A campaign sign for North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on October 3, 2024, in Bat Cave, North Carolina. | Source: Sean Rayford / Getty
Welp, it appears that North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is making good on his promise to sue CNN over the network’s report claiming that he made lewd, self-loathing and bigoted remarks on adult website Nude Africa’s message board, some of which were similar to self-loathing and bigoted remarks he has definitely made from the stage and on social media.
According to WRAL, when announcing the lawsuit during a news conference on Tuesday, Robinson, once again, called himself the victim of a “high-tech lynching,” which, of course, was a reference to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, another Clayton Bigby acolyte who said he was the victim of the same type of non-lynching after he was accused of sexual harassment in 1991 by his former adviser, Anita Hill.
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Here’s what I wrote about Robinson’s self-made comparisons to Thomas previously:
Listen: there are plenty of reasons why Robinson and Thomas are comparable. They could both be top nominees for the Real-Life Uncle Ruckus Award. Neither of them has any qualms about attacking civil protections for the LGBTQ+ community or for Black people. They both seem to share the same favorite “Black job,” which is to protect whiteness at all costs.
But Robinson is not the victim of a “high-tech lynching” — and neither was Thomas for that matter (It’s arguable Hill was). If anything, Robinson is a victim of his own karma. After all, when a person has called members of the LGBTQ+ community “filth,” falsely linked homosexuality to pedophilia, and chided educators for teaching students about “transgenderism,” that person had better hope there’s nothing in his online history that indicates he hates trans people but loves their porn — because somebody is probably going to dig that up eventually.
But now Robinson, who is running for governor of North Carolina against Democrat Josh Stein, is determined to prove he did not refer to himself as a “Black Nazi” who enjoys transgender porn and would love to buy a slave on Nude Africa. (He’s a Holocaust denier who once said Black people “owe” reparations to white people for slavery, so at least two out of the three allegations track.) The lieutenant governor’s defamation lawsuit seeks $50 million in damages and names CNN and another person as defendants.
From WRAL:
The lawsuit also targets Louis Money, a former Greensboro adult video store employee who was among half a dozen people who told the news magazine The Assembly this year that, in the 1990s and early 2000s, Robinson frequently came into two Greensboro stores to watch and buy explicit videos. Robinson also denied those claims in the lawsuit.
Money previously told WRAL he went public with his claims — first posted in a song on YouTube — in an attempt to gain notoriety for his band, Trailer Park Orchestra. But he stood by them. “I’ll be the first to admit because people are asking me, well, ‘Did you come up with the song just to make money?’ Yes. Yes, I did,” Money told WRAL last month. “But it is a true story.”
While Robinson is raging at CNN and Money over his tarnished reputation (as a queerphobic sunken place resident with an affinity for government-sanctioned murder), he is trailing his opponent in the gubernatorial race by nearly 15 percentage points, according to Emerson College polling.
Yeah, it’s been a rough month for Robinson. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
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