Wyoming RNC Member Who Voted to Censure Cheney and Kinzinger is an Oath Keeper
I’m back from a week away. What did I miss, other than the RNC dubbing as “legitimate political discourse” the Trump-led GOP efforts to steal the 2020 election?
I learned something new yesterday, listening to a Dispatch podcast, in which Steve Hayes made reference to a very interesting news story. It’s a month-old story, but in light of the RNC’s censure of Cheney and Kinzinger, it’s worth re-upping in case you, like me, missed it when it first came out. Namely:
When the Department of Justice indicted members of the Oath Keepers last week for their role in the Jan. 6 insurrection, one Republican official might have taken more notice of the arrests than others.
Frank Eathorne, who was revealed in a leak last year to be one of 191 Wyoming-based members of the far-right militia group, was in Washington for protests on Jan. 6. But Eathorne is no rank-and-file fringe crank. He is the sitting chairman of the Wyoming Republican Party.
That role has made him one of the more influential Republican officials in the country. Eathorne is presiding over what is perhaps the GOP’s highest-profile primary battle of the 2022 election: the MAGA-fueled campaign to unseat Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) for her unrelenting criticism of former President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election.
As a state party chairman, Eathorne is one of the 168 members of the RNC and thus one of the people who actually voted to censure Cheney and Kinzinger . . .
. . . for their role in investigating the January 6 insurrection . . . in which the most serious charges, of seditious conspiracy, have been brought against leaders of the Oath Keepers . . .
. . . which, again, is an organization to which Eathorne belongs.
Anyone else see the problem here?
ADL says there are about 3000 Oathkeepers
SPLC says 10’s of thousands
Oathkeepers say 35,000
Ensemble avg. is 5000
9 were arrested Jan. 6.
The guy upset with Cheney wasn’t arrested for Jan 6 actions.
So right now its guilt by association unless you’ve got more.
steveg (e81d76) — 2/14/2022 @ 9:03 amSteve g:
Here is the original source of the story. It comes from hacked data:
https://wyofile.com/whistleblower-list-names-wyo-gop-chair-others-as-oath-keepers/
Appalled (1a17de) — 2/14/2022 @ 9:07 amThe problem I see is that the Democrats are better at controlling the Communists who infiltrated their ranks than the Republicans are at controlling the Nazis who infiltrated theirs. That’s the problem I see. Dogs and tails whose is wagging which.
nk (1d9030) — 2/14/2022 @ 9:25 amSteveg
Patterico never said that Eathorne was guilty of anything.
PurpleHaze (848fb6) — 2/14/2022 @ 9:25 am*and* whose
nk (1d9030) — 2/14/2022 @ 9:25 amThe number I have is 21, using their search feature. And Eathorne is guilty by association. He’s with an organization that put Trump over country and party, and that’s all-in on Trump’s Big Lie, and whose members engaged in seditious conspiracy.
Paul Montagu (5de684) — 2/14/2022 @ 9:37 amThe problem I see is that the Democrats are better at controlling the Communists who infiltrated their ranks than the Republicans are at controlling the Nazis who infiltrated theirs. That’s the problem I see. Dogs and tails whose is wagging which.
Well, I’d assert that the Democrats care less and less these days, but you do have point about the Nazis.
Kevin M (38e250) — 2/14/2022 @ 10:02 am@6 And Eathorne is guilty by association.
trophy to montagu for taking the argument to its logical and ridiculous conclusion
JF (e1156d) — 2/14/2022 @ 10:04 amSo right now its guilt by association unless you’ve got more.
Would you have a problem with a current Klansman being part of the RNC? Or card-carrying member of the American Nazi Party? Or is there some point to viewing voluntary association as dispositive?
Kevin M (38e250) — 2/14/2022 @ 10:05 amAppalled (1a17de) — 2/14/2022 @ 9:07 am
Speaking of hacked leaks…..
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 2/14/2022 @ 10:17 amNot surprising. This is what the GOP stands for now.
Time123 (9f42ee) — 2/14/2022 @ 10:31 amIn a court of law, no. In a court of public opinion, yes, he’s guilty as sin.
Paul Montagu (5de684) — 2/14/2022 @ 10:45 amThe redhead was a Red?!?!
Lucille Ball was a registered communist.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 2/14/2022 @ 10:45 amWatch the movie fair game if you want to know how “patriotic” the cheneys are. I disagree with jim jordan clinton’s operatives should be given a fair trial not just executed. No blog on durham report here. Interesting as mr. spock says.
asset (06ee9d) — 2/14/2022 @ 11:13 am@9. Those Kiwanis Clubbers are notoriously subversive; and some of those marching Philadelphia Mummers are … thespians! 😉
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 2/14/2022 @ 11:29 amPaul, this isn’t guilt by association. That would be criticizing him because his associate (neighbor, member of his softball team, co-worker) was a member of the oath keepers. This is judging him based on a group he’s chosen to be a part of. Just like we would make reasonable assumptions about a Klansman, member of the communist party, or member of NAMBLA.
Very different concepts.
Time123 (9f42ee) — 2/14/2022 @ 11:30 am@14, so read the pleading, compare it with other available information, and write your take on the subject. Too much work for me ATM but you’re free to to do so.
Time123 (9f42ee) — 2/14/2022 @ 11:31 amOT- U.S. Is Closing Kyiv Embassy
WASHINGTON—The U.S. is closing its embassy in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and relocating operations 340 miles west to Lviv near the Polish border.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-is-closing-kyiv-embassy-relocating-diplomatic-operations-to-western-ukraine-11644864455
Who can lose TWO United States embassies in six months?
Joe Can Do!
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 2/14/2022 @ 11:33 amMy late grandfather was a banker in Western Pennsylvania and as a young man joined the KKK in the 1930s to solicit business contacts for his bank amidst the throes of the Depression. Was he a racist? No. A capitalist? Yes.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 2/14/2022 @ 11:37 amOT- Kevin:
Zelensky says Ukraine has been informed Feb. 16 will be day of attack
https://news.yahoo.com/zelensky-says-ukraine-informed-feb-190318842.html
Again, full moon, 2/16.
Told ‘ya.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 2/14/2022 @ 11:41 am@19 capitalism is an amoral economic system. everything including child porn is permitted. “The capitalists will sell us the rope we use to hang them with!” V. Lenin. People sold food at lynchings.
asset (06ee9d) — 2/14/2022 @ 11:47 am@21. Yeah, ol’dead grandpa was a banker and a bum… who left me a briefcase literally full of Morgan silver dollars.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 2/14/2022 @ 11:54 amZelensky says Ukraine has been informed Feb. 16 will be day of attack
Psy Ops.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 2/14/2022 @ 12:06 pm@23. More like space optics; satellite imagery reveals Russian armor has now been dispersed from the ‘parking clusters’ and deployed along the border for action.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 2/14/2022 @ 12:14 pm#13
Walter Winchell has you beat on that story…
Appalled (1a17de) — 2/14/2022 @ 12:20 pm@25. So did CBS. 😉
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 2/14/2022 @ 12:22 pmMy late grandfather was a banker in Western Pennsylvania and as a young man joined the KKK in the 1930s to solicit business contacts for his bank amidst the throes of the Depression. Was he a racist? No. A capitalist? Yes.
Up until about 1950 or so, most white people in America were racist, as was the world they were brought up in.
Kevin M (38e250) — 2/14/2022 @ 12:28 pmAgain, full moon, 2/16.
That’s so Putin can roam and attack anyone with his teeth and claws, and no one will realize he’s a werewolf.
Kevin M (38e250) — 2/14/2022 @ 12:30 pmKevin M (38e250) — 2/14/2022 @ 12:30 pm
Come to think of it, I’ve never seen them together.
felipe (484255) — 2/14/2022 @ 12:36 pm@28. Remember, Kevin, he found his thrill, on Blueberry Hill:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbkGkr0iceI
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 2/14/2022 @ 12:40 pmBreaking-
Sarah Palin v. New York Times: Judge to dismiss former governor’s libel claim in rare case
A judge on Monday indicated he will dismiss Sarah Palin’s libel case against the New York Times, saying she had not met the legal standard showing that the newspaper acted with “actual malice” in publishing a 2017 editorial that included an inaccurate claim about her.
Judge Jed S. Rakoff told the lawyers involved in the case that he will formally issue his ruling after a jury returns a verdict.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 2/14/2022 @ 12:42 pm#######
@27 Many especially in the south and even a lot in the north. But many like hubert humphrey and even many before him fought against racism. It was an uphill battle ;but the black community knew they had white allies who protected them as best as they could. D.E.B. DuBois walked bare foot to John Browns grave in appreciation and Malcolm X said we don’t cotton much to white people in the movement ;but if john brown was alive today we would make an exception in his case! The john brown gun clubs proudly waving their AK-47’s carry on that tradition by protecting BLM marchers today.
asset (06ee9d) — 2/14/2022 @ 12:42 pm@27. Not Gramps; big champion and advocate for black athletes- especially in baseball when dealing w/t Pirates; very good friends w/Branch Rickey, too [have some great mementos from him- letters, books and such] Roberto Clemente and Willie Stargell, etc. But gramps also liked to tip ‘Redcaps’ and such w/those old Morgan silver dollars. When I discovered he was still doing it in the 1960s, I told him to stop and just use paper money instead.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 2/14/2022 @ 12:49 pm@27. He’d often take my late Dad to Homestead Greys ball games just to watch Satchel Paige play, too– but yes, the segregation thing was very real back in the day.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 2/14/2022 @ 12:52 pmhttps://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/inside-mcconnells-campaign-to-take-back-the-senate-and-thwart-trump/
Sammy Finkelman (46ec7d) — 2/14/2022 @ 1:21 pmA judge on Monday indicated he will dismiss Sarah Palin’s libel case against the New York Times, saying she had not met the legal standard showing that the newspaper acted with “actual malice” in publishing a 2017 editorial that included an inaccurate claim about her.
Considering that this is a test case for the Supremes to take another look as Sullivan, this is hardly unexpected. I wonder if the jurors will hear this though, and whether it will influence their verdict.
Kevin M (38e250) — 2/14/2022 @ 2:18 pmthe black community knew they had white allies who protected them as best as they could.
For the Civil Rights Movement to succeed, it needed to get as many whites as possible on board because until things changed, the whites controlled everything. It didn’t take much to convince blacks they were getting bad deal, it was the whites who had to change their minds.
Which is what Dr King set out to do. He didn’t make all that many inroads among the older whites, but their children listened and, having nothing invested in the status quo, chose change.
Kevin M (38e250) — 2/14/2022 @ 2:26 pmA judge on Monday indicated he will dismiss Sarah Palin’s libel case against the New York Times,
I expected this, but I never thought he would be so classless as to say it after he sent the case to the jury but before they reached a verdict. He’s Jed Rakoff, the same judge who dismissed Palin’s complaint in the first instance, holding a hearing that was also beyond the pale, and was reversed on appeal. He’s been a Senior Judge (semi-retired) since 2011 which is eleven years too many. He’s not fit to be on the bench.
nk (1d9030) — 2/14/2022 @ 5:08 pmThe editor added the (wring) point, the original writer did not catch it, or also vaguely thought it was true, the New York Times corrected it within about 12 hours, and it didn’t hurt Sarah Palin’s reputation, nor did it keep this bit of misinformation going.
Maybe she could ask for a more public confession – actually she got that I guess by filing this lawsuit.
Sammy Finkelman (46ec7d) — 2/14/2022 @ 6:32 pmAre you sure it isn’t Red Jakoff?
felipe (484255) — 2/14/2022 @ 6:57 pmKevin M (38e250) — 2/14/2022 @ 2:26 pm
Now nobody is supposed to like that fact, because it amounts to relying on a “white savior” But no person (usually) can get out of prison on his own.
Sammy Finkelman (46ec7d) — 2/14/2022 @ 7:06 pmA conflict of interest, like a congressional investigation into an event that those doing the investigating had involvement.
Rich (995a5b) — 2/14/2022 @ 7:28 pmActually, Jim Jordan isn’t on the committee. But I do agree with you. He was clearly involved.
Demosthenes (3fd56e) — 2/14/2022 @ 7:56 pmTo be fair, he’s guilty as sin anyway.
An Oath Keeper sitting in judgment on a couple of Oath Keepers. Yeah, I’m sure that was all above board.
Demosthenes (3fd56e) — 2/14/2022 @ 7:59 pmThe initial proposal was an independent commission, not the committee. Da Trumpcakes nixed it. But that’s how they do things. They poop on your doorstep and then complain that you did not hand them the toilet paper.
nk (1d9030) — 2/14/2022 @ 8:14 pmNow nobody is supposed to like that fact, because it amounts to relying on a “white savior”
You could look at it that way, or you could look at what happened — a large number of white folk became convinced that the system was unjust, and were ashamed it was so. It wasn’t white folk who forced this realization, it was black folk (and Dr King in particular) who rubbed their nose in it until they accepted the need to end Jim Crow and open all society to all citizens.
Kevin M (38e250) — 2/15/2022 @ 12:27 amNYTimes says the latest revelations on the Hillary Campaign spying on Trump require too much ‘mental energy’ to process.
Is that why the msm and Never-Trump blogs are ignoring it?
https://twitter.com/mirandadevine/status/1493553761565958148?s=21
Obudman (44ba8e) — 2/15/2022 @ 5:35 am#47 Glenn Kessler has a full analysis of the controversy here.
For example:
Then there is this column, also in the Washington Post, by Philip Bump.
By now, of course, Trump and his supporters are like the little boy who cried wolf. They have said so many false things that many are reluctant to spend any time investigating still another wild claim.
So I give Kessler and Bump credit for doing so, anyway. But I wouldn’t expect either to investigate the next wild claim from Trump, or a Trumpista.
Jim Miller (edcec1) — 2/15/2022 @ 6:07 amDurham is squirting ink in the water. Here’s the deal:
But that was his assignment: Red herrings and confusion. Or is it gazpacho and borscht?
nk (1d9030) — 2/15/2022 @ 6:20 amNo, it unquestionably was while Obama was president. And why would the Clinton campaign be doing anything after the election?
This is typical of the right wing memes – they make a statement that isn’t technically incorrect and cite “proof” that doesn’t prove it, while their commentators amplify it but based on the wrong impression,
The interesting thing is that the correct claim is also interesting. But it’s just not outrageous enough for them.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/tech-exec-used-access-white-house-computers-look-dirt-trump-says-speci-rcna16123
And Trump was oot being spied on – there was an attempt to create a basis for a federal investigation so that the Democrats could leak that Trump was under investigation, as they in fact almost did.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/31/harry-reid-just-made-a-huge-incendiary-evidence-free-claim-about-trump-and-russia
Sammy Finkelman (46ec7d) — 2/15/2022 @ 6:29 amFor gpopd infrrmation on the accusations against Hillary or Biden, read the New York Post. It tilts, but it is careful to limit itself to accurate statements.
Sammy Finkelman (46ec7d) — 2/15/2022 @ 7:03 amWashington Post, October 31, 2016 when Harry Reid wrote a letter complaininga about Comey revealing a resumption of the investigation into Hillary’s emails when emails were discovered to be present on Anthony Weiner’s computer after supposedly she had deleted all email she did not send to the State Department
Sammy Finkelman (46ec7d) — 2/15/2022 @ 7:19 am