Malcolm Kenyatta: David Hogg has 'very casual relationship with the truth'

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

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LetMyPeopleVote (163,033 posts)
Thu May 15, 2025, 06:55 PM

Malcolm Kenyatta: David Hogg has 'very casual relationship with the truth'
I saw this interview last night on MSNBC. I trust Malcome Kenyatta.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5302200-malcolm-kenyatta-david-hogg-dnc-vice-chair-election-redo/

Democratic National Committee (DNC) Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta slammed his fellow vice chair, David Hogg, on Wednesday, disputing the reason the gun control activist has said is why they may need to run for their positions again.

Kenyatta argued in an interview on MSNBC that he has tried to ignore what Hogg has been saying recently to avoid party infighting and division, but Hogg’s statement after the DNC’s Credentials Committee voted in favor of holding a new vice chair election “pushed me over the edge.”

“David has a very casual relationship with the truth,” he told host Symone Sanders Townsend. “And he has not been truthful on so many points that have been raised on this show.”

The Pennsylvania state legislator added that he’s “frustrated” with the decision to hold the election again given that he received considerably more votes than necessary to clinch one of the vice chair positions, but he respects it.

“But David’s first statement out of the gate was, here’s the Democratic Party doing some maniacal thing to push me out because of what he’s doing with his PAC,” Kenyatta said. “David knows that that is not true.”

newdeal2 (2,504 posts)
3. The way this is being handled is dumb all around

And almost guaranteed to cause hurt feelings and a schism at the worst possible time.

pinkstarburst (1,708 posts)
4. I think this is drama we don't need

No matter how this ends, if either one of these gentlemen is removed, it's going to cause bad waves. Why does one of them need to be removed? DNC should acknowledge that a procedural error was made. Add the woman who should have been elected as an additional Vice chair. Keep the other two. This is making us look bad.

MichMan (15,106 posts)
6. They weren't the only ones on the ballot

There were 5 running for the position. Should they all be made Vice Chairs?

Renew Deal (83,905 posts)
5. Why is Kenyatta using negative messaging and personal attacks?

Because he's a democrat.

betsuni (27,881 posts)
8. Casual relationship with the truth, usual for the Raiders of the Democratic Party like Hogg.

The end justifies the means: purging the party so the movement/revolution can begin (revolution the only way to transformational change), getting people worked up and disgusted by the fictional evil corrupt Democratic Party. Winning elections against Republicans isn't that important because Republican voters will join the revolution in class solidarity against the 1% and follow the true progressives they have been waiting for.

Recently I heard one of their leaders say "as important as that is" and remembered something he said previously which shocked me he said in public because keeping Trump out of office the last three elections was life or death THE MOST IMPORTANT THING and BOTH SIDES IS A LIE:

"The campaign was never just about electing a president of the United States, as enormously important as that was, This campaign was about transforming America."

[SVPete]

Malcolm Kenyatta: David Hogg has 'very casual relationship with the truth'
I saw this interview last night on MSNBC. I trust Malcome(sic) Kenyatta.

Conservatives have been pointing out this obvious fact since 2018, though that relationship is more casual than a drunken one-night-stand.

Stooopid Question Time: How many threads does DU have from when the choice of Hogg-Boy was announced praising the brilliance of that choice?

[BannedFromDU]

     I think the Democrats need to clear the air, and set a new legislative path to ensure their relevance to the American voter. They need to get away from their internal bickering about leadership and show some leadership to the American people.

     I think the best way for the Democrats to move forward is with a legislative agenda that Americans will all get behind. To that end, they should revive reparations.


     

[ADsOutburst]

Democrats in general have a very hostile relationship with the truth.

[SVPete]

Democrats in general have a very hostile relationship with the truth.

On DU, facts they don't want to hear or be heard are Reich-Wing and get members banned and/or MIRTed. If the granite pizzas were real granite, New Hampshire would run out of granite.

[Old n Grumpy]

At this point, I think the Democrats have lost the war before they even got to the battlefield

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

At this point, I think the Democrats have lost the war before they even got to the battlefield

"In the war against republicans, what did you do?"

"I shot my fellow democrats."

[Old n Grumpy]

This is just another case of the media making a zero into a hero, just like when they wanted creepy porn lawyer to run for president

[SVPete]

This is just another case of the media making a zero into a hero, just like when they wanted creepy porn lawyer to run for president

And still believe Creepy Porn Liar's claim. BTW, how is she doing in paying off her judgment to Trump? Is she even Lot-Lizard-grade anymore?

[Zathras]

Boss Hogg would fit in perfectly at the DUmp with his casual relationship with the truth.