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Rep. Peter King Scolds The Media For ‘Mindless Hysteria’ Leading Up To Hearings

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All this week, there was growing opposition to the Muslim radicalization hearings led by Republican Congressman Peter King. In case you missed it, here are just some examples of criticism in the media from Jon Stewart, The New York Times, Chris Matthews, Cenk Uygur and Donny Deutsch. Well now that the first day of hearings is complete, King has a message for the media.

King’s statement:

“I would hope, now that this hearing is over, that the media in particular would look back and reflect upon the mindless hysteria that occurred over the last two or three weeks. And not in the future rely so much on what opponents, such as CAIR [Council on American-Islamic Relations] and others, who do not want these type hearings, say. Again I think the hysteria and madness leading up to this hearing did nobody much good and certainly didn’t reflect well on those reporting it.”

Hopefully the death threats King received related to the hearing will end, yet whether the media “madness” regarding the need for such hearings will calm down remains to be seen.

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  • Liberal Tormentor

    Nothing that the media has done in about the last 10 years has reflected well on them. That’s why American’s have NO trust in them anymore. They have become a joke and it’s too late to turn the tide on that one. They have no one to blame but their liberal, agenda driven selves.

  • tatboy

    I’m sure the MSM would have been just as apoplectic if they were investigating… Oh I don’t know… let’s say white supremacists. I’m sure the MSM would have been against fact gathering and hearings covering white power groups recruting members in the US.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Prather/100000453933554 Bone Daddy

    I will wait for the NPR fair and balanced commentary, especially from the far-left whacked out loons who write for this taxpayer funded scam. Obama said he would “stand with the Muslims” and I can only assume NPR will also. Peter King carries a large pair of onions, and liberals hate men with onions, they prefer girly-boys.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    The loons jumped the shark when they demonstrated about hearings that haven’t even been held. Now that they have been held they will claim they are offended.
    These folks are the “paid to be offended” crowd.
    Paid liars. Now we just need to hear from the shills in the media like Tommy Christopher.

  • notsofast

    Hopefully the death threats King received related to the hearing will end,”

    They traced the calls back to NY mosques.

  • Religion of Peace

    Peter King=Patriot!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Prather/100000453933554 Bone Daddy

    Sheila Jackson Lee, D-TX demonstrated her moonbat credentials on this panel. Abject stupidity highlighted with moments of shrieking calls for Muslim equality, all the while looking like a giant ape. Lee is the idiot who asked NASA about the American flag planted on Mars? Who elects these cretins like Lee?

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    The lamestream socialist media will protect radical islamic muslins with the same level of hysteria and insanity they use for their MESSIAH and his band of lunatic-left d-crat socialists — they ALL share the same goals: DESTROY AMERICA, DESTROY ISRAEL and DESTROY CHRISTIANS.

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    Who cares what this RACIST thinks.

    REP PETER KING AND THE TEA PARTY ARE A GROUP OF ANTI-MUSLIM RACISTS.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Prather/100000453933554 Bone Daddy

    Snowspot needs a new pair of pink kneepads for Obama’s Black Mamba!

  • cjd ohio 1

    Snowspot said:
    Who cares what this RACIST thinks. REP PETER KING AND THE TEA PARTY ARE A GROUP OF ANTI-MUSLIM RACISTS.

    tea party are all racist, but muslims are not all terrorist

  • Penguin60
  • Penguin60

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    tea party are all racist, but muslims are not all terrorist

    Easy now, logic like that will just throw them into total confusion.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Snowspot says:
    Who cares what this RACIST thinks.

    REP PETER KING AND THE TEA PARTY ARE A GROUP OF ANTI-MUSLIM RACISTS.

    I’m pretty sure there is a limit to how many times you can use the word racist in a 24 hour period and you surpassed it about 3 hours ago.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Prather/100000453933554 Bone Daddy

    Ah yes, Cymphia McNinny, ran third in Congress for the “Dumbest Critter of the Year.”

  • pakattak

    Wait, I don’t get it.

    Day after day you all laud FoxNews and their dominance in terms of viewership and opinion.

    And yet, you always evoke the “lamestream leftist media” whenever you have criticisms about the news industry.

    Can someone clarify for me? Isn’t FoxNews basically the media?

  • Penguin60

    Bone Daddy said:
    Ah yes, Cymphia McNinny, ran third in Congress for the “Dumbest Critter of the Year.”

    Was this guy 2nd?

    http://washingtonscene.thehill.com/in-the-know/36-news/3169-rep-hank-johnson-guam-could-tip-over-and-capsize

  • notsofast

    Snowspot said:
    REP PETER KING AND THE TEA PARTY ARE A GROUP OF ANTI-MUSLIM RACISTS.

    Since when did a religion become a race, dear? Am I of the Baptist race or the Catholic race?

  • notsofast

    Penguin60 said:
    Was this guy 2nd?

    http://washingtonscene.thehill.com/in-the-know/36-news/3169-rep-hank-johnson-guam-could-tip-over-and-capsize

    But please remember, just as Rev. Wright’s comments, this guy’s comment was taken out of context.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Prather/100000453933554 Bone Daddy

    Yes, Hank was 2nd, but his accuracy in predicting Guam would tip over was so prescient, it was indeed a national tragedy.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    pakattak,
    You are confusing the liberal media with the new, alternative media. You know the one you liberals HATE because it bypasses the usual liberal spin.

  • Black and Gold Brad

    Leftist media becoming bug-eyed hysterical over nothing? Say it ain’t so!

    See:

    Flu, Bird.
    Flu, Pig (H1N1)
    Warming, Global
    Cooling, Global
    Change, Climate
    “New Tone of Civility” (a personal favorite of mine)

  • avoidswork

    pakattak said:
    Wait, I don’t get it. Day after day you all laud FoxNews and their dominance in terms of viewership and opinion. And yet, you always evoke the “lamestream leftist media” whenever you have criticisms about the news industry. Can someone clarify for me? Isn’t FoxNews basically the media?

    shh. they don’t call it the media because media is bad and fox news is good. i think they call it metatron. god speaking through the tv and all.

  • http://politicallyincorrectlibertarian.wordpress.com PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian
  • avoidswork

    Liberal Tormentor said:
    pakattak,You are confusing the liberal media with the new, alternative media. You know the one you liberals HATE because it bypasses the usual liberal spin.

    I miss “formerly seeing 2012 from my window”…. or the expansive Liberal Tormentor (formely Seeing 2012 From My Window)… and no avatar. just tragic.

  • delta777

    Rep. Allen West To CAIR Executive: Don’t ‘Blow Sunshine Up My Butt’

    http://www.newsmax.com//Manage/Videos/VideoGallery/Rep–Allen-West-To-CAIR-Executive–Don-t–Blow-Sun

  • BatBoy

    Why didn’t Congressman King head over to the White House and find the President of Community Organizing to go out and “Kick somebody’s ass?”

  • BatBoy

    pakattak said:
    Can someone clarify for me? Isn’t FoxNews basically the media?

    If you have to ask, you wouldn’t understand the answer!

  • turk281

    Haha. New NPR video is even more outrageous than the first.
    http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/10/new-video-npr-was-going-to-accept-muslim-education-action-center-donation-and-hide-it-from-the-government/

    I love the morons who claim that free market news is nothing but special interest for the corporations. It seems NPR is more willing to whore itself out for money with ZERO integrity.

    De-fund them and let them compete in the free market so people like me stop whining!

    ps – Rumor has it they got PBS too!

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    From the lunatic-left d-crat socialist PC POLICE: We in America ARE NOT ALLOWED TALK about radical islamic muslims. That would be wrong, that would be bad. That might INFORM people about them. That might show how much these anti-American extremists are in bed with the rest of the lunatic-left.

    So, SHUT UP AMERICA – WE, THE LUNATIC-LEFT, WILL TELL YOU WHAT YOU ARE ALLOWED TO KNOW ON THIS AND EVERY OTHER SUBJECT.

  • CosmosDan

    turk281 said:
    Haha. New NPR video is even more outrageous than the first.
    http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/10/new-video-npr-was-going-to-accept-muslim-education-action-center-donation-and-hide-it-from-the-government/

    I love the morons who claim that free market news is nothing but special interest for the corporations. It seems NPR is more willing to whore itself out for money with ZERO integrity.

    De-fund them and let them compete in the free market so people like me stop whining!

    ps – Rumor has it they got PBS too!

    So, what exactly is the problem with a entity that runs primarily on donations, wanting to accept a large donation?

  • Garth

    turk281 said:
    Haha. New NPR video is even more outrageous than the first.
    http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/10/new-video-npr-was-going-to-accept-muslim-education-action-center-donation-and-hide-it-from-the-government/

    I love the morons who claim that free market news is nothing but special interest for the corporations. It seems NPR is more willing to whore itself out for money with ZERO integrity.

    De-fund them and let them compete in the free market so people like me stop whining!

    ps – Rumor has it they got PBS too!

    Yeah right. Listen, morons on like you will never stop whining.

  • turk281

    Garth said:
    Yeah right. Listen, morons on like you will never stop whining.

    …Says the guy with a Rush Limbaugh avatar! Look, at least your tax dollars aren’t paying for him to broadcast what you detest.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Prather/100000453933554 Bone Daddy

    If institutions of higher learning are gifting money to NPR anonymously and also accepting taxpayer largess to fund their institutions, the taxpayer funding should be stopped. Also, it would appear that NPR is falsely reporting their total taxpayer gifting due to the anonymous gifts from institutions. This is a pass-through that is covered up by the anonymous donation. A criminal investigation should be opened, and these cretins should be charged and if found guilty, and allowed to spend time dancing with Big Bubba in the Greybar Hilton.

  • turk281

    CosmosDan said:
    So, what exactly is the problem with a entity that runs primarily on donations, wanting to accept a large donation?

    May not be illegal, I’m not a lawyer. But taking money from an anti woman, anti gay, and anti humanity organization, then hiding the donation from the government just doesn’t sound on the up and up.

  • skyfet

    King is the one who is mad.

  • timzank

    CosmosDan said:
    So, what exactly is the problem with a entity that runs primarily on donations, wanting to accept a large donation?

    I hate to have to point out the obvious, but I will again. Just change the name of the group to say, “Sons Of The White Race” and maybe it’ll be clearer to you.

  • The Donger

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51005.html

    A little bit to chew on from the hypocritical left noise makers out there.

  • Religion of Peace

    CosmosDan said:
    So, what exactly is the problem with a entity that runs primarily on donations, wanting to accept a large donation?

    And you expect to be taken seriously?

  • turk281

    The Donger said:
    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51005.html

    A little bit to chew on from the hypocritical left noise makers out there.

    Thanks for the link. Really interesting.

  • Grammie

    CosmosDan said:
    So, what exactly is the problem with a entity that runs primarily on donations, wanting to accept a large donation?

    .
    Perhaps this will shed a little light on it for you:

    .
    That e-mail directly contradicts NPR’s public statements issued in the wake of O’Keefe’s first video. “The fraudulent organization represented in this video repeatedly pressed us to accept a $5 million check, with no strings attached, which we repeatedly refused to accept,” NPR spokeswoman Dana Davis Rehm said in NPR’s official response.

    The new video shows recently ousted NPR Chief Executive Vivian Schiller knew of her subordinates’ meeting with the Muslim Brotherhood front group. “Vivian knows about our meeting as my email indicated I think for her to feel – for us to prep her appropriately for the next meeting, it would be great to have some more information from you guys,” Liley said. “But Ron and she talked, and I shared notes from our meeting about kind of where you are in your interest, and so I think for us to do kind of our due diligence, it would also be helpful to get some of the background information [on the organization and on its leadership.”

    Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/10/new-video-npr-was-going-to-accept-muslim-education-action-center-donation-and-hide-it-from-the-government/#ixzz1GF1cqhht

  • OxyCon

    Bone Daddy said:
    Sheila Jackson Lee, D-TX demonstrated her moonbat credentials on this panel.

    Did she drop a ton of mutha f’er bombs like she usually does?

    Calling her an “ape” ain’t so cool, tho. No reason at all to go there. Her words and actions speak loud enough.

  • RichS

    Snowspot said:
    Who cares what this RACIST thinks. REP PETER KING AND THE TEA PARTY ARE A GROUP OF ANTI-MUSLIM RACISTS.

    It must be true, its all in CAPS!

  • OxyCon

    pakattak said:
    Wait, I don’t get it.

    Day after day you all laud FoxNews and their dominance in terms of viewership and opinion.

    And yet, you always evoke the “lamestream leftist media” whenever you have criticisms about the news industry.

    Can someone clarify for me? Isn’t FoxNews basically the media?

    Basically Fox News is a reaction to the biased Lamestream media, just as the lowly MessNBC a reaction to Fox News. The hilarious thing is tho, that MessNBC is everything they claim to hate about Fox.

  • CosmosDan

    turk281 said:
    May not be illegal, I’m not a lawyer. But taking money from an anti woman, anti gay, and anti humanity organization, then hiding the donation from the government just doesn’t sound on the up and up.

    I see. Not everybody sees the organization in that light. Should they do a moral assessment of everyone and every group that wants to donate?

  • CosmosDan

    Grammie said:
    Perhaps this will shed a little light on it for you:

    That’s not really what I’m talking about in my question.

  • Religion of Peace

    CosmosDan said:
    I see. Not everybody sees the organization in that light. Should they do a moral assessment of everyone and every group that wants to donate?

    Wow. A terrorist sympathizer…self proclaimed no less.

  • avoidswork

    turk281 said:
    May not be illegal, I’m not a lawyer. But taking money from an anti woman, anti gay, and anti humanity organization, then hiding the donation from the government just doesn’t sound on the up and up.

    Organization that is anti-woman, anti-gay and anti-humanity…

    GOP or Tea Party organizations fit that definition like a glove.

  • Sidhekitten

    Snowspot said:
    Who cares what this RACIST thinks. REP PETER KING AND THE TEA PARTY ARE A GROUP OF ANTI-MUSLIM RACISTS.

    So is that the best you got? When you of the Politically Coercive Police run out of ideas you have to paint with the racist brush to try to win people over. Sorry, time to get a new brush.

  • Sidhekitten

    And, as a point of order, Muslim is not a race, it is a religion. Semantics can be a bitch.

  • Sidhekitten

    Damn, I’m cranky tonight, must be close to that time of the month. :)

  • nutsofast

    Someone should scold Peter King on his ‘Mindless Hysteria’ .

  • chicgoods10
  • X-3

    Religion of Peace said:
    Peter King=Patriot!

    And it really does all boil down to just that.

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