Rep. Moran: Allen West ‘Is Not Representative of the African-American Community’
- Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:25pm by
Becket Adams
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Are you starting to think that Rep. Allen West’s infamous “get the hell out” line is being overplayed and over-analyzed? You’re not alone.
However, it seems that some media outlets can’t get enough of it.
While being interviewed by MSNBCs’ Martin Bashir, Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) was asked to weigh in on the comments Rep. West had for Democrat leadership.
“What is provoking this kind of behavior?” Bashir asked. “We had the spectacle of a discourteous governor from Arizona waving her finger in the face of the president. Now we have a Congressman suggesting that a president who won a majority at the last election should ‘get out’ of this country.”
Wagging you finger is inappropriate, but jabbing is acceptable
After comparing conservative criticism for President Obama to a Disney cartoon, Rep. Moran launched into a heavy-handed rebuke of Rep. West.
“People like Mr. [Allen] West, and Governor Brewer and so on, particularly Mr. West, is not only not representative of the African-American community,” said Rep. Moran, who, among other things, is apparently a spokesman for the African-American community, “Or of the Republican Party, let alone of the American public. So what he says really is of little or no consequence, but it’s unfortunate.”
Watch the exchange via Mediaite:
“He just seems clueless now that he has climbed aboard ship. He‘s climbed this ladder of opportunity that was constructed by so many of his ancestors’ sweat, sacrifice, blood, you know they did everything they could for his generation to be successful,” Rep. Moran said.
“But now that he’s climbed on board ship, instead of reaching down and steadying the ladder, he wants to push it off. ‘I’m up here. If you’re not with me, too bad.’ And President Obama, fortunately, is the kind of guy that says ‘I was very fortunate to get where I am and I’m going to spend my life trying to steady that ladder of opportunity by reducing college tuition and training our workers, trying to get a decent job for everybody. Making sure that while I’m African-American, it really doesn’t matter. What matters is my commitment to public service, my love for this country and I’m going to leave a constructive legacy,’” he said.
Rep. Moran went on to say that President Obama “doesn’t engage in this nonsense” and that, to some extent, “he’s our Lion King.”
[Author's note: As the Saul Alinsky quote on the frontpage suggests, this recent obsession over Rep. West's comments may be about much more than righteous indignation and hurt feelings.]
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Comments (243)
Realist4U
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:55pmMoron and Basher…Dumb and Dumber…you pick em!
Report Post »FormerLib
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:06pmOf course he’s not representative of the black community. He thinks for himself and doesn’t exist on a Democrat plantation.
Report Post »IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:10pmand then there is the “lyin’ king”
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:25pmI wish he was representative of the black community. It would be refreshing if he were.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:31pmObama has not earned any respect from the American people..I think he should be tried for treason and put in prison
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:32pmNothin like a pasty white Narrow Back, telling an actual Black Man , he’s not black enough.
Report Post »islamhater
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:35pmThey hated when blacks are for all Americans and NOT just them. He voted for NDAA i don’t care what he thinks anymore. Actions speek louder than any word.
Report Post »tmplarnite
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:46pmThank god West doesn’t represent blacks. Finally one who can think for himself…Not like this apologist ignorant brain dead PC idiot Moran!
Report Post »Jimbo65
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:46pmIf this was a “third world dictatorship”, criminal charges would be upcoming against West and Brewer. What? The PC military already nailed West, you say?
Report Post »tmplarnite
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:48pmWOW these moron just don’t get it…Respect is “earned” not given willie nillie!
Report Post »Anamah
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:56pmWhy are those Democrats sow poisonous! Well, I hope any representative in Washington do represent only one skin color citizen; that would be a shame and really a probe of racism!!! It is despicable the obsession MSNBC anchors have to practice Saul Alinky revolution rules when they are on air. I thanks Representative Allen West for his strength and sincerity, and the offensive man of Fox News must be fired.
Report Post »Paydert33
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:04pmYea…….dumb and dumber don’t say a word when maxine-big-mouth-waters told the Tea Party to go straight to hell. And sheila-jack-lee is shaking her finger at us every time she speaks…you see her point her finger. maxine waters has had some very vicious words for us out here. Dumb and dumber let it go as if nothing happened. Double standard out-the-whazoooooooooo.
Report Post »PAINESMAN
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:45pmI wonder if these folks and the rest of the goofy libs would say they “ Identify” with Abraham Lincoln. I think most would say yes. In any case heres something he said.
“Property is the fruit of labor…. It is desirable…..Is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, this by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln
I think you can defer from this simple statement whats wrong with our country.
Report Post »Conkuur
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 8:11pmI can’t believe that people look at these guys and find logic in anything they say. I mean if you could listen to that and not see the BS, then the thinking people of America truly are in the minority,and America deserves the pain and suffering as this path leads us into the abyss!
Report Post »Mtroom
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 8:16pmWasn’t it that Dem. from California Boxer that hammered a general about the title she earned? Mr.West?….These people make me sick, that buffoon on Fox5 started it. and refused to call him either title that Col., Rep. West has earned….Disgusting people.
Report Post »The Sergeant Major
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 9:00pmNot black enuff or white enuff?
Report Post »db321
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:20pmGood Lord! This interview was so full of BS! If you are watching this station – Turn it off.
Report Post »Maji
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:05amMoran..what a bucket of puss!
Report Post »phil1765
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 5:32amFunny how some old white crumudgeon has taken it upon himself to decide who does and who doesn’t represent the black community. Being as he is a demoncrat from Virginia he probably doesn’t even want to be near a black person unless it means that he gets reelected.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 6:55amFormerlib, that’s exactly what I was going to say. The Democrats have turned most of the “African-American” community into slaves who don’t want to lose their checks. I put that in quotes because I know someone who is actually from Africa. Most American blacks never saw Africa. I have a friend that my husband and I have been trying to wake up with actual footage and the words spoken by our president and she told us to take her off our email list because she’s a Democrat. I told her there were no Democrats left in Washington and she’d better wake up. But, she’s on Disability, assisted rent, probably everything else, because all 4 of her children have Blackberries (even the 12 year old) and the even use ebonics when they type on facebook. They would never vote for someone who might take away their free stuff.
Report Post »cosette
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:24amRep. West is representative of the congressional district to which he was elected. No representative should be considered as being a broker for any specific race. The more these people speak the more convinced I become Michael Savage is right. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:35amAllen West is un-American and needs to get the heck out of our great country.
Report Post »DD313
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:01amJack Zero Sh–: I hope you get to meet Allen West in person.
Report Post »palmstevens
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:46pmMr. Moran will be Retired in November 2012. Visit RetireJimMoran.com. Read more about his disdain for America’s Veterans.
Report Post »michael48
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 4:49pmcomrade jzs…needs a 7.62 Nato third eye…
Report Post »USAF2003
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 6:44pm1st of all, Barak does NOT love this great country. 2nd of all, no one is a spokesman for the “African-American” community, cause it don’t exsist. You are either African, American, Chinese, etc…Now shut up and go back to VA.
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:54pmWell, I don’t feel that Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid or any of the ubber liberals are representatives of the white race…
Report Post »Kankokage
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:53pmIt’s good to see the left finally letting slip that they view Obama as a king. Let me give, if you will be so kind as to listen, a reader’s digest version of something we are taught in my faith. In the Book of Alma, the ancient Nephite society was nearly destroyed when a group called the king-men tried to usurp the republican-style judicial government and enact a monarchy. These king-men were so desirous to destroy liberty that they actually sided with the enemies of the Nephites, hoping that, once the land was destroyed, they could easily take power. The only way Captain Moroni (a.k.a. Captain Hardcore) could stop the king-men was to forcefully evict them from the land. It was not a good time, to say the least.
This is a dangerous time in which we are living. The only way to preserve freedom is to evict tyranny – not placate, not ignore, not sequester. It must be evicted, first from our minds through persuasion and debate, then families, homes and churches through the teachings of truth, honor, and charity. And if after all this there is still tyranny, then it must be removed from our shores by force. History cannot be denied.
Report Post »UNBOTHERED
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:44pmIt’s just like a Republican to either A. Be too dumb to ascertain what a Pun is i. e. Lion King. or B. pretending not to understand the pun, because it benefits him more to look at the phrase in literal terms. Because I know most Republicans are more racist than illiterate, I am sure it is answer “B”
Report Post »Kankokage
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 4:05pmAnd it’s just like a Democrat to not understand that words matter – or did that cease with the intellectually-vapid, emotionally-driven election of “King” Obama? Did suddenly human psychology change (ever heard of Freudian slips?)? And by the way, the whole “racist” thing has grown tired; it virtually has no meaning other than an empty insult used by liberals to try and intimidate those they consider political enemies. It is used with literally no evidence, just as you are doing now, with hopes that somehow the insult will stick and others will begin to think like you do. Grow up, my small-minded friend.
Report Post »TheObamanation
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:51pmJim Moron isn’t a representative of the human race …
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:57pmBut I bet wioth a namke like Moron he was kidded in school.
Report Post »neverending
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:51pmLet them keep attacking Congressman Allen West because it only makes those of us who honor and support this great American Patriot that much more determined. What a worthless bunch but then they are all the same from the whitehouse on down.
Report Post »janedough1
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:53pmI guess by that he means that the black community isn’t as honorable, smart, dignified, capable and courageous and Lt. Col. West. If I were black, I’d take exception to that. That is a pretty cold thing to say.
Report Post »theshovel
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:51pmGet over it. These people are upset that no one on their side of the isle ever speaks with that kind of power.
Report Post »possom
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:50pmObama’s our lion king? Moran’s boot licking again.
Report Post »glashole
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:47pmI am as black as Obama is white and rep. West is solid on his position and clearly a much better speaker than rep Moron, oh I mean Dimwit, or was it Doran. Regardless, the white man don’t speak for me on this one.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:47pmRep. Moran went on to say that President Obama “doesn’t engage in this nonsense” and that, to some extent, “he’s our Lion King.”
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Really ???
“Lipstick on a pig is still a pig” (when running against Sarah Palin, or, was it Hillary Clinton?)
“The police acted stupidly…” (in defense of Professor Gates)
“Get to the back of the bus” (said to republicans)
“Punish your enemies” (instruction to Latino voters about republicans)
>“My grandmother was a typical white woman” -Barack Obama
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:02amGood post, but you know liberals can’t be bothered with facts.
Report Post »VermontPatriot
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:46pmRep. Allen West represents Americans! It is way past time to drop all of
Report Post »the PC hyphenated crap!
Baddoggy
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:46pmJust the racist idiot way to call Colonel West Uncle Tom…Sickening.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:51pm& Cornal Sanders is a chicken *******
Report Post »rsanchez1
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:45pmAnd, they’re not even mincing words, just outright calling him a *king* now?
Oh my…
Report Post »FormerLib
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:09pmI think maybe they meant “lyin’ king”.
Report Post »CS_GUY
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:44pmMr Moran,
Rather humorous how a man of your particular ethnic background would venture into this situation.
Perhaps you should keep your opinions to yourself? Might be wise…….
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:47pmAllen West is American not African
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:54pmEveryone in envious of Rep. West – a full blood African American with dark skin. Didn’t get it by brown nosing or doing it with a full face plant. Rep. moron is afraid his fearless half blood is going to look bad by this man.
Report Post »rsanchez1
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:44pmThey say he’s not representative of the “black community” because they (they being the liberal left who continue to addict them on welfare) have broken the spirit of the black community so thoroughly that they don’t have the will to speak out and decide their own fate for themselves. They only follow what their community organizers say. That, or they all have misguided dreams of becoming rappers or basketball players. That’s why when you do have successful black leaders whose success they achieved themselves (without the help of others, as Obama wants everyone to believe is the only way to success), they’re attacked relentlessly in the media.
Herman Cain was blasted out of the presidential race with the flimsiest of evidence when people started to believe in him as a self-made business man. Now, Allen West is their target as a man who worked hard to achieve his success serving his country in the military and who wants to emphatically tell the black community that they don’t need community organizers or welfare to be successful too.
These ideas are dangerous for the black community, because it will allow them to break the shackles of the nanny state from the liberal left and reject big government ideas of welfare. Men like West and Cain are dangerous to liberals because they show the black community that they too can succeed if they work hard.
Report Post »Realist4U
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:53pmYup! They can’t stand any black man with a functioning moral compass. They are evil, doing the work of Satan.
Report Post »drago
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:43pmJust two idiots that i dont need to hear speak.As for you mr. bashir, take you sorry muslim ass back to the middle east…..
Report Post »neverending
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:48pmAnd please make that sooner rather then later.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:42pmWow, Rep Doran speaks for the Black community; Rep West does not. Is rep Doran a racist?
Report Post »Boomer52
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:10pmNo not a racist…Just WAY smarter than the American Blacks. Just ask him…He’ll say it IS so!
Report Post »elosogrande
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:42pmWest is not supposed to represent the African-American community. He was elected to represent all of the people in his district, and do what is right for them and for America. It seems to me that West is doing a pretty good job, in spite of buffoons and dolts such as Democrat Jim Doran.
Jim Doran? Jim Doran? Who is Jim Doran? Anybody out there know? Anybody? Obviously, Doran hasn’t had the ability to make himself known ,outside of his teeny group of fellow travelers at MSNBC, where at times, the guests are even more stupid than the hosts.
Report Post »ConservativeBrony
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:41pmIt’s funny how racist the left is. They don’t even try to hide it at all. They like brainwashed people.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:40pmDid you all get that? The white Democrat plantation owner said Col. West is not representative of what he believes black people should be? What’s that? I misquoted Doran? No…I merely offered a more complete expression of Rep Doran’s thoughts on how black people in this country should behave and present themselves. I‘m surprised Doran didn’t just say…any black person in this country not falling into “progressive” line isn’t a black person and therefore should be either silenced or ignored. Hey..better yet..let’s make these particular black people 3/5 of a person like the good old days that Democrats fought so hard to keep during the civil rights movement?
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:46pm“REP. MORAN: ALLEN WEST ‘IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY”
Report Post »It’s simple, Rep Allen West is not in lock step with the rest of the left wing loons and refuses to stay tied down on the Democrat Plantation.
AvengerK
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:46pmBy the way…Marty Bashir is always first to call “racist” on the “other team”. Where was his righteous indignation when Doran chose to isolate and marginalize Col West from his concept of what black people should be “respresentative of” in this country? What are Rep Doran’s credentials to determine who is more “black” than someone else? Marty?
Report Post »CleanUpAisle2013
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:08pm” … Mr. West, is not only not representative of the African-American community …” said the white man.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:40pmI really don’t know whether to laugh or cry at the stupidity of this persons statement.
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:39pmThe Lion King will be dethrowned on November 6, 2012.
Report Post »CleanUpAisle2013
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:09pmThat’s “Lying King”
Report Post »Dougalug
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:38pmSo the libs are annoyed that West doesn`t tow the demoncratic, terrorist supporting, anti American line and is capable of independent thought. Cryin` shame. Sure was fun though when they talked all their dirt when the roles were reversed and Bush was getting it 500 times worse! Cry me a river you jelly spined wimps as you can dish it out but sure can`t take it! WAH
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:09pmThe idiots on the far left are afraid of what will happen when Obama leaves office. Bush made more money in 3 weeks off his book “Decision Points” than Clinton did in 11 years. Obama has been getting the Government to buy his books
Report Post »spirited
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:38pm“But now that he’s climbed on board ship, instead of reaching down and steadying the ladder, he wants to push it off. ‘I’m up here. If you’re not with me, too bad.’’ -Rep. Jim Doran (D)
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Uh oh!
>Racism
Report Post »DD313
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:38pmThe name is MORAN not DORAN! Conservatives in VA call him MORON, because of the stupid things he does and says. If he were from anywhere other than the DC suburbs, he would have been long gone. Talks of West being a bully, but tried to make a citizens arrest of a young African-American male (aged 10 or so), claiming he attempted to carjack him. What a piece of work, excreted from the bowls of liberalism.
Report Post »DD313
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:43pmThat’s “bowels”, sorry.
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:36pmAs to the headline. I’m thankful for that. He appears to advocate for what is best for all Americans. It seems that Doran may be a bit biased or racist. Doesn’t matter, based on his statement I don’t like him.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:42pmQuestion…what part of the “white community” is Doran “respresentative of” and should we ignore that portion of the white community in the same way Doran ignores black people like Col. West?
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:59pmAvengerK
Report Post »He doesn’t represent me. He prays at the alter of the church of liberalism. Until people start representing what is best for America and not their re-election in their “oh so enlightened” liberal district, our country continues on the route to hell in the proverbial hand basket.