Paraphrasing his new story: Oh yeah, I’ve done the blackface thing before, just not that particular time because I would goldurrned remember standing next to a guy dressed up as a kkk dude, and I don’t, so there.
What was it in my comment that you quoted that was an “unsupported” and “incorrect” “falsehood”? :dubious:
Democrats: “Yeah, I know we made the Grand Cyclops of the KKK our Senate leader, but that just doesn’t seem racist enough”
Northam: “Hold my beer”
As to how this came out now, my guess is that someone said to a friend, “Hey, I went to school with the Governor. Here, let me show you my yearbook… wait, what the hell!?”. This person, whoever it was, never noticed the picture before because usually, when you get your yearbook, you check all of the pages that have you on them, you maybe check the pages for your friends, and then you flip through a few other pages at random and put it on a shelf to gather dust. Some other folks might have noticed the picture before, but, well, we already know that there’s at least one other person in his circle of friends who’s cool with this sort of costuming. In other words, it wasn’t any particular reason for it coming out now; it just happened to be now.
But as for that… The one page in the yearbook that everyone does turn to is their own. In the schools I’ve been at, they even give all of the buyers a little slip of paper saying what pages they’re on. If that’s not him in the picture, why didn’t he raise holy Hell as soon as he saw it?
Nothing in your comment was a falsehood. Simply that I took it that you implied that republicans would mischaracterize his position with falsehoods.
They seem to think that he supports killing babies after birth, and that he supports a bill that would allow late term abortion on demand, and will push that lie. I am just of the opinion that democrats are not stupid enough to fall for it.
I have no idea, but how popular are college year books? I have friends who went to and graduated college, and none of them have a yearbook. Maybe med school is different, and the students are more interested in them.
Complete speculation, but I would not be surprised if he has never owned or even opened a copy of his 1985 medical college year book.
Except that IS what Northam said. His quote was:
“If a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”
This was in the context of partial birth abortion. What did you think they were going to talk about, whether the Nats should re-sign Harper?
I believe he has said exactly that.
And as hajario commented a few pages back, most of us wouldn’t assume that there even is such a thing as a “medical school yearbook.” So the fact that neither Democrats nor opposition-researching Republicans looked for one, may be less surprising than initial reactions would indicate.
Good point. I think of yearbooks as mainly a high school thing.
I’m not sure which is more offputting - the thinly veiled racism or the misogyny. Both are not appropriate here. While the recent story about Harris and Brown is in the news and discussion may or not be appropriate - insinuating she slept her way to the top and the whore comment are not without actual evidence. Knock it off.
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I’m guessing they’re more popular at a small, perhaps residential college where everybody knows everybody else, than at a large university or a commuter college.
Yeah, we may have had a yearbook in college, but I sure don’t remember it. I know I had my photo taken for my college ID when I was a freshman and I think I had to get a new one for my junior year, but we certainly didn’t have the annual photo sessions like we did in high school.
Perhaps a medical school is different as you’re more likely to know most of your classmates as opposed to a large undergraduate university. But, even still, I can t imagine having much of an interest in yearbooks at 25.
Fun fact: my senior year high school yearbook has only a few signatures since they were delayed and we didn’t get them until after graduation. We had a post graduation yearbook signing party, but most people had already gone their separate ways.
How does that allow for the killing of said infant?
I already declared Byrd to be out of bounds.
Warning issued. Be better.
Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, and Rep. Bobby Scott, have made a joint statement saying Northam needs to resign.
Earlier in the day, I noticed statements to that effect from Biden, Pelosi, and Bernie Sanders.
It’s getting to the point where the list of major VA and US Dem politicians who haven’t said Northam should resign is shorter than the list of those that have.
Then they’re incompetent. They shouldn’t assume anything, but actually do, you know, research!
I may be biased by the fact that I have yearbooks for all three years I was in law school. I’m not surprised that there were med school yearbooks.
My college had a yearbook. And while it might not occur to us to look for them, well, we’re not professional opposition researchers.
Editor, advisor, whatever - obviously a nutcase here. :dubious:
They’re too busy shredding their own copies, having looked at their own pages from 30+ years ago, and recoiledv in horror, saying “What was I thinking?!?”
Agreed.
I do understand that people generally don’t look at their yearbooks much after they initially get them, BUT even if he didn’t have one, SOMEONE would have had to let their kids, for instance, look at it, and the kids would say something like, “Is that the same man who’s the governor?”