Ex-Trump adviser tells black Fox News guest he's "out of his cottonpicking mind"
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http://thehill.com/homenews/media/393841-ex-trump-adviser-tells-black-fox-news-guest-hes-out-of-his-cotton-picking-mind
President Trump’s former deputy campaign manager, David Bossie, told a black Democratic strategist appearing on “Fox & Friends” on Sunday that he’s out of his "cotton-picking mind.”
Bossie and strategist Joel Payne got into a heated exchange about the rhetoric used in debating immigration and other issues during a discussion moderated by Fox News host Ed
Henry.
The men were discussing former CIA Director Michael Hayden posting a photo of Auschwitz in reference to the Trump administration’s since-ended policy of separating immigrant
families at the border when Bossie made the comment.
Henry said after a commercial break that “Bossie used a phrase that clearly offended Joel Payne and offended many others.” Henry added that he didn’t know what Bossie meant by
the phrase.“But I want to make sure that Fox News and this show, myself, we don’t agree with that particular phrase,” Henry said. “It was obviously offensive and these debates get fiery,
that’s unfortunate. We like to have honest and spirited debates, but not phrases like that, obviously.”
Bossie later apologized for the comment in a tweet, saying he should have "never used the offensive phrase that I did."
Lotta news today
The man who was too racist for Fox News
At least he doesn't seem to be going with the typical "I'm sorry you were offended" bullshit.
man its sort of half funny that Trump and his AntiPC bullshit has made deep seated conservatives forget how to racism properly.
Out of context, an old saying that someone was crazy to commit to a action that defines someones' mentality in a comical fashion.
In context to a guy telling a African American; Pretty freaking offensive for the most part.
I really don't know what to say anymore. People need to start protesting this regime immediately
It's also Fox and Friends, where one of the hosts themselves said some pretty racist shit. There are multiple levels of irony here.
Christ! If you're gonna be this fucking racist, why not just cut the crap and call him a "dumb ni****"?
As if there was no other way he could've expressed that sentiment.
Degenerates gonna degenerate.
Sableye's totally right, though. They aren't even trying to hide it anymore.
There really are no other words. How did he not get pulled ASAP, it felt like the fact he said that almost had no effect on the show at all
The propaganda machine that is Fox News isn't going to stop just because one of their guests says something racist.
What will stop it? Who the hell knows.
I mean I know the show won't stop but remember how when Kanye said "George Bush doesn't care about black people" they almost immediately switched over to Chris Tucker to avoid letting him say more shit? Something like that I was expecting.
I must have grown up secluded, because I've never heard that phrase used in a racist context, but I guess when I think about it, it does have racist origins? I never made a racist connection with the phrase, I just always thought it existed in a vacuum, and was just a phrase.
Crazy to imagine there was once a Kanye with balls.
It was self-promotion just as much as him cuddling with Trump for a week or two.
In both cases a Kanye album dropped a couple weeks after he kicked up nationwide controversy.
It's almost refreshing how predictably capitalistic and shameless it is; it's a memory of the before times.
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