Allen West to Soledad O'Brien: 'I Don't Care' What the Vice Chairman of the National Communist Party Says
CNN's Soledad O'Brien got a much-needed education about political ideologies from Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) Thursday.
When she brought up a quote from the Vice Chairman of the National Communist Party refuting the Congressman's claim there are 78 to 81 Communists in Congress, West simply replied, "I don't care what he says" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Toward the end of her interview with the congressman on Thursday's Starting Point, O'Brien played the now famous clip of West telling a group of his constituents that there are between 78 and 81 members of the Communist Party in Congress.
At the end of the clip, West replied, "Well, unfortunately Soledad, you didn't play the entire thing, and I talked about the Congressional Progressive Caucus."
Indeed. Liberal media members have regularly edited that part out of the video to dishonestly depict what West said.
He continued, "I've had to give quite a few people a tutorial about the political spectrum of ideologies, and there's a thin separation. And at the turn of the century here in the United States of America, American Communists renamed themselves Progressives, but the strategy and the tactics and the ideology still remains the same.
"And when you're a member of a caucus that actually wanted to have a Constitutional amendment to redistribute wealth in the United States of America, I don't think that's in keeping with the principles and values of this country."
West was referring to H.J. Resolution 34 that proposed "an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to taxing the people of the United States progressively."
It was originally introduced on February 13, 2007, by Rep. Jesse Jackson (D-Ill.), and then again in February 2011 after which it was referred to committee. It has 28 co-sponsors including Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.), Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) and Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) - all members of the CPC.
At this point in the interview, O'Brien asked West to name the Communists in the House, but the Congressman said, "You can go look up the Congressional Progessive Caucus...then you've got the names."
O'Brien then started reading the name of some of the CPC's members and asked incredulously if these people were Communists.
"You can call it whatever you want," answered West. "I'm talking about their beliefs. I'm calling it this: Communist, Progressive, Marxist, Socialist, Statist - which is another term that's been used - I'm looking at the ideologies, I'm looking at the things that they believe in, and if you don't think that we have to stand upon truth and be able to identify and clearly contrast the different principles and values and ideologies and principles of governance here in this country, then we're never going to get to the fact of accepting the true debate that's happening in America."
"We don't need a bureaucratic nanny state. We need to stay a Constitutional Republic. I think a lot of people need to study that and understand what it is."
Can anybody argue with that?
O'Brien actually did by quoting Libero Della Piana, the Vice Chairman of the National Communist Party who said of West's contentions, "I just think it’s an absurd way to cast a shadow over his colleagues. It’s kind of a sad ploy…It’s just guilt by association taken to an extreme.”
"He says you're wrong," concluded O'Brien.
West simply and emphatically responded, "I don't care what he says."
Do you? Or should any American?
Obviously, O'Brien does.
What does that tell you?
(H/T Mediaite)
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Soledad -the gift that keeps on giving
Submitted by scottyusmc on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 10:38am.
Her ignorance is amazing to watch - and she is so proud of it...
"Soledad"
Submitted by almostacowboy on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 11:06am.
Another name for "herpes".
Really?
Submitted by FistsforLiberty on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 12:50pm.
LOL, to funny!!!
Nice.....
Submitted by jon_torlin on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 10:47am.
Ahhhh, nothing like a verbal b!tchslap in the morning to those like Soledad.
Nicely done, Colonel!
-Jon
Classic Allen
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 10:49am.
I am SO bummed out that he got redistricted out of my district.
There's a rerun democrat HACK that is ahead in our new district. Lois Frankel. Ugh.
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~What's the story on that, anyway?
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 11:24am.
Didn't the Repubs control redistricting this go 'round?
Yes, Bru
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 2:30pm.
Establishment Republicans.
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Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 4:13pm.
and why Romney won't tap West for VP.
Idiots.
Lois Frankel
Submitted by GW on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 4:11pm.
was the mayor of West Palm Beach for two terms. I was a resident (citizen?) of WPB at the time. Either way, I got to vote in the elections. I think she was endorsed by the previous mayor, (Nancy Graham?) who revitalized the downtown. So, the previous mayor was wll thought of.
Lois Frankel, on the other hand, built a new City Hall, diverting money from things like the police dept. I had a co-worker who lived in the historic district which was trying to convert from a crime-ridden neighborhood to a place for yuppies. My co-worker is a total Liberal, and even she hated the job Lois Frankel was doing as mayor.
Frankel also added City Place near downtown. City Place was a very dangerous neighborhood until they bulldozed it. It sat dormant for years until they developed City Place on the vacant land. City Place had nice shops, restaurants, a movie theater, some residences. It was nice, but there weren't enough people here to support downtown and City Place at the same time. Furthermore, City Place was getting competition from other 'pre-fab' neighborhoods. The result is that Downtown declined. Then after the real estate bubble burst, City Place started to decline, too.
Back to the new City Hall- it's nice, but I really didn't appreciate my (property) tax dollars going to a new building that IMHO didn't need to get buit and to all the nice pavers downtown. I think they should have been saving that money from the increased tax revenue which came from the increased property values.
I do have one nice thing to say about Frankel, though. In 2004-2005, we got hit by 3 hurricanes, and she remained attentive at the Emergency Operations Center for all of them. We kept getting robocalls from her giving us status reports. Towards the end of the emergencies, it was pretty funny hearing her say in a tired, haggard voice, "Hello. This is your West Palm Beach Mayor, Lois Frankel." It sounded like something out of the Simpsons.
Previous to serving as Mayor of WPB, I think she was in the State House of Representatives. She was an opponent of the local pro-life efforts, actiing pretty dismissively.
I'll be voting for her opponent.
Thanks, GW
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 6:56pm.
As they say, all politics is local.
All I know about Frankel is that she is a crony of Rob Wexler's.....that's more than enough for me to say "NO THANKS".
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Just like McCarthy, West is WRONG!?!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 10:53am.
There are waaaaaaaaaaaaay more commies in the Democrat Party than he claims.
I'm waiting for someone to tag the whole Fluking administration as what it is; a subversive rat's nest.
BTW, Soledaddy baby, when you want to make a point about someone NOT being a communist/marxist/fascist/Islamist cork socker, I'd suggest you start with a name besides Keith Ellison.
Calling fish bait calamari, doesn't mean it's not still bait.
And when I remind, or inform,
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 12:38pm.
And when I remind, or inform, lib acquaintences of mine that their Boy Baraka is endorsed and backed by the Communist Party of the USA...............they usually try and shrug it off in a sort of 'well, I don't know about that, and that's not important to me' manner......................but we all know that liberalism is a mental disorder, and progressivism is communism (or pick one of Allen West's other adjectives).
If you started by saying Romney was endorsed by the KKK
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 8:01pm.
I'm the groups endorsing a candidate would suddenly become important.
Yeah, Ms.
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 12:50am.
Yeah, Ms. Rad.............except that I'm pretty sure that the KKK comes from Democrat party roots...........plus, I've never heard Boy Baraka disavow any group OR person who has supported him..............unless they are allready working for him, and he is forced to throw them under the bus!!! But I think that he cuts deals with them AFTER he 'gets rid of them', because they are, after all, his 'people'!!! And I present Van Jones and Reverand Wright as examples.
West is the only member of the Congressional Black Caucus
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 10:55am.
who is not also a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. But they'd be the first ones to tell you "we Blacks are not monolithic!"
I don't know get West joined the CBC in the first place, unless he gets a thrill out of being a thorn in their side, which I suppose has some value.
It's a good strategy.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 11:04am.
"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer."
Hey, not so fast SoL
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 12:18pm.
Tim Scott in a good guy also!
I agree, Boudin,
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 12:31pm.
but he wouldn't join the CBC.
Ah,
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 1:42pm.
10-4
Label Maker
Submitted by CJohnson on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 11:01am.
He forgot to add that she makes a great communist propagandist.
➚ Not only that
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 11:04am.
Not only that, but put a beret on Soledad and put an AK-47 in her hands, and she could pass for . . .
Patty. Speaking of the SLA,
Submitted by stratman on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 1:39pm.
Patty.
Speaking of the SLA, two things - for a radical black revolutionary movement, there was only one black guy in the gang, and, they used the same symbol and seven principles of Kwanzaa.
A little magic marker mustache and she's chi chi (diminutive form of che?, or, take your pick from the Urban Dictionary)
Pretty Hard to Deny...
Submitted by Saltherring on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 11:06am.
...that Communists have a growing influence in our nation and government when one of them resides in our White House and conducts his sleazy business from that building's Oval Office.
Soledad No Ammo
Submitted by Charlie-1 on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 11:09am.
This woman always takes a leaky squirt gun to a paint ball fight, and she will always insist that she is right in anmy debate this while cleaning the assorted colors off of her outfit.
Obama
Submitted by driguana on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 11:21am.
I don't understand why O'Brien just doesn't quit her CNN gig and go to work for Obama...oh, she already does work for Obama! She needs a new profession, one that doesn't require veracity and intelligence.
O'Brien, other liberals, and the general electorate
Submitted by gkstephens on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 11:27am.
Too many people believe that if a person doesn't carry a membership card and can't speak either Chinese or Russian then that person can't be a communist (more correctly a Marxists). Remember the duck rule--if it quacks like a duck, if it..............................
Heh, Col. West hates stinking commie pukes almost as much...
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 11:27am.
...as I do.
But I still say he is low in his number, as there are a Hell of a lot more than 80-81 commies in congress, as I make no distinction between commies and their sympathizers.
As for comrade Soledumb, she is an idiot of the first order.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Obama is their leader.
Submitted by NeoKong on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 11:28am.
He wants to "spread the wealth".
I saw it with my own two eyes.
I'm tired of working hard
Submitted by Savonarola on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 11:33am.
so that others can stay home and watch TV and eat twinkies all day long, and then complain that they don't have enough to eat.
What does that tell you?
Submitted by Conservator on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 11:44am.
It tells me if Soledad O'Brien was ever elected to Congress she would be member of the Congressional Progessive Caucus. Her ideology has been on display at CNN for years. Her resume indicates she is also a "Communist, Progressive, Marxist, Socialist, Statist," as defined by Rep. West.
Soledad
Submitted by philmon on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 11:48am.
She's doing what the MSM has been doing for decades. You go to an "expert" -- of your choice, you being the media, quote them as if what they say is clearly Gospel Truth since they're an "expert", and suggest that anyone who disagrees with that is clearly out of line and silly.
To her, it's not about the ideology, it's about the name, and her's a guy with the name who says it's sad and silly -- note, as an aside, that he does not say that it's not true. Soledad says that the Vice Chair said West is wrong, but that is NOT what the vice chair said at all. He said it's silly and sad.
And the vice chair has a vested interest in dismissing West, because he knows if the American People realize that West is right and start to act on this knowledge, it damages his cause. He knows that and Soledad knows that.
But ... they're the gatekeepers of "truth", so, listen up and get in line.
Words have meaning
Submitted by Defuze1 on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 11:57am.
West understands that words have meaning. As he deftly points out the various terms-communist, socialist, marxist, progressive, etc all have common beliefs attached. What the media doesn't seem to acknowldege is that in the 1930's American progressive politicians admired the Soviet system until it became impossible to ignore the fact that Stalin was killing his own people. Asking the head of a communist organization what he thinks of West's comment shows how little credit the media gives the American public for being able to see through the smoke and mirrors.
Re-branding
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 2:50pm.
In the 1930's, the Communist Party bosses in Moscow realized that in order to build alliances with other leftist parties, it needed to change its image, soften its rhetoric, and then actively recruit members from those allied parties.
In the US, the term adopted was the Popular Front (PF), and included Communists, socialists, and many New Dealers among their ranks. One of their rallying issues was support for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War (Not surprisingly, the USSR also supported the Republicans in Spain).
The concept of the PF pretty much died when the Spanish Civil War ended and WW2 loomed large.
Would you prefer the New Dealers had joined Hitler
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 12:17am.
in the latter's ultimately successful efforts to ensure a fascist victory in Spain?
Jer
A more consistent list of Communists in Congress.
Submitted by gopcongress on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 12:02pm.
I have a more consistent, more easily identifiable list of all the Communists in Congress.
Check for the union label: the "(D)" behind their name.
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OK, let me get this straight...
Submitted by wahappened on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 12:44pm.
the vice chairman of the National Communist Party thinks that labeling members of congress as communists is guilt by association?
Well Mr vice chairman, whose guilty, the congressmen or the National Communist's?
High Marks
Submitted by mrt721 on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 12:48pm.
"What does that tell you?"
That she got an 'A' in Derrick Bell's class?
The Dumb News Reader
Submitted by mmilesll on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 12:58pm.
Why does a cable channel that is generally in last place in the ratings keep doing the same programming over and over again. This woman is numbingly stupid, yet they continue to keep her on the air. They must never want anybody to watch.
"I just think it’s an absurd
Submitted by DaChew on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 1:05pm.
"I just think it’s an absurd way to cast a shadow over his colleagues. It’s kind of a sad ploy…It’s just guilt by association taken to an extreme.”
OK, she just acknowledged that the name Communist casts a shadow over people. She and West agree which is why, as West said, Communists decided a long time ago to call themselves something different: Progressive. So, Soledad has actually provided evidence that West is exactly right. She's obviously too stupid to see it, of course but that's what she's done.
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Submitted by DaChew on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 1:10pm.
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I love this guy.
Submitted by JLin on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 1:35pm.
Fabulous American. If I had a son he'd look like Allen West.
Dear Sol-e-dope O'Blowhard, I Bet You Don't
Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 1:59pm.
Know that you just got schooled. Nope, you don't.
Maybe those insipid and uninformed questions work in your knitting circle, but they don't work when the person being questioned has an IQ above yours... i.e., plankton.
Do you even have a college degree?
Did it come from a box of Cheerios?
You were caught humping the leg of now deceased Derrick Bell and his "Critical Race theory", another fine moment in your so-called "career" in so-called "journalism".
You'd make a better clown if you would simply don the red foam nose and the floppy shoes, poser.
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Libs think
Submitted by Nemesisesq on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 2:13pm.
Soledad O'Brien won this little tet-a-tet with Colonel West. She tried to bait him into making a McCarthy like slur so she can invoke black lists and on an on. She fails. She tries to pin him into a corner to get him to back down from his statement. She fails. She tries to gain some intellectual, political, or some other high ground invoking the name of a man who no one has heard of. She fails and butchers an ethnic name on TV. Don't they teach preparation in J-school?
Why would they?
Submitted by KornKing on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 4:06pm.
They don't even teach journalism in J-School
So are they actually
Submitted by balboa on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 2:32pm.
So are they actually communists, you know, extolling the virtues of Lenin, Stalin, Marx, etc.?
bal,
Submitted by Agnostic on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 2:39pm.
If you walk the walk but don't talk the talk - what does that make you?
I know this one!!!
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 2:47pm.
A coward.
Bal
Submitted by stratman on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 2:52pm.
Here's an example of six of them, including my representative Marcia Fudge. Ideologically, what does "Reasonable Profits Board" mean to you?
Heaven on Earth?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 3:03pm.
.
States For $100, Alex
Submitted by stratman on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 3:26pm.
What is West Virginia?
It sounds like some people
Submitted by balboa on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 3:02pm.
It sounds like some people who are trying to get re-elected more than it does a dyed-in-the-wool communist.
Not My Question
Submitted by stratman on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 3:24pm.
All politicians toss some read meat to their constituent base to one degree or another during election cycles.
My question is what political ideology does a "Reasonable Profits Board" match? Please keep your answer to current political ideologies and not some arcane or ancient artifact.
Hm...Grizzly Mamas?
Submitted by balboa on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 4:15pm.
Hm...Grizzly Mamas?
See what you get
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 5:53pm.
When you ask Bal a serious question. Should had just made fun of em instead.
I Tried
Submitted by stratman on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 6:37pm.
Occasionally Bal will give a proper answer beyond a monosyllable. It looked like all he needed was a little redirection but it was of no use today.
To continue further with him would be as pointless as getting some people to understand that Workers Comp was wrongly awarded in this case.
Well, c'mon, we all know what
Submitted by balboa on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 6:58pm.
Well, c'mon, we all know what that answer was.
?
Submitted by stratman on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 7:28pm.
?
I love his last comment
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 2:40pm.
"I don't care what he says."
'Cause I feel the same way about liberals in general.
Lesson
Submitted by Model850 on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 4:18pm.
Allen West: I don't care what he says.
Mitt (et al.) take note. Short and sweet answers. KISS*. Note that Rep. West didn't embellish his response or launch into a lengthy explanation of what he meant. He said what he meant, and left it at that. Note, also, the dumbfounded expression on O'Brien's face as she (apparently) was waiting for more.
*As likely everybody already knows, Keep It Simple, Stupid.
The dumbfounded expression
Submitted by KornKing on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 4:39pm.
appears to come naturally
Soledad's Smugness is Revealing
Submitted by mejay on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 4:43pm.
Her smugness towards the congressman let you know everything you need to know about her. She had nothing but contempt for Congressman West and her demeanor reflected it. Liberals are sick in the head and deceived: If asked, Soledad would swear that she had given a fair interview of the Rep. West.
Soledad O'Brien
Submitted by GW on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 4:51pm.
Chik-Fil-A is having some kiind of Leadership conference thing and Soledad O'Brien is appearing there, as is Tim Tebow. I'm really surprised that she was invited.
Satan's greatest accomplishment
Submitted by misterbee241 on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 5:02pm.
is persuading the world he doesn't exist. The same is true for American communists. And I thought the number was a lot higher than 80. How many democrats in the House? That's the real number.
The left hates Allen West. I
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 7:03pm.
The left hates Allen West. I found this clip on the MRC website where he explained his comment. I love how he tells the reporters to basically do their jobs and do some research. HAH!!! Like that will ever happen. It is easier for these libturds to just regurgitate the DNC and WH talking points like Soledumb does than to actually do their jobs!!
Scuba Dude... Thanks for the link. Allen West can articulate the
Submitted by Rush Fan on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 8:44pm.
Left's harmful and destructive positions superbly. His nomination as Romney's VP, would bring the same type of enthusiasm to the ticket, as Gov. Palin's nomination did for McCain.
I don't believe I would be too far off the mark if I addressed
Submitted by Rush Fan on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 8:07pm.
Soledad O'Brien as Tovarish O'Brien.
Another great article from NB but...............
Submitted by DaMav on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 7:55pm.
"refuting the Congressman's claim"
how about 'rebutting'? How about "tried to refute"?
Allen West was wrong to say what he said.
Submitted by Superman on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 8:39pm.
When you are a United States Congressman, you can't go around the country saying that there are a bunch of Communists in Congress. If Allen West wants to have a bright future in politics, he needs to stop making hyperbolic statements that only make him look foolish.
What? You're telling me you
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 9:00pm.
What? You're telling me you don't like Allen West telling the truth? Who does his statements make look foolish? I will tell you, the reporters who try and FAIL to smear this honorable man.
I think Lt. Col Allen West has a VERY bright future in politics. Here is a person that tells it like it is and does not back down from what he says. I wish he represented my district in Congress, sadly I live in a different state but that did not prevent me from donating to his campaign.
He doesn't look foolish at all
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 9:00pm.
It's about time someone stood up and spoke the truth. There ARE a bunch of communists, even if they don't identify themselves as such.
Agree Ms Rad*
Submitted by cajun2 on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 9:26pm.
It's not Allen West calling people names. The Communist Party released that list of congressmen several years ago. Here is a great article that supports West's comments.
http://blog.beliefnet.com/watchwomanonthewall/2011/08/socialists-in-cong...
Liberals hate the truth, says motherbelt.
Nice!
Submitted by stratman on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 12:24am.
Have emailed that link out, Miss Cajun. Thank-you.
I hope Romney has the stones to select West as his running mate, though this is made slimmer given that Rubio and Christie now appear to be hedging on their previous denials of interest.
There is zero chance, strat...
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 12:39am.
Romney would then be compelled to publicly and forcefully disavow West's incendiary falsehood. He would be unnecessarily embroiled in a controversy that could prove lethal to his otherwise excellent chances of winning this November.
Jer
I have already explained why
Submitted by stratman on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 1:26am.
I have already explained why I believe Romney will not select West. However, that doesn't mean I can not hope for the best.
West is simply explaining the cumulative effect of the Left's slow boil Communism on American society. He has merely awoken some frogs and identified their cooks. (pot-water-frog-low flame)
West is engaging in the insidious form of 'language and label'
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 1:49am.
creep that, in the opposite case, would unfairly and absurdly morph a conservative Republican into a Nazi. And if a Democratic congressman claimed there were 78-81 Republicans in the US Congress who were members of the Nazi Party, this website would be at defcon level 2 within minutes, and justifiably so.
Jer
I don't know which is more shocking...
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 12:28am.
the stunningly irresponsible accusation by West, the general failure of Republican party leaders to condemn it, or the eagerness of the conservative blogoshpere to applaud it.
Jer
The unshocking thing about it....
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 12:40am.
...is the liberals' knee jerk reaction to the truth of what Allen West says.
Has it occurred to you, Jer, that this is one of the reasons why he does this?
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Jer is doing his drama queen routine over Rep. West ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 12:59am.
for the same reason he denigrates Rush Limbaugh.
The libs fight dirty, and when Limbaugh or Allen West puts a knee into their nads, they get hysterical and scream about dirty 'tactics'.
Ok for the Dems to lie, cheat, and steal; but heaven forfend they get some of their own back.
Wimpy turds, they are.
MD
Y'know, MD, I was kinda
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 1:08am.
Y'know, MD, I was kinda thinkin' (Obamaspeak) the same thing. Ol' Jer is a smart guy - even if he is a lib - and I haven't been able to figure out what Allen West said that isn't the TROOF............even IF the subject matter might be something that the Dems want to avoid. So it seems like a Shakespeare thing to me - 'much ado about nuffin', or 'thou doeth protest too much'.
It's very simple, killla...
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 1:31am.
West's claim is untrue. Not so long ago even a charge that a Democrat was "soft on communism" would result in Republican leaders racing each other to the nearest microphone in order to denounce the accusation.
If West wanted to call them "progressives" and describe the general tenets of progressive philosophy and what he finds objectionable about it, fine. If he wanted to call them "socialists", he can make a case for that. But "communists", no. And members of the Communist Party...a flat-out lie, unless he has evidence he has yet to produce.
Jer
OK, Jer................easy
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 2:13am.
OK, Jer................easy question, simple answer: was, or was not...........and is, or is not, Boy Baraka endorsed by the Communist Party of the USA??? It's a 'yes' or 'no' answer.
And, beyond that........he IS the 'titular head' of the Democrat Party, right?? So if HE is being backed by the commies, then the rest of them are in the same boat, right??
But - as you know, Jer - I'm just a dumb-ass blue-collar country-boy over here in Asia, so I might have it all wrong!!!
killa, would you please just stop with the "dumbass blue-collar
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 2:40am.
working boy" routine. :-)
It smacks of the big city attorney who gets his head handed to him by the professed "poor country lawyer" quoting pages of obscure case law and statutes from memory, masterfully cross-examining witnesses, and concluding with a jury summation that would turn Clarence Darrow green with envy.
But, to answer your questions: Yes he was. Yes he is. Not necessarily. And even those who may be in the same boat for SOME purposes are not therefore in the same boat for ALL purposes. And it certainly doesn't mean everybody in the boat are members of the same club. By the same logic, one could claim tea partiers were Klan members because there are a number of similarities in their respective statements of beliefs. Needless to say, a claim such as that would be outrageous.
Jer
Ahhhhh, Jer - I speak
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 2:53am.
Ahhhhh, Jer - I speak TROOF!!! To quote Popeye - 'I yam what I yam'!!! And I haven't really noticed any similiarities between the TEA pary members and the KKK either................but then again, I'm NOT a lawyer!!!
Exactly. It's hyperbole to
Submitted by balboa on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 9:33am.
Exactly. It's hyperbole to appear "tough-talkin'".
Jer
Submitted by MrShy on Sat, 04/21/2012 - 1:18am.
"Not so long ago even a charge that a Democrat was "soft on communism" would result in Republican leaders racing each other to the nearest microphone in order to denounce the accusation."
Really? Care to point to an instance of this? Of a Repub making something akin to that mild charge and this fallout scenario you've painted? And exactly how "not so" long ago?
You really do blow so much made-up, lib-fabricated nonsense out of your aye-ess-ess, Jer.
- Moroccan Shy
Join Mr. Shy and The 1* Percent
You didn't get the memo, Shy?
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 04/21/2012 - 1:35am.
There's been a rule change:
Time is on
Submitted by HockeyKid on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 8:36pm.
the side of the original argument. If you want to counter, do the research.
Suck it up, Buttercup.
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/04/20/chris-matthews-sla...
Jer
Well, Matthew...at least the libs
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 2:03am.
have nads which can be kneed in contrast to the nutless Republicans who are so afraid of ruffling the feathers of their fire-eating base that they choose silence over principle.
Jer
Hey Jer, I AM a member of
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 2:16am.
Hey Jer, I AM a member of their 'fire-eating base'............except that I NEVER refer to myself as a 'Republican'!!!! The only people who are WORSE than the establishment Republicans are ALL Democrats!!! But they ARE eunichs, and they have done it to themselves.............self-mutilation!!!
Actually, I don't eat fire......................I'm a very common-sense guy, which is probably too simple for ANY politician to understand!!! As I have said countless times before.............'common sense' has been under attack for years, and it will probably be made 'against the law' soon enough!!!
Okay fire-eater...
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 2:47am.
I'll see you at the next luau.
Aloha...
Jer
Much as I hate to admit it, Jer, you hit the ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 04/21/2012 - 12:47am.
ten ring dead center with your 'nutless Republicans' shot.
I refer, of course, to those other than Allen West, Paul Ryan, and Marco Rubio.
That said, I will take even the 'nutless Republicans' over the likes of Obama, Biden, Schumer, Nadler, Durbin, Rangel, and like mopes in your Party.
Nasty, sleazy punks, your boys.
The lot of 'em.
MD
Brother
Submitted by sngnsgt on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 9:02am.
Her brother is getting a show on current TV His name is Al. His last name is Catraz. Should be an interesting show.