is herschel walker stealing his backstory,
literally stealing anecdotes from civil rights legends.
Well we don't know for sure, but there is some evidence and
we're going to dive into it.
So you need to understand that back in 2020 2021 herschel walker has
repeatedly in public appearances and interviews, shared several versions
of a story about an encounter that he supposedly had with a former member of
the ku Klux Klan that seems suspiciously similar to a story that has been told for
many years by late former Georgia representative john Lewis.
So here is what Herschel walker is saying happened on june 2nd 2020.
He was on the Big and rick show, pause for a second that the big and
rick show which sounds like rick strums next project actually.
But anyway, as a guest and told viewers that next clansmen approached him
following a college football game while he was a freshman at the University of
Georgia, walker claimed the former white supremacist said to him her, I was one
of the biggest klansmen here in the state of Georgia but I wanted to tell you,
I'm sorry you changed my way of thinking, bear in mind this is not a claim that he
changed the ku Klux Klan members way of thinking as a candidate.
He's saying this happened back when he was a college football player.
So apparently something about his moves on the field changed the Klan members
thoughts.
Okay, well that was in 2020 the first time anyone can find of
him on the record actually saying this Now,
what's interesting is that that story happened the same year,
that one of the times that Congressman John Lewis's story came out about how
when he forgave a ku Klux Klan member who had beaten him in the 1960s.
So here's the details on that.
Andrew is a former digital director and policy adviser to Congressman Lewis said,
this is back in 2009.
Initially Elwin Lewis or Elwin Wilson, a former Ku Klux Klan member, apologized
to Lewis for physically assaulting while he served as a freedom rider in 1961.
They then to prove that this actually have been in their case appeared on
an episode of the Oprah Winfrey show in 2011 to share their story about how
louis is nonviolent actions as a member of the civil rights movement toward
Wilson changed his mind and inspired him to stop participating in racist acts.
And interestingly in some of herschel walker's earlier books,
he never makes a claim about this.
It seems like a pretty big thing that you bring up that said, Brett,
we can't know for sure are we being unreasonable,
could this have happened to two different people?
Is it just a coincidence that the story sounds similar
Herschel walker without this story being factored
into your decision of whether or not to vote for
him is about as worthy of becoming a senator as wet toilet
paper left out on your lawn after someone Teepees your house and
it's like all like in your trees like that,
that is herschel walker's intellect at this point
it is an insult to America as a country as an institution and
as an idea that one of the major parties in american politics
thinks that this football pad with batteries to make
it walk around should be a senator for the great state of Georgia.
And to this story there is no way in holy hell that any idea
that herschel walker has put forward has changed anyone's minds.
It is an insult that they think they can get away with
putting this something someone like this in front and
it is a testament to the corruption of our two party system as
it stands now that he might have a shot some rough stuff in their bread.
But yeah, no I I agree and and honestly let's say that he did it.
He stole the anecdote.
Okay, so now let's let's put that into the ranking of disqualifying things that
herschel walker has said and done.
It's in the forties I think maybe fifties like someone who
reminded me in the chat, he said china stole our good air,
he held a gun to former partners of his head and threatened to kill them.
He told a story about him driving to go murder a person.
But jesus intervened there's a lot of bad stuff and
it's still a shockingly close race.
I will remind you of that when I was in high school I did this
thing called Junior Statesmen of America.
When I was in high school did this thing called Junior Statesmen of America.
And you all get together and then you go up against someone in a debate.
And the truth is, you win your gavel for best speaker if you have the most people
in the room, not if you make good arguments and that's what this has become.
This is just packing the Senate with meat in this case,
not much more than just barely sentient pink sludge meat in herschel walker so
they can get their away with their horrible ideas.