accusations.

“Well there is no, you know, Grand Wizard in the party right now who can really force the issue. I’ve talked to Cain’s advisers in Iowa, they think their support is still strong there, that it’s not falling,” Gregory said.

He subsequently posted an apology on Twitter, saying: “‘Wizard’ remark this morning was a very poor choice of words. Did not mean to make that connection at all. Was not thinking. I apologize.”

You can watch the initial comment below, via NBC:

(h/t: Newsbusters)

Comments (216)

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  • panz
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:04pm

    Apology not accepted. Fire the creep. He’s a loser.

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    • Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:11pm

      You people calling for him to lose his job are morons. All the grand wizards are in the tea party.

      Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American  
    • @leftfighter
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:19pm

      No, no, no!

      Often, the truth comes out while the speaker is speaking and not thinking.

      You don’t call for the firing of idiots that out the Left as racists. You let them keep talking and continue outing themselves as the real ugly, racist Americans.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:23pm

      BQSFCA,
      Name one
      http://realdemocrathistory.wordpress.com/category/kkk/

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    • cessna152
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:24pm

      Honestly, freedom of speech is no more. This dope is wrong for what he said but it is only a hateful opinion…yet it is only an opinion.

      The only reason I want to get this dope fired is because the left created this PC-ism and we get fired for speaking the truth and they get a promotion.

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  • RightUnite
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:04pm

    Sorry… Not good enough… He needs to LOSE HIS JOB!!

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:44pm

      The KKK movement has no central leadership, but is composed of a loose affiliation of national and local groups that determine their own platforms and agendas. The KKK has been cited as an example of grassroots political activity. The KKK loudly criticizes republicans as well as democrats who do not share in its basic tenets.

      TEA

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    • CHRIS260
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:47pm

      I hope this is a joke. Again- who cares- distration journalism. He misspoke move on.

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    • JRook
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:55pm

      What ever higher ground GB and his staff thinks they stand on, is belied by the constant attacks on other journalists and individuals like Warren Buffet. In this case an individual, like Warren Buffet, that none of them can hold a candle to in terms of journalistic skills and professionalism. Your whole report is based on an assumption that the KKK was his context. As they say people hear what they want to hear, or if they’re intent is to slander create a false intent.

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    • robert
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:55pm

      “‘Wizard’ remark this morning was a very poor choice of words. Did not mean to make that connection at all. Was not thinking. I apologize”

      He didn’t mean to say it? Yeah, sure. What a coward. Of course he meant to say it. This man is a brainwashed, programmed robot that holds on to his job by adapting a far left agenda that is shamefully present everytime he opens his screwy mouth, because HE KNOWS this is EXACTLY what his plantation owners want to hear.

      They pull the strings and these radicals like him vomit politically correct discourse on a volume basis.

      The greatest danger to themselves is that their perverted agenda finally succeeds.

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    • jasmer
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 1:00pm

      Hey, come on, it’s not like he called anyone “nappy-headed”… or “macaca”. He was just making a completely unbiased comparison of the GOP with the KKK that any reasoned, sensible individual of the New Left would consider.

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    • motonutt
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 1:16pm

      As much as I don’t like Gregory, I don’t think he ment anything to do with the KKK. Though the differance between conservatives and liberals is that if it was a conservative comentator the libs would be calling for his removal even if he didn’t mean it.

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    • theaveng
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 1:23pm

      NO NEED TO ACT LIKE A DEMOCRAT. They take misspoken things and twist them to call Republicans racist. Let’sd not be like that. It’s obvious to everyone that David Greogry is not a racist, and he simply picked some words at random w/o realizing what they meant (until the complaints started flowing in).

      It’s like that one time I told a black woman that she needs to pay for giftwrap at JCPenney. She immediately accused me of being racist. Apparently she thought my comment was offensive against blacks, but of course it was not meant to be. Don‘t twist people’s words.

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    • 000degrees
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 1:37pm

      More to the point, our president has skillfully guided our country to this point in history. What a resume………

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 2:33pm

      LOL…GARBAGE MR GREGORY…when the left sees a black person it’s ALWAYS through a racial/underclass filter.

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 2:39pm

      David Gregory is Jewish
      SURELY HE KNOWS how RACIST he sounded

      What a LOSER
      Dave?
      QUIT YOUR DAY JOB

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    • Flag Raiser
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 2:43pm

      If it was one of the few conservatives, his/her butt would be out the door. The Liberal Double-Standard is alive and well.

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    • HKS
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 2:43pm

      Racist to the bone.

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    • CatB
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 2:53pm

      If a conservative said anything close to this . they would be gone .. Remember who the KKK were .. Southern Democrats!

      TEA!

      Cain 2012

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 3:09pm

      http://realdemocrathistory.wordpress.com/category/kkk/
      The grand wizard aren’t in the GOP but they are attacking Herman from the other side of the isle.

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    • Lotus4115
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 3:30pm

      You got it!!!.

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    • pamela kay
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 4:07pm

      This is what they do. They make a statement that is meant to destroy a conservative then they act like they did so innocently and apologize. The damage is already done. They know full well what they are doing. They could care less if these women who are accusing Cain of sexual harrassment have proof of their alligations or not. In fact they know all to well that they can’t. This is how they operate.

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    • weneedrubio
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 4:30pm

      Your right if it were a republican he would already be fired. The real racists march on!! I find myself wishing that they could cover their pride in being racists somewhat, they should all be dealt with.

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 5:37pm

      whoa!!! He said it like nothing, didn’t even bat an eye… If you want proof that the left are the REAL racist here it is…

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    • CultureWarriors
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 5:52pm

      David, were you referring to the KKK that Democrats started? Why would you use that reference with a Republican? Oh, never mind, I forgot you’re a moron. And anyone who watches this idiot is a moron. Don’t be a moron, turn off NBC.

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    • TRUTHandFREEDOM
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 6:02pm

      Shouldn’t we check in with Al Sharpton and Don Imus on this one?

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    • Republic_of_Texas
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 6:36pm

      “Grand Wizard” is such a common title I could see how he wasn’t implying a connection. Well… maybe if you are a member of the KKK. Seriously? Where have you ever heard it used where it didn’t mean the infamous leader of the KKK.

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    • YepImaConservative
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 9:15pm

      >MONICE. That would be the The Ron Paul supporting KKK contingent. The KKK generally favors Ron Paul if they favor anyone for President. He, by their admission… “speaks to them.” They are a fringe element, like Stormfront.org White-Supremacists who IMO see Ron Paul as their “Grand Wizard.” He may be a reluctant Wizard, and not at all for their cause… but they like him and I wonder why?

      Getting to your statement… they dislike both parties and vote for the Libertarian only, but have glommed onto our for their usery purposes…

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    • SHOWMESTATEGUY
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 9:36pm

      @RIGHTUNITE—-

      He should lose his job. But he’s a dem lib mouth piece and nothing short of murder phases them.

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    • Dstarr55
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 10:12pm

      I have to agree with Republic of Texas who makes a great point. Where have you ever heard of the title Grand Wizard except in reference to the KKK. David Gregory can’t be that stupid – you just don’t pull this out of thin air. I submit it was intended to imply what the left always implies – that Republicans are racists. It also fits into the theme of NBC and MSNBC – that the right is only embracing Herman Cain to prove they aren’t racist. Some of the most hateful, racist things said about Cain come from MSNBC and Gregory fits in quite well with his ‘slip’ of the tongue.

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    • Welcome Black Carter
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 10:29pm

      I know I use the term “Grand Wizard” most every day…it can be used in so many situations.
      Sure, he just misspoke.

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    • HYPNOTOAD
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:47pm

      From out of the heart the mouth speaks. Like hell it was a mistake. It is in his lexicon and vocabulary.

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    • PHINEAS T. BLUSTER
      Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:36am

      Thank goodnes He’s a lib….He’ll get a free pass. Nothing to see here, move along, move along. Thank you. No pushing and shoving please!

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  • Quiata
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:03pm

    “…poor choice of words”. Yeah, David Gregory, the fact that your mind even WENT there speaks volumes about your actual opinions. You’re a bigot and a fraud; a perfect fit for NBC.

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  • junior1971
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:01pm

    The grand wizard and most of the clan voted dem. The pubs freed the slaves. Oh, the irony!

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  • Dirty Harry
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:01pm

    David Gregory’s apology means nothing to me either way. I couldn’t possibly think less of him than I already do, and this is based on what he’s said for years. The idiocy he uttered yesteday makes no difference.

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  • I.Gaspar
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:58am

    David Gregory would be better suited serving chicken at a KFC. (and I apologize for having offended any KFC workers)

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    • cemerius
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:59am

      he would be distressed when people asked for “white meat only” and start calling them Wizards! :)

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 1:46pm

      Cemerius

      Now that is funny….lol

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  • SamIamTwo
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:56am

    Wanna guess what word he would have used instead? sigh…so predicable…and that is not an apology if you ask me, which you didn’t…poor choice of words indeed…from the liberal heart, mind and soul, to the tongue.

    You fill yourself with such nonsense it eventually comes back out of your mouth…you should fill yourself with the Spirit of God and you would have never said such a thing. JIMHO

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    • RichNGadsden
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:11pm

      You think he meant the “Mighty Pavaz?” See if some of you can remember back when SNL was actually funny and featured their very own Muppets.

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  • cntrlfrk
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:55am

    ‘
    So, he makes a statement on national television, but only apologizes to the 3 or 4 that follow him on Twitter.

    Another slip of truth from the party of the KKK.

    .

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    • Mtroom
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:58pm

      What?….You might wanna look up the history of the KKK and find out the party that started the whole KKK thing in the first place…It really might surprise you…

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    • sarnold51
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 1:42pm

      @MTROOM

      I may have misunderstood you and if so I apologize, if not here are some facts on the KKK!!!

      The historian Elaine Frantz Parsons describes the membership:

      Lifting the Klan mask revealed a chaotic multitude of antiblack vigilante groups, disgruntled poor white farmers, wartime guerrilla bands, displaced Democratic politicians, illegal whiskey distillers, coercive moral reformers, sadists, rapists, white workmen fearful of black competition, employers trying to enforce labor discipline, common thieves, neighbors with decades-old grudges, and even a few freedmen and white Republicans who allied with Democratic whites or had criminal agendas of their own. Indeed, all they had in common, besides being overwhelmingly white, southern, and Democratic, was that they called themselves, or were called, Klansmen.

      Historian Eric Foner observed:

      In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired restoration of white supremacy. Its purposes were political, but political in the broadest sense, for it sought to affect power relations, both public and private, throughout Southern society. It aimed to reverse the interlocking changes sweeping over the South during Reconstruction: to destroy the Republican party’s infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction state, reestablish control of the black labor force, and restore racial subordination in every aspect of Southern life.

      To

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    • Mtroom
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 2:15pm

      Nope, you where on it…I miss read the comment above is all…That’s what I was leading to, thank you for posting that…I have copied it for future reference.

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  • FEMALL
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:54am

    “…the things I could be thinkin’ if I only had a brain!!” Off to see the Wizard…

    O=Additional Bethlehem Tax. O come all ye taxpayers.

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  • An AmericanMom
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:54am

    I wish David Gregory would just go away!

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  • momrules
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:53am

    They keep forgetting that there are watchdogs for the right now. They think they still live in the pre- internet, pre- cable news world and they can say anything and get by with it. These people still don’t understand that we are on to them and they will never be able to fool thinking people again.

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  • beebacksoon
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:52am

    Why would Cain “just go away” when he is supposed to be innocent until PROVEN guilty, Ann?
    And, David has become arrogant and unbearable to listen to, so I don’t anymore.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:52am

    .
    I think that was a Hate Crime, or at the least a Terroristic Threat. Let your kid say something like that in school, and see what happens to you and your kid…………..

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  • RichNGadsden
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:50am

    David Gregory is one smarmy sack of dung. He just thinks that he is as suave and slick as he wishes. Just another smart ass like Shepard Smith. Except Smith’s voice is like listening to fingernails on a chalkboard.

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  • searching for the Truth
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:50am

    Optional 15% flat tax sounds nice.

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  • Lloyd Drako
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:48am

    Why apologize? Cain himself has suggested he is a victim of yet another “high-tech lynching” of a conservative black man. Who does lynching better than the KKK?

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    • paperpushermj
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:54am

      Lloyd the answer is the Mainstream Press of course.

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    • Jimbo49
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:57pm

      The question concerned what “the republicans” wanted. He obviously linked the republicans in charge to the Grand Wizard of the KKK. A very minimal study of history, would reveal that the KKK, were Democrats, not Republicans. Some might go so far, to say, the terrorist wing of the democratic party, especially in the pre-union days.

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  • docsmooth
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:47am

    I dont know he bothered to apologize, they usually arent held accountable anyway, the only people who complain are conservatives, and our opinion doesnt matter

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  • another pucker
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:47am

    I should be shocked! Racist! Racist are the ones who bring up racial comments all the time! David Gregory is a hack! Off topic but I have a good question? Why do Libs. always say something is so “Mcarthy-esq”? When there really were infiltrators in the government! I guess the next time they say actions against Libs. by Conservatives are “Mcarthy-esq” we should take it that the Conservatives are on the right track!

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  • Harry Assenback
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:46am

    David Gregory<—————In charge of Obama's bathwater.

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:57am

      Let’s throw the baby out with the bathwater in 2012!

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  • Depressed_American
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:46am

    You know before you associate the KKK with the Republican Party, you better check the history of the Democratic Party!!! Compare the past of both parties, and then justify staying a Democrat!!! The Democrats have done more harm to Civil Rights than any party in our American History!!!–Look Up their history!!!

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    • cemerius
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:58am

      You are correct but I had a discussion with a “lib” the other day and they said “all those people defected the Dem party in the 70′s and went to the Rep party” ha ha ha….they were of course SADLY wrong!!!!

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:07pm

      I agree that the racism of the KKK should not be associated with politics, just persons The KKK was a grass roots movement, not a party. It had no national leadership, just local supporters with common national goals.

      TEA

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:17pm

      Ceremius,
      You should have pointed on the dead of the late grand pubbah(whatever) Democratic Senator Byrd. The last known klans member in the Senate.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:36pm

      Democrats founded the original KKK.

      But it was only under a Democratic administration, LBJ’s, that the Feds finally got serious about infiltrating and suppressing its latter-day avatars of the civil-rights era.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 1:06pm

      Monicne:

      It all depends on which KKK you mean.

      The original KKK was indeed founded as a grassroots movement, but was quickly taken in hand by “redemptionist” Democrats who wanted to crush the nascent Republican Party in the South (read: “carpetbaggers, scalawags and uppity colored”). By the mid-1870s, with southern states safely in the hands of Democrats again, it had served its purpose and disappeared. Lynching and other Southern horrors continued, but not the KKK as such.

      The resurrected KKK of the 1920s was in fact a national organization with a national leadership headquartered in Atlanta. It hated Jews, Catholics, bootleggers, pimps and labor organizers as much as colored people, but, curiously, despite its wider scope, it was overall less violent than the earlier Klan. It was also bipartisan! Not only Democrats but Republicans pandered to it, where they thought it would help them electorally, as in Oregon and Indiana.

      Post-WWII Klans (plural) arose mostly in the South in response to increasing ferment over civil rights. Initially they were mostly Democrats, such as the right’s favorite whipping-boy Robert Byrd, but with less emphasis on politics than on sheer terrorism, in which they resembled the Reconstruction Klan more than the 1920s one. Since the 1960s, it’s a good bet that most of their members, if they vote at all, have voted GOP, since it was the Democrats who unleashed the black vote and then corralled most of it.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 3:06pm

      encinom wrote
      I agree that the racism of the KKK should not be associated with politics, just persons The KKK was a grass roots movement, not a party. It had no national leadership, just local supporters with common national goals.
      Off course you don’t want to associated the KKK with a party because the only party associated with it is YOURS.
      http://realdemocrathistory.wordpress.com/category/kkk/

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  • ONEOFMILLIONS
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:45am

    When will the media realize that they are galvinizing the Right to be more proactive than ever. Perhaps after his apology the comment from NBA should be, “David, you’re fired”.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:45am

    Sue… for Slander!

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  • Stoic one
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:42am

    More and more true colors are showing

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  • hauschild
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:42am

    Freudian slip by a worthless journalist.

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  • mrsmileyface
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:41am

    Mr Gregory However there is such a “Grand Wizzard” that pulls the strings at NBC. And his name is Barack Obama. Good job in doing the masters bidding.

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