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Robin "right wing nutjob" Smith: A conservative with no sense of balance
Mark Winslow is a spokesperson for a Congressional candidate. His candidate, Robin Smith, is former chair of the Tennessee Republican Party. Ms. Smith is a right wing religious conservative.
I host a weekly radio program, I am more liberal than Ms. Smith is (I think the whole world is more liberal than Smith is). In planning the weekly broadcast, I decided to ask Smith for an interview to explore her positions on the economy, healthcare, and international events. I wanted her to explain her actions as chair of the Tennessee Republican Party. I wanted to ask why she suggested that Barack "Hussein" Obama is anti-Semitic, why she claims a black president called a white woman racist, and why she believes the war on terror is Christian versus Muslim.
Mark Winslow responded by refusing our request for an interview. Mr. Winslow and I exchanged emails, and in one of his responses, Winslow wrote, "our refusal of your interview request has nothing to do with issues. We simply chose not to participate in a forum hosted by liberal activist with no sense of balance... It is all about shouting your point of view and pandering to your liberal audience. You can do that without our participation."
After reading this response, I thought to myself--what if Glenn Beck, a conservative talk show host, made the same request of Mr. Winslow's candidate? Would she appear? Would Mr. Winslow say to Mr. Beck "our refusal of your interview request has nothing to do with issues ... we simply choose not to participate in a forum hosted by a conservative activist with no sense of balance ... it is all about shouting your point of view and pandering to your conservative audience. You can do that without our participation?"
The answer is simple; Mr. Winslow's candidate would jump at the opportunity to do an interview with Mr. Beck. There are several factors leading me to this conclusion. First, Mr. Beck appeared on the cover of Time Magazine; second, Mr. Beck panders to the same conservative audience Mr. Winslow's candidate panders to; third, like Smith, Beck is a conservative activist with no sense of balance; and, finally, it is all about shouting Beck's point of view to a right wing conservative audience.
Smith's record is clear--she panders to her conservative base claiming the war on terror is Christian versus Muslim; she is pushing the race card by claiming a black president is calling a white woman racist; and, finally, she is constantly referring to the news media as liberal, giving the term liberal a negative meaning.
Smith's political pandering to the right is shown by her claim on PJTV.com, a conservative internet web broadcast, that a black president called a white woman racist. Smith says "From personal experience I can tell you ... I was called everything from racist to terrorist to extremist by Barack Obama himself when we put the Michelle Obama video out about how, for the first time in her adult life, she was proud to be an American..." Smith cites to no report, broadcast, article, or other credible source to support her contention.
I guess the "liberal" news media missed this "racist" statement by the President.
I host a weekly radio program, I am more liberal than Ms. Smith is (I think the whole world is more liberal than Smith is). In planning the weekly broadcast, I decided to ask Smith for an interview to explore her positions on the economy, healthcare, and international events. I wanted her to explain her actions as chair of the Tennessee Republican Party. I wanted to ask why she suggested that Barack "Hussein" Obama is anti-Semitic, why she claims a black president called a white woman racist, and why she believes the war on terror is Christian versus Muslim.
Mark Winslow responded by refusing our request for an interview. Mr. Winslow and I exchanged emails, and in one of his responses, Winslow wrote, "our refusal of your interview request has nothing to do with issues. We simply chose not to participate in a forum hosted by liberal activist with no sense of balance... It is all about shouting your point of view and pandering to your liberal audience. You can do that without our participation."
After reading this response, I thought to myself--what if Glenn Beck, a conservative talk show host, made the same request of Mr. Winslow's candidate? Would she appear? Would Mr. Winslow say to Mr. Beck "our refusal of your interview request has nothing to do with issues ... we simply choose not to participate in a forum hosted by a conservative activist with no sense of balance ... it is all about shouting your point of view and pandering to your conservative audience. You can do that without our participation?"
The answer is simple; Mr. Winslow's candidate would jump at the opportunity to do an interview with Mr. Beck. There are several factors leading me to this conclusion. First, Mr. Beck appeared on the cover of Time Magazine; second, Mr. Beck panders to the same conservative audience Mr. Winslow's candidate panders to; third, like Smith, Beck is a conservative activist with no sense of balance; and, finally, it is all about shouting Beck's point of view to a right wing conservative audience.
Smith's record is clear--she panders to her conservative base claiming the war on terror is Christian versus Muslim; she is pushing the race card by claiming a black president is calling a white woman racist; and, finally, she is constantly referring to the news media as liberal, giving the term liberal a negative meaning.
Smith's political pandering to the right is shown by her claim on PJTV.com, a conservative internet web broadcast, that a black president called a white woman racist. Smith says "From personal experience I can tell you ... I was called everything from racist to terrorist to extremist by Barack Obama himself when we put the Michelle Obama video out about how, for the first time in her adult life, she was proud to be an American..." Smith cites to no report, broadcast, article, or other credible source to support her contention.
I guess the "liberal" news media missed this "racist" statement by the President.
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Comment by Eric Pearson on October 9, 2009 at 9:39am -
I noticed the Tennessee Democratic Party website doesn’t list Congressman Jim Cooper as a declared Democratic candidate for 2010. So I called his office in Nashville and they said Congressman Jim Cooper is a declared Democratic candidate for 2010. I suspect the Tennessee Democratic Party website has left him of the list because they don’t want to help endorse him again. For example:
Jim Cooper does not support habeas corpus for prisoners at Guantanamo, and has refused to support legislation to close Guantanamo.
Jim Cooper has refused to support the “Restoring the Constitution Act of 2007,” which would make “significant changes to provisions of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 by restoring the writ of habeas corpus for individuals held under U.S. jurisdiction, narrowing the definition of an unlawful enemy combatant, preventing the use of evidence gained through torture and coercion, and requiring the U.S. to abide to its Geneva Convention obligations.” More importantly, Jim Cooper has declined to sign onto legislation that requires the U.S. to live up to the Geneva Conventions.
Jim Cooper has refused to support efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Iraq.
Jim Cooper supports continuing the U.S. aggression in Iraq, he is against insisting on Congressional oversight of the war effort, and wants to give the NSA a pass to go around the FISA Courts.
Jim Cooper refused to support legislation that would hold mercenaries (a/k/a “contractors”) to the same standards of conduct expected of American soldiers.
Jim Cooper has refused to push for a ban on cluster bombs used in the vicinity of civilians.
Jim Cooper has refused to support legislation that would ban the so-called “outsourcing” of torture.
Jim Cooper has refused to sign onto legislation that would investigate and probably reign in WHINSEC, the U.S. government’s notorious training school for torturers and terrorists.
Jim Cooper isn't interested in repealing the so-called “Real ID” act. In case you have not heard, “Real ID” was slipped through into law without debate a few years ago. It gives states a very expensive unfunded mandate to create a national ID card, and many privacy experts see the database it is supposed to create as an invitation to snooping and identity theft.
Jim Cooper has failed to achieve a leadership position within the U.S. House of Representatives over the past six years in office.
Jim Cooper voted for the $825 billion economic stimulus package without reading it first.
Jim Cooper refused to have hometown meetings with the citizens of his community on the issue of Health Care.
OR COULD IT BE:
Hint: it’s not the voters of Nashville and Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District, who strongly support a public option. Here are the industries who have donated to Jim Cooper’s campaigns, according to OpenSecrets.org:
$651,803 Lawyers/Law Firms
$502,323 Securities & Investment
$299,103 HOSPITALS/NURSING HOMES
$237,532 HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
$216,255 Real Estate
$197,306 Retired
$184,759 INSURANCE
$133,981 HEALTH SERVICES/HMOS
$128,930 Misc Finance
$125,398 MISC HEALTH
$112,050 Commercial Banks
$107,696 Accountants
$105,107 Education
$104,650 PHARMACEUTICALS/HEALTH PRODUCTS
That totals up to almost $1 million for Jim Cooper from health care special interests!
No wonder he is fighting for them — and and not for his constituents — when it comes to health care.
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Comment by Eric Pearson on October 9, 2009 at 9:07am
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It’s amazing to me the website for the Tennessee Democratic Party has a posting rule stating, “This website cannot be used as a launching pad for defamations of fellow Democrats. That's just not the proper role for a state party website.”
In other words, everyone using the blog cannot insult or make a denouncement of any fellow Democrat. However, it seems perfectly fine to insult and make a denouncement of anyone that doesn’t agree. For instance, calling Robin a “rightwing nut job” in this blog posting.
This is a one-sided rule of censorship, as placed by tyrants. If the rule were even applied fairly, it would still be wrong under the standpoint of Democracy.
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