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Home Front: Politix
Astronaut Scott Kelly apologizes after quoting, praising Winston Churchill
2018-10-09
[Washington Examiner] Scott Kelly, a retired American astronaut with multiple space flights under his belt, apologized Sunday after quoting Winston Churchill and calling the 20th century British prime minister "one of the greatest leaders of modern times."

"Did not mean to offend by quoting Churchill. My apologies. I will go and educate myself further on his atrocities, racist views which I do not support. My point was we need to come together as one nation. We are all Americans. That should transcend partisan politics," Kelly wrote on Twitter in the evening.

Eight hours prior, in a tweet that has not been deleted as of press time, Kelly cited Churchill to lament the current state of affairs.

"One of the greatest leaders of modern times, Sir Winston Churchill said, 'in victory, magnanimity.' I guess those days are over," Kelly tweeted.

Some Twitter users reacted to Kelly offering an apology, telling him he overreacted to what appeared to be a wave of online trolls.
Posted by:Besoeker

#17  Kelly should have stuck to his original script and said something nice about Christopher Columbus instead.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2018-10-09 23:35  

#16  Churchill came close to converting to Islam, do a search.

I guess he went ahead and died as an atheist, but, he had his family scared he was going to convert.
Posted by: Skunky Clomonter1971   2018-10-09 22:19  

#15  #13 So much for astronaut tough smarts.

Apparently, being an astronaut isn't always rocket science.
Posted by: JHH   2018-10-09 17:30  

#14  I think the Indians blame Churchill for famine that happened during or prior to WW2. Is that right?
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-10-09 15:00  

#13  So much for astronaut tough smarts.

Apologies to Skid and he's on the mark too. Kelly never would have made it in the Mercury Program.
Posted by: Woodrow   2018-10-09 14:08  

#12  They are oikophobic socilaists.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-10-09 13:47  

#11  As I said yesterday... the whatever-they-ares* can explain at length about how everyone who disagrees with them is a white nationalist supremacist racist rape gang member, but when push comes to shove they're very strangely triggered by the person who was most responsible for the defeat of Nazi Germany.

This stands out to me.

(And he was originally quoting Churchill, I take it, as a criticism of conservatives feeling elation at having temporarily defeated the mass slander of the day... and still, he must be attacked by the other liberals for this?)

* (they're emotionally attached to the left, but I don't know what I want to call them because despite all the bad results the old left produced for the working class, they at least paid lip service to the idea that they liked the proletariat. I'm out of ideas).
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2018-10-09 13:46  

#10  apparently the spine deteriorates in Zero-G
Posted by: Frank G   2018-10-09 13:35  

#9  So much for astronaut tough.
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-10-09 13:33  

#8  You should be deeply ashamed for being such a gutless windbag ......
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2018-10-09 11:19  

#7  Gee, what's a person to do, living in the UK, getting a number of death threats, for simply speaking their mind, and now simply existing...

I guess it does no good to point your ass towards the lightning if your head is firmly up it.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2018-10-09 09:43  

#6  ..I have. Though the nice thing about it is that via twitter et al, they'll all self identifying. That is they are making their own lists, no need to go through the tedious process of compiling lists later.
Posted by: P2kontheroad   2018-10-09 06:25  

#5  ...I think I'm going to start referring to the other side as the Red Guards.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2018-10-09 05:08  

#4  Scott Kelly apologises for his revolutionary act.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-10-09 03:05  

#3  Ah yes, self-criticism sessions. In England. 1984.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-10-09 02:55  

#2  I think we found the donor for Senator Lindsey Graham's huevos transplant.
Posted by: Thaviter Gleash6830   2018-10-09 01:20  

#1  Churchill was right on a great many things, not the least of which, his view of the Mohammedan:

The Churchill Project Hillsdale College.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-10-09 00:54  

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