{"id":1582929,"date":"2022-08-01T14:19:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T18:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1582929"},"modified":"2022-08-01T14:19:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T18:19:38","slug":"far-left-commentator-slurs-black-republican-senate-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/far-left-commentator-slurs-black-republican-senate-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-Left Commentator Slurs Black Republican Senate Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffar-left-commentator-slurs-black-republican-senate-candidate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1582929&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">&#8216;Nation&#8217; correspondent Elie Mystal says Georgia candidate Herschel Walker is &#8216;what Republicans want from their Negroes&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"main-video-embed\" class=\"flex-video widescreen op-interactive  lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/robert-schmad\/\" title=\"Posts by Robert Schmad\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Robert Schmad<\/a> \u2022 August 1, 2022 2:10 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Far-left political commentator Elie Mystal, a correspondent at\u00a0<em>The\u00a0Nation<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2022\/08\/01\/elie_mystal_republicans_love_dumb_candidates_like_herschel_walker_who_will_do_what_hes_told_lacks_independent_thought.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in an interview Saturday that Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker (Ga.), who is black, is &#8220;what Republicans want from their Negroes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mystal, who is also black,\u00a0said in an MSNBC interview that Walker is &#8220;so clearly unintelligent&#8221; and &#8220;so clearly doesn&#8217;t have independent thoughts&#8221; that, if elected, he will &#8220;do what he&#8217;s told.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s what Republicans like,&#8221; Mystal went on. &#8220;That&#8217;s what Republicans want from their Negroes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Mystal, who has said the Constitution is &#8220;actually trash,&#8221; has attacked Walker on the basis of race. In an April essay published in <em>The Nation<\/em>, Mystal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/politics\/herschel-walker-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> Walker&#8217;s candidacy &#8220;an insult to Black people&#8221; and a &#8220;political minstrel show&#8221; and said the candidate himself is &#8220;an animated caricature of a Black person drawn by white conservatives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mystal is not the first high-profile liberal to take jabs at minorities for going against the Democratic party line. President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/biden-if-you-dont-vote-for-me-you-aint-black\/\">said<\/a>\u00a0on the 2020 campaign trail any African American undecided between voting for him or Donald Trump &#8220;ain&#8217;t black.&#8221; Multiple Democrats\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/clarence-thomas-racism-assault\/\">launched<\/a>\u00a0racist attacks against Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas following his concurrence in <em>Dobbs<\/em> v. <i>Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization<\/i>, which overturned <em>Roe<\/em> v. <em>Wade<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>More black voters say they &#8220;somewhat&#8221; or &#8220;strongly&#8221; disapprove of Biden than say they &#8220;approve strongly,&#8221; a <em>Washington Post<\/em>-Ipsos poll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/06\/04\/biden-black-voters-softer-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> in June.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media &#8216;Nation&#8217; correspondent Elie Mystal says Georgia candidate Herschel Walker is &#8216;what Republicans want from their Negroes&#8217;  Robert Schmad \u2022 August 1, 2022 2:10 pm Far-left<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}