Otis Sanford Calls Trump a Race-Baiting “Disgusting Disgrace”

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I want to play some audio here. This is from yesterday, last night up on Capitol Hill, the entire Tennessee congressional delegation, including Congressman David Kustoff, standing alongside Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger as she honored the one and only Dolly Parton. Let's take a listen.

**Diana Harshbarger** (2:29)
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor a true daughter of Tennessee, Dolly Parton, a woman who needs no introduction. Dolly was a native of my district in East Tennessee, and she was from Locust Ridge in Sevier County. She never forgot where she came from. Her music told the truth about hard work and faith and family, and that truth is why the whole world fell in love with Dolly. But it was her heart that made her a legend back home. She rebuilt the community after the wildfires in 2016 that tore through Sevier County. She opened doors for children to learn to read through her imagination library. She supported health care and research for Tennessee families, and she protected the mountains that she loved.
Most people will know her theme park that's in the district called Dollywood. She was guided by her faith in her East Tennessee upbringing, and Dolly used her success to lift people up around her at every turn.
My prayers are with her family and everyone who loved her. The Tennessee delegation is committed to ensuring that her legacy is remembered for generations to come.

**Todd Starnes** (3:40)
All right. Well, thank you for that. Diana Hershberger there reading the honor of the honorarium there of Dolly Parton there on the inside the Capitol building. So can we talk about Otis Sanford for just a moment here? Otis Sanford, many of you have read his column in the Daily Memphian. He's on one of the local TV stations. And this guy and a lot of people may not realize this, but Otis Sanford was a part and he is a professor emeritus at the University of Memphis in the journalism program. This guy is a raging, race-baiting leftist and wrote something that has really rankled a lot of people here in the Mid-South and it's pretty nasty. But I'm going to read it for you so you get the idea of who this guy really is. Everybody, you know, the local media worship this guy. Like he is, I don't know, Jesus Christ with an ink pen and a notepad. I mean, they worship Otis Sanford. But this is what Otis wrote on a social media page about President Trump and also the Republicans who represent Memphis and Tennessee in both both locally and also at the federal level. Here's what Sanford said. Some people have asked me why I am so critical of Tennessee Republican politicians, such as Senator Marsha Blackburn, Representative David Kustoff and State Senator Brent Taylor. Here's my answer. All three of them have sold their political souls to the most corrupt, incompetent, mean-spirited, conniving, lying, vindictive, race-baiting, misogynistic and dangerous president in American history. All of them know better. They know deep down that this man is a disgusting disgrace. He's writing this about the president of the United States, by the way. Yet they cow-tow to him as if he is a deity. I cannot in good conscience stay silent. Enough is enough.