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Rep. Foxx 'hoax’ comment outrageous

The following is a Counterpoint.

By Charles Rodenbaugh

Since she first ran for Congress, I have followed Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., because she represents a district which adjoins my own, a district in which I grew up, North Carolina’s 5th.
My first reaction to her was, “Where did she come from?”

Out of the 5th District, which includes Winston-Salem, could they not do better? Sooner or later, old milk curdles.

Virginia Foxx is old milk and she has finally curdled. So absurd were her comments before Congress on April 29, concerning HR 1913 that they were picked up by the national media and the talking heads as fodder for the extreme right and pure horse manure for the left.

She was heard characterizing the most egregious hate crime in recent memory, the beating and stringing up on a fence to die of University of Wyoming student, Matthew Shepard, in 1998, as a “hoax.”

Rep. Foxx said it in her statement before Congress and, ironically, before Matthew’s mother, who was in the gallery for the deliberation on a new hate crime law which bore her son’s name.
The right of Rep. Foxx to make any claim that she wishes is sacrosanct, but such speech as she exhibited exposes an ignorant, bigoted spokesperson for the very “hate crimes” that the Congress, by a vote of 249 to 175, agreed to appropriately criminalize.

The News & Record headline says, “Foxx Irks gays with comment on killing.”

I’m not gay and I’m outraged.

The writer lives in Greensboro.

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Dan [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

"She was heard characterizing the most egregious hate crime in recent memory..."

Mr. Rodenbaugh, you may want to check with the family of James Byrd Jr., he was stripped nude, chained to the back of a pick up truck and dragged to death over 3 miles with various body parts strewn across different sections of the road. Ironically Mr. Byrd was murdered in the same year as Matthew Shepard.

Two of the Byrd murderers were sentenced to death, the other life in prison. I'm not sure what more justice could be done with special hate crime legislation.

neocon [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

Liberals seem to be easily 'outraged'. Makes me wonder what they would do should a real crisis hit.

Oh yeah, that's right...they side with the enemy and blame it on America.

The hetrophobes are milking this for all it's worth...

hugh [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

Dead horse flogging continues.

ghost from white oak [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

Mr Rodenbaugh you said" The right of Rep. Foxx to make any claim that she wishes is sacrosanct, but such speech as she exhibited exposes an ignorant, bigoted spokesperson for the very “hate crimes” that the Congress, by a vote of 249 to 175, agreed to appropriately criminalize.'

Just because Congress passes a law doesn't make it necessarily correct nor wise.

Howie G [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

"Liberals seem to be easily 'outraged'."

This from the same side that brought us the Whitewater trials, the Terry Schiavo national crisis, and don't forget the "lipstick on a pig" hysteria. My hypocrisy meter is getting a workout these days.

truth [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

I personally think the legislation that was passed was complete hogwash.

All this talk about Foxx is smoke and mirrors to hide the fact that everyone short of white america just got put in a special protected class.

What Foxx said was inconsiderate and hurtful and her position could have been stated in a much better manner.

However, the legislation, in my opinion, does greater long-lasting damage.

Molene Gunch [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

Beware of anyone who says "I'm not gay." Neither do they work at Jiffy Lube, but why say it?

(Not to slam anyone who's gay and works at Jiffy Lube...)

Beachwalker [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

"Rep. Foxx 'hoax’ comment outrageous
The following is a Counterpoint."

The is a "counterpoint" to what?


Beachwalker [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

"Rep. Foxx 'hoax’ comment outrageous
The following is a Counterpoint."

I miss typed. Should read

THIS is a "counterpoint" to what?

Sorry.

Kornbluth [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

I miss the good ol' days when only the right-wingers did the phony outrage thing. Rep Foxx made a stupid statement & took her lumps for it. She'll lose a few votes in the next election as a result, but there's no more to the story. Looks like the left is now trying to drum up some more outrage, presumably to ramp up Foxx's vote loss. If they keep up this drivel, I might start voting Republican again.

Tony Ledford [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

No need to get bent out of shape, folks. Think of Ms. Foxxx as you think of "The Family Guy;" hilarious, but in extremely poor taste.

Bishop [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

truth said:

"I personally think the legislation that was passed was complete hogwash.

All this talk about Foxx is smoke and mirrors to hide the fact that everyone short of white america just got put in a special protected class.

What Foxx said was inconsiderate and hurtful and her position could have been stated in a much better manner.

However, the legislation, in my opinion, does greater long-lasting damage."

AMEN!

verelse [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

Amen, Kornbluth

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