but even as america grew more sensitive to what blackface meant and what it meant to african-americans, people kept using blackface. remember that virginia attorney general, mark herring, admitted to putting on blackface in 1980. that photo of governor northam s yearbook page, right? that was 1984. actor ted danson put on blackface and used the n-word at a friar s club roast with his then-girlfriend, whoopi goldberg. the former of michael orrtel, who apologized and resigned after a photo emerged of nim blackface dressed up with what he thought was a katrina victim, that was 2005. and fashion house gucci apologizing now for selling a turtleneck sweater that pulls up over the face with oversized lips over the mouth. make no mistake, that is blackface. it was pulled from the brand s site yesterday.
less than a week ago, it was virginia democratic governor to fresh off extolling the virtues was exposed for posting this photo on his yearbook page. am deeply sorry. i cannot change the decisions i ve made, but i accept responsibility for my past actions, and i m ready to do the hard work of regaining your trust. and then it was his potentia successor, democrat lieutenant lieutenant governor justin fairfax. now in his own he said you save were it made to controversy. yesterday, it was his second in linehi to the governorship democrat attorney general mark herring who tried to get out in front of his almost 40 -year-ol mistake. he admitted that he too had donned blackface for college
they re going to end up with a japanese hologram as governr if this continues. they re running out of people as the line goes down. first of all, i don t understand. i really don t understand how ralph northam can still be governor. he is holding on not for virginia, he is holding on for ralph northam. he is being selfish. it s all about him. what he did is outrageous. at best, at best, he wasn t one of those too but he allowed it in his facebook page and he kept silent back his yearbook page and kept silent about it for 30 years. this playing dumb thing for him to have this press conference where he says where his excuse is that was not me in blackface oh, by the way, i did this thing. but i did do blackface before. please, really, do your state a favor, do the african-american community a favorite, do the democrats a favor and good the
ocasio-cortez insists she was snubbed, bret? bret: mike emanuel on the hill. thanks. more on this with the panel. who did what and when? the list of questions growing tonight in virginia. tonight another lawmaker pulled into the blackface scandal. this as ache salvations fly that a virginia congressman knew about accusations of sexual assault against the lieutenant governor more than a year ago and did nothing. all of theist men are still on the job tonight despite intense pressure inside their own party for them to resign. remember, this all started a little more than a week ago, not with governor ralph northam s yearbook page but with his controversial and scriptive comments about a late term abortion bill. that critics called infanticide. today hundreds of protesters showed up in richmond to remind the public of those statements. we have fox team coverage tonight. fox news media analyst howie kurtz with an unforgiving political climate. we begin with allison barber
tucker: i wonder if we are w for due process, why are all of us demanding that ralph northam who i think should resign for his support of infanticide, on the question of his yearbook page before we even knew, before he could offer an explanation, that s not exactly due process, is it? or even enough knowledge to judge? here is where the tipping point was for me, he first said it was him in the photo, then he backtracked. at that point, he s a public servant, he lost the public trust. once you lose the public trust, it s over, he s got to go. i don t know if i would take this seriously or not but i understand he s considering changing parties to an independent because he has lost so many friends on the democratic side. i might believe that but by and large he s got some serious r issues and it s going to have