Showing posts with label Allen West. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Allen West. Show all posts
Friday, September 13, 2013
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Is it time for Hollywood to get back to the business of make believe. Should we let celebrities do what they do best be fake in a realistic way? Because when celebrities use their fame to influence the real world, the result, more often than not, is an exercise in narcissism. Unfortunately, American culture has devolved to the point where we celebrate narcissists and their pet concerns at the expense of the issues that affect everyday Americans, such as energy prices, deficit and debt. Col. Allen B. West finds celebrity excess at its worse in the debate over gun violence, especially with regards to the Newton, CT tragedy.
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Thursday, August 22, 2013
"We were bored & decided to kill somebody." 3 black teens shoot white jogger.Who will POTUS identify w/this time? http://t.co/ovs9Xw23Ye
— Allen West (@AllenWest) August 20, 2013
Filling in for Martin Bashir Wednesday, MSNBC's Joy Reid attempted to figure out why of the 11,000 shooting deaths that occur in this country, do only a handful of them "capture the media's--and thus the public's--attention." After Newtown, Aurora and Trayvon Martin, Reid sees the media paying extra attention to the apparently random shooting of Australian Chris Lane by three "bored" Oklahoma teenagers and the narrowly avoided catastrophe at a Georgia elementary school.
Reid argued that it's not "race, poverty, gangs, or even video games and movies" that tie these shooting together. It's access to guns. "These are obviously two very different stories on many levels," she said. "The location is different, the race of the suspects is different, the types of guns used. But can we get away from the fact that the common denominator are young people with access to guns?"
The Chicago Tribune's Clarence Page tackled this question first, saying it's only gotten easier in recent years for young people of all races to get their hands on guns. "Obviously the insanity involved in these two cases shows that background checks and tougher access are what we need," he said.
Shooting victim and Salon writer Brian Beutler agreed, explaining why he prefers stricter gun laws to police tactics like stop-and-frisk that he said unfairly targets innocent people. "It would be nice to at least not regard these shootings primarily at least by the race of the gunman," he said, "because then you get into the situation where some people are trying to tally up, you know, the number of shootings perpetrated by black youth versus white youth. That just doesn't feel like a very healthy way for society to be pitting individuals against each other."
Reid said she's already starting to see that rhetoric from the right, specifically about the shooting of Chris Lane. you've started to see people on the right tally it up on the basis of race. As an example, she singled out the tweet below from former congressman Allen West, along with Fox News' mischaracterization of the shooters' races.
Seeing the right "directly trying to bait the president on race, a situation with the baseball player that's already so tragic," Reid asked, "Why do they seem so determined to also make it racial?"
"They've been champing at the bit waiting for a case that would help them to prove the point that white people are not--that their lives aren't as valued as much as black people's lives are--the exact opposite of what experience tells us," Page said. He noted that the media attention to the Trayvon Martin case stemmed from his parents and others being outraged that the state did not initially charge Zimmerman with a crime. "What we're looking for here is equal justice," he said. "If the white Australian who was killed was not getting equal justice in this case, I would be protesting as much as anybody ought to be."
While he did think that "conservatives have been on Fox News and on drudge looking for incidents of black use behaving badly," Beutler argued that if you really want to reduce the number of shooting in this country, "there are better ways to go about it than trying to stereotype what you think shooters look like."
Black teen who murdered Australian posted racist Tweets | The Daily Caller http://buff.ly/16z3rka
Monday, August 19, 2013
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
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Finally, after almost four years, the trial of Army Major Nidal Hasan began but should I refer to this despicable Islamic jihadist as an Army Major? He has after all renounced his American citizenship and oath as an Army officer. He has clearly declared his allegiance to Islamism and is not reticent about the action he took back in late 2009 resulting in the death of 13 American Soldiers and Department of the Army civilians and the wounding of another 32. So will someone tell me, who in the Pentagon or the White House has the moral courage and intestinal fortitude to now refer to this as an act of Islamic terrorism…and dump this BS about workplace violence?
Monday, July 29, 2013
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Sean Hannity tonight brought up the "rise in racial tension" after the George Zimmerman trial ended and asked Allen West and Juan Williams why the country appears to be so divided on racial lines. Williams fought Hannity's assertion that it makes no sense since the decision was not about race, firing back that of course it was about race; from the very beginning all people talked about was race.
West slammed the push by some black leaders "stoking... racial division," and the media for going right along with it, while ignoring many other cases and cherry-picking issues to keep the separation in place. Williams declared that the trial led to a "higher level of distrust between people in this country," not just on racial lines, but on party lines. Hannity confronted Williams over whether President Obama's comments on the trial mean he has any blame in the division that's sprung up. Williams started to talk about race when Hannity piped up to say there was "no race in this case." Williams shot back that the entire conversation, from the time when the public first learned about the case to the present. He said the case only first got attention because the local cops didn't prosecute. Hannity insisted this was due to lack of evidence.
He and West found it outrageous how the media and major civil rights leaders seemingly don't care about other issues of crime and punishment in the black community. Williams agreed on this point, saying the media has completely ignored the "carnage" of black-on-black crime, and said gangster rappers ought to be called out for "corrupting our kids."
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