MSNBC guest: ‘Nothing says “Let’s go kill some Muslims” like country music.’ Host: ‘Not appropriate’

Washington Post ^ | 3/2/5/15 | Erik Wemple

[Doogle]

Freshly announced presidential candidate Ted Cruz has made news with his claim that he became a fan of country music after rock-and-roll music disappointed him with its response to the Sept. 11 attacks. The MSNBC afternoon program “Now with Alex Wagner” used Cruz’s music comments as the jumping-off point for a discussion among guest host Ari Melber, Joan Walsh, Michael Steele and Jamilah Lemieux. “Nothing says ‘Let’s go kill some Muslims’ like country music,” said Lemieux in kicking off the festivities. The comment came off as something packaged, premeditated. While Walsh and Steele giggled, Melber remained stone-faced, vouching for the pluralism of the genre. “Well, but I mean, there’s plenty of country music that doesn’t have that message,” he said.

[Doogle]

typically

[C. Edmund Wright]

When liberal heads are exploding, some conservative somewhere is doing something right!

[Lee'sGhost]

Liberals are SICK.

[bergmeid]

Yes we Tea Partiers like to kill us some muslims every day.

[ArtDodger]

Nothing says “All women are whores” like rap music.

[Olog-hai]

The station had to make Ari Melber apologize for the comment.

[Zhang Fei]

Nothing says “Let’s go kill some crackas” like rap music

[Texas Eagle]

Headline at DrudgeReport.com: Saudi Arabia begins military operations in Yemen

Hu knew Saudis were such rednecks?

[LibFreeUSA]

So, how many Muslims have been beheaded by country music terrorists??????????????????????

[Doogle]

..this "award winner" has a huge problem stopping her mouth and fingers overriding her racist brain....back in 2014 as senior editor of Ebony the mag had to apologize for her tweet ..Lemieux has been widely criticized for mistakenly identifying the African-American Williams as “a white dude” and for describing conservatives as a “house full of roaches.” Raffi Williams is bkack

[Pearls Before Swine]

They say it like it’s a bad thing, LOL.

[Texas Eagle]

Opening act of Country Music Awards

[JPG]

[Liberty Valance]

I had no idea. I'll have to check out this "new" country music thingy. Thought it was all about red dirt, trucks and chicks in tank tops.

But seriously, I listen to very little rock or country made after the 80's.

Tom T. Hall - Fox on the Run

[Texas Eagle]

MSNBC. Where brain donors find gainful employment.

[OttawaFreeper]

So I am thinking about that scene near the end of “Mars Attacks” with the crooner music making the invaders’ heads explode. Does that mean all we have to do with ISIS is blare Patsy Cline or Alan Jackson or George Jones at them and we’ll get the same effect?

[CatherineofAragon]

"Fresh from Lynchburg, Virginia, so he obviously doesn't want to bring people together."

Lynchburg, Fifteen minutes to my west, where I was born and raised. I saw this clip last night and I can't even say what I screamed at the TV.

[Arm_Bears]

Can’t unring a bell.

Deep-six the program and charge the “guest” with hate speech.

[elpadre]

and nothing says let’s go kill a cop and rape someone like rap music.

[Leep]

Does this mean i have to get rid of the Slim Whitman collection?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B8jcKx8H_w