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Nicolle Wallace pans Tim Scott’s rebuttal: ‘Delivered from a planet where facts don’t matter’

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MSNBC anchors fact-checked Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) after his rebuttal speech following President Joe Biden’s first address to Congress.

“I do think it’s going to be hard for most people who are paying any attention to politics to swallow the Republican support making it easier to vote line and the long passage he had about how Democrats are the ones blocking police reform,” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow noted. “There’s some stuff there that may make sense in a sliver of Republican world, but in the news world, I don’t think will ring.”

“This is a speech delivered from a planet where facts don’t matter, which is where the current Republican Party resides, so it’s not really his fault, but it is his responsibility to get his facts straight,” Wallace said. Continue reading.

GOP Sen. Tim Scott faces Twitter firestorm over gaslighting remarks about the severity of white supremacy

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Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) found himself at the center of controversy with his recent remarks arguing that “woke supremacy is as bad as white supremacy.” For the last two days, he has been slammed on social media and the critical reactions are still coming.

On Tuesday, March 9, the South Carolina lawmaker appeared on Fox News where he responded to MSNBC’s Joy Reid’s remarks suggesting Scott only served as “the patina of diversity” at the Republican Party’s recent press conference. Scott claimed, “Woke supremacy is as bad as white supremacy. We need to take that seriously.”

Scott’s remarks quickly became a point of contention on and off social media. As the reactions poured in, CNN’s Don Lemon fired back at him. The CNN news anchor began his argument with a recollection of the United States’ long, odious history of slavery as he noted how people “can be so ignorant.” Continue reading.

After Charlottesville, Black Republican Gives Trump a History Lesson on Racism

The following article by Yamiche Alcindo and Glenn Thrush was posted on the New York Times website September 13, 2017:

Senator Tim Scott, Republican of South Carolina, spoke with reporters at the Capitol after meeting with President Trump at the White House on Wednesday. Credit J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Tim Scott, the lone black Republican in the Senate, delivered a pointed history lesson on America’s 300-year legacy of racism to President Trump on Wednesday in response to what he called Mr. Trump’s “sterile” response to the riots in Charlottesville, Va., last month.

The president invited Mr. Scott, a conservative from South Carolina who had expressed disgust with Mr. Trump’s equivocal reaction to the white supremacist protests that left one woman dead, to the Oval Office for what Mr. Trump’s staff described as a demonstration of the president’s commitment to “positive race relations.” Both men described the interaction as positive and constructive, but Mr. Scott clearly had a point to make.

When a reporter asked the senator after the meeting if the president had expressed regret, a pained look flashed on Mr. Scott’s face. He paused for a few seconds and replied, “He certainly tried to explain what he was trying to convey.” Continue reading “After Charlottesville, Black Republican Gives Trump a History Lesson on Racism”