CNN Lobs Softballs as Contributor Says GOP Isn't Fighting for Liberty of 'Muslims and Mosques'
Republicans are deceitfully playing with words to avoid being slammed as homophobes, racists, and bigots, claimed CNN contributor L.Z. Granderson on Tuesday morning's Newsroom. Anchor Kyra Phillips simply let Granderson air his liberal diatribe without any challenge, and no conservative guest was brought on to respond.
Republicans "aren't fighting for Muslims and mosques," said Granderson of their claims of "religious freedom," but simply "fighting for Christianity." [Video below. Click here for audio.]
Granderson also claimed that candidates hide behind the phrase "family values" to avoid a direct reference to same-sex couples, and thus are able to oppose same-sex marriage without being called homophobes.
The duo hinted that Republicans are afraid of charges of racism. Phillips later asked "how do we talk about national security without sounding racist?" Granderson, at the end, insisted that "we need to start having a real honest conversation about this, and go ahead and talk about race being part of this."
"[T]he more you deny it, the more you look like you're guilty," said Granderson.
A brief transcript of the segment is as follows:
KYRA PHILLIPS: Alright America, be honest with me. When you listen to all these debates and you hear these GOP candidates throw out all kinds of facts and figures, raises and promises, do you really understand what they're truly saying? L.Z. Granderson says you probably don't. Behind the buzzwords and the euphemisms, deceit lurks.
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L.Z. GRANDERSON, CNN contributor, ESPN.com senior writer: Well, we begin with all of them, really. You know, religious freedom, for instance, right? You know they aren't fighting for Muslims and mosques. They're fighting for Christianity and Judeo-Christianity. So let's just be honest with that, right?
When you talk about family values, they're saying that because the assumption is that gay people don't have families, and so it's a way for them to talk about gay issues or gay people without saying "gay," so they don't get pinned for being homophobic.
And "secure the border," that's about Mexicans. Let's just say what it is, they're talking about Mexican people. They're talking about illegal immigrants coming from Mexico. If they really were about securing the border, they would talk about the other borders as well.
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Judeo-Christianity
Submitted by Gothampc on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 1:27pm.
"They're fighting for Christianity and Judeo-Christianity. So let's just be honest with that, right?"
Someone has to. The US government and the MSM are trying their best to eradicate those belief systems.
Yes we are forced to push
Submitted by ForeverOnTheRight on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 1:49pm.
Yes we are forced to push back because they re trying to take our religious freedoms away from us. It's also a fight for the preservation of the Constitution, liberals want to change the Constitution at will to fit their crazy hair brain agenda.
That is a popular leftie tactic.
Submitted by NeoKong on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 1:30pm.
They translate what they think Conservatives are really saying then criticize the new meaning that only exists in their head.
playing with words - this
Submitted by TruthMonger on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 1:34pm.
playing with words - this from the party of euphemism - 'pro-choice?' gimme a break
Congratulations Jimmy Carter!
The studio janitor must have been busy
Submitted by bfrank on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 1:39pm.
mopping the urine off the floor between commercial breaks.
Wow!!
Submitted by c5then on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 1:41pm.
talk about divide and conquer mentality. This really helps get inside the heads of a lot of liberals.
They always want to split the population up into little "groups" that they can play against each other for their political purposes.
CNN of course plays right along with this because it is in their liberal mindset too.
Religious freedom works for ALL religions, not just Christianity. News flash... Islam condemns contraception and abortion too.
Family values is a set of values that promote and help people raise a family and foster a society which assists families in thriving because families are the BASIS OF ALL CIVILIZATION. It's not about homosexuals, unless their agenda starts to erode societies ability to assist and support families.
Securing the border refers to the ENTIRE border, not just the one we share with Mexico. Fortunately, Canada is a good partner in this endeavor and most of that border is in fairly good shape as far as security goes. Mexico, unfortunately has major problems on all their borders and is basically not in control of any of them. This could easily allow bad guys (or girls) to come from many different countries into Mexico for the sole purpose of crossing into the US with the plan of causing some very nasty and deadly terrorism. The Mexican border is also a LARGE source of illegal drugs entering this country. Securing the border with Mexico would go a long way to reducing the drug problems in this country.
But lets not let logic and simple language get in the way of a good politically driven lynching of anyone, right CNN?
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
LZ must have been in Obama's geography class.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 1:43pm.
He thinks we have 'other borders' (plural) in addition to Mexico.
"Republicans "aren't fighting for Muslims and mosques,"
Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 3:57pm.
Granderson also claimed that candidates hide behind the phrase "family values" to avoid a direct reference to same-sex couples, and thus are able to oppose same-sex marriage without being called homophobes.
Well, my friend, the answer is fairly simple if you could look past your narrow ideology. First, most republicans aren't Muslims. Second, why would any Christian fight for a religion that endorses stoning gays (as in same-sex couples) and mercy killing of female family members who don't fit their concept of Muslim women? Or how about their penchant of not only blaming a women for being raped, but executing them as well for a crime being perpetrated upon her? There's your homophopes and family values that you question Christians for not supporting.
Ya think?
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 2:04pm.
Perhaps we should embrace the Muslim view of homosexuality??
Oxymoron
Submitted by jon_torlin on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 2:07pm.
"Muslims and Mosques" and "Liberty" seem like an oxymoron....Especially when Islam has slavery and honor killings and other insidious forms of death in it.
I would hope that there are some in the GOP that know this. I wouldn't want them to fight for "liberty of Muslims and Mosques" unless they were for liberty FROM Islam. Constitutionally speaking, Islam violates the Constitution and it's not a religion, it's a form of government that's at odds with anything related to freedom. It has no place in America....AT ALL.
This isn't racism or bigotry or anything of the sort, it's about survival when Islam wants to kill you for not being part of Islam. It's not and has never been about religious freedom.
Anyone with a scintilla of understanding of this would know this. It's true that Islam is a religion of peace.....peace through tyranny that is.
-Jon
To put words in our mouths is
Submitted by ForeverOnTheRight on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 2:09pm.
To put words in our mouths is pure hubris. We could parody them and say that their push for gay rights, is not about giving gay rights, it's code for "I have dirty secrets and I want to feel good about my pervertions." Liberals think that they can read minds and know what you are thinking, how patheticly childish. They are only projecting themselves and telling us that they are not honest about what they are saying, that they have code words and phrases.
If Republicans AREN'T
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 2:14pm.
If Republicans AREN'T 'fighting for the liberty of mooooooooooooooooooslems and mosques', then that sounds like a pretty good thing to me - considering that the philosophy, agenda, and lifestyle that they push is about as polar-opposite as the way I have been brought up - and I think there's quite a few people who would agree with me.
And as for this 'fighting' word that these dopey-ass politicians and talking heads always seem to love to use - except when they're complaining about all of the violence that is caused by conservatives and Republicans..................I wanna barf everytime I hear Boy Barry, or basically any other hack, talk about how they're 'fighting' for me, or the working class, or the middle class, or whoever it is that they're trying to impress. How about saying that they're 'working' for us??? Well, in Barry's case, I guess that would be another lie (imagine that!!), since 'work' and 'Obama' are not compatible in the same sentence.
This may explain Granderson's(who?) basis for his rant.
Submitted by UpNorth on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 2:38pm.
He's well versed in all things political, after all, he's a sportswriter!!
And, for LZ's edification, no one these days is afraid of the "racism" tag, your side has beat it to death, it no longer holds any truth.
Liberalism
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 3:12pm.
An uncoordinated conspiracy.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
Now hold on a minute...
Submitted by Ashrak on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 3:22pm.
First, there is only one border. It goes all the way around these united States. Alaska? Hawaii? Yup, they are both within that border. They are not separate, they are within that one border.
Second, if there is only a fighting back from this "side" for Christianity, and media is the opponent, that can only mean, then, that media is fighting for Islam against Christianity. Foolishness.
Third, Family, the nuclear family is Mother, Father and offspring making sons daughters brothers and sisters. Last time a checked, gay people are not hooking up to procreate.
Saying "gay" makes someone homophobic? Wait, not saying gay makes someone homophobic?
I can only speak for me here, but sheesh. I am not scared of gay people, I just think what they choose do is NASTY! I think it untoward, I think it an abomination and the opposite of what is required for the survival of humanity itself. I am not scared of, nor do I have a fear of gayness - I simply oppose it on the merits.
I do tire of the progressive lefts abuse of the reality that words actually have meanings. I tire too of the projection they engage in.
Hey, folks have every ability to be gay if they so choose. If that is their pursuit of happiness, so be it, it is their right. However, there is no right to force another to accept that choice itself as right and proper. And THAT is what this whole deal is all about. Progressives are all about forcing others to accept things, all while they refuse to accept anything they disagree with.
Ridiculous.
Republicans "aren't fighting
Submitted by rbosque on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 3:41pm.
Republicans "aren't fighting for Muslims and mosques."
Nope because Muslims are fighting against us and the Constitution. Unlike the Dems who would love to see them succeed.
Obama does a fine job of
Submitted by jkwtrading on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 4:16pm.
Obama does a fine job of fighting for Muslims, atheists and the like.
no need to duplicate his efforts..
I guess we are fighting for
Submitted by WarEagle66 on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 11:54pm.
I guess we are fighting for their liberty and mosques the same way they fight to allow churches and Christians in the Muslim Middle East.....
Why do none of the Idiot Republicans mention that?