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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1192045" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>Via <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2013/08/29/la-times?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews" target="_blank">Newsbusters</a>:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Memo to the Corrections Department at the Los Angeles Times: The following sentence is utterly unhistorical. “Since <strong>Democrats led the passage of civil rights legislation that marchers pushed for in 1963,</strong> Republicans have struggled to recover with black voters”.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Civil rights legislation of the 1960s was favored more by Republicans than by Democrats, so how did Democrats “lead the passage”? With<a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-march-20130829,0,488441.story" target="_blank"> three reporters contributing to the story</a> – Kathleen Hennessey, Richard Simon, and Alexei Koseff – none of them could locate the actual Sixties voting record as they labored to make the GOP look bad for the Democratic unanimity of the event:</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Republican politicians invited to the event passed on the high-profile platform to promote their vision of the civil rights landscape and their effort to reach out to black voters. House Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio chose to speak at a congressional ceremony last month instead, spokesman Brendan Buck said. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia had previously scheduled events in North Dakota and Ohio, an aide said.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Former presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush could not attend for health reasons, their spokesmen said…</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">The absence of even a gesture of bipartisanship was a reminder of the enduring political legacy of the civil rights battles. </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>Since Democrats led the passage of civil rights legislation that marchers pushed for in 1963, Republicans have struggled to recover with black voters</strong>, leaving a stark racial divide in American politics.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1192045, member: 1246"] Via [URL="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2013/08/29/la-times?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews"]Newsbusters[/URL]: [INDENT]Memo to the Corrections Department at the Los Angeles Times: The following sentence is utterly unhistorical. “Since [B]Democrats led the passage of civil rights legislation that marchers pushed for in 1963,[/B] Republicans have struggled to recover with black voters”. Civil rights legislation of the 1960s was favored more by Republicans than by Democrats, so how did Democrats “lead the passage”? With[URL="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-march-20130829,0,488441.story"] three reporters contributing to the story[/URL] – Kathleen Hennessey, Richard Simon, and Alexei Koseff – none of them could locate the actual Sixties voting record as they labored to make the GOP look bad for the Democratic unanimity of the event: [INDENT]Republican politicians invited to the event passed on the high-profile platform to promote their vision of the civil rights landscape and their effort to reach out to black voters. House Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio chose to speak at a congressional ceremony last month instead, spokesman Brendan Buck said. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia had previously scheduled events in North Dakota and Ohio, an aide said. Former presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush could not attend for health reasons, their spokesmen said… The absence of even a gesture of bipartisanship was a reminder of the enduring political legacy of the civil rights battles. [B]Since Democrats led the passage of civil rights legislation that marchers pushed for in 1963, Republicans have struggled to recover with black voters[/B], leaving a stark racial divide in American politics. [/INDENT][/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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