The Commentariat -- Oct. 22, 2014
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Dan Roberts of the Guardian: "The Obama administration has announced America's first Ebola-related travel restrictions, forcing passengers originating from affected countries in west Africa to fly via US airports with screening procedures in place. The limited move comes after days of mounting political pressure to introduce outright travel bans on such passengers entering the US, but will instead make sure all recent travellers to Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea are subject to basic tests for fever and face questioning on possible exposure to the disease." ...
... Here's the statement by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. ...
... Joe Coscarelli of New York reports on some of "the most ignorant" Ebola panic episodes. ...
... This lady got the materials for her homemade hazmat outfit at J. C. Penney's. Luckily, no Ebola carriers spit on her exposed wrists. That we know of. ...
... Rachel Abrams of the New York Times: "Major manufacturers of personal protective equipment say they have already experienced a significant spike in demand for their products, as hospitals across the country brace for potential new cases of Ebola, which has already killed more than 4,500 people." ...
... Sarah Ferris of the Hill: "The Dallas hospital that has treated three Ebola patients will no longer admit anyone who has been infected with the disease, Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced Tuesday. Texas health officials are creating a pair of new Ebola treatment centers to handle any additional cases. Neither of those facilities are at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, which has been heavily criticized for its flawed care of the country's first Ebola patient." ...
... CW: Perry might have acted sooner to establish these treatment centers, but he was out of the country giving speeches about American exceptionalism. ...
... NBC News: "Ashoka Mukpo, the cameraman diagnosed with Ebola while working in Liberia as a freelancer for NBC News, has been declared free of the virus and will be allowed to leave a biocontainment unit at the Nebraska Medical Center on Wednesday, the hospital said Tuesday."
Washington Post Editors: Recent studies have found that mountaintop-removal mining not only has adverse environmental consequences for vast areas surrounding the operations but also creates killing health conditions. "The EPA is right to move more firmly to protect health and environment."
Erica Werner of the AP: "A new government investigation questions a bizarre Secret Service mission that pulled agents from their assignment near the White House and sent them to the rural Maryland home of a headquarters employee embroiled in a personal dispute with a neighbor. The report by the Homeland Security Department's inspector general calls the conduct 'problematic,' and says that the employee's friendship with high-level Secret Service officials creates the appearance it was motivated by personal relations 'rather than furthering official government functions.'"
Conservative economist Bruce Bartlett in the American Conservative: President "Obama has governed as a moderate conservative -- essentially as what used to be called a liberal Republican before all such people disappeared from the GOP. He has been conservative to exactly the same degree that Richard Nixon basically governed as a moderate liberal, something no conservative would deny today." ...
... CW: Bartlett ticks off a list of Obama's conservative policy preferences, all of which I've pointed out over the years. In a world where Congressional Republicans weren't crazed, hateful ideologues, Obama would have overseen the enactment of a lot of fairly conservative legislation, but some of it -- educational enhancements, job training, infrastructure improvement, immigration reform, stricter across-the-board regulation, etc. -- would have benefited some lower- & middle-class people. And we all would be living in a better economy. The Party of No has proved to the greatest American shame (& sham) of the past half-century.
Annals of Journalism
Robert Kaiser of the Washington Post: "Benjamin C. Bradlee, who presided over The Washington Post newsroom for 26 years and guided The Post's transformation into one of the world's leading newspapers, died Oct. 21 at his home in Washington of natural causes. He was 93." ...
... The New York Times' obituary of Bradlee is here. ...
A letter from a WashPo reader, ca. 1977, to editor Katherine Graham:
Dear Mrs. Graham:
Messrs. Eugene Meyer and Philip L. Graham must be turning over in their graves because of the way you are dragging down what used to be a wonderful newspaper.
In my humble opinion, I think the persons really responsible for the Washington Post's decline are Benjamin C. Bradlee and Philip L. Geyelin.
Beneath it was Ben’s response:
Dear Mr. Dodderidge:
Your letter to Mrs. Graham reminded me of the story about W. C. Fields sitting with a drink in his hand in his garden one afternoon.
His secretary interrupted him repeatedly to tell him that a strange man wanted to see him and refused to say what he wanted to see him about. Finally Fields told his secretary to give the man 'an equivocal answer -- tell him to go fuck himself.'
Via Jeff Himmelman, in New York.
In a Time essay, Jill Abramson remembers Bradlee.
Annals of "Journalism," Ctd.
The Anti-Cronkite -- The Least Trusted Man in News. Christopher Ingraham of the Washington Post: "Thirty-nine percent of Americans say they don't trust Rush Limbaugh when it comes to news about government and politics, giving the radio personality the highest untrustworthiness rating of 36 news sources included in a recent Pew Research Center Study. Americans overall are three times more likely to say they distrust Limbaugh than to say they trust him." ...
... Amy Mitchell, et al., of Pew Research: "When it comes to getting news about politics and government, liberals and conservatives inhabit different worlds. There is little overlap in the news sources they turn to and trust. And whether discussing politics online or with friends, they are more likely than others to interact with like-minded individuals, according to a new Pew Research Center study." ...
... Paul Waldman: "One of the distinct things about the Pew results is that conservatives love, love, love Fox News, while no single news outlet has the same kind of near-universal use among liberals." ...
... Ed Kilgore: "... assessing the importance of Fox News involves more than just looking at ratings. Its extraordinary central role in 'informing' the ideological 'base' of one of the country's two major political parties is unparalleled."
CW: You might like to read Driftglass on Brooks to remind yourself why you don't read David Brooks' columns. The gist of it: once again Brooks faults the breakdown of society for our most recent ill -- this time, Ebola panic -- without every acknowledging that (a) prominent members of his beloved Republican party, along with the rank-and-file wacko-birds, have been feeding the flames of fear for political advantage, or (b) that a dysfunctional society (this week Brooks is blaming "segmented society") is, in part, the result of GOP policies.
CW: I'm quite supportive of James Risen of the New York Times in his troubles with the Obama administration, which for years has been pressuring him in myriad ways -- including threats of criminal prosecution -- to reveal his sources in a chapter of his book (a story he originally wrote for the Times, which the Times decided not to publish) about a CIA plan to sabotage Iran's nuclear program. While this should not affect Risen's righteous First Amendment beef with the DOJ, it's worth noting that Risen isn't as concerned about other people's rights as he is his own. Risen -- along with Jeff Gerth, who "broke" the Whitewater story & whose reporting on that has since been largely discredited -- fingered Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee as a Chinese spy based on "slim evidence, quick conclusions and loyalty to sources with an ax to grind," as Eric Boehlert wrote in Salon in 2000: "... the entire premise of the New York Times' early news reports and strident editorials -- proclaiming that a Chinese-American scientist inside Los Alamos had given away nuclear secrets that had dramatically helped China improve its arsenal, and that the Clinton administration could have stopped it but chose not to -- had turned out to be flat wrong." Eric Holder was a top DOJ guy in the Clinton administration. I wonder if the grief the government is giving Risen now is payback for the embarrassing -- & expensive -- rabbit hole down which Risen's reporting led federal law enforcement agencies.
** Fred Kaplan of Slate: "If all I knew about Edward Snowden were his portrait in Laura Poitras' documentary, Citizenfour, I'd probably regard him as a conscientious, brave young man, maybe an American hero. But Poitras, a very talented filmmaker who flipped from journalist to collaborator in this story long ago, has chosen to leave a lot out."
Greg Miller of the Washington Post: "Former CIA director Leon E. Panetta clashed with the agency over the contents of his recently published memoir and allowed his publisher to begin editing and making copies of the book before he had received final approval from the CIA.... Panetta's decision appears to have put him in violation of the secrecy agreement that all CIA employees are required to sign and came amid a showdown with agency reviewers that could have derailed the release of the book...." CW: Evidently Panetta was in a hurry to get the book out before the midterms.
November Elections
Vote Early. The POTUS might give you a smooch:
... P.S. No matter who you are, you will be asked for ID:
Worse than the Poll Tax. Jonathan Chait: "... the costs of contemporary voter I.D. requirements, even in inflation-adjusted terms, is many times the level of the poll taxes that existed before they were outlawed in 1964." CW: Read the whole post. Chait has a lot more to say about voter suppression, but this factoid jumped out at me. ...
... Matthew McKnight of the New Yorker on the Supreme Court's decision to allow Texas to impose a discriminatory voter suppression law: "... this moment, of threatened voting rights and judicial obscurity, presents a paradox: the strongest tool that citizens possess is being made impotent by the government officials who are most immune to the power of the vote."
Brian Tashman of Right Wing Watch profiles "five Republican Congressional candidates who could be heading to the Capitol next year. Some have been labeled 'establishment,' some 'Tea Party,' but all are emblematic of the party's strong turn to the right." One is worse than the next.
Florida. Nah-ne-na-nah-ni. You're too rich. No, you're too privileged. Charlie Crist & Rick Scott "debate." Sean Sullivan of the Washington Post: "Scott's net worth was more than $132 million last year Crist's was $1.2 million." Steve Bousquet & Mary Ellen Klas of the Miami Herald & Tampa Bay Times: "For a live hour on CNN and in TV stations across Florida, Scott and Crist disagreed, distorted each others' records and exchanged insults."
Georgia. Christina Wilkie of the Huffington Post: "Republican David Perdue, the Georgia businessman running for U.S. Senate, has as much as $1 million invested in an exclusive fund managed by a Swiss private bank -- a rarefied investment strategy that has earned him between $100,000 and $1 million since 2012." Via Greg Sargent. CW: Please, Georgia media, pick up this story. Nobody likes a tax cheat.
Iowa. Miranda Blue of Right Wing Watch: At a campaign event with Donald Trump, Rep. Steve King (RTP-Iowa) "went on a long tirade claiming that America is becoming 'a third-world country' because of 'the things that are coming at us from across the border,' including illegal drugs, Central American children of 'prime gang recruitment age,' ISIS, a childhood respiratory illness that has spread in recent weeks, and the Ebola virus. The ISIS and respiratory disease claims are based on unsubstantiated reports in the right-wing media, while there is absolutely no link between border enforcement and Ebola or the Oklahoma beheading incident."
New Hampshire. Joshua Miller of the Boston Globe: "... incumbent Democrat Jeanne Shaheen and Republican Scott Brown engaged in a fiery debate. Shaheen attacked Brown ... as someone driven by his own ambition rather than a desire to serve New Hampshire residents.... Brown painted Shaheen as a lockstep partisan, tying her to President Obama, who has grown unpopular in New Hampshire." OR, as Greg Sargent puts it, "Brown robotically repeat[ed] Obummer-Obummer-Obummer talking points."
North Carolina. Greg Sargent: GOP Senate nominee Thom "Tillis is now suggesting that North Carolina should consider opting in to Obamacare's Medicaid expansion. Which is funny, because during the GOP primary, he ran an ad boasting that as state House speaker, he had 'stopped Obamacare's Medicaid expansion cold.'"
Wisconsin. I don't want to say anything about your Wisconsin voters but, some of them might not be as sharp as a knife. -- RNC co-chair Sharon Day, who might not be as sharp as a knife
Presidential Election
Another Potential GOP Presidential Candidate Is "Tired of Hearing about the Minimum Wage." This week, it's Chris Christie (who told it to the fat cats at a Chamber of Commerce event.) Last week it was Scott Walker. (And of course Walker's sidekick, the state's GOP attorney general nominee Brad Schimel, reflecting Scottie's "values," thinks minimum wage jobs are not "real jobs.") CW: It all makes sense, see? If you don't have a "real job," you don't merit a "real living wage." You have to be satisfied with the fake one the Walker administration came up with: $7.25/hour. Never mind that researchers have calculated that a minimum living wage in Madison is $21/hour, or almost three times the Walker claim. It's all fake, see -- your job, their calculation. That's the way it is in Right Wing World, where their perception is your reality. ...
... Tim Alberta of the National Journal: "New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie launched a preemptive strike Tuesday against some potential Republican rivals for the White House, saying the 'experiment' of promoting a lawmaker to president has failed -- and arguing that Republicans must nominate a governor in 2016.... The remarks may well represent Christie's most forceful intra-party offensive to date, a preemptive and unprompted attack against unnamed 'legislators' -- including Sens. Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz -- who almost certainly will be competing with him in 2016." ...
... CW: Christie, like Joni Ernst, says, "Pain will be involved. Some people will be unhappy" under his governance. It's hard not to notice a decided sadistic strain running through Republican political philosophy. Both Ernst & Christie describe the pain they intend to inflict upon their constituents as a demonstration of strength: Ernst uses the term "intestinal fortitude"; Christie sees hurting people as a measure of "leadership": "It's time to start offending people," he boasts. "I don't care if I'm loved; I want to be respected."
Ron Paul, Still Marching to His Own Drummer. Jonathan Topaz of Politico: "Ron Paul on Monday said that calls for a ban on travel from West African countries affected by Ebola are primarily 'politically motivated' -- just days after his son Sen. Rand Paul announced his support for one."
Beyond the Beltway
Preying on the Poor. Michael Corkery of the New York Times: "Over the last two years, lawmakers in at least eight states have voted to increase the fees or the interest rates that lenders can charge on certain personal loans used by millions of borrowers with subpar credit. The overhaul of the state lending laws comes after a lobbying push by the consumer loan industry and a wave of campaign donations to state lawmakers." CW: No, these legislators have no shame. They're just as bad as the usurers themselves.
Charles Pierce adds some historical context to the (Allegedly) Felonious Mike story out of Alabama, with more than a cameo appearance of Karl Rove. One thing that unites the GOP establishment in these red states -- they are all dirty rotten scoundrels. ...
... Ferinstance. Lauren McGaughy of the Houston Chronicle: "Former David Dewhurst [R] campaign manager Kenneth 'Buddy' Barfield is facing up to 28 years in prison and millions in fines and restitution payments after pleading guilty Tuesday to embezzling nearly $1.8 million from the outgoing lieutenant governor's failed 2012 bid for U.S. Senate. Appearing before a federal judge, Barfield pleaded guilty to charges of wire fraud, filing a false tax return and embezzlement. While he faces a maximum of 28 years in prison, seven years supervised release and fines, his ultimate sentence will be determined by a district court judge at a later date." Barfield now lives in Alabama.
Christine Byers of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "The St. Louis medical examiner, Dr. Michael Graham, who is not part of the official investigation [into Michael Brown's death], reviewed the autopsy report for the newspaper. He said Tuesday that it 'does support that there was a significant altercation at the car.'... Dr. Judy Melinek, a forensic pathologist in San Francisco, said the autopsy 'supports the fact that this guy is reaching for the gun, if he has gunpowder particulate material in the wound.' She added, 'If he has his hand near the gun when it goes off, he's going for the officer's gun.' Sources told the Post-Dispatch that Brown's blood had been found on [Officer Darren] Wilson's gun. Melinek also said the autopsy did not support witnesses who have claimed Brown was shot while running away from Wilson, or with his hands up."
Laurel Andrews of the Alaska Dispatch News on a Palin family melee. "Real America" turns out to be a horrible place.
News Ledes
Hill: "The Pentagon confirmed Wednesday that Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters took possession of a stray bundle of U.S.-airdropped weapons and other supplies in the Syrian border town of Kobani earlier this week."
New York Times: "The heart of the Canadian capital [Ottawa] was traumatized and placed in emergency police lockdown on Wednesday after a gunman fatally wounded a soldier guarding the National War Memorial, entered the nearby Parliament building and fired multiple times before he was shot and killed. It was the second deadly assault on a uniformed member of Canada's armed forces in three days. While the motive was unclear, the Ottawa attack heightened fears that Canada, a strong ally of the United States, had been targeted in an organized terrorist plot." ...
... Toronto Globe & Mail: "Federal sources have identified the suspected shooter as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, a man in his early 30s who was known to Canadian authorities. Sources told The Globe and Mail that he was recently designated a 'high-risk traveller' by the Canadian government and that his passport had been seized -- the same circumstances surrounding the case of Martin Rouleau-Couture, the Quebecker who was shot Monday after running down two Canadian Forces soldiers with his car." The page includes links to related stories. ...
... Here's the Guardian's live feed.
Guardian: "A three-month old baby was killed and eight other people wounded in Jerusalem -- one seriously -- in what Israel police are describing as a 'terrorist attack' in which a speeding car drove onto a pavement crowded with pedestrians alighting from the city's light railway. Video footage posted on social media appears to show a car on the main road slowing slightly before crossing to the train tracks and climbing on to the station pavement and ploughing through the people standing on it."
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An Ebola treatment center in Galveston? Ruh-roh. Ebola ships from Africa!
You kinda cringe when you see Rick Perry's picture or his name in the paper, on TV or the Web because you know he's said something that will reflect badly on Texas.
On the other hand, you get a little giddy because you know he's going to embarrass himself in some delightfully humorous way, making your day.
Makes me feel kinda sorry for the person whose job it is to feed him lines through his new Google glasses.
I'm kidding, of course, about the ships from Africa. But, you wait, it will pop up somewhere.
Re: The new deadly virus spawned right here in the USA; "NRA 2gnome one"
Number of deaths: 11,068
Deaths per 100,000 population: 3.6
Gun deaths in the year 1013.
Race out and buy a plastic suit, we all goin' to die.
Re: Missed it by a thousand years: the year was 2013. More coffee.
Bad timing. A possible Ebola patient has been sent to University Hospital in Newark, N.J. Unfortunately I have a personal issue to deal with today so I can't go back to my former institution to see how faculty and staff in even other buildings are dealing with the possibly of being infected by a disease that prefers that you lick the patients blood. Given the incredibly stupid response from Syracuse University it would be interesting. My guess is some people would wonder why I even came given 'the circumstances'.
This Ebola story tells such so much about the human mind. Not only the idea that we try hard not to get the facts but why bother. Irrational fear rules out over the truth.
And related in today's post, the reason conservatives watch FOX 'news' is specifically to avoid the facts.
@JJG: You may need more coffee, but I think I need new eyes cuz I read your 1013 as 2013––ain't that somethin?
The Ben Bradlee response to the nitwit made my day with or without the coffee. W.C. Field's directive needs to be shouted from the hill tops to the media brigade that goes off half cocked about ebola and everything else that they can get their nasty little paws on. Lordy, lordy, we have such a colorful country.
JJG,
What would be interesting is to come up an estimate for gun deaths since 1013.
Or hell, how about just since 1913.
The Right Wing Watch piece outlining the latest stream of morons to the capitol should be frightening to any sentient American.
Unfortunately, those hardly able to think for themselves (ie, barely sentient--or not at all), and their "undecided" colleagues in dementia, seem to have the higher ground lately, if not a higher consciousness.
This state of affairs sends me right around the bend. People who would have been laughed at as outright loonies not long ago, are now taken seriously. One of the most prominent Republicans running for president, believes there's a world wide conspiracy to take over the planet and install a one-world socialist government run by and for the ultra wealthy.
Earth to Rand Paul, Earth to Rand Paul, your party has been throwing the reins of power in that direction for a generation or more, you fucking child. And if you get close to the brass ring, they'll be supporting you with millions from their stockpiles of dirty money. Dimwit. And why? Because they know what a malleable pretender and intellectual lightweight you are.
And as bad as Rand Paul is, there are others far worse. It's a truly scary thought to consider that Rand Paul is the freakin' cream of the crop.
I'll spare you the roll call. You know the names. Drooling imbeciles, one and all. But imbeciles with power. Two words: Blake.Farenthold. 'Nuff said?
And several events over the last few days have helped to clarify some thinking about the confluence of these terrifying circumstances. It was certainly no secret that the vast majority of conservatives get their marching orders from Fox, which they imbibe in astonishing stretches of hypnotic indoctrination, rife with paranoia, lies, scary stories of black people and immigrants and terrorists under the bed and wars on Christmas and coming to take your guns and blah, blah, blah, guaranteeing a child-like, fearful, ignorant, superstitious horde that would be right at home in a medieval hovel, where they'd be deliriously blaming Jews for the black death and demanding investigations and gates around the city, travel restrictions and a plague czar. They'd be burning animal entrails for solutions to the horror and threatening to boil in oil any level headed person advancing the cause of rationality.
But after reading about Li'l Randy's fascination with conspiracy theories usually reserved for the dim and the dull, and the explosive anger on the right over the "revelation" that Bush's WMD lies were "true" all along, culminating in Sarah Palin's "theory" that there is a massive coverup going on involving shadowy figures in the media and the Bush administration itself, making her and all of her idiot followers victims of a vast conspiracy--again--it's clear that those dark ages hovel dwellers have plenty of company in the upper echelons of the GOP.
But here's the thing about conspiracy theories. I've been considering the religious component in such whacko apprehensions. And I believe that what they (wingnuts and Fox watchers--I know, it's pretty much the same thing) have learned from organized religion, perfectly prepares them for belief systems that don't require proof, don't require rationality, and pretty much discount out of hand any ideas that conflict with them. How can people hold on to insane ideas that have been proven to be false? Because religion teaches them that there are things in the universe they were not meant to understand. A-ha! Exactly! So no amount of proof will ever be enough to convince them that positions they hold, no matter how risible and even self-defeating and injurious, are not worth their lives and those of their kids. Mirabile dictu, right?
Plus, no earthly law they disagree with is worthy of their consideration, and the goddam Supreme Court wingers agree. Talk of anti-Christs and conspiracies and bogey-men and liberals out to get them prompt people in positions of authority to wonder why the president hasn't already been shot and killed or at the very least taken out in chains.
And this brings me to the Democrats.
Why.The.Fuck.Are.We.Bowing.Down.To.These.Idiots.AGAIN????
The howling mob screams for an Ebola Czar. They get one. They scream for flight restrictions. They get them. They say WMD in Iraq, we say okay, then it's war.
Brothers and sisters, I'm here to say that there will have to be revolution in this country--not necessarily a shooting revolution but I wouldn't rule it out entirely; more like an intellectual revolution, a smart revolution, a revolution in understanding the difference between superstition and truth, between paranoia and rationality, before we will be able to retreat from the brink. We currently have half, or more, of our state and federal government officials who hate government and are maddened and moved by unhinged thinking. And more are on the way. And every new crop is stupider and more insane than the previous.
The very best we can hope for is continued gridlock and impotence and, eventually, a descent into hopelessness. It will be a while before we are a thoroughly disgraced failed state, but by then we will have lost most of our credibility with the rest of the world. I can picture a day when leaders in the Maldives and Luxembourg refuse to accept our calls 'cause they don't have time for the crazy.
We have the Supreme Court allied with the cranks and the droolers and haters. We have a supine media on one hand and a willfully irrational conservative media juggernaut spreading fear and lies quicker than the Palins can punch a party-goer.
We have only the voters to rely on to eventually see what's going on. We need critical thinking. And I'm not talking Manhattan Project level critical thought, I'm talking "how to tie your shoelaces" critical thinking.
Can we do it?
Nancy,
Loved that little "Roh-roh".
As for Rick (Have you ever visited my hunting lodge?) Perry, don't forget, as with calling out National Guard troops who have no legal standing and who couldn't actually do jack about anything, to stand watch over the Texas-Mexico border, it's all about the visuals.
It don't matter whether it's useful or not. It's all about how it looks.
Ergo, the glasses. Smart people wear glasses, right? So glasses make me look smart.
Truth is not a part of the equation.
What....is in the water in Wisconsin? Now I know, my experience with Wisconsin has largely been restricted to visits to Milwaukee and Madison so I'm not familiar with all the upstate fun that might be happening. But wtf is going on there? I mean besides a dirty governor trying to lie/buy his way to continued power over every living thing in the state so he can hand it over to the Kochs.
The latest stupidity involves a Green Bay alderman, Chris Wery (R-Surprised?) insulting one of his constituents, a Ms. Heba Mohammed (know where this is going?) when she dared to ask him a question connected to the upcoming elections.
Ms. Mohammed inquired of her elected official as to the possibility of free city bus service on election day. Not a bad idea, right? Democracy, and all. So two things happened. First, like any good Republican, Wery immediately had Ms. Mohammed investigated, because, racial profiling, natch. Then he considered the idea that dirty Muslims might be riding city buses (Holy crusaders, Batman!) to enjoy the privilege of voting which, of course, is restricted only to real 'mericans, and basically said..."Yeah, okay. I'll get back to on that one....ha!"
After finding out that Ms. Mohammed had not only belonged to a Muslim Student Association while in college, but had founded that group, he had a "gotcha" worthy of the most xenophobic Fox zipperhead. He lowered the boom on his constituent by demanding that she renounce all connections with terror groups and Sharia law before...well, before anything.
Ms. Mohammed was not happy with the profiling nor with the questions about her religion and assumed connections with terrorist organizations.
Wery didn't give a rat's ass.
He apparently apologized. He didn't phrase his question properly. I guess he was wishing he had just said, "Fuck off, Muslim bitch".
Sean Hannity would SO have invited him on to talk about saving Green Bay from Sharia Law.
Someday I wanna hear that some fundamentalist Christian hater has been asked to renounce all the terrible things ever done in the name of Jesus before they get any consideration from an elected official.
Watcha think? Possible?