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NC Rep. Virginia Foxx: Matthew Shepard Murder a “Hoax”

She says to the House and an onlooking Mrs. Shepard

What is perhaps most disgraceful about this small tirade crafted by North Carolina Congresswoman Virginia Foxx at a packed House hearing about the ultimately passed hate crimes bill was that Mrs. Shepard, Matthew’s mother, watched in horror as her son’s vicious murder was trivialized and called a hoax.

For those not familiar, read the full account of what is positively an undoubtedly (and proven judiciously) a crime motivated and driven by homophobia and hatred that led to the gruesome death of 21-yr old Matthew Shepard in 1998.

Keith Olbermann gave Rep. Foxx a vicious word-slapping (and rightfully so) during his “Worst Person in the World” segment, shown below:

And to close it out, I’ll just put this:

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