Posted on 01/02/2015 6:18:42 PM PST by xzins
Nationally syndicated radio host Mark Levin posed some very pointed questions for U.S. House of Representatives Majority Whip Stephen Joseph Scalise regarding Representative Scalise’s speech before a white supremacist group founded by former Louisiana grand wizard of the Klu Klux Klan and neo-Nazi David Duke.
According to a December 28, 2014 liberal blog, then Louisiana state senator Scalise, was “an honored guest and speaker at an international conference of white supremacist leaders,” a conference whose organization “was named, innocuously enough, EURO, an acronym for European-American Unity and Rights Organization.”
However, a January 1, 2015 FOX News Report adds another wrinkle to the story. Kenny Knight, the event organizer, said that Scalise did not speak to the white supremacist group. “Kenny Knight, a longtime political adviser to Duke, told The Times-Picayune of New Orleans that Scalise spoke at a meeting of the Jefferson Heights Civic Association, not affiliated with the European-American Unity and Rights conference that was held in the same Metairie hotel two-and-a-half hours before the white nationalist event started.”
Representative Scalise, allegedly unaware of the connections between the civic group and Euro, however, confirmed that he had spoken at the event, a decision he said he now regrets, and has since apologized.
As many others should, Mark Levin wants to know more. In a note on his Facebook page Levin probed a bit deeper asking the following questions of Mr. Scalise:
1. Why did you attend any meeting at the behest of your neighbor - a known, long-time David Duke operator and confidant, Kenny Knight?
2. You know David Duke is a vile racist and anti-Semite, right?
3. If so, why did you have any association at all with Knight, a lowlife, let alone and apparently a mildly friendly one?
4. It has been reported that this sicko donated $1000 to your campaign. Amazingly, even now you apparently haven't returned it. Why?
5. I have to ask, Mr. Scalise, are you an idiot?
Levin did not stop at questions alone, however. He then clarified his poignant questioning by stating:
“No one is saying Scalise is a racist. But the idiot defense is not good enough for the #3 Republican House leader. There's just too much at stake and it's not too much to expect much better from the Republican Party.
“The truth is if Scalise was a Tea Party member of Congress serving in leadership, Boehner and his media cheerleaders like Rove, et al, would have forced his resignation by now, not mounted a vigorous ‘defense.’
“More to the point, Scalise is a Boehner lieutenant. He's an unprincipled operator who, among other things, did grave damage to the formerly conservative Republican Study Committee and supported Boehner's efforts to purge conservatives from key committee assignments. He's yet another example of what's wrong with the GOP and Washington.”
“The American people are sick of it,” says Levin, “and those who defend such awful establishment leadership are not doing either the GOP or the nation any favors. Scalise is another setback.”
Scalise is a Rino...an establishment GOPer.
Hummmm If the shoe fits.....
Levin probed a bit deeper asking the following questions of Mr. Scalise:(Obama)
1. Why did you attend any meeting at the behest of your neighbor - a known, long-time David Duke operator and confidant, Kenny Knight?(long time race baiter and confidant Al Sharpton?)
2. You know David Duke (Al Sharpton) is a vile racist and anti-Semite, right?
3. If so, why did you have any association at all with Knight,(Sharpton) a lowlife, let alone and apparently a mildly friendly one?
4. It has been reported that this sicko donated $1000 to your campaign. Amazingly, even now you apparently haven’t returned it. Why?
5. I have to ask, Mr. (President)Scalise, are you an idiot?
I’ve git Michael Barone’s 2014 Almanac of American Politics in front of me. It presents the group ratings for votes cast during the 112th Congress (2011-2013) by ten different froups. Looking at the six groups with the clearest ideological bent fir each of 2011 and 2012, Steve Scalise was given a rating of 92% and 100%, respectively, from the conservative American Conservative Union; a rating of 84% and 87%, respectively, from the economically conservative Club for Growth (LA Republicans tend to be populist on trade issues); 90% and 100%, respectively, from the socially conservative Family Research Council; 0% for each year from the liberal Americans for Democratic Action; a combined 0% for the two- year period from the labor liberal AFSCME; and 9% for each year from the environmentalist liberal League of Conservation Voters. So among those six ideological groups that rate congressional votes, the aggregate conservative vote rating for Scalise was 94.58%. To put it in perspective, the aggregate conservative vote rating was 92.41% for Trey Gowdy; 93.00% for Michele Bachmann; 92.41% for Louie Gohmert; 92.67% for Tom Price; 94.58% for Steve King; 94.08% for Tim Huelskamp; and 95.00% for Jim Jordan. Scalise had a more conservative voting record for the most recent Congress for which the information has been compiled in a single source than did conservative stalwarts (and Tea Party heroes) Gowdy, Bachmann, Gohmert, Price and Huelskamp, and was tied with Steve King and just a hair behind Jim Jordan. So you’re going to take your idiotic claims of “RINOism” to the ignorant (or innumerate), not to FR, whete people read and think for themselves rather than repeat whatever tripe Mark Leven is spouting that day ir believing whatever innuendo liberals are feeding you.
Aha! Now we get to the real reason Levin wants him gone.
If Scalise was a Tea Party member of Congress serving in leadership, Levin would be defending him, citing the fact that he did NOT speak to the white supremacist group, and that this was a high-tech lynching.
Levin knows this, so he goes after Scalise using guilt by association. If Levin went after a Democrat with petty little bullshit like this, I'd be embarrassed for him.
Actually, Scalise did speak to the neo-Nazis. They attended the first event, and thus provided Scalise with plausible deniability.
But he did speak to them.
And from at least one of them, neo-Nazi Kenny Knight, he received at least $1000.
” Similar to the “accidental” release of BHO’s opponent in the Indiana senate race’s SEALED divorce records.”
That was Illinois and those sealed records were released after the Chicago Tribune sued.
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Not bad, only seven posts.
5.56mm
Answer: Because in the “inside the beltway” lobbyist controlled world of country-club RINOs, DINOs and teat sucking govt. leeches— the by word IS racist anti-semitism- it is the same byword as the European Union, to which the RINOs have attached their star. It is who they are.
They are “doing business with the government” in what Dwight Eisenhower warned was and IS the military-industrial, and now add in MEDICAL complex of govt. contractors with a sole client- the federal budget. Coupled now with the New World Order socialists who think we are not a sovereign country.
THAT is why true conservatives are feared in the US govt. and are to be expunged at ALL costs by the Establishment types. It is because these people could NEVER build a business on their own (as in the Atlas Shrugged scenario) by their own invention and hard work. So, they find a way to buzzard pick off the remaining productive businesses for their own little “business”. They LOVE inflated useless govt. with bureaucrats (each one at 100K a year plus federal bennies, and... unionized don’t forget).
This is how we come to a tipping point— the business of govt. is govt, taxation, confiscation of private sector wealth, control of personal freedom, and forced centralized control of the populace through socialism/theft by govt. fiat. This is NOT the Republic envisioned by our Founders. This is the end point of central bankers/internationalists, and the “compromise” of leftist/marxists with the great unwashed nobodies of the dumbed down electorates. Boehner, Scalise, McCarthy-— McConnell, and his cronies and the GD Bush dynasty that destroyed the last great hope of the efforts of Ronald Reagan (and the Reagan democrats btw) to right this sinking ship.
GHWBush started this, the Clintons made it significantly worse, GWBush played along (with the help of the islamofascists created the template for leftist police state enforcement and govt. run healthcare) and obamaumao- the apotheosis of ultra-left Alinsky/Cloward-Piven executive dictatorship dreams of anarcho-fascists whom we fought for YEARS in WWI and WWII and the Cold War, has assumed his Crown unanswered by the slobbering legislative teat sucking class who are worried about their own trough- not our Country.
It is time for dramatic, penetrating upsetting of all of these applecarts. For leadership, for patriots who prize liberty over tyranny. We are in a Constitutional crisis that the current crop of self-serving trough suckers do NOT care about- and will not fight. They must be moved aside, for brave patriots who will do what their Oath of office commands them to do, and our Founders intended. We will not survive as a Constitutional Republic if we give in to this Julius Caesar’s group of mob democracy and govt fiat.Our friends who came to the US to escape communist Europe are telling us this is happening. They have seen it before and are horrified, as we should be. Make no mistake- the Boehners and Bushes of the world are NOT what is needed.
Activist conservatism- not passive aggression status quo ante and tired fake accolades of the mismanagement class of elitists to the manor born.
Sorry for the speech- hoping it give insight to FReepers and true conservatives who will not sit still and be taken for granted.
But what about the $1K from Knight? Matter of record, not PR management by Rove et al.
Levin’s efforts to have a State’s Constitutional Convention will produce far more true conservative change.
But realize that the biggest group against this effort is the John Birch people.
The power MUST be returned to the States. The 17th Amendment must be repealed and remove the billionaire Boys Club that is the Senate. Put this closer to the people in the States they are to represent. Not the Saudis, the multinationalists and the ultra world libs.
Levin is looking for purism, and carrying water for libs in Louisiana. My opinion is he should stick to his efforts for State conventions to change the 17th Amendment.
If there is proof that Scalise “hung out” with Knight then there is that.
What Levin is doing is along the lines of what happened to Trent Lott— who was wrongly, successfully castigated for praising Strom Thurmond (a former Southern Democrat, as was Trent Lott prior). In Louisiana politics you have urban New Orleans lib/repubs up against the rural backbone white, cajun, creole and other producers of industry. Levin is being played— AGAIN.
Levin is too brilliant and too hot under the collar too fast on the trigger. His point about Boehner’s button man is well taken— without regard to this speaking engagement, real or imagined.
Lest we forget— if George Wallace had not been shot- he would have been elected President, and elected by Southern whites, blacks, independents and....Democrats. The very democrats that Levin is forgetting as he is being played by party hacks of the big D demonrat party. All for positioning to strengthen obamaumaos dictatorship and their own waning electoral power.
Levin’s quixotic quest for a “states’ constitutional convention” is one of the most dangerous ideas that ever has come out of the conservative movement. Is Levin so naïve as to ignore the fact that liberals will hijack the process and approve amendments that would destroy our way of life? Liberals will come up with some amendment that sounds pretty and get it approved at the states’ conventions (which will be chock full of liberals pretending to be conservatives), and then apply inordinate pressure on state legislatures to get them ratified.
As for having state legislatures electing U.S. Senators, it would result in a more liberal, not more conservative, Senate. For example, Ted Cruz beat out TX RINO Lt. Governor David Dewhurst in the GOP primary precisely because it is the voters, not the politicians, that elect Senators. Dewhurst was supported by just about every Republican state legislator (GOP state senators didn’t dare oppose Dewhurst, given that he wielded great power as president of the state senate), and even if 60% of Republican legislators would have voted for Cruz it still would have resulted in a Dewhurst election (given tbat Democrat legislators would have preferred him to the co servative Cruz). And TX is just one example: In just about every state legislature, the U.S. Senators elected would be either RINOs or Democrats. With the popular vote, Republican primary voters can nominate, and then elect, a Ron Johnson in WI or a Mike Lee in UT, which never cod occur if we repealed the 17th Amendment.
If the Democrats sent a mole to get a conservative radio show, he couldn’t do more damage to the conservative movement as Levin has done in the past few years. It’s a shame that such an intelligent and knowledgeable person as Levin has turned into such a liability for American constitutional conservatism.
So, we hear the John Birch argument against- in lieu of Alexander Hamilton— what sheer irony. That is Not what the Founders conceived- government close to the people answerable to the people. The Lincolnite wing of the radical republicans brought us to where we are. If one believes we can fix what is wrong now from within the system, they are sadly mistaken. The 17th Amendment came about right after in 1913 the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank— the JP Morgan private bank that has been running this country ever since. FRiend we are in need of a complete overhaul, and when one proposes this (as you say quixotic— it isn’t, it is quite doable and the nasty actors on a local level are identifiable and removable vs. the hidden money-saudi,iranian, petro, Eurosocialist, NWO crowd).
Take a look at how at the state level, conservatives are winning in large numbers. And you state that if we allow legislatures to decide Senators (as originally in the Constitution) we would get more liberals? How would that be?
Versus what we have now— Senators like Graham, queer boy of SC, faking out Thurmond’s supporters and elected by out of state money, out of country money and out of all proportion money of corporatists and beltway bandits. TX, as many have observed. is run by small d democrats, and the “GOP” is nothing but a machine of that creation. Ted Cruz came in on the Tea Party democrats who could very well put pressure on legislators to have elected him. People don’t get how it was and how it should be. But also... TX is not like the rest of the US and the stupid situation we are in.
Sorry about your fears for revolution. Can tell you it is much preferable to the “fundamental change” imposed on us by the dictator in the WH. Our Founders did not fear revolution, they embraced it and took risk- something eventually we will all have to do- and fight the technocrats to discern who is whom. Birchers should be ashamed.
Because he speaks for the ‘Founding Fathers’ ever since he read those Federalist papers.
And they know everything, how to fix everything, then, now, forever.
You aren't dissing the Founders I hope because them would be fighting words.
Some of them arrived early and sat in on a speech he was making to a totally different group.
"But he did speak to them."
No, he was actually speaking to a different group. They were just there.
But hey. If you're hell-bent on smearing the guy, you could say something like, "neo-Nazis listened to a speech given by Scalise". Misleading, but factually correct.
Doesn’t fly, offwhite.
The event for Scalise was arranged by Kenny Knight, his friend and neighbor, and also the neo-Nazi organizer for David Duke.
So, Knight has Scalise at the same building, a few doors down, the same day, 2.5 hours apart, some of the Nazis in attendance, and a donation from Knight of a thousand bucks.
So, if communist Bill Ayers arranges for Barack Obama to speak at the Hilton in your town, the Young Communist Brigade is in a different room 2 hours later, but some of the Communists are on hand and attend Obama’s speech, and then he gets an Ayers donation, are you going to tell me that Obama had no idea the communists would be there? Will you tell me this was not planned this way so Obama could deny meeting his communists....that it was all an accident?
Mmmm, Boehner has no opponent now but Pelosi (and was UNANIOUSMLY renominated as Speaker a few weeks ago by the entire GOP conference) so saying Scalise needs to go because he’s for Boehner is pretty stupid. Saying he needs to go because Al Sharpton says so is even stupider.
I think he went from merely a conservative talk show radio host to all-wise, all-knowing infallible savior around the time that Ann Coulter STOPPED being one. I'm serious.
Coulter's popularity was HUGE for a decade, and from around 2002-2011, if you disagreed with ANYTHING she said or did, her fans would attack you in droves and start foaming at the mouth that you're anti-American liberal scum. Coulter's adamant support of Christie and Romney (backlash from the latter making no sense, since she had ALSO backed him in 2008 and her fan club simply ignored it and pretended she had "endorsed Duncan Hunter") and her associated with the GOProud soured people on her. Coulter still sells books, but no longer enjoys that creepy blind cult-like worship.
I wonder if there's any correlation between Coulter's fall and Levin's rise. I don't recall conservatives worshiping him prior to 2010, although he was a well known radio talk show host for a while before becoming a deity. It's like people needed someone to fill the vacuum and tell them how they should think about an issue on any given day.
>> Levin’s quixotic quest for a “states’ constitutional convention” is one of the most dangerous ideas that ever has come out of the conservative movement. Is Levin so naïve as to ignore the fact that liberals will hijack the process and approve amendments that would destroy our way of life? Liberals will come up with some amendment that sounds pretty and get it approved at the states’ conventions (which will be chock full of liberals pretending to be conservatives), and then apply inordinate pressure on state legislatures to get them ratified. <<
I mentioned on another thread that the most damning argument against Levin's latest crusade is that the Illinois General Assembly recently voted in favor of an "Article V convention of the states", and the votes were nearly perfectly along party lines -- with all the Chicago Democrats voting in FAVOR of Levin's proposal, and all the Illinois Republicans voting AGAINST it. That speaks volumes. Some Levinite accused me of "trolling" for pointing out that Levin and Mike Madigan are on the same side. Madigan certainly agrees with Levin that state legislatures need to be much more powerful and oppose the federal government whenever federal laws get in the way of their agenda.
Unless they were in uniform, I don't see how Scalise would know that. I'm not going to hold someone responsible for those who wander in to listen to him speak.
"and a donation from Knight of a thousand bucks"
Let's see. You say Knight was his friend and neighbor? Yet you question a $1000 donation? Seems to me it's something a friend and neighbor would do.
You're reaching. I can't get excited about it.
> It is time for dramatic, penetrating upsetting of all of these applecarts.
Yes indeed. It is very well past time.
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