Subject: [big campaign] Does Pence Think Many Americans Think The President Hates White People?
From: "Adam Jentleson (CAPAF)" <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]'" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:43:58 -0400
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If  Rep. Pence truly believes that Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh speak for many Americans, then he must think that many Americans believe the President of the United States has a "deep-seated hatred for white people,"<http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907280008> that Katrina survivors are "scumbags,"<http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200509090003> that they have "started hating the families of 9-11 victims,"<http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200509090003> that they think it is acceptable to call a rival's wife and mock her, on-air, for having had a miscarriage<http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/22/glenn_beck_two/print.html>, and that many Americans "hope Obama fails."<http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/20/limbaugh-obama-fail/>

Mike Pence: Limbaugh, Beck speak for many Americans

The chairman of the House Republican Conference says it's "hogwash" that GOP leaders are worried about what Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and the Tea Party movement are doing to their party's image.

In a story headlined "Conservatives Roar; Republicans Tremble<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28589.html>," POLICO reported Thursday that "many top Republicans are growing worried that the party's chances for reversing its electoral routs of 2006 and 2008 are being wounded by the flamboyant rhetoric and angry tone of conservative activists and media personalities."

But House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-Ind.) says it's not so.

"You know, the American people cherish their freedom of speech and a free and independent press. That's why I found this morning's headlines so troubling," Pence said Thursday. "Goaded on by a White House increasingly intolerant of criticism, lately the national media has taken aim at conservative commentators in radio and television. Suggesting that they only speak for a small group of activists and even suggesting in one report today that Republicans in Washington are 'worried about their electoral effect.'

"Well, that's hogwash.

"To suggest that men and women that are taking a stand for fiscal discipline and traditional values in the national debate today only speak for 'grassroots activists' is absurd. As evidenced by the hundreds of thousands that filled town hall meetings this summer and the nearly a million Americans who gathered here in Washington in September. Millions of Americans, Republicans, Democrats and Independents are worried about liberal social policies and runaway federal spending, deficit and debt.

"So to my friends in the so-called 'mainstream media' I say, 'conservative talk show hosts may not speak for everybody but they speak for more Americans than you do.'"

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28608.html

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