Will Fox News Condemn Allen West For Saying Liberals Should
Congressman Allen West (R FL) spoke in West Palm Beach last night where he topped himself with unhinged hatred for his fellow Americans. So will those America loving folks at Fox News condemn these comments? You know that if a Democrat ever said any such thing, especially one up for re election, it would be a 24/7 topic for discussion on Fox. Or will Fox whitewash and defend the remarks the way it did with his offensive rant against Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz? UPDATED
Huffington Post transcribed West's comments:
"We need to let President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, (audience boos) and my dear friend the chairman of the Democrat National Committee, we need to let them know that Florida ain't on the table," West said. "Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else. You can take it to Europe, you can take it to ray-ban wayfarer the bottom of the sea, you can take it to the North Pole, but get the hell out of the United States of America."
Following cheers, West added, "Yeah I said 'hell.'"
I'll be eagerly awaiting Fox News' reaction. My bet? They'll say something like, "He shouldn't have said it but liberals (fill in the blank for whatever excuse will be trotted out to attack liberals and make it seem as though they deserved what West said)."
UPDATE:Sadly, though not surprisingly, Fox Nation has already given its stamp of approval to West.
UPDATE 2: West is now a paid contributor to Fox News.
Am I correct in taking your words the racist hatred of those that these types of stunt are intended for. I believe that West did exactly as he intended. to mean that Mr. Ray Ban outlet new york Allen West, a conservative African American, is prejudice against blacks? Wow! And I guess because Thomas Sowell speaks against ideas like Affirmative Action minority quotas, he is also prejudice and against the Equal Rights Amendment? In fact Mr. Sowell, a preeminent African American economist, is known to refer to reverse race descrimination in his prolific writings, that is of black discrimination against whites as a real problem in our society today. Seems to me the real prejudice is against conservative and moral ideas.
Two points, I quote Allen words"
your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else. I believe these words can be taken in one of two ways; allow me to clarify:
1) We don want to hear what you have to say here in America!
2) We heard what you said but reject it!
Now if we take his intent was the former then he very much un American. If we take him to mean the latter then he not against the American idea of speech but against the implication of that particular speech. Therefore taking his next sentence can take it to Europe, you can take it to the bottom of the sea, you can take it to the North Pole, but get the hell out of the United States of America. is simply saying we as Americans reject your propositions! Why? Precisely because these ideas are foreign to the traditional American mindset that made us the great country we are.
Thus of achievement Ray Ban outlet store online locations">Ray Ban outlet store locations can be contrasted to equality of opportunity; while dependency, or government based welfare system that hands out without regard for responsibility can be contrasted to the subsidarity principle of helping people at the lowest possible level, starting at: family, moving up through friends, churches, private charities, businesses, city, state and the last resort federal level; thereby holding those being helped to a greater degree of accountability; and finally the entrepreneurial will and spirit, or government interference in the economic market contrasted to a market based on individual free will with minimum regulation and restrictions, and a maximum of personal responsibillity for the risks we take.
Just because Col. Allen rejects ideas he dislikes does not mean he closed his mind to hearing and understanding what they are in fact how can one reject what they do not know? I suspect he could have put this differently, less offensive to the PC mindset he speaks to, but if liberal/progressives want conservative/traditionalists to acquire thicker skin shouldn they also exhibit it?
West can be a rockstar with the fanatics all he wants doing this, but three words: Palm. Beach. County.
West pretty much lost the vote of the people who live in Palm Beach twice once for how that mentality hurts tourism (even a conservative hates the man who loses him money), and again for that he forgot how many liberals and moderates are there.
Once again West can be a rockstar all he wants, he pretty much lost the vote. He need to pretty much have Broward locked to even have a chance, which isn likely if I reading the reactions right.
I live clean across the country from his district and I can already hear him losing from here. Let ray ban 8301 sale talk about his prospects later down the road now
The sad thing about this self hating person is that most of his constituents, whom he is kissing up to in the far right looney toon wing of the GOP (Greedy Olde Plutocrats) party, would never have him over for dinner or want him to meet their daughters. He is a part of the head long race to the bottom with racists who only tolerate his presence as their token of how non racist they pretend to be so they can peel away a dozen or so fellow self haters from the Democatic party.
His sad pathetic rhetoric is borne from a lack of any real substantive issues, a lack of intellect and putrid self loathing. It is his way of blaming others for his past failures.
This rabid vitriol from the looney toon right should be construed as a hate crime, and should not be permitted even under the first amendment as this kind of speech insights violence. (re. Gabrielle Giffords, Dr. Tiller etc)
The yelling fire in a crowded theater test should apply. Fox news will not come out against this type of speech as it panders to their viewers and is supported by corporate interests who really value this type of divisive rhetoric because it keeps the focus off of their nefarious doings.
I called West DC office and inquired into his wearing of Marine Corps/Navy jump wings. At first they didn know what I was talking about, so I told them to look at his official congressional photo.
Another aide then came on the phone and told me they get back to me about it! They never did!
So Rep West. I calling you out until prove you made the 5 following jumps under Official Marine Corps orders to qualify yourself eligible to wear such wings? Army jumps don count, except for first 5 that you made at jump school!