{"id":1915744,"date":"2023-04-17T00:56:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T04:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/msnbc-guest-calls-tim-scott-a-racial-pacifier-and-security-blanket-for-republicans\/"},"modified":"2023-04-17T10:10:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T14:10:21","slug":"msnbc-guest-calls-tim-scott-a-racial-pacifier-and-security-blanket-for-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/msnbc-guest-calls-tim-scott-a-racial-pacifier-and-security-blanket-for-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC Guest Calls Tim Scott A \u2018Racial Pacifier\u2019 And \u2018Security Blanket\u2019 For Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fmsnbc-guest-calls-tim-scott-a-racial-pacifier-and-security-blanket-for-republicans%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=1915744&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--><p>MSNBC guest Tara Setmayer launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/uncle-tim-trends-on-twitter-after-tim-scotts-rebuttal-to-bidens-sotu-address\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racially-charged attack<\/a> at Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/tim-scott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Scott<\/a> (R-SC), who is black, claiming that his presidential run would go nowhere and referring to him as a \u201cracial pacifier\u201d and a \u201cracial security blanket.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Setmayer, a senior adviser with the Lincoln Project, joined MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart on his \u201cSaturday Show\u201d \u2014 and she weighed in on the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/video\/sen-tim-scott-speaks-to-nbc-news-after-launching-2024-presidential-exploratory-committee-170310725719\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">soft launch<\/a>\u00a0of Scott\u2019s 2024 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI find Senator Scott fascinating, a black Republican who isn\u2019t too shy in talking about race, but whose views on race can be problematic both within the GOP and in the general public.\u201d Capehart began, asking, \u201cSo, I mean, am I giving him too much credit?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen, Tim Scott, bless his heart, is trying to make a name for himself now, taking advantage of the fact that Republicans every election cycle need a racial pacifier,\u201d Setmayer said. \u201cHe\u2019s their racial security blanket in the race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Setmayer immediately pivoted to former President Donald Trump, claiming that Republicans had failed to \u201cdiversify the tent\u201d and adding, \u201cThey went in the complete opposite direction. But the one constant has been good ole Senator Tim Scott, the lone black Republican in the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She went on to say that she respected Senator Scott\u2019s life story, but not the fact that he had supported Trump and voted to acquit him after the January 6th-related impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat I have no respect for. None whatsoever. I have no respect for someone that cannot take a firm position on where he stands on our democracy. On Donald Trump\u2019s existential threat to it,\u201d Setmayer continued. \u201cI mean, the 1990s called and they want their campaign video back. There\u2019s nothing extraordinary about what Tim Scott is doing. I mean, he\u2019s a big snooze and he has no chance. None whatsoever. Zip, zero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following some backlash over the racially-charged nature of her comments, Setmayer complained about all the \u201chate-filled msgs\u201d that were flooding her inbox and doubled down on her comments, claiming the GOP had been \u201cTRIGGERED.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">My comments on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/weekendcapehart?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@weekendcapehart<\/a> about Sen Tim Scott being a \u201cracial security blanket\u201d for the GOP has TRIGGERED them!<br \/>\nSo many hate filled msgs since this segment \ud83e\udd37\ud83c\udffd\u200d\u2640\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>The truth has a way of doing that.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a clip.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa Full video go here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bRkLrsqkdK\">https:\/\/t.co\/bRkLrsqkdK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LKNBuYAFgF\">pic.twitter.com\/LKNBuYAFgF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tara Setmayer \ud83c\udf3b (@TaraSetmayer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TaraSetmayer\/status\/1647598461930422274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC guest Tara Setmayer launched a racially-charged attack at Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), who is black, claiming that his presidential run would go nowhere and referring to him as a \u201cracial pacifier\u201d and a \u201cracial security blanket.\u201d Setmayer, a senior adviser with the Lincoln Project, joined MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart on his \u201cSaturday Show\u201d \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1915745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"MSNBC Guest Calls Tim Scott A \u2018Racial Pacifier\u2019 And \u2018Security Blanket\u2019 For Republicans","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[23763,3755,14598,3746,24514,5125,3756,8063,3646,8301],"class_list":["post-1915744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-blanket","tag-calls","tag-guest","tag-msnbc","tag-pacifier","tag-racial","tag-republicans","tag-scott","tag-security","tag-tim"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"MSNBC Guest Calls Tim Scott A \u2018Racial Pacifier\u2019 And \u2018Security Blanket\u2019 For Republicans","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915744","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1915745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}