Speaker Ryan on Charlottesville: 'There are no sides'

[Fishrrman]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/speaker-ryan-charlottesville-sides/story?id=49345342

Speaker Ryan on Charlottesville: 'There are no sides'
Aug, 21, 2017
BENJAMIN SIEGEL

Poster's note:
This is an excerpt -- for full article see URL above.

House Speaker Paul Ryan spoke up forcefully in a Facebook post on Monday against the recent violence in Charlottesville and the death of Heather Heyer, the woman killed when a car plowed into a group of counter protestors.

“There are no sides,” Ryan wrote in an implicit critique of President Donald Trump, who was rebuked by Democrats and Republicans last week for blaming “both sides” for the violence between white supremacists and counterprotesters in Charlottesville.

“There is no other argument,” Ryan said in the post, which made no mention of Trump. “We will not tolerate this hateful ideology in our society.”

Ryan -- who called white supremacy “repulsive” in a statement after Trump’s freewheeling and contentious press conference last Tuesday at Trump Tower -- went on to decry neo-Nazis and their ideology.

“We all need to make clear there is no moral relativism when it comes to neo-Nazis,” Ryan said. “The notion that anyone is intrinsically superior to anyone else runs completely counter to our founding principles.”

[Free Vulcan]

I think Ryan jumped the shark here.

[Fishrrman]

As Florence Reese' 1931 union song goes:
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?



To those who object to the posting of such statement above, I reply:
You may not be interested in choosing sides, but those who have already made that choice are interested in you...

[austingirl]

Violent Fascists on both sides. Anyone advocating for preservation of history is lost in the chaos.

[libertybele]

Ryan needs to save his breath, I for one don't care to hear anything he says.  It's nothing but the same lies he's spewed in the past and new lies.