Some of the seven involved including Danny Davis, Keith Ellison and Maxine Waters have now been forced to issue statements after ignoring questions for days and after Ellison saying none of his fellow Democrats cared about it.
But who Farrakhan was was never a secret when they literally embraced him. So how much are their forced statements worth now?
Via Free Beacon:
Rep. Danny Davis (D., Ill.) released a statement Thursday evening denouncing anti-Semitic Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan after J Street, a liberal Jewish group, said it was reevaluating its endorsement of him after a weak statement Monday.
A month early, The Forward reports, Davis called Farrakhan an “outstanding human being.”
The congressman had also downplayed the importance of Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism by saying “The world is so much bigger than Farrakhan and the Jewish question and his position on that and so forth.”
After criticism from the Jewish community, Davis’ statement Monday did not address his own words about “the Jewish question” and instead blamed media asking him about the controversy, although it was titled “Statement of Danny K. Davis on Anti-Semitism.”
“Recently the ultra-right propaganda site The Daily Caller attempted to impugn my character,” his statement began.