{"id":2241027,"date":"2024-05-09T14:58:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T18:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-flips-out-over-gop-rep-scott-perry-highlighting-democrats-kkk-history\/"},"modified":"2024-05-09T14:59:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T18:59:40","slug":"cnn-flips-out-over-gop-rep-scott-perry-highlighting-democrats-kkk-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-flips-out-over-gop-rep-scott-perry-highlighting-democrats-kkk-history\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN is outraged by GOP Rep. Scott Perry&#8217;s mention of Democrats&#8217; KKK history"},"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%2Fcnn-flips-out-over-gop-rep-scott-perry-highlighting-democrats-kkk-history%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=2241027&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>CNN recently\u2062 sparked\u200d controversy by using \u200ba\u200c secret recording to paint a negative image of GOP \u2063Rep. Scott Perry\u2062 as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadian-left-accuses-justin-trudeau-of-leaving-leadership-void-after-vanishing-to-undisclosed-location\/\" title=\"Canadian Left Accuses Justin Trudeau of Leaving 'Leadership Void' After Vanishing to 'Undisclosed Location'\">racist conspiracy theorist<\/a>.\u200d The network cited quotes from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-gov-cuomo-shunned-experts-embraced-lobbyists-drove-top-health-officials-to-quit-over-pandemic-response-report\/\" title=\"NY Gov. Cuomo Shunned Experts, Embraced Lobbyists, Drove Top Health Officials To Quit Over Pandemic Response: Report\">closed-door meeting<\/a> where Perry referenced the Ku Klux \u200dKlan&#8217;s historical ties to the Democratic\u200b Party. This portrayal\u2062 led to critical coverage \u200cfrom various \u2063media\u200c outlets. CNN sparked controversy \u200cby\u200c using a secret recording to portray GOP Rep. Scott Perry negatively\u200b as a racist conspiracy theorist. Quoting a closed-door meeting where Perry mentioned \u200bthe Ku Klux Klan&#8217;s link to \u2063the Democratic Party stirred critical\u200d coverage from\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-once-praised-by-media-for-covid-response-tears-sick-children-from-parents\/\" title=\"China, Once Praised by Media for COVID Response, Tears Sick Children From Parents\">multiple media sources<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>This week CNN published information from what it says is a secret recording to frame Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry as \u2014 what else? \u2014 a racist conspiracy theorist. On Wednesday, the network <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/05\/08\/politics\/scott-perry-closed-door-comments\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published<\/a> quotes from what it says was an audio recording of a <a href=\"https:\/\/matthewfoldi.substack.com\/p\/oversight-committee-democrats-under\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">closed-door meeting<\/a> on antisemitism wherein Perry notes the Ku Klux Klan was \u201cthe military wing of the Democratic Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe KKK in modern times, a lot of young people think somehow it\u2019s a right-wing organization when it is the military wing of the Democratic Party. Decidedly, unabashedly, racist and antisemitic,\u201d Perry said. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-758085491\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-f236e075a8937a5014a148781aa35af4 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-f236e075a8937a5014a148781aa35af4\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe KKK is not affiliated in any way with the modern Democratic Party,\u201d CNN added in its \u201cnews\u201d article. Perhaps CNN was so eager to absolve the Democrat Party of any relationship to the KKK, which was founded by Democrats, that the network refused to even consider the legitimacy of Perry\u2019s comments. <\/p>\n<p>The hit, based on a supposedly off-the-record meeting between staff and lawmakers, generated hostile coverage against the Republican lawmaker from the <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/181413\/scott-perry-kkk-democratic-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New Republic<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/gop-rep-goes-on-bonkers-kkk-rant-in-closed-door-meeting-report\">Daily Beast<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/politics\/pennsylvania\/scott-perry-kkk-great-replacement-theory-20240508.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Philadelphia Inquirer.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>If the racist agitators from the 2017 Charlottesville protests had set up antisemitic encampments on college campuses across the country after months of preparations paid for by <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/07\/politico-surprised-biden-donors-are-funding-pro-hamas-revolutionaries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dark money<\/a> groups on the far right, the corporate press would be publishing an avalanche of screeds indicting the Republican Party as an infiltrated vehicle of the KKK. While the media will often point to former Klan leader David Duke\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/politics\/2016\/11\/04\/kkk-2016-election-donald-trump-david-duke-griffin-dnt-ac360.cnn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">support <\/a>for Donald Trump as evidence of supposed GOP racism, Richard Spencer, who organized the Charlottesville race riots, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefdrlst.wpengine.com\/2020\/08\/24\/white-supremacist-who-organized-charlottesville-race-riots-endorses-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">endorsed <\/a>President Joe Biden in 2020. <\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Party includes an increasing number of supporters of antisemitism, which the Klan also promoted more than 150 years ago. The antisemitic <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/11\/02\/pro-palestine-protests-are-rampantly-antisemitic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">protests <\/a>that broke out after the Oct. 7 Israeli massacre by Palestinian terrorists have featured swastika symbols, which the KKK also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/resources\/hate-symbol\/burning-neo-nazi-symbols\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">embraced<\/a>. The pro-Palestinian demonstrators are acting like the KKK while using some of the same symbols to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/jewish-students-us-describe-rampant-campus-antisemitism-house-hearing-wasteland-hatred\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">terrorize <\/a>Jewish students and shut down college campuses. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-36fee615cd991ee083bd2232b88faf43 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-36fee615cd991ee083bd2232b88faf43\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <span class=\"PHz10IB61ZjuvAA9luDXUahF8sOQJWlkSqrW4OS9kVpM6aoJ0YTHZQCfcxGbEdyizErnVv5w4mULewIY\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pro-Hamas supporter flashed an image of a Swastika to Jews in Times Square. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UkYWC3JJxL\">pic.twitter.com\/UkYWC3JJxL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1711148502926127162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In 2020, USA Today (an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/formedia\/mjp\/programs\/third-party-fact-checking\/partner-map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">official Facebook fact-checker<\/a>), sought to absolve the Democratic Party of its long history with the KKK in an article titled, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/factcheck\/2020\/06\/30\/fact-check-democratic-party-did-not-found-kkk-start-civil-war\/3253803001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fact check: Democratic Party did not found the KKK, did not start the Civil War<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe KKK was founded by Democrats, but not the party,\u201d USA Today concluded. \u201cWe rate the claim that the Democratic Party started the Civil War to preserve slavery and founded the KKK as FALSE because it is not supported by our research.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jarrett Stepman, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/War-History-Conspiracy-Rewrite-Americas\/dp\/1621578097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America\u2019s Past,<\/a>\u201d found the fact-check amusing. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey came up with all these various caveats \u2013 \u2018Well, you know, it wasn\u2019t all Democrats; it was only most Democrats in the South,&#8217;\u201d Stepman told The Federalist. \u201cI\u2019m thinking, if this was literally any other institution, if this was the name of a street, or if this was a statue, it would have been immediately canceled. It might have even been ripe for being torn down by a mob.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b5c0d3c5661faa7fdf9d5f8b4957738d fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b5c0d3c5661faa7fdf9d5f8b4957738d\"><\/div>\n<p>The House Oversight hearing about Washington D.C.\u2019s response to the current antisemitic demonstrations was canceled Wednesday morning after police cleared a protester encampment at George Washington University. More than 30 people were arrested, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/campus-protests-george-washington-encampment-eac5c1cc396551bee1b110b48a94aefd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according <\/a>to the Associated Press. More than 2,800 demonstrators have been arrested on college campuses nationwide. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d125ac5973cb589333a9aab71a1a13e2 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d125ac5973cb589333a9aab71a1a13e2\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, CNN released details from a purported secret recording to portray Pennsylvania GOP Rep. Scott Perry as a racist conspiracy theorist. 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