CNN Anchor Has Testy Exchange With Allen West Over Communist Remarks: ‘Name Names’
- Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:34am by
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Allen West’s comments that there are nearly 80 Communists in the House just won’t go away. And CNN is making sure of that.
CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien, for example, had a testy exchange with West on Thursday morning, confronting him on the remarks and demanding he “name names.”
From the beginning, O’Brien was combative, vehemently disagreeing with Allen West regarding Ted Nugent’s controversial recent comments. Then they turned to West’s own remarks. After playing the clip, O’Brien asked him about it, and West said that Communists have “renamed themselves progressive” but the ideology has stayed the same. Mediaite picks it up from there with a transcript:
“So name names for me,” O’Brien said. “Start naming the 78 to 81…”
“Oh, we don’t have to…” West countered.
“Oh, we do! I’m dying to know,” O’Brien pressed. “Which are the members of the…”
“You can go look up the progressive caucus…” interrupted West.
“I got ‘em right here!” O’Brien interjected — and seemingly out of thin air pulled out a list of the members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
“When then you’ve got the names,” West said.
“So Keith Ellison is a communist?” asked O’Brien. “Raúl Grijalva is a communist?”
“Well, look, I’m just talking about the fact that the ideology and principles — you can call it whatever you want…”
“Tammy Baldwin is a communist? Judy Chu is a communist?” O’Brien continued.
“You can call it whatever you want,” West replied.
“Yeah, but I want to know what you’re calling it,” O’Brien said.
“I’m calling it this,” West clarified. “Communist, progressive, Marxist, statist, another term being used. I’m looking at things they believe in. If you don’t think we have to stand upon truth and be able to identify and clearly contrast the different principles and values and ideologies of governance here in this country, then we’re never going to get to the fact of accepting the true debate 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.”
CNN hasn’t posted the video, but Mediaite captured it:
By the way, here‘s the original video of West’s comments:
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Comments (1085)
RightUnite
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:53amYES!! Good for Allan West. Loved when he said at the end of the video, I don’t care!! Hehehehehehe!
Report Post »Locked
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:02amWest should have come out and just said, “Yes, they’re all Communists seeking to destroy our country. I stand by my comments. Prove me wrong.”
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:10amI heard West explain it. He accuses everyone in the Progressive Congress of being a communist. He did not misspeak. Game Set Match.
Report Post »GodHatesFigs
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:12amYou see, it‘s not anyone’s job to prove him wrong. When an individual makes a positive claim, the burden of proof is on that individual making the claim.
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:14amThey are going to try to pull ‘McCarthyism’ on him. It will get dirty. But today more of us understand the threat, and they won’t get away with it this time. Allen West is a real hero.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:20am@Thatsit
“They are going to try to pull ‘McCarthyism’ on him.”
I‘m thinking you don’t understand what McCarthyism is.
“McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence.”
If West refuses to name names, isn’t he technically the one using McCarthyism? Hence why I said, if he’s confident in his claims, he should just come out and say who he believes are communists, present his evidence, and say “Now tell me they’re not.”
Report Post »hereandnow
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:21amSoledad can argue with the truth, but in the end the truth still remains…
Report Post »kadster01
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:22amKeep saying it, Mr. West. Don’t pull punches. Don’t whitewash it. Don’t play games with semantics. Speak the truth and stand by it. That’s the kind of leadership we need, not the spineless RINO‘s we’re regularly treated to with the lineup of people supposedly on our side.
Report Post »landman1
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:23amSoledad Obrien interjects race in every segment she does. She despises conservatives and the USA in general. She forgets that capitalism got her to where she is today. She should look in the mirror and as she identifies her self for what she is she will undoubtedly be able to see that huge chip she is carrying on her shoulder. She will not last long with this show as she gets progressivly more militant. Harvard education indeed. A minority allowed to attend to make the numbers work out. Gotta keep them grants flowing.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:23amAllen West, the war criminal, is proving that his head is about as empty as a hot air balloon. He charged nameless members of congress as being communist, now put up or shut up.
barber2
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:31amENCINOM: Why do you always have to insult with rude comments ? Why can’t you just make a point without sounding like a rude child that needs to be put into time out ?
Report Post »jzs
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:33amHe said these guys were members of the Communist Party. They are not, obviously they are not. The head of the Communist Party said they were not. So West is a liar.
Report Post »NutterButter79
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:35amIf West makes a claim, he should be able to back it up with names.
Report Post »Imagine the outrage on the right if some leftie said that the Tea Party was full of neo Nazi KKK members. Wouldn’t Beck and Rush and Fox News want that person to name names? I know I would.
I want to know the names and the absolute proof(not based on their voting).
Come on West, show your cards, I think you’re bluffing just to try and stay relevant with the LSM.
MCDAVE
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:35amPublish the list Mr West…Thank you for your courage
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:38amlook it up……….dictionary….progressive party formed in 1924-supported by farm, labor and socialist groups
Report Post »Conlaw
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:38amThe media is stuck in the mindset that all communists must act like Stalin or the North Koreans. Many European and American communists have changed their tactics to work with socialists and progressives to advance their leftwing statist agenda. That is why the Communist Party USA endorsed Barack Obama for president. The progressives and the communists ultimately agree in the same thing: a large, centrally-controlled government and economy that directs people on how to live. It includes government-controlled healthcare, an aversion to wealth creation and the capitalist system, dividing people along race, class and gender lines, and condemning the history of the USA as racist, greedy, sexist, abusive and therefore in need of moral cleansing through enlightened leftist programs. That’s what Obama and his supporters meant when they spoke of “changing” America. West is right in linking the Progressive caucus to this leftwing statist mindset. They engage in the same “the US is greedy and unjust” demagoguery.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:41amBARBER2, Let ENCINOM(AN) be. When he is rude it’s more fun to be just as rude back at him. Yeah, I’ll lower my standards to his level on occasion.
Report Post »kadster01
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:43am@JZS
Report Post »I have not seen where west said they were members of the Communist (capital C) Party. That is different from being a communist. I could say I’m a democrat but not be a member of the Democrat Party. I happen to be conservative but am registered Unaffiliated. Can you show me where West said they belong to the official Communist Party?
JRook
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:47amAlan West should be sanctioned and run out of Congress. At the very least he needs to obtain some medication for his paranoia and Terrets. I’d say he is an idiot, but that would be to unfairly generalize on the idiots who listen to him.
NHwinter
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:54amencinom and JZS – look up the Communist agenda and you will see that the Progressives/Liberals/Democrats have the same goals as Communists. What was once the old Democrat party is now melded into the new Communist party. Stop making silly arguements and take a reality check by getting educated on their agenda.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:55amAllen West for Vice President!
Go Woman/Black in 2012. Palin-West all the Way!
TEA
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:57amLazy people will always choose socialism and communism, they can hide their worthlessness easier among the collective, aka…. UNIONS, capitalism exposes their worthlessness……
Report Post »hereandnow
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:57amA communist by any other name.., is still a communist.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:58am@ENCINOM…. Oh look!! The leftist Race Baiter flappin his jibs again… Isn’t that sweet??
Report Post »Silversmith
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:58amWhat’s becoming clear is that the presence of the MIRIAD of trolls on certain articles is, itself, becoming a guide to whom the left fears.
Your marching orders betray you.
Silversmith
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:59amJRook – you might fall into the idiot catagory for not seeing what is really happening in America. If only you trolls would take the time to find out what the Communist agenda really is and how Agenda 21 is part of the plan. There is so much information out there, but you all prefer to dig you head in the sand. Allen West is a hero and positive force that will help put America back on the Republic path and stop Socialism/Marxism/Progressism, etc. Those have never worked and only an indoctrinated child would still believe in them.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:59am@Kadster01
“I have not seen where west said they were members of the Communist (capital C) Party. That is different from being a communist.”
Actually, he did, specifically, say Communist Party. As per the link in the article:
“After one person asked him about “card-carrying” Marxists in Congress, West responded to those who brushed aside the query.
“No, it’s a good question,” he said, adding: “I believe there is about 78 to 81 members of the Democratic Party that are members of the Communist Party.”
Report Post »JL320
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:59amIf Romney made West VP, and Newt press secretary, and surrounded him self with true conservatives, I could vote for that. Unfortunately I doubt Mitt would let any true conservatives in his cabinet.
Report Post »HappyStretchedThin
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:07amMcCarthy may have made claims backed up by dubious evidence, but he was seeking to imprison infiltrators during a cold war (and was proven right by history years later, re: Coulter’s book on the subject). West, on the other hand, isn’t trying to imprison anyone or discredit anyone. He is making clear accusations not against people, or their rights, but against ideas. West’s evidence is solid: their own belonging to a group that has no confidence in the individual, but instead seeks to expand the state’s ability to control individuals. He made the argument that Progressives, statists, socialists and communists–however THEY choose to define themselves–share a similarity of beliefs that are antithetical to the constitution of the USA. He chose not to call anyone out because he’s precisely NON-McCarthyite. He recognizes their right to represent their constituents just the same as his own. But he stands up to their word games by highlighting the concepts they believe in, and then demonstrating why they’re bad for America.
Report Post »If he made the mis-step of saying they belonged to the Communist Party, he‘s still accurate on the ideas they share with the Communist Party’s platform. (If you listen, West claims that in context it was their ideas he was attacking, not their membership in any given party anyway).
West’s argument is essentially the Shakespearean one: a rose by any other name would smell as red.
JZS, Encicom, Godhates, are all as usual immune to context.
kadster01
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:07am@Locked
Report Post »So, if there was anything he deserved to be called on, it should be that. He may have simply misspoke. If, however, they are in fact card-carrying members of the Communist Party, that should be verifiable and I would agree that he should out them. I, for one, would love to see it.
fastfacts1
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:08amI’ll name a few names, read the list of those in the Progressive Caucus. Want proof here is Maxine Waters telling the oil company that she will socialize their company: http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2012/apr/maxine_socializing_oil_.html
Report Post »Locked
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:12am@Kadster01
“So, if there was anything he deserved to be called on, it should be that. He may have simply misspoke. If, however, they are in fact card-carrying members of the Communist Party, that should be verifiable and I would agree that he should out them. I, for one, would love to see it.”
I agree. I hope he does stick to his guns, names names, and show his proof.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:15amGe calls it like he sees it, and IMHO, he is correct. Progressives are Fabian Socialists and Communists, so if the shoe fits, as they say, wear it. I bet these communists are so proud of themselves, stealing money from the productive in society, to give it to the unproductive!
Go ask a guy begging for your quarters on the corner for a job, see what happens?
This country is at a crossroads and if we don’t band together to remove these progressives, and I mean ALL of them, then we are going to lose our country, and our freedoms (what we have left of them).
Report Post »Unix
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:17amAnd for the liberal trolls on here, let me clarify what I meant with my previous post:
VOTE Progressives out of office in November! Kick them to the curb with the ballot box! Remove them from power with your right to VOTE!
There will be no need for any violence, just a simple honest vote will do the trick!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:17amJROOK Keep dreaming fuzzball
Report Post »HappyStretchedThin
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:19am@Fastfacts,
Report Post »West’s point is that they named their OWN names: http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=71§iontree=2,71
West is perfectly willing to meet ideas with ideas, and be counted for his clearly labeled conservative values. These “progressives” are all fine with that label, and with carefully crafting mission statements so that it hides how closely aligned their IDEAS are with the communists, until someone actually shows that the ideas themselves ARE in fact communist.
Unix
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:24amHey liberal communists on here (trolls), the list is right there for everyone to see and read:
Progressive Caucus!
Yep, those people ARE communists, they want to redistribute wealth, they know what’s best for you, they mandate by law, they want to control you!
To all you communists out there:
Your control of my life ends and your front door!
Got that? any questions? It should be obvious to you amoebas by now, no? If not, I’ve got nothing for ya, head on back to camp and roast a few wienies!
We don’t care what you have to say any more, you’ve shown us your true colors, and we don’t like them, now bugger off to Huff’nPuffCompost.com and tell all of your little piggies what I just said.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:24amSo what do these people call themselves ? Besides haters of American traditional values, I mean .
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:29amHAPPY: Excellent summary .
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:31amCommunist Manifesto 10 Planks – Liberty Zone – American Dream …
Report Post »ARE Americans practicing Communism? Read the 10 Planks of The Communist Manifesto to discover the truth and learn how to know your enemy… Karl Marx describes in his …
http://www.libertyzone.com/Communist-Manifesto-Planks.html – Cached
Teabunny
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:34amhey figgy..that statement is true in a court of law….not in an interview with some talking head. It is the interviewers JOB (dirty word to you socialists) to prove him wrong. Or have you decided “the court of public opinion” should become our court system??? Nothing like Goebbels being judge jury and executioner.
Report Post »weneedrubio
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:41amMcCarthy had plenty of evidence and was right. OBrien sounds just like the media and congressional representatives of the McCarthy era and we now no how wrong they were. As West said, “call it what you want” but it is leftist un-American philosophy and it has been shoved down our thtoats for 50 years now and has taken root in our latest generations that will suffer greatly for it. If we don’t do something about it they will not live in freedom as we have.
Report Post »Teabunny
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:42amhey locked..if you read had enoughs comment….that is what he said you would do…thanks for proving him right!
Report Post »I support God's Israel!
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:47amHey O’Brien: YOU ARE A COMMUNIST BECAUSE YOU DEFEND THEM.
Report Post »AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:49amSoledad proves yet again what a horse’s patoot she is.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:55am@Teabunny
I‘m not sure I understand what you’re saying. The definition of McCarthyism is “the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence.” Are you agreeing that West is guilty of McCarthyism? Because it sounds like @Thatsitivehadenough’s comment said he was on the receiving end, not the dealing end.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:56am@JZS
He said these guys were members of the Communist Party. They are not, obviously they are not. The head of the Communist Party said they were not. So West is a liar.
——–
JZS, there’s the official CP, and then there’s the underground CP. Many of the political figures of the CP remain covert for obvious reasons. However, once the CP consolidates power in a given country, they usually surface as commies. Maxine Waters is one such example. So is Nelson Mandela. Obama is still officially undercover, although his commie stench is nauseating.
I’d like to remind West that the Black Caucus, to which he belongs, is entirely communist. Also, IMO, the term that best suits these cockroaches is neocommies. It still denotes origins, while connoting the difference between old and new school communism.
Report Post »Teabunny
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:02pmat Support Israel…she would be called a communist sympathizer…like her Massiah…Obama
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:02pmCol. West is right on the money….take your pick out of the “Progressive” caucus. Whether admitted or not they are the tools of communists, marxists, socialists and statists. If they weren’t why would the professional left be so closely tied to them? Close your eyes and drop your finger on any name in the progressive caucus…they’re a communist/marxist/statist/socialist if not by admission then by nature. Don‘t forget O’Brien was the talking head that tried to deflate the video footage of Obama at a rally in college telling his fellow students to “open their minds” to a professor he embraces that believes every law in the country is filtered through race.
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:07pmWest rules!
Report Post »Obama_Sham
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:22pmIsn’t that nice… JZS let Encinom off of his leash again…
Report Post »Obama_Sham
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:23pmLOL @ JRook
Dope…
Report Post »GodHatesFigs
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:28pm@ TEABUNNY
Report Post »My statement applies to reality. If someone makes a positive claim, it is her responsibility to support that claim with evidence, not someone else’s job to prove them wrong. What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
makeemstop
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:30pmO’brien is an imbecile… if she did her homework, she’d know that the National Communist Party actively supports and campaigns for all the Progressives… Let alone all the other Communist groups. There’s obviously no degree or IQ requirement to be an Anchor.
Report Post »StatenJM
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:32pmThat was great. He handled that well.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:36pmKeith Ellison “IS” a muslim. And he “IS” a subversive element in our government. As a member of the progressive caucus he “IS” declaring he “IS” communist.
Progressive, socialist, communist are all synonyms. They mean the same thing in the political context.
Report Post »Izzy2626
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:37pmId still Fluke Obrien……./shrug
Report Post »veruca salt
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:45pmThe “question boldly” command here at the Blaze goes right out of the window once a talking head says what readers like to hear and confirms their pre-conceived notions. West throws this red meat out because it not only proves to be good for his campaign coffers, it also keeps people distracted while he votes for the NDAA and HR 347. Stay distracted and enjoy the red meat, my friends.
Report Post »PoliticallyRightUs.Com
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:52pm@Encinom,
Report Post »Listen to this… I have served my country, opened myheart and wallet to Rotary Int’l (Which helps everyone in the world), I am a Tea Party person and I love “The Republic of America”! You seem to be one of the people who want to bring this country to its knees because you want us to be like Communist China, Cuba or North Korea… Well I say go! Go live under those regimes then come back and lets see how you feel about big government and socialism!!! I have lived under socialism and under the true effects of what kind of a life you will have.
Have a nice day!
jzs
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:01pmHappyStretchedThin, yours was a very literate response, although when you quote Coulter – who makes her living saying and writing outrageous inflammatory things – as an expert on history, you are really stretching thin.
Allen West didn’t “misstep” when he made the remarks about the Communist Party. That wasn’t a slip of the tongue. That was just another one of his outrageous remarks to get his name in the news. You know it and I know it. Let’s drop the pretense.
As to your ideas about liberals really being communists, that’s silly and yes, that is just playing word games. Let’s see, how about the so called Buffet Rule. Communist? Here is Ronald Reagan supporting the exact same idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mp1nuEVOoc
Let’s see, universal health care and the individual mandate? Communist? Originally that was George H. W. Bush’s idea. Eisenhower supported the idea of universal health care too.
The EPA? Nixon. Tax the rich? Under Eisenhower the top tax rate was 91%
Sorry stretchedthin, what has happened is not the Democrats have suddenly become communists. What’s happened is that the Tea Party is so far right they make Reagan and Nixon seem like communists by comparison.
AxelPhantom
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:01pmThis may be what he is referencing…..
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2010/08/american-socialists-release-names-of-70-congressional-democrats-in-their-caucus/
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:07pmTell me JZS…you’ve been bleating about Col. West and his fine and reprimand..what did Col. West do to be be reprimanded and fined?
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:08pmOkay Soledad.
Sit down. Allow me to edify and educate you, since you are a pathetic, indoctrinated bovine.
Let’s eliminate the term Communist because we have our house and senate filled with many more
“representatives” with an ideology just as dangerous as Communism.
That Ideology is Democracy.
Democracy means majority rules.
That means that when 51% of the population wants something the other % does not,
49% of the People lose their rights.
The Founding Fathers loathed Democracy.
We must expunge this political ideology from our society.
The Constitutution protects the 1% and their inherent unalienable rights, from the 99%.
Gays and Women who are pro-abortion should be some of the most Constitutional minded people alive, but unfortunately, most are brainwashed.
This is a must-see, perspective-changing, 3 minute video of Arron Russo explaining this brilliantly:
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RewUP-Fdhqk
RiverVeteran
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:10pmENCINOM… 1. Alan West is NOT a war criminal….nice try though. 2. Funny you didn‘t ask dems to ’name names’ when they said the tea party was full of racist/kkk members (typical of a liberal hypocrite like yourself). 3. The 75-member Congressional Progressive Caucus, co-chaired by Reps. Raul Grijalva and Keith Ellison, is closely allied with the Democratic Socialists of America. The Communist Party USA identifies Progressive Caucus members as its “allies in Congress.”
Read more: http://blog.beliefnet.com/watchwomanonthewall/2011/08/socialists-in-congress-with-ties-to-communist-party-usa.html#ixzz1sVVFnLcd
Nice try but you LOSE Biatch!
Report Post »db321
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:10pmKeep up the Good Fight Col. West – you may feel alone, I assure you – your not!
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:16pm…and here is a screenshot of the newsletter American Socialist Voter put out by the Dem. Socialists of America.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/35733956/DSA-Members-American-Socialist-Voter-Democratic-Socialists-of-America-10-1-09
Report Post »RicohCop
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:22pmencinom
Report Post »Why are you here? No not on the The Blaze…on earth? I pity you and your world view.
Locked
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:27pmThe most disappointing part of these comments so far has been people continually misstating Allen West’s military career.
1. He served for over 20 years.
2. He was reprimanded (not court-martialed) through a non-judicial punishment for assaulting prisoners. He agreed with the punishment and paid a $5000 fine.
3. He was not fired or dicharged, but he did retire (with full benefits) the year after his punishment.
4. And probably the most commonly misstated thing here: he was NOT a colonel. He was a Lt-Col. As a member of a military family, it’s frustrating to see people keep using rank ignorantly. It’s fine to confer respect with military titles, but it’s like calling a registered nurse by the title “Doctor.”
Now you all know, so stop with the incorrect titles and lies about his service. West deserves respect for his years in the military, and that respect means giving an accurate accounting of his service and rank.
Report Post »ktowers
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:38pmSo, JZS, a given statist idea is not really a statist idea if some Repuplican or other supports it? Talk about an appeal to false authority. Ideas stand and fall on their own merit, not by who endorses them.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:41pm@Axel
“This may be what he is referencing…..”
Looking at the list really fast, I‘m thinking that can’t be what West was referring to.
Report Post »1. They’re not members of the Communist Party
2. The list is from 2009; at a glance, two of the three representatives from Florida are no longer serving. Thus, it is not current (unlike West’s comments)
3. Even if we ignore those who are no longer serving, West claimed 78-81 members of Congress, and this list only shows at most 70.
4. The website that reportedly held the list is not functional. The domain is for sale if you want to buy it, though.
AvengerK
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:55pmI’m still waiting JZS…can you tell me what Col. West did to be fined and reprimanded? I already answered this for you further along on this board..but I want to see you on record stating what Col. West did to be fined and reprimanded. Because after you tell me what he did (and knowing your nature you will not answer but even in your silence you’re proving what an idiot you are) then I want you to tell me WHY he did it. You’re quick to post your blather JZS..so quick that many times you’re caught in your own idiocy..but you’re strangely reluctant to answer my question now. So please…JZS..what “bad thing” did Col West do?
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:01pm@COLONEL LOCKED,
Making mountains out of molehills again?
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:03pmLocked,
Probably not as I would expect that Lt. Col. West has more information on the people he works with than we do, however….
1) The relevance of “old” information is not automatically negated by the fact that it is old, unless you are a progressive.
Report Post »2) Not surprised that information that was once available has been scrubbed seems to be happening a lot lately (can’t find old books and speeches with expired copyright’s for free download that were once available on this topic)
3) Differentiating between socialists and communists is like saying a girl and a woman are not the same sex because one is further along in development.
4) Here is the screenshot of the newsletter http://www.scribd.com/doc/35733956/DSA-Members-American-Socialist-Voter-Democratic-Socialists-of-America-10-1-09 it is 15 pages long
Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:08pm@AVENGERK
I will take the liberty to answer for JZS…………………..
“He was a big meanie and offended the sensibilities of some scary bad guy somewhere”.
Report Post »GreenBeretLTC
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:13pmAllen West is brilliant. He turned Soledad O’Brien inside out. His final statement is one I’ve used time and time again. It‘s too bad he’s so new on the national stage, but I’ll send his campaign money. We need more out of the box thinkers like him. Some previous commentator called him a war criminal. What that Southern Californian libertard doesn’t understand is that what he did was psychological and in no way physically threatened that Iraqi insurgent, and the intel he gained saved lives. It was his PC chain of command who lacked the cojones to to stand by him.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:14pm@jzs,
“Let’s see, how about the so called Buffet Rule. Communist? Here is Ronald Reagan supporting the exact same idea:”
Reagan grew government, and was closer to being a Communist than a lot of us would like to admit.
Yes, Reagan’s support of “Buffet Rule”-like policies are collectivist.
Also, Buffett doesn’t count 99% of his income as taxable, since he considers it a gift to charity. He WOULD be taxed around 50%, otherwise.
See here.
The truth about rising gas prices, the stock market, & Warren Buffett’s taxes
http ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQYy25kLijA#t=10m46s
“Let’s see, universal health care and the individual mandate? Communist? Originally that was George H. W. Bush’s idea. Eisenhower supported the idea of universal health care too.
Appealing to party affiliation isn’t helpful. Republicans can’t, by virtue of their party, sanctify unconstitutional legislation.
“The EPA? Nixon. Tax the rich? Under Eisenhower the top tax rate was 91%”
On environmentalisnm, see here.
Ron Paul on the Economy, International Trade, AIDS and the Environment (1988)
http ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYp5BD-omG4#t=3m52s
On the “Tax the Rich 50s & 60s”, see here.
Seizing Your Money Is Good For You, Citizen: Where Else Would We Get Rainbows and Sunshine?
Report Post »http ://www.libertyclassroom.com/seizing-your-money-is-good-for-you-citizen-where-else-would-we-get-rainbows-and-sunshine/
Locked
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:15pm@Dr. Hallowell
Nope. Pointing out that all these folks attacking and defending West seem to have no freaking clue about the guy’s military service.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:23pmJZS Says:
“Tax the rich? Under Eisenhower the top tax rate was 91%”
JZS, I’m feeling lazy like a democrat today, so I am going to ask you to do the research and provide some credible proof for the following………..
Was that rate created by Eisenhower, or was it already in place due to his predecessors?
And what party did those predecessors belong to?
Whattaya wanna wager that I know the answers to those questions without even looking them up?
But you go girl.
Report Post »wdittgasn
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:28pmI would love to see Allen West run fro president. we need more like him. Put him and Chris Christie together…………………… And by the way a hot air balloon has more in it than what‘s in Encinom’s head.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:28pmGood one Locked,
Actually took me a minute to figure that one out.
But I can assure you that I am neither a Doctor, Nor a Hallowell
But It would be honor to work for Glenn, I must say.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:32pm@Billy
“I am going to ask you to do the research and provide some credible proof for the following………..
Was that rate created by Eisenhower, or was it already in place due to his predecessors?”
As I’m feeling not lazy like a Democrat or Dr. Hallowell, I Googled it. First result says that Eisenhower took over in 1953 with a 92% top income tax rate, and lowered it to 91% (where it stayed until 1963).
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=213
Politifact rates the claim as mostly true:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/sep/22/barack-obama/barack-obama-says-taxes-are-lower-today-under-reag/
“By contrast, during the eight years of the Eisenhower presidency, the top rate averaged roughly 90 percent, typically hitting individuals making $200,000 a year or couples making $400,000 a year. In 2010 dollars, that’s equivalent to $1.6 million for an individual and $3.2 million for a couple. Someone making the 1954 equivalent of $373,650 in today’s money would have paid a tax rate of 72 percent back then.”
Beezernotes.com notes that the 1954 Tax Code implemented a progressive (eeep!) tax code, with the top bracket indeed being 91%
Report Post »http://www.beezernotes.com/wordpress/?p=5041
Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:35pmHey JZS,
Why do all you lefty lemmings always go back to Eisenhower, and stop there?
Typical liberal disinformation and distraction techniques. OH YEA……..Alinsky tactics.
Since you guys want to back in time to when the rates were more to YOUR liking…….
I propose we go all the back to the rates of say……….1913………Now those are some attractive rates right there my fiend.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:46pmRIGHTSOFBILLY…wading through LOCKED’s posts is like trying to read something by Rain Man but minus the idiot savant brilliance. Yesterday he tried this gem with me- “your senator and my senator cancel each other out”. I didn’t want to induce our resident rain man into another word dissecting spasm by telling him my “senator” is in fact Rep Peter King (R-NY) a congressman not a senator. One has to be conscious of the sensitivities of special needs people like LOCKED.
Report Post »DrSique
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:50pmWell Soledad, surely you protest too much. What, exactly, is your personal affront to Lt. Col. West’s comments? Americans know that they couldn’t throw a rock in Washington D.C. without hitting a commie slob but why are you out to protect them. Perhaps, you have a bit of a red tint yourself. I hope that Allen West does name names and that he starts to talk more about the Fast & Furious fiasco. Nancy Pelosi promised to drain the swamp and, instead, she just waded right in. “We The People” need to send the riffraff packing and hire true representatives of the people.
Report Post »wdittgasn
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:53pmDoes anyone notice how you cannot have a conversation with a liberal or whatever else you can call them….. They ask a question and when you try to answer it, they talk over you (with talking point lies) as if they are afraid that if anyone were to hear what you had to say they would agree with what you said??……………They do this with such anxiety and fervor…………They are truly terrified that someone might hear you speak……………They all do it………Like a vampire afraid of the dawning light…..
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:57pmNit picky liberals, he should have said at one time these guys were proud members of the communist party, but now will deny it, since I’m calling them out, but they are liberals so of course they will lie, that is all a liberal knows how to do after all.
Report Post »Bum thrower
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:00pmCheck out the CPC………Shelia Jackson-Lee is a avowed socialist, and was the ‘something’ deputy chair; which she denies but was on the Socialist Party Website last year.
Conyers and Waters are known, ‘card carrying’ socialists; Waters even threatened to ‘nationalize’ altho she used the word ‘sociailize’…….good for Allen West………..Send him $$ for re-election.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:01pm@JZS
universal health care and the individual mandate? Communist? Originally that was George H. W. Bush’s idea. Eisenhower supported the idea of universal health care too.
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Sotomayor is sitting on the High Court thanks to Bush 41. What a fool he was!
You do know that Obama is not for universal health care, don’t you? He is and has always been for single payer, which is what commies use to control citizens’ health/lives, and what Democrats have always proposed and Republicans rejected.
Universal health care (UHC) is socialist, and the truth is that all advanced Western countries practice some degree of socialism. That is the price humanity has paid for embracing secularism. Once Christian charity goes out the window, govt. handouts become the social safety net for the poor, and that, in turn, leads to big govt. with all the waste, red tape, corruption and inefficiency it brings, be it via Republicans or Democrats. Like communism, UHC works on paper, but in real life it bankrupts a country — among other things. Exceptionally, UHC will work in a tiny country with closed borders like Switzerland, up until Muslims and commies get rid of closed borders there too.
You think conservatives don’t want affordable health care? We do, but we want free market competition, not govt. control.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:02pm@Avengerk
“Yesterday he tried this gem with me- “your senator and my senator cancel each other out”. I didn’t want to induce our resident rain man into another word dissecting spasm by telling him my “senator” is in fact Rep Peter King (R-NY) a congressman not a senator.”
Ohhhhh, that’s what you meant! My bad, I should have said “a senator is more highly prized than a representative if you want to play an equivalency game.”
You also seem to forget that all my facts were backed up by quotes from the Rumsfeld, Panetta, Gates, and CIA officials, and tried to say “Well, King’s anonymous officials are worth more than those political hacks.
Tell me Avengerk, what‘s Allen West’s rank again? :-)
“Col. West is right on the money…”
“you’ve been bleating about Col. West”
“can you tell me what Col. West did to be fined and reprimanded?”
“TOKYO ROSE…please…tell us what Col. West did that upsets you.”
^All from our good friend, Avengerk, who seems rather willing to defend West’s military career… without actually knowing his rank.
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:02pmLocked apparently you havn’t be pay attention to what Democratic Congressmen have been doing and saying.
Report Post »if you lined up 10 democratic congressmen and punch all of them in the face you’ld have a 80% of not punching one true American. Fact is socialism and current progressive ideology are the same. And socialism is nothing more than the pupil form of communism.
Lloyd Drako
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:04pmO’Brien pulled a list of the names of the Progressive Caucus “seemingly out of thin air!” In other words, she came prepared.
West says, “Communist progressive, Marxist, statist, another term being used.” In other words, he hasn’t the slightest idea what these terms actually mean.
Report Post »INOGAWD
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:05pm@Walkabout
Report Post »Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:10am
“I heard West explain it. He accuses everyone in the Progressive Congress of being a communist. He did not misspeak. Game Set Match”
TRUE, They are all Government Tit Sucking COMMIES…No Doubt !!!! period….
and I will go one further and say they are ALL anti American leeches..
PaxInVeritate
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:09pm@HAPPYSTRETCHEDTHIN
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:07am
Brilliant… Juuuust brilliant! Well done! Bravo! *Starts off with a Caddy Shack golf clap and evolves into a Jim Carryesk arm pumping hip thrusts*
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:10pm@A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Report Post »Reagan grew government, and was closer to being a Communist than a lot of us would like to admit.
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You are one f-up Paulist. Reagan staved off communism throughout his presidency and beyond. You all need to go hide in TX with your cult leader — for good.
Burby
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:11pmI so 100% agree with you regarding Allen West Comment “I don;t care”. hahaha, way to go..
Report Post »I use to like her years ago, but –=phew, talk about someone going over the deep end.. This past year alone shows she may want to consider a vacation before she needs to be committed..
INOGAWD
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:20pmCheck out the list for yourself…..West is RIGHT on this one !!
I wouldn’t give most of these CLOWNS the time of day…..
This is the list of ********* needed to be voted out of office along
with Bama in November.. we have the list, will be easy…….
http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=71
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:24pmjzs. one can be a communist without being a member of the party. much like one can be and vote democrat without being a member of the party. get your head out.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:28pmYou’ve become even more shrill than usual LOCKED. Now you’re offering idiocies like “senators are more highly prized than a representative”? What kind of juvenile histrionics is this? Is this some kind of weird trophy calling safari you’re on in your rain man-esque head? And King’s “anonymous” officials champ are his job as a member of the homeland security committee and committee on intelligence. Oh what’s the matter…widdle word dissecting WOCKED missed that one? Now get back on your imaginary safari, amd put your pith helmet back on “B’wana”. In your case..a little propellor on top of it would be ideal for you.
Report Post »anOpinion
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:33pmI don’t know whats wrong with her, Soledad really seems to love making herself look like an idiot.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:40pmI can’t believe economists and people who really believe in these systems and numbers that the establishment has given them to distract and confuse them from the truth.
People really need to see this award winning film to understand our economy and see who is behind the political curtain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEqkphVOkHc
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:42pm@PAXINVERITATE
“Happystretchedthin’s” comments have always been some of the BEST the Blaze has to offer.
I always keep an eye out for that little smiley face.
Report Post »marhee9
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:43pmColonel West rocks! We need more Republicans that aren’t afraid to stand up the CNN and MSNBC idiots. Keep up the great work Mr. West! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW8uKxXitAc
Report Post »INOGAWD
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:44pmCommunists have “renamed themselves progressive..
There is No difference..Here is the LIST..
one example from the list…Frederica Wilson’s website
offers a link to help people obtain Fed.Grant Money
and help getting a Passport.. but she goes on to say
Her people are unable to get I.D‘s to show at the poll’s..
Too much of a burden on them.. the list doesn’t get any
better….. Please Check it out for yourself…..
http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=71
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:52pmHow come a “CNN anchor” can’t do their own research?
Report Post »Locked
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:56pm@Avengerk
“Now you’re offering idiocies like “senators are more highly prized than a representative”? What kind of juvenile histrionics is this?”
Yup, as you were the one who said “Well, the CIA, and Secretaries of Defense and senators and CIA heads and anonymous officials and the official record don’t matter!” I’m sorry, would you like to try a different standard of proof? Again, I’ll put your double against a straight flush any day, ace. The official record, and the quotes of all of the above, all say Rep King is lying. You insist he’s not. Your burden of proof rests on a Congresscritter who was an avowed fan of waterboarding.
You seem to forget that you started the comparison by saying “Senator McCain‘s comments don’t matter because he’s anti-torture,“ to which I replied ”Ok, and King is pro-waterboarding. So they cancel each other out.” That was your criteria, buddy; what did -you- mean by it?
“And King’s “anonymous” officials champ are his job as a member of the homeland security committee and committee on intelligence.”
A position that puts him lower on the intelligence playing field than the CIA and the Secretary of Defense. Nice job!
So, tell us more about Colonel West. Who was he again?
Report Post »phishing4men
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 4:09pmYou really don’t want him to list the SoloDad, because you would see your name on the list. You liberal puke.
Report Post »pschlentz
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 4:10pmRight on Allen, it was very clear that that LIBERAL “News”caster could care less what Col. West had to say. He was 100% correct! Call them what you want, they’re still anti-Constitutional, America hating politicians that want a seat at the table ‘IF’ the rights of Americans are removed from the face of this land.
Report Post »Liberal Ba$tards!!!!!
chrisad
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 4:17pmI‘m glad he didn’t fall into her ******** trap. They want to quibble about monikers. But the fact is: socialism, communism, statism, fascism, progressivism are all very similar ideologies. Except for some minor differences, they ALL mean loss of individual liberties and freedom. They, collectively, are the antithesis of The United States of America. West is correct that the progressive movement, and therefor, the progressive caucus, is more akin to communism.
Report Post »ggswede
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 4:22pmDon’t know about communists,but there are quite a few in the socialist group.Go to thegatewaypundit dot com. Search out American socialists in the house of representatives.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 4:30pmAt this point LOCKED..you’ve become completely unhinged (no pun intended)….aces, deuces, this guy beats that guy. This guy cancels that guy. You’re getting a little creepy here champ. So you’re suggesting King is not privy to intelligence reports in his capacity as a committee member of intelligence? You’re seriously going to suggest that King conjured all this up out of whole cloth? You’re an idiot sport. Leon Panetta has a reason to obfuscate waterboarding KSM as a factor in the naming of the courier that led to OBL he’s a notorious party hack. But I have something for you champ since I’ve got you pinned here. Here’s what Panetta said May 3rd 2011 as CIA head. “Enhanced interrogation techniques” were used to extract information that led to the mission’s success, Panetta said during an interview with anchor Brian Williams. Those techniques included waterboarding, he acknowledged.” Are you’re saying LOCKED..that Panetta has since changed his position? And why did he do this?
Report Post »MSNBC: WASHINGTON May 3rd 2011— Intelligence garnered from waterboarded detainees was used to track down al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and kill him, CIA Chief Leon Panetta told NBC News on Tuesday
So LOCKED..you say Panetta said NO enhanced interrogations and I say Panetta said in May 2011 “YES” enhanced interrogations and I’m quoting the sources.
Come on rain man..dance for me. This should be hysterical.
tradexpertbuysell
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 4:31pmTo all the trolls.
We don’t care if you drop dead.
Sorry, I lied.
Report Post »jpclarksville
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 4:39pmO’Brien must be dumber than dirt. Col. West stated during a speech long ago that the communists were in the Congressional Progressive Caucus. How hard is it for po’ little Soledad to Google THAT?
Here’s the list and there are other similiar organizations listed in the margins:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Progressive_Caucus
Report Post »Locked
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 4:43pm@Avengerk
” So you’re suggesting King is not privy to intelligence reports in his capacity as a committee member of intelligence? You’re seriously going to suggest that King conjured all this up out of whole cloth? You’re an idiot sport.”
So you’re suggesting that the head of the CIA, officials within the CIA, and the Secretary of Defense all lied? As opposed to King, who said waterboarding led to information on OBL, when the official record states that the name of his courier wasn’t learned until months later under regular interrogation?
The closest you can dance around it is admitting that this information was yielded under pressure of waterboarding. Even King later changed his tune:
Representative Peter King, a New York Republican, said: “The road to bin Laden began with waterboarding.”
UK Telegraph, May 4, 2011 (article on the same comments you listed).
One week later:
“In the letter, which was verified by a spokesperson at the CIA, Panetta says: “We first learned about the facilitator/courier’s nom de guerre from a detainee not in CIA custody in 2002.” He said that some detainees who had been subject to enhanced interrogation techniques attempted to provide false information about the courier.
“In the end, no detainee in CIA custody revealed the facilitator/courier’s full true name or specific whereabouts,” Panetta said.”
Waterboarding gave them false information and well as real info; which was later verified without it.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 4:49pmOh, and as for sources, @Avengerk
UK Telegraph and ABC News, respectively. You’re welcome. Note that while the Telegraph article says “waterboarding yielded vital information,” Panetta himself said it was mixed info from 2002 that was discounted as unreliable, and the break didn’t come until years later with regular techniques.
And to correct you, Rumsfeld said waterboarding was never used to find OBL, and Panetta later confirmed it. Panetta said it wasn‘t used by the CIA and didn’t provide the courier’s name. Might want to get your facts straight.
Feel free to go on a rant about how Panetta is a hack, Rumsfeld was out of the loop, and McCain was too biased against torture to have an opinion, while ignoring the biases of Rep. King. It’s what I expect from you :-)
Report Post »charles116
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 4:52pmYou sound as ignorant as West,
Report Post »That’s quite an achievement.
So what that douchnozzle is saying is ‘All progressives are communists?”
That’s makes so much sense.
Locked
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 4:53pmAlso, slight correction:
“The closest you can dance around it is admitting that this information was yielded under pressure of waterboarding.”
Meant “was yielded months after waterboarding.”
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 4:58pm@AVENGERK
It looks old LEON has got some other problems brewing right now also.
And you are correct………….he is a party hack of the highest order………..a joke, actually.
Report Post »HappyStretchedThin
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 5:04pm@JZS,
Report Post »1. Coulter wrote the truth, and her book is well-sourced and credible no matter how distasteful you find her style. A good short and salty summary here: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=23316
2. I didn’t say he misspoke, I said IF he misspoke. I should know better than to expert you are anymore thanSELECTIVELY literate.
3. IF the idea that experts and elected officials can perfect institutions and rules such that society becomes perfectly equitable and just accurately describes the root beliefs of liberals(which it does, does it not?), THEN Communism and Liberalism vary only in degree, speed to ultimate end, and violence in inception. In any case, the beliefs behind BOTH communism AND liberalism all lead to the false hope in a utopia that can’t exist. They BOTH fundamentally mistrust the individual and BOTH rely on force and coercion. The result of BOTH of their sets of beliefs is a constant and continuous decline of freedom and standard of living anywhere their principles have ever been applied.
4. I support the Buffet LINE, not the Buffet rule. We can add a line to the tax form asking how much anyone wants to voluntarily add.
5. Do you know what the RESULT of 91% taxes on the rich was? Example: in the rich film industry they stopped production at 1-2 films/year to avoid the tax. Killed productivity, jobs, revenue, and the standard of living for those depending on the check. Reagan‘s or Eisenhower’s idea, it’s still a bad LIBERAL idea, which was West
Evantoo
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 5:07pmRight on! He should tell her he will name them ONLY if they are also shown in a tape playing across the screen so that she can’t block the names from being known.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 5:19pmYou really are an idiot LOCKED. And I’m enjoying watching you dance now for me.
Report Post »So you‘ve just confimed what I already told you about Panetta that he’s not to be trusted about verifying the effectiveness of waterboarding because he’s a party hack willing to fog up the truth about it. One day he says it was a factor..another day it’s not a factor. And you have the nerve to attack me on this ponit after Ive been proven correct? You cretinous little pustule I‘ve proved my point about Panetta and you still won’t admit you were wrong?
In your quote you idiot…King is referring to the first mention we had of the courier which was obtained from KSM after waterboarding him. The courier changed his name numerous times but the information was verified by KSM’s successor Libbi in 2005 and 2006. But we first learned of the courier by waterboarding KSM. Do you think intelligence gathering is a cakewalk champ? It’s a convoluted process of eliminating and confirming pieces of leads. Did you think it only took this long to get OBL because Pakistan has very tough entry visa policies champ? You are a complete idiot aren’t you? Does this really have to be spelled out to you? So by your own ridiculous measure LOCKED..MY “Panetta” just cancelled your “Panetta”. Yes LOCKED..that’s how pathetic you sound you mealy mouthed cretin. Dance for me Rain Man…
kryptonite
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 5:24pmAxelPhantom
Report Post »Differentiating between socialists and communists is like saying a girl and a woman are not the same sex because one is further along in development.
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In practice there are diverse models of socialism, but socialism doesn’t necessarily devolve into communism. There is confusion as to the differences between the two, because most communist politicians call themselves socialists so they don’t scare the useful idiots away. No matter how westernized, socialism stifles class mobility, so it sucks as well.
pollyanna
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 5:25pmTeehee…
Report Post »Soldad was left completely flummoxed by Mr. West’s refusing to take her bait…”looking for a fight.” Glenn’s said, “Not engage these radicals.”
Mr. West remained polite, relaxed and non confrontational…I truly admire this wonderful Patriot.
Woodman9
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 5:27pmAllen West, you’re a hero and a patriot. That interview could not have ended more beautifully. Thanks man!!!
Report Post »leocat66
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 5:33pmWest is dead on! what is happening to our land. GOD bless West, Nugent, and all who realize what is happening. Just remember, we still surround them. This Country was taken from England, at that time the most powerful country on earth, by farmers and the common man. It was taken by defying the King, and it was accomplished by only 4% of the population. The powers that be know that and therin is the reason for the assult on the 2nd amendment.
Report Post »majasdad
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 5:33pm@THATSITIVEHADENOUGH
In what way is it any different than “McCarthy-ism”?
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 5:35pm@kryptonite,
“You are one f-up Paulist. Reagan staved off communism throughout his presidency and beyond. You all need to go hide in TX with your cult leader — for good.”
So he staved off communism over there, but accepted some of their policies, here?
Friend, I think Reagan meant well, but the man did some horrendous things to our country.
Please, at least consider the following resources.
See here.
The Cult of Reagan, and Other Neocon Follies
http ://lewrockwell.com/woods/woods180.html
And here.
Ronald Reagan: An Autopsy
http ://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard60.html
Be willing to accept that you’ve been duped. Because what’s happening is that the Progressives have been encroaching on liberty by way of Fascism (to incrementally bureaucratize production), but calling it the free market so that when it fails, they will seem to have discredited the free market.
For 100 years, the collectivists have been winning.
We. Are. Not. Free.
This is what you need to learn, because it looks to be Game Over for liberty if the Progressives will be able to blame the coming [and inevitable] economic crash on the free market (Peter Schiff sees a bond crash coming).
And I‘m sorry to say that you’re not helping by being willing to accept Reagan’s growth of government.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 5:37pmRIGHTSOFBILLY…I just demonstrated to LOCKED/RAINMAN that indeed Panetta is willing to obfuscate the issue of the effectiveness of waterboarding by using Panetta’s own words. One day Panetta admits OBL’s killing was successful in part to “enhanced interrogations” then later he says it’s not. Clearly his boss told him to ease up on the “waterboarding works” angle because Obama‘s against it and it’s bad publicity. I told LOCKED that Panetta’s a party hack and STILL LOCKED/RAINMAN won’t acknowledge that Panetta is indeed one even after having it shoved in his face. To make it worse for him..LOCKED brings Peter King’s integrity and committee member responsibilities into question with absolutely nothing to base it on. Unbloodybelievable..what a cretin.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 5:48pmLOCKED…it doesn‘t dawn on you that waterboarding broke KSM’s will to withhold information? That afterwards he sang like a bird because he didn’t want to undertake it again? Does this really need to be told to you? Ok..wait…what am I saying? Of course it never dawned on you did it? You’re RAIN MAN..without the idiot savant aspects. You obsess over words and syllables and “is it Lt Col West.or just Col. West?”. Rather than examine the broader picture you just myopically zero in on a word or a phrase and cut it to shreds with your blunt scalpel seeking and searching and demanding answers and confirmations of your silly little ruminations. I‘ve told that you do this numerous times but you’re so enamoured with yourself that you won’t admit it. Waterboarding broke KSM LOCKED. Is this too much for you to process rain man?
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 5:51pm@A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Report Post »News for you: Economies don’t function in a vacuum. Communism is first and foremost a political system. All totalitarian regimes, including Islamism are political systems. How they handle the economy varies. Reagan despised communism and fought it fearlessly and with outstanding political savvy. Gotta go, but let me finish by saying that one of the reasons (besides lunacy and corruption) that Paul’s economic plan is not viable is that his political model is anarchic and self-destructive.
Nyle
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 5:52pmI love all the straw men in here – well if he won’t name names then it must not be true. It isn‘t someone’s job to prove him wrong he has to prove it himself. The actions of the Progressive Caucus whom West named by name speak LOUD VOLUMES of what their political ideology is. If it isn’t text book Communism/Marxism, Socialism, Fascism then it is Big Government Stateism that is completely related.
If you can’t define what their ideology is because you argue no one is proposing an ideologically pure Communist, Marxist, Socialist, Fascist government but they keep promoting a government made up of elements of said ideologies than that is what they are.
It is amazing how much the Leftists(Commnnist, Marxists, Socialists) slather when the term Communist is applied to somoene but Racist is hurled without regard to truth by them all the time. In this case though, Allan West is right on the Marx, so to speak.
You can call yourself whatever you want Stateists – Your solutions are all the same, big government with more and more power and control over our lives and most of yourselves will happily call yourself Communists when you don’t think America is listening.
Keep it up Mr. West, we need to drive the enemy from our midst – Vote in November and remove them from both parties.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 6:16pm@kryptonite,
“Gotta go, but let me finish by saying that one of the reasons (besides lunacy and corruption) that Paul’s economic plan is not viable is that his political model is anarchic and self-destructive.”
Our Constitution doesn’t promote anarchy, but rather a limited function for government.
Ron Paul is the only candidate who wants to return to the Constitution.
Report Post »mamatango
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 6:33pmNot Communist? Check these out.
What’s the government buying these days? Hollow point bullets, hardened checkpoint booths and radiation pills
http://www.naturalnews.com/035607_government_checkpoints_Martial_Law.html
http://frontporchpolitics.com/2012/03/obama-issue-martial-law-executive-order/
Report Post »SpeckChaser
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 6:40pmJZS
You miss Beck this morning? As West said, “Call it what you will” but many of goals from the communist manifesto are currently what “Progressives” are pushing for. A coincidence? Like you using Alinski tactics without knowing who the f he is?
Here is another question you probably won’t answer. Are we moving closer to the constitution or are we moving closer to the goals of the communist. In other words, what are we “progressing” to? Here are a few of the Communist Goals.
Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind.
Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda…Get control of teachers’ associations.,,
Infiltrate the press…
Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.” (YOU GO ABOVE AND BEYOND ON THIS ONE)
Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion.
Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs…
Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
Report Post »academica2020
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 7:00pmI am so glad that I saw the light and stopped commenting here!
Report Post »OOPS!
When it reaches the point where folks who agree with each other are debating semantics, it’s time to take a long walk and ponder what you are trying to prove…
ww2daughter
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 7:08pmHello all: check out this website: http://commieblaster.com/progressives/index.html. This gives you some idea of people who are elected in this country.
Report Post »4blackhorses
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 7:44pmAllen West is unafraid to say it like it is and I agree with him totally!
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 7:55pm@ACADEMICA2020
Please give some examples of what you are referring to.
I don’t see a whole lot of people that normally agree with each other doing battle here.
Sincerely curious what you are seeing.
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 8:19pmGodhatesfigs – You haven’t proven yourself to have any differences from the communist party. Neither have the Democrats.
Report Post »Glassfrog
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 8:42pmI have said for the longest time that the democratic party is now the American communist party.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:13pmDog Gone, there aint a person on here that is qualified to tote HappyStretchedThin’s jock strap in a debate. While the happy may be stretched, the facts, logic, history, common sense, critical thinking are all thick as pea soup, and neatly organized.
West has nailed them, and the lib media can not stand it, Pull out the communist manifesto, then see what the progressived dems believe, and you have a carbon copy of the same stuff. Some of the knuckle heads on the left, are self stated communists (van jones for one). Obama speak highly in his book of his buddy Frank, another known communist. Others may not claim communism outright, but their actions scream marxism from the top of the mountain.
Good job Happy, you need to post more often, and on more topics.
Report Post »cosette
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:24pm@JZS.. Did it ever occur to you that perhaps the head of the communist party may be the liar?
Report Post »cosette
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:27pm@Encinomoron… Revisit the video. Col. West identified the entire congressional progressive caucus as being communists. Their names are readily available in a google search. You’re welcome.
Report Post »cosette
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:28pmJust an observation. What kind of parents name their daughter after a prison?
Report Post »BeardedDog
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:34pmAbout 10 years ago a local conservative radio talk show host here in western NY said that all candidates running for state office on the Democrat Party ticket were endorsed by the Communist Party. I thought he had gone over the top and was exagerating. When I got home I went to the websites of the D party and the Commy party and was stunned to see that he was absolutely correct. Every single person running for state office on the D party ticket was in fact endorsed by the communist party! And I never saw that reported anywhere else by anyone! When the slates are set up for this years election double check for yourself in your state and see what you find. I was stunned. Now I just know better.
Report Post »cosette
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:39pm@JROOK… Terrets …definition…One of the round loops or rings on the saddle of a harness, through which the driving reins pass. What pharmaceutical company manufactures a “medication” for that apparatus? Also “I’d say he was an idiot but that would be to unfairly generalize on the idiots who listen to him”???? What does that even mean?????
Report Post »KyleD
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:46pm@Locked
You can’t use “prove me wrong” as a proof that you’re right. It’s a logical fallacy called argument from ignorance. There are a lot of things that can’t be proven that are true or false. For instance, you can‘t prove I’m not a robot sent from the future to post this comment…it‘s highly unlikely to the point of near impossibility but you just don’t have the means at your disposal to prove it one way or another. Another more closely related instance is with its relation to religion…both atheists and theists will say “prove me wrong” in regard to their belief but in terms of empirical evidence there is no way to absolutely prove one way or another whether or not God exists.
You’re on the right track with providing the evidence though. Show voting record, show statements about policy, beliefs and such and present a statement that links all of these actions together as actions only a communist would do in conjunction. Just as an example you can provide statements from Senator A extolling the virtues of Kim Jong Il, Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, show a speech made by Senator A calling for a cap on how much a person can make and state ownership of businesses, and then a list of bills promoted by Senator A that are anti-capitalist. Wrap it all up by saying it’s clear through these actions Senator A is communist and is actively promoting communism in the United states.
Report Post »OklahomaBound
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:18pmProgressive is just a nicer sounding name that Communist have given themselves so the answer to her question is YES everyone in the progressive caucus is a communist.
Report Post »Pelling1020
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:18pmSoledad O Brien, what kind of name is that? Sorta like Poncho Kowalski. I guess she was named after a prison. Maybe an Irish one.
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:45pmShe’s still pissed because no one took her “Black in America” piece serious…she’s one angry…white…black…oh whatever…
Report Post »Realist4U
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:47pmI no longer support Allan West for VP….I am now supporting him for President!
Report Post »Nvrat
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:54pmI am getting a bit on the old side but commie and dumbocrat seem to be a lot alike! GO COL WEST! WE out here in the WORLD love you! Keep it up.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:03pmLORDY I hope we’re looking at the next SEC.of DEFENSE HERE. THIS IS A MAN. A smart, no-nonsense RESPONSIBLE MAN. YOU GO ALLEN
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:17pmKryptonite,
Ok, so take that one step further….. is like saying a woman, a gay woman and a girl are not the same sex.
I guess whether you believe it all ends up in Communism depends on whether you believe that socialism inevitably fails led by a populous, who has become dependent upon government, to refuse austerity measures and instead demand more perks which necessitates the government to take over private industry in order to provide for them and avert violence. This is the progression as Marx, Lenin and Stalin saw it.
Examples in our own experiment in socialism; Social Security, Medicare, Food Stamps, Section 8, Medicare, Medicaid……
Report Post »texasbeta
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:35pmThe only black member of the Klan I have ever seen. Interesting.
Report Post »Maji
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 1:29amencinom..I agree!
Report Post »if West is going to use Obama straw man arguments
he needs to lie like Pelosi to cover it up!!
Maji
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 1:36amJzs,
Report Post »Its just logic…Shazbot (or what ever his name is) the blackpanther dude
said in 2009 that Obama wasn’t a black man…Soo Obama’s a Liar!…cause Shazbot
is head of a“ black man” organization!!
Yeah!
Just goes to show you who really knows huh!
Maji
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 1:40amMoncine,
Report Post »Yeeeha
Obama and Akmadinejad!!!
The best that democrats can offer!!
Best of all…who can tell them apart?
phil1765
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 1:59amNutterButter79
Report Post »Morons on the left had said the tea party was filled with neo-nazi kkk members since its inception. We have been called every degrading name in the book, and it infuriates all the bubbleheads on the left that their rhetoric can’t change it. Your point is mute, it has been done. As far as the names, Kuchinich, Pelosi, Boxer, Schumer, Hoyer, Reid, DWS, Kennedy, Lee. You need any more than that because I will have to research the others, that is just right off the top of my head.
marion
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:04amLOCKED, I suggest you do what Allen West recommends and look up the history of Progressivism.
Report Post »In a nutshell, you will find out that when Communism, Marxism, Leninism, Fabianism (is that a word?), all got together and scholarly minds decided they wanted some sort of Social (ism) of some sort, all these others turned around and said we want revolution to transform our countries and way of life of equality, and the American (I believe it was Pearce, something like that, he was in there somewhere), decided he didn’t want a revolution, being the American Civil War was less than 30 years old and knew the ravages of civil war, said no, I want it to be evolution, not revolution, thus he wanted to Progress to social equality, thus Progressivism. I read back in ‘09 this history on Wikipedia, it has been changed so you have to dig for the history. Look up Progressivism and Wisconsin and you will see it is the birthplace of American Progressivism, which is why Governor Scott Walker is having such a hard time, basically the icing on the cake that Progressivism doesn’t work. High school history books now identify the Great Depression as the Great Progressive Movement. One thing Progressives like to do is make issues out of things that can’t be proven, like global warming….hmmmm. Says to do it in their doctrine.
Prudibel
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:18amShe is smug, really annoying. And West doesn‘t have to name diddley if he doesn’t want to.
Report Post »VigilantGuardShark
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:13amHe‘s right She’s wrong, that’s about all there is to it.
Report Post »TRUTHandFREEDOM
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 5:33amNo. Wait! Are you telling me that we have commie sympathizers here?!!
In the MEDIA?!!???
The progressive family of marxism, progressivism, socialism, communism, statism, fascism, X … all has the same DNA.
It all has the same collectivist foundation and expansion design.
It all has ever increasing government control and dependency and less personal rights, liberty, property and self governing of personal lives and country.
Collectivism is as old as dirt with no record of anything but propaganda, failure, oppression, corruption and death.
Report Post »Quiata
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 6:56amWHAT??? The “C – word” has leftists circling the wagons???
Soledad = Media clown
Report Post »Progressives = Communists
Donkeys = Jackasses
Spade = Spade
Square Dancer
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:23amWest for President!
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:56amLets start with Pelosi, Wasserman-Schultz, Waters, Jackson-Lee, Rangel, Boxer, Feistein, Frank, etc.
OMG 2012
Report Post »SpartanPride
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:05amI love Allen West. Proves that my hatred for BO is not racial, but policy-driven. West has steely resolve, although still a greenhorn in congress. Need him and Rubio for big time push to educate the voters.
Report Post »rambosharley
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:35amI just love Allen West…….Like he really cares what a member of the commie party says about him!
Report Post »Leader1776
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:37am@JZS – ENCINOM – NutterButter79
Please stop wasting our time with meaningless posts. Even without running West’s entire video he made 3 statements during the interview that explained his position, and the interviewer had the list about which West was speaking.
You do your side little justice by not AT LEAST knowing the the article about which you are raging.
Report Post »robtech34
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 1:14pmDitto!!!!
Report Post »romaddan
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 1:17pmHAHAHA, LMFAO… “ I dont care what he says”… Classic. I love it when real men and women speak.
Call a spade a spade… If the left in this country called themselves what they are, it would be communist (for the most part)…
Report Post »Spokane Armory
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 4:30pmI think Mr. West should be on the short list for VP. He’s got my vote!
Report Post »Crazyotto
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 11:46pmfinally a man of principle… Col West is a real man something Soledad wouldn’t know about
Report Post »sassiwvgirl
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 9:20amHere we go again with the media. Someone speaks the truth and they want to silence him . Soledad looked like a fool during that interview! Trying to make him look bad by shouting names and interrupting him -came across as childish. Another reason not to watch CNN…(Oh, there are soooo many.) Mr. West schooled her and she went home with her tail between her legs. SURE WISH ALLEN WEST WAS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2013!
Report Post »skippy6
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 12:51pmWhen the Venona secret files were released McCarthy was found to be right, but the left ignores those pesky things like facts!!!….This administration is not even trying to hide the marxist that surround The lying dictator….
Report Post »rderrick
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 3:05pmYou are absoultely right! I immediately thought the best thing he said, which is exactly what we all are saying about liberals-marxists-socialists-et al when they try to voice their comments and ideology and programs: WE the People DO NOT CARE! Ha! Beautfiul Allen West. Perfect. Put the shut up on that liberal soledud!
Report Post »DesertRose1960
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:52amI’ve said it before and I will say it again, Allen West is a sad, angry little man. He is weak, thin-skinned and a bully. He was cashiered out of the Army for torturing a suspect and he tries to bully his colleagues in Congress. He is a disgrace to the uniform he wore and to the office he currently holds. Sooner or later, his foul temper will come back to get him. He will not be an effective Member of Congress, no one will want to work with him. He is a doing a disservice to his constituents.
13th Imam
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:01amSo , I guess, that you don’t like him??
Then he is alright in my book.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:03amAnd Desert hose is a worthless government employee …… And Allen West is a Hero.
Report Post »ZX12R
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:09amSo many ********, so little time.
Report Post »GodHatesFigs
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:13amIsn’t Allen West a government employee?
Report Post »john141714
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:15amDESERTROSE1960,
Report Post »You can believe and think what ever you may like but I will bet that most people in the service and here on this website will say different. And yes there is a lot of the people in congress that wont want to work with him do you know why? BECAUSE THERE COMMUNISTS….
PBG
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:31amHaving met the man and been to several of his town halls, I have to wonder if you have him confused with someone else. He handled protesters who showed up at a townhall to pick a fight with grace. He was not court martialed or pushed out of the army. The ‘suspect’ was a known terrorist sympathizer, who knew the rules of engagement and challenged the lt colonel to do something about it. The ‘suspect’ was not permanently injured, and gave up information which lead to the carpture of IED engineers, directly saving lives under West’s command; maybe one of your neighbors.
Report Post »How does one member of congress not in leadership bully another member? If you consider citing the constitution is a bully tactic, go live somewhere with a constitution you like. Cuba’s got nice weather this time of year.
I am one of his constituents, and by following the US Constitution and loving this country, he is doping exactly what I want him to. He works for me, not anyone else on capital hill.
Sine labore nihil
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:31amDesertRose1920
Report Post »Don’t attack this hero, you prove to be a Lib with your drivel, all progressives (COMMIES) attack the person not what they say. All I can say is PROVE HIM WRONG!!! (sounds like crickets to me)
I.Gaspar
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:37amTokyo rose:
Report Post »Allen West is a patriot and he speaks the truth. God bless him.
People like you are an embarassment and a disgrace to the words “human being”.
Put a sock in it, please.
COFemale
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:52amSweet Desert, if Allen West didn’t draw blood, it wasn’t torture. I am sorry firing a gun near an enemy captive is not torture. In fact, my best definition of torture is having to listen to you, Encinomn, JZS. Ya’ll are like fingernails on a chalk board.
Bless Ya’ll Little Hearts!
Report Post »YUP YUP
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:53amDesertrose….. You don’t like Allen West because you are a naive Democrat/Liberal/socialist/communist/Progressive. You are using a communist Sal Alinsky tactic to try to discredit OUR American hero Mr West. If you and the 81 “PROGRESSIVES” in the DNC walk like a communist, talk like a communist, have friends, co-workers and minions that are communists, then you and those 81 ARE communists. You will do great harm to humans all over the world if you continue to vote for progressives. I recommend that you spend some time educating yourself by going to commieblasters .com and read and watch all of the articles you can. If you disagree with the articles then prove the articles wrong. And if you disagree with me then you are a racist homophobe :) Keep up the good fight Allen West and Ted Nugent. You are TRUE Americans.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:54amAT THIS POINT IN TIME… there is no difference between… a Communist; a Socialist; a Progressive; a Muslim; a Fascist; a Nazi; an Univsalist; or an Open-society-ist… as they are all Anti-American-Constitution/Capitalist/Christian. You are either on that side… or the side of opposition.
Choose!
Report Post »MBA
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:05amSounds like you‘re actually describing the chicken liver in chief except that he didn’t have the b a l l s to actually serve this country in the military like Congressman West. At least he served his country. And the only politicians doing a disserve to the constitutents are the ones (most of them) who are stealing the tax payers blind and telling the voters they are doing it to “help them” since they are so helpless and cannot take care of themselves. Educate yourself for a change, you’ll be a happier person for the knowledge
Report Post »JamesA
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:08amHe says what he means and means what he says and I like that over the limp wristed panty wastes who only criticize and carry bad news.
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:10amGov. emp.> work for Obo
Report Post »Public emp.> works for US us…
RepubliCorp
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:23amDillweed 1960 he scares the hell out you …..ya can feel your Obama-Bucks slipping away
Report Post »Unix
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:38amDesertRose, you are a moonbat! A trivial little person who does not possess the ability for critical thought, and thus your lies ring hollow. Col West saved lives by putting a gun to the head of a terrorist, but you could not, would not see that, because your rose colored glasses won’t let you…drink more kool-aid, you need it! You like JZS, encinom and the rest of the liberal communist trolls, indoctrinated!
Report Post »DrFinch
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:56amI just sent $500 to his campaign war chest. He’s the real deal.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:17pmUNIX, you just insulted moonbats the world over, LOL.
While serving in Taji, Iraq, West received information from an intelligence specialist about a reported plot to ambush him and his men. The alleged plot reportedly involved Yahya Jhodri Hamoodi, a civilian Iraqi police officer. West, who was not responsible for conducting interrogations in Iraq and had never conducted nor witnessed one, had his men detain Hamoodi. In the process of detaining Mr. Hamoodi, soldiers testified that Hamoodi appeared to reach for his weapon and needed to be subdued. Hamoodi was beaten by four soldiers from the 220th Field Artillery Battalion on the head and body. West then fired his pistol near Hamoodi’s head, after which Hamoodi provided West with names and information, which Hamoodi later described as “meaningless information induced by fear and pain.” At least one of these suspects was arrested as a result, but no plans for attacks or weapons were found. West said “At the time I had to base my decision on the intelligence I received. It’s possible that I was wrong about Mr. Hamoodi.”
West was charged with violating articles 128 (assault) and 134 (general article) of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. During a hearing held as part of an Article 32 investigation in November 2003, West stated, “I know the method I used was not right, but I wanted to take care of my soldiers.” The charges were ultimately referred to an Article 15 proceeding rather than court-martial
Report Post »jzs
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:22pmDesertrose is correct. Folks, West was convicted in a military proceeding and fined $5000. He accepted the judgement and left the service. Did I say this already? He was convicted.
And no, his actions saved no lives. West himself later said, “At the time I had to base my decision on the intelligence I received. It’s possible that I was wrong about Mr. Hamoodi.”
Bad things happen in war, but cheering on those bad things is not representative of what this country stands for. There was a time when the US had moral authority in the world, but, thanks to people like West, that’s no longer the case.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:27pmLOL..very good TOKYO ROSE your contempt for our military (like a good lefty) is noted.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:04pmJZS…you’re an idiot…did I say this already? You’re an idiot.
Let’s talk about why West was reprimanded..ah yes…the actual facts.
Iraq 2003: West’s battalion was in a town north of Baghdad named Taji. West received a tip about an iminent ambush. At the direction of interrogators, he questioned an Iraqi detainee, a policeman who had been assisting the enemy. Finding the man uncooperative, West took him outside and discharged his service pistol close to the man’s head. Yeah JZS…this is the big “crime” you’re bleating about.
As a result the man became very talkative. The ambush was averted, and two insurgents were arrested. This is called RESULTS JZS.
West reported the incident to his superiors immediately. Did I say that already? WEST REPORTED THE INCIDENT TO HIS SUPERIORS. Where Army denizens of political correctness launched an Article 32 investigation, charged West with assault, and fined him $5,000. Col West was ultimately able to retire with full benefits, but his career with the Army was essentially finished. At the hearing, West was asked whether he would do the same thing again. He responded, “If it’s about the lives of my men and their safety, I’d go through hell with a gasoline can.” Did I say it was about saving the lives of his men already JZS? You’re an idiot. You prove it over and over JZS but as has said been of you by others..you get caught out then you offer a puerile “oops my bad” and you continue on your bumbling w
Report Post »DesertRose1960
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:00pm@John14, A refusal to work with a loose cannon with no respect for House traditions doesn’t make one a Communist. Rep. Michele Bachmann and Rep. Allen West are very popular with Fox, but their colleagues in Congress, even members of their own party, don’t look to them for leadership and they have produced no real legislation. The same is probably true for the other TeaParty candidates, they are not learning how to work within the system where compromise is essential.
@AvengerK, You know, there’s a young guy who really likes Pokemon who uses that handle, is it you? I only ask because I use this handle in other places. Do I have contempt for the military, now. My father was a career NCO, my late father-in-law served even longer and hit the beaches at Normandy. I have spent the last 30 years of my life working with the military. I have a great deal of respect for the service and the service oath I took. I do not have a great deal of respect for those who disgrace themselves, the uniform, or their oath. You printed most of the Wiki article on West except for the part where it says that no plans or weapons were found and the “terrorists” were never charged with a crime. By the way, my stance against torture was taken from George Washington who believed that civil treatment of suspects and captured soldiers would benefit the safety of his own troops. That was the stance of the U.S. Government until John Yoo wrote his memos.
Report Post »michael48
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:19pmjzs=clueless progressing rapidly to meaningless,and always willing to provide proof…
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:56pm@ jzs
Bad things happen in war, but cheering on those bad things is not representative of what this country stands for. There was a time when the US had moral authority in the world, but, thanks to people like West, that’s no longer the case.
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There also used to be a time when the wars were fought to be won. West didn’t join the service to have the opportunity to torture anyone. West joined because as a citizen and a patriot he felt he could make a difference through service to his country. West‘s actions weren’t conducted to perpetuate conflict, they were conducted to bring an end to it.
One shouldn’t speculate about the earned aspects of “moral authority” until one completely understands the tenants that earn such a distinction.
Maybe we have to understand the motives of the peers that convicted him. Ever heard of the CYA principle?
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:00pmYou’re a leftist TOKYO ROSE…of course you have contempt for the U.S. military..it’s innate in you. You just can’t help yourself. Even in your disingenuous purported “respect” for the military you hurriedly add in your lefty rote about “disgracing the uniform”. What disgrace is there in saving your men’s lives as West did darling? Please tell me. You see? You just can’t help yourself can you? You really do hate the military.
Report Post »Bleating about your father or suppsed father-in-law doesnt’ impress me sweetie. Reverend Wright- you know..Obama’s “sounding board for his conscience”- was also a marine. He seems to have lost his taste for America since serving…n’est pas?
I didn‘t go to wikipedia for my information darling but being the robot that you are I’m not surprised you reflexively invoked it. I don‘t care what was found or not found on the combatants captured by West’s battalion tulip. HE AVERTED AN AMBUSH ON HIS MEN! THAT WAS WHAT MATTERED MOST! Is this lost on you cupcake? Do you have issue with this darling? Please let me know what offends you about West trying to keep his men alive.
Get better material lefty cur.
wdittgasn
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:05pmYou know, slavery still exists….. Because as they say,….. “Allen OWNED Soledad”!!!!
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:11pmTOKYO ROSE..you keep d@mning yourself with each post darling. “Torture” You say? West fired his pistol next to the prisoner’s head. This is torture to you? You blithering idiot your contempt for the military drips from every post you offer.
Report Post »Ars21689
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:52pmOh please ignoramus, he never tortured anyone. He did end up saving the lives of other men under his command and capturing other insurgents. Firing a gun next to someone’s head is not torture.
Report Post »tradexpertbuysell
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 4:39pm@ Rose,
The more you hate him the more we love him.
You such a bad girl! Big kiss and huggie. Buda, Buda, Buda, Booooo!
Report Post »rawmilker
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 5:03pmYes trolls, by your posts we see you guys are scared stiff of the fine upstanding combat decorated Soldier/Congressman Lt. Col West….
I know what you’re thinkin, did I fire 6 shots or only 5?
Ya know trolls, I gotsta know….
You guys are going to crap your pants when he is our next VP, then onto president in 2020
Report Post »jzs
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 8:14pmAvenjerk, seems like what happened with West depends on where you get your information. Here’s my source: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/27/world/struggle-for-iraq-interrogations-colonel-risked-his-career-menacing-detainee.html?pagewanted=6&src=pm
This account differs from yours in several ways. He did report the offense to his superior officer (you said officers, plural) who did nothing with the information. Another sergeant from another battalion complained about West’s behavior in general, and only made a reference to this incident as one of many inappropriate actions. West was a loose cannon it appears.
The article also said the Iraqi was released without any charges (unlike West), the information he gave was the kind of nonsense anyone will say to avoid being murdered, and that nothing ever came out of the false information he provided. Nope, according to this, nothing came out of the beating and threats to kill the guy – no lives saved, no attack averted.
Clearly there is one thing in common with your source and mine. The Army wanted to immediately get West out of Iraq and out of Army. And they did.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:55pmHey JZS,
Just curious again.
Did you read the entire article that you posted? The article from the New York Times? (That bastion of truth)
I ask because you have a habit of posting wildly without actually reading things.
Report Post »Nvrat
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:09pmDork. Go put your head in the bowl, pull the lever and wash the stupid out of your anal cavity.
Report Post »amerbur
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:51amMitt went too far in condeming Ted Nugent and Soledad Obrien needs to educate herself.
Report Post »Sine labore nihil
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:33amI don’t think she is capable of being educated, spoon-fed yes, but not educated.
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:13pmYep. Mitt had a chance to show some spine by having Ted’s back. Unfortunately he gave us a typical PC answer, proving he has no backbone. Mitt is counting on conservatives to vote for him because we don’t have a choice. Having Obama for another term is such a horrific thought, that Mitt is right, as least as far as I am concerned. It would have been the same with Santorum or Paul.
Report Post »RayOne
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:50amIt is time to
Report Post »Vet
the community of this WH.
countryfirst
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:32amThose who have to change their name tag in order to hide there lies, and deceit to an uneducated people. Are a threat to our republic and yes even communist.
Way to go Allen, Romney will never pick this great American, He is to politically correct. And I feel he is unwilling to address the true danger of the progressives.
Report Post »shirleyandpearl
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:35amO’Brien had obviously not taken her PMS meds. As an interviewer, she is not supposed to interrupt and sprew out her views. She was gritting her teeth together in anger. Allan West is a hero and the Black Congressional Caucus, including all progressives, do not like his constitution based views. If West gets any special investigations by this administration, it’s just MORE proof that fascism or communism has indeed infiltrated our government.
Report Post »Duckhead
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:50amO’Brien is a child.
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:49amAs you know, communists are famous lovers of dog meat…also grass and tree bark.
Report Post »klammey
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:09amAnd algae.
Report Post »BehindBlueEyes
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:23amYes, and that’s what we will all be eating if Obama succeeds with his fundamental transformation of America (aka road to serfdom). His commie policies are going to make America a 3rd world country, then all we will need to worry about is which line to stand in for dog, grass or bark.
Report Post »Tigress1
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:49amLiberal/Progressive/Socialist/Communist/atheists (L/P/S/C/a’s). Their preferred name today (it may change tomorrow) is “Progressives). The biggest Commie that was in Congress is Obama.
Report Post »Realist4U
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:56pmSoledad has proven once again, she is no more than a “token.”
Report Post »suedstate
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:49amThere was a list came out in 2010 naming 70 congresscritters belongong to the Democratic Socialist Party so now there is 80, makes sense they multiply like cockroaches.
Report Post »Remember Maxine Watters saying she wanted to socialize something, then quickly tried to correct her statement.
A socialist by any other name is still a socialist(Commie)
How about, Jackson-Lee, Bernie Sanders, just a couple of the more in your face traitors.
We need to really drain the swamp in November.
izukiddin
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:49amSoledad, doesn’t like her friends being referred to as communists. It makes her very brittle. They prefer “progressive”. It sounds better over wine and cheese.
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:25amSo arfin true.
Commies hate being exposed to the light. Poor Comrade O’Brien.
Report Post »the_system_disconnect
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:32amThey should share that cheese with everyone.
Report Post »lynnissmart
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:48amGood for you Sir West……!!!! You are a hero for calling out the pos admin…….the truth shall set you free!!! ha, ha, ha…..get that you commies!!!!!!
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:47amGuess West didn’t read about McCarthy. The media is filled with Lefties who consider themselves the political saviors of the common man , the political “ social justice ” types . They consider Big Brother Government to be their God. They hate the rich. They hate religions and churches. Can’t control those church people. This has been going on forever. Cain and Able . Envy. Pride. The French Revolution. Karl Marx. ” Social justice.” Don’t know what they call themselves these days ! Progressives ? But West is correct – it’s the same Big Brother clap trap just trying to find a new name !
Report Post »Locked
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:12am@Barber2
“Guess West didn’t read about McCarthy.”
Could you expand upon this statement? I’m not sure what you meant by it.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:23amThe 60′s radicals would approve of this new name for the Progressives…“Kindred Spirits”. Flows off the tongue and OWS crowd would embrace this new name in a heart beat.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:35amLocked: I meant West should have known that he would be put on the spot immediately by this person and that West should have had a response. Think your response to united would have been a proper one. Labels/ names don’t matter but their beliefs and actions are the issue.
Report Post »imsteph
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:46amthe answer is ‘YES’ Mr. West.
Report Post »YES, they are all communists, socialist, marxists, one world gov, etc…
they are people who are more than willing to enslave the American citizenry for the benefit of the political elite by using the propaganda power of the mob to bully, brainwash, etc… for their own power and financial gain.
Utopia will never exist as long as you must use imperfect people.
You cannot save the masses by enslaving/saving them from themselves.
That is a grande evil and an abomination.
And has been proven/shown to fail again and again.
Tri-ox
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:46amSoledad O’Brien is an obamaslut – she should be ignored.
Report Post »Inlightofthings
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:53amWell….looking at the ratings, she is largely ignored.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:22amI had no idea who she was until this story.
Report Post »contkmi
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:45amWhat, we’re surprised that someone at Communist News Network goes after Col. West?
Report Post »DesertRose1960
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:54amIt was Lieutenant Colonel West, LTC, 0-5, silver oak leaves not Colonel West, COL, 0-6, silver eagle. I’m surprised he made it past MAJ. We used to call guys like him Major Mistake.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:00am@desertrose
Report Post »And we call people like you, worthless government employees who couldn’t make it in the real world….
lukerw
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:04am@DESERT…
Report Post »In the Military… in Casual & Verbal converstation… one address’ a Lt Col as Colonel! You know that!
TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:30amDESSERT. You looked all that rank infromation up on Yahoo didn’t you? Lol. Chances are you and those like you, are intimidated by real men like West… not to mention he’s a Black Conservative and a Military man taboot.
Leaders, especially Military leaders scare the bejesus out of the left because of the follower mentality that is instilled in each and every one of you from the moment birth and beyond. Real men and deep thinkers scare the crap out of you plain and simple.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:37amDESERTROSE1960, Unlike the Marine Corps, personnel in the Army are commonly addressed by a courtesy title rather than by their full rank. 2LT and 1LT are addressed as Lieutenant, LTC and COL are treated the same and addressed as Colonel. The same applies to all four of the General Officer ranks. As well NCOs are generally addresses as Sergeant except for 1SG and the two ranks of Sergeant Major are addressed similarly. The exceptions are under formal settings, and when reporting to an officer or NCO senior to one’s rank. Gee, you are such a dumbass!
Report Post »contkmi
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:56amLeave it to a lib to deflect from the main subject. Look! Over here! Bad people! Nevermind that Rome is burning down around them…
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:12amRJJ. You’re wasting your time on this one. But ROSE did state… “[We] used to call guys like him Major Mistake” which might mean (by the “we” in that staement) that DESSERT may have been in the Army (for instance) and held the rank of PVT… E1/2/3. A Private, like a ROSE, by any other name is still a Private.
Report Post »DaveIn84
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:17amI’m surprised he made it past MAJ. We used to call guys like him Major Mistake
Report Post »As you were doing KP? Loser.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:43amTIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12, Yeah, I know. But it was fun anyway. DESERTPOS should know that she is wasting her time with the rest of us.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:02pmRJJ. Understand Lima Charlie, and thanks for your Service brother.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:10pmTIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12, As well, thanks for your service brother.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:05pmTOKYO ROSE…please…tell us what Col. West did that upsets you.
Report Post »DesertRose1960
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:46pmNo, I didn’t have to look up the ranks on Yahoo. I’ve worked with the military for the parts of the last thirty years. I was never in the uniformed service but I have been Civil Service and stationed overseas for ten years. In casual and verbal conversations, one may address a Lieutenant Colonel as “Colonel” but this is a printed medium and his rank should be rendered as LTC. My Civil Service positions have always placed me as an “officer” for courtesy’s sake.
@Time_2_End, You’re right, the follower mentality does scare the bejesus out of me, which is why I’ve been so opposed to Foxbots and Beckheads, they fall into line and sing the pseudo-Conservative line so well. Right up to, and including calling every Liberal a Koolaid drinker or mindless something of other. I think for myself and march to my own drum.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:03pmahh…so earlier when you tried to create the impression that you were military TOKYO ROSE when you bleated.. “we used to call guys like him”. All of a sudden you’re a “civilian working with military”. You lefty dolts really can’t help yourselves can you? Always morphing and twisting your stories as you’re caught out. Let me educate you tulip. West was instructed to question a prisoner about an impending ambush to his battalion in Taji in Iraq. The prisoner was an Iraqi policeman who was feeding intelligence to enemy combatants. The prisoner was uncooperative so West took him out, discharged his service pistol close to the prisoner’s head..and the prisoner sang like a bird afterwards. As a result the operation was a success and two insurgents were captured. Afterwards WEST HIMSELF reported his actions to his superiors. Everyone I know in the military applauds West’s actions…but somehow you’ve found the only cadre of “military” that disapprove of him…how convenient for you blossom. I’ll dumb it down for you sweetie. I’m calling you a liar.
Report Post »DaveIn84
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:30pmI’ve worked with the military for the parts of the last thirty years. I was never in the uniformed service but I have been Civil Service
Report Post »Ugh – we’ve been arguing with this?
Blackhawk1
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 5:18pmDesertRose1960
The only thing you should have been calling officers like LTC West is SIR! That’s why we need to get civilians out of working FOR the military. I guess you never looked at it that way because you were a spoiled SEIU member. Civilians working on a military base are there at the pleasure of the military, not the other way around. If not for the military you wouldn’t have had a job. No go sit down in the corner and shut up!!!!!
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:37amHey Rosie,
Ya know, most of us have thought, and felt exactly the same way about things for a long time.
Report Post »Certainly before Beck made the scene, and even long before FOX hit the airwaves.
So what did you call us before that?
Kind of funny being called names by a worthless public employee that worships Marx.
mg3trio
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:45amThere must be at least half the number. Otherwise, this lightweight wouldn’t be trying to make this honorable man look like McCarthy. Who was right as it turns out.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:45amHey Solidad, for starters the entire congressional black caucas…….
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:57amBingo ! The I Hate America Crowd .
Report Post »Abraham Young
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:44amEveryone who voted against the ANWR bill for starters:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/46107
They are betraying our country by denying us the right to behave economically as WE the people intend to. They are betraying the principles of the Constitution by using the commerce clause to interpose their central planning schemes upon private individuals. They are betraying the principles of the constitution by mandating an income tax which makes us merely serfs, laboring for the advancement of the Czars, and illegal Executive Orders bypassing our legislature. The FEDERAL RESERVE is betraying our country by counterfeiting and monopolizing our currency.
They think we are asleep.
Report Post »NOKOOLAIDDRINKER
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:01amAllen West is right there are about 70 members of Congress who are acknowledged members of the Am Socialist Party. Here is the article from Gateway Pundit from 2010:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2010/08/american-socialists-release-names-of-70-congressional-democrats-in-their-caucus/
You will notice Alan Grayson from Florida is included on this list. He was defeated in November, 2010. Maybe we need Shine somemore light on these other MARXISTS.
TEA 2012
Report Post »Quiata
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:48am@NOKOOLAIDDRINKER Good list, thanks!
Report Post »carbonated
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:44amSoledad, a high profile, rich, privileged, white hispanic media person is attacking a black man. What a racist.
Report Post »izukiddin
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:51amShe’s not white. She’s a halfrican-American.
Report Post »VinnieSquawker
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:58amPlease don’t use the term “white hispanic.” By doing so you give legitimacy to the term the MSM made up in the T. Martin case to polarize hispanics and blacks. Don’t let them set the terms of the debate, please.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:52amVINNIESQUAWKER, That was only because the MSM had to cover their asses when the story first hit the wires. They ASSUMED at first that ZIMMERMAN was white and possibly Jewish from just reading his name. Had he been both the likes of Soledud and her buddies would have orgasmed on the air.
Report Post »mtbiknole
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:55amI searched specifically for this comment because I knew that it would be here! I find it amazing that this is a standard argument from the left but the right can only use it in a joking/mocking sort of way. How is it any different than calling the right racist for questioning Obama on something?
Report Post »CougarNick78
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:43amI despise that tool SOB…. She is no doubt, someone Goebbels would be proud of.
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:01amAllen West sees and speaks the truth. Allen West has been the only man in our government who has not been afraid to bring the truth into the light. It’s easy for us to say it or Glenn to say it .But it took real courage for a congressman to have the stones to finally say it.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:43amSoledad who?
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:49amShe was named after a Prison.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:07pmSoledud sounds better, and more descriptive.
Report Post »Obama Bin Lying
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:42amSoledad is the perfect mouthpiece for the left. You ever notice how she never treats anyone who falls into her Kool Aid driven psychosis way of thinking with any malice whatsoever. For an example, take Debbie Was-a-man Shultz, arguably the most vile female on the planet, gets greated with fluff, while an American Hero gets dragged over the coals.
ABO 2012
Report Post »DesertRose1960
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:57amAn admitted torturer is a hero for you, but a woman who has spent her adult life trying to serve her constituents is vile? And you think Liberals are immoral?
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:11amDesertRose1960
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is immoral. I just have to compare Debbie to my former card carrying Communist spouse to know that.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:26amOf course Debbie is vile, even demonic. She helps support one of the greatest holocausts in world history.
Report Post »PBG
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:38amA man who puts his own career in jeapordy to save the lives of the people under his command is a hero, and hiding Debbie’s talking points is as effective as putting duct tape over her mouth. The thing that strikes me most about the way she speaks is her adherence to TP, and inability to go any further than that without calling someone a name.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:31amAs it turns out McCarthy was ahead of his time ……… We need a purge start at the white house
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:17pm@ RepubliCorp
As it turns out McCarthy was ahead of his time ……… We need a purge start at the white house.
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I’m pretty sure that somewhere in this video your words are reiterated almost exactly. The audio quality isn’t so good, but it’s recent and highly relevant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwLvDVdJXnE&feature=related
Report Post »annais
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 5:53pmAnd she’s SMUG & just laughing like its a joke stupid ..this..“Loneliness” which is what her name means in Spanish, so she inherited her stupidity by parents who’d name their kid soledad..“loneliness” ugh idiot lefty..”he’s a communist“ ”she’s a communist?” YEAH THEY ARE COMMUNISTS you don’t know the meaning of the word! dummy! IF you knew modern history and had gone to school to learn the facts of life, not the mantra of the hippies, you’d know the whole Obama administration is communist..dummy..loneliness LOL
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:35amTSUNAMI-22 thanks…….
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:41amSoledad O’Brien stepped in it if she was trying to trap West. Everyone in Wisconsin knows while Tammy Baldwin may not really be a woman, she certainly is a Madison, WI Communist.
Report Post »jujubeebee
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:41amI like Allen West and I like that he doesn’t back down from things……or people like Debbie Wasserman Schultz or this interviewer. He speaks the truth. He should be considered for VP position.
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 8:02pmJUJUBEEBEE,
Agreed! Allan West …,I believe…,will be our first REAL black President. He loves and respects this country. Poles apart from the poser who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave….,along with his poser First Lady spouse at this time!
As for Soledad…,I read recently that OAK TREES register an I.Q. of 3. Sad…,Non? An Oak Tree with a higher I.Q. than C.N.N.s’s star anchor Ms. Soledad O’Brien. I do not think that Wolf Blitzer or John King beat the Oak Tree either…,yet they do beat Soledad.
Report Post »Inlightofthings
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:41amWhen will she be nixed…she offers so little to the conversations.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:40amAllen: Restart the UnAmerican Activities Investigation!
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:48amOkay Soledad.
Sit down. Allow me to edify and educate you, since you are a pathetic, indoctrinated bovine.
Let’s eliminate the term Communist because we have our house and senate filled with many more
“representatives” with an ideology just as dangerous as Communism.
That Ideology is Democracy.
Democracy means majority rules.
That means that when 51% of the population wants something the other % does not,
49% of the People lose their rights.
The Founding Fathers loathed Democracy.
We must expunge this political ideology from our society.
The Constitutution protects the 1% and their inherent unalienable rights, from the 99%.
Gays and Women who are pro-abortion should be some of the most Constitutional minded people alive, but unfortunately, most are brainwashed.
This is a must-see, perspective-changing, 3 minute video of Arron Russo explaining this brilliantly:
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RewUP-Fdhqk
steveh931
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:34pmAaron Russo understands, thanks for the link, enjoyed listening to him.
Report Post »Quiata
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:06am@PROBIEMSOIVER GREAT video, grazie. Here’s another good one, right back atchya ===> “America, the Republic” (one of the BEST videos around, IMHO):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8I9pLmuyyA
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