Earlier this week conservative Congressman Steve King endorsed Vivek Ramaswamy for President of the United States. Ramaswamy earned King’s endorsement mostly by speaking out against the use of eminent domain for the carbon capture pipeline projects as well as the wisdom — or lack thereof — of the climate change agenda, which he calls a hoax.
After King endorsed Ramaswamy, the media asked someone who isn’t white about his thoughts on white supremacy which the media wants everyone to believe Steve King is — a “white supremacist.”
It didn’t go great for the reporter.
“I’m not going to recite some catechism for you. I’m against vicious racial discrimination in this country. So, I’m not pledging allegiance to your new religion of modern wokeism, which absolutely fits the test. I’m not going to bend the knee to your religion. I’m sorry. I’m not asking you to bend the knee to mine, and I’m not going to bend the knee to yours. But do I condemn vicious, racial discrimination? Yes, I do. Am I going to play your silly game of gotcha? No, I’m not. And frankly, this is why people have lost trust — and I know you’re going to go print the headline tomorrow, I already know this, we already know how your game works, Vivek Ramaswamy refuses to condemn white supremacy because you asked a stupid question. The reality is I condemn vicious racial discrimination in this country but the kind of vicious and systematic racial discrimination we see today is discrimination on the basis of race in a very different direction. You want to know what the best way is to end discrimination on the basis of race? Stop discriminating on the basis of race. Do that and we’re going to move this country forward. And I don’t care whether you’re black or white or brown or anything in between, that’s how we’re going to unite this country. You people have been responsible for dividing this country to a breaking point. Creating a projection of national division. I meet people from the south side of Chicago to meetings like this one of every shade of melanin, multiple, from man to woman, it doesn’t make a difference who are hungry for reviving unity in this country and you with your catechism that you try to get politicians to whatever fake headline you’re going to print basis on this conversation tomorrow, that’s what’s dividing this country to a breaking point. Shame on you. Look people in the eye and tell them what you’ve actually failed to tell them for the last five years. Own the accountability for your own failures as the media, that’s how we rebuild trust in this country. And until then I don’t have a lot of patience to play the games.”
WAPO reporter doubles down: You didn’t say that you condemn white supremacy though.
She immediately regrets it.@VivekGRamaswamy isn’t going to play the game. pic.twitter.com/2NHshriVZa
— Chris Carapezza (@Chris_Carapezza) January 3, 2024
Ramaswamy was also asked about Congressman King’s alleged racist remarks. And that didn’t go well either for the reporter. He interrupted the reporter asking who attributes the quote to King. When the reporter admitted it is The New York Times, Ramaswamy started rolling.
“Yeah, according to The New York Times, which he has challenged the existence of whether he actually ever said that to The New York Times. They have not produced one recording of it and if anybody has provided one other eyewitness account that verifies whatever it is, I’m just not one of these people that treats The New York Times as the Bible, I’m sorry, it’s not. They’ve lied to us for years about everything from the pandemic that shut down this country for the last several years to each of the last two presidential elections from tech-suppressed information in the last one to what happened with the federal police state that tried to infiltrate Donald Trump’s campaign in 2016 and stopped him from governing. So you can go all the way back to the Iraq War to the truth about what happened to the basis for the bailouts — you can go back as far as you want to the front pages of The New York Times to tell you enough to be skeptical of what you read. I’ve gotten to know a man, and if what Steve King tells me versus what the front page of The New York Times tells me about what he actually said, I’ll take Steve King’s word over what some fake reporter has said without an iota of proof attached to it.”
Reporter asks Vivek to address Steve King’s alleged racist remarks.
Vivek was not having it and said the New York Times is not the Bible.
🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/K2U3vvWNjt
— Aero (@AeroStudioMan) January 3, 2024
