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By David Freedlander 8/19/11 9:18am

Charlie Rangel and Laura Ingraham Get Into It Over 'Plantation Politics' [Video]

Laura Ingraham filled in for Bill O’Reilly last night, and she got into a contentious debate over Black politics, the War on Poverty and the state of American liberalism with Harlem congressman Charlie Rangel.

The duo used as a jumping off point comments by Rep. Allen West who said earlier that “you have this 21st Century plantation … where the Democrat party has forever taken the black vote for granted, and you have established certain black leaders who are nothing more than the overseers of that plantation.” Read More

By David Freedlander 8/09/11 7:14pm

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US Democrat Representative Charles Range

Rangel at Rest: Twenty-One Terms Later, Can Charlie Keep Going?

Charlie Rangel stood on Lenox Avenue in front of his blue-gray Cadillac and opened his arms wide. The Observer had just asked the 81-year-old, 21-term congressman if he intended to run for re-election next year, and the expansive gesture was meant to convey something like, “After seeing all that you have just seen, what do you think?” Read More

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Charlie Rangel and Laura Ingraham Get Into It Over 'Plantation Politics' [Video]

Rangel at Rest: Twenty-One Terms Later, Can Charlie Keep Going?

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