I still don’t think there is much to this story for reasons I’ve already stated. But the credibility of Kenny Knight has been thrown into question by the fact that he lied about not being a part of the Euro group. And when confronted about it by NOLA, he didn’t react very credibly at all:
NOLA – Kenny Knight told NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune on Wednesday that he was not a member of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, but documents filed with the Louisiana secretary of state’s office list him as treasurer of its predecessor, the National Organization for European American Rights, in 2000.
Further, a May 16, 2002, news release on an an archived version of EURO’s former website, www.whitecivilrights.com, lists Knight as “EURO Louisiana State Representative Kenny Knight.” The release says Knight was expected to address the group’s May 17-18, 2002, conference.
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When asked by telephone Thursday about the records listing him as EURO’s treasurer, Knight twice hung up on a reporter. “Is that 15 years ago? I don’t even remember that,” he said. “I’m not communicating any more with the news media. I’m finished with y’all.”
Whether he’s lying now or not I don’t know. But the exchange above doesn’t bode well for him. If he can’t explain himself then I’m not sure he can explain with authority what happened in 2002.
Just thought you should know the whole story on this one.
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I told you the other day this story was bogus. Turns out it’s more bogus than we knew.
Now it’s been confirmed by the organizer of that Euro meeting in 2002 that Scalise was never there. He was in a different meeting in the same hotel, a civic meeting:
NOLA – Reports that Rep. Steve Scalise, the third-ranking Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, gave a speech to a white nationalist conference connected with David Duke in 2002 are not accurate, the man who organized the events said Wednesday (Dec. 31).
Kenny Knight, a longtime political adviser to Duke, said Scalise spoke at a meeting of the Jefferson Heights Civic Association — not affiliated with the European-American Unity and Rights conference that was held in the same Metairie hotel — two-and-a-half hours before the white nationalist event started.
Barbara Noble, who was dating Knight and said she attended the meeting, also said Wednesday that Scalise spoke to the civic group, not EURO.
Scalise apologized this week for speaking to the EURO group, although he said he was unaware of the connections or the group’s white supremacy ideology. Scalise has come under fire from some Democratic leaders and others, including calls for him to step down from his leadership position.
“Poor Steve Scalise is a good man — a good, Christian man,” Knight said.
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Knight said he rented and paid for the hotel conference room for the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, a group founded by Duke. Since he had already paid for the space, Knight said, he decided to also hold his local civic association meeting at the Metairie hotel. He stressed that the two gatherings were not connected.
“Steve Scalise did not address a EURO conference. … The conference was two-and-a-half hours later,” Knight said.
It’s amazing to me that this story got the legs that it did when we have someone in the White House who has had scandal after scandal and none of them got this kind of attention from the MSM. This is exactly why we conservatives say the media is biased and this is a perfect example of it.
As I said before, I’m no fan of Scalise. I’d love to see the entire leadership in the House and Senate step down. But I just can’t get behind a phony scandal concocted by some left-wing blogger.