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Sheehy Racial Gaffe Starts to Get Attention [1]

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Date: 2024-09-04  

I had a diary up the other day about Republican Senate candidate for Montana Tim Sheehy making racist comments about the Crow Nation: Montana Senate Candidate Tim Sheehy (R) Says Crow Indians are "drunk at 8:00 A.M." [Edited; see *]. It got a lot of attention here (thanks!), but the MSM hadn’t noticed. Now they are starting to.

NYT: Tim Sheehy Was Recorded Using Racist Stereotypes About Native Americans

(Unlike the original story published by a small reservation paper, the Times doesn’t seem concerned about a defamation suit.) By making these remarks, Mr. Sheehy not only used stereotypes, but he also waded into the complex history of Native American tribal dynamics in Montana, where Indigenous residents make up about 6 percent of the population. The state has seven reservations and 12 tribes.

A couple of other media (though not WaPo yet) picked up the story, but the most significant part is that statewide Montana media are catching up with it.

Daily Montanan: Audio catches Senate candidate Sheehy commenting on ‘drunk Indians’

U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy is facing criticism after two recordings from November surfaced in which he appears to have characterized the Crow people as drunk in the morning and accused them of throwing beer cans at him in a parade. . . . Sheehy appears to have doubled down on the statements as the first recording was from a Nov. 6, 2023 event in Shelby. Four days later, Sheehy appears to have made similar remarks at an event in Hamilton. The recordings appear on the website of Char-Koosta News.

It’s still early days, but it does seem this story is not going away. And Sheehy isn’t helping himself by “doubling down.” (For some reason, Jon Tester’s campaign website isn’t carrying the story yet, though they have an attack on a different Sheehy gaffe on their front page: Tim Sheehy Pressed by Fox News Radio for Lying About Bipartisan Border Bill.)

Following the campaign rule that “when your opponent is sinking, toss him an anvil,” let’s keep the pressure up!

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