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The Five’s Bob Beckel Refuses To Apologize To Rep. Allen West

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Yesterday, things got pretty fiery on The Five thanks to the comments Rep. Allen West made this weekend saying that President Obama and other leaders of the Democratic Party should “get the hell out of the United States of America.” Bob Beckel went off on the comments, saying he’d “never heard anything more disgraceful in my life.” This morning, West demanded an apology but, on today’s Five, Beckel made it clear that one won’t be forthcoming.

RELATED: The Five Explodes Over Allen West’s ‘Get The Hell Out Of The United States’ Comment

West made the demand today on Fox & Friends. He carefully explained that he totally didn’t say that Obama should get the hell out, merely that his message should. Obviously, this is entirely different because, presumably, the President can send his message over the mail and never have to physically leave the country himself. See? Beckel totally overreacted.

Anyway, the thing that apparently really annoyed West was that Beckel refused to call him by his title when Eric Bolling told him to. For this, he said he would await Beckel’s apology. However, it doesn’t seem like it’ll be here any time soon.

“Mr. West,” Beckel said. “Let me just tell you, if you’ve got enough time you can wait, but I am not going to apologize to you.”

He went around the table and asked his co-hosts if they thought he should and, while they disagreed with him, no one wanted to say he would except for Dana Perino. She did say, though, that she always prefers to over-apologize for everything.

In the end, Beckel declared the situation over, saying that West has one position and he has his own. There wasn’t, however, any apology.

Really though, Beckel should have just explained that he was only talking about West’s message. As far as I know, West’s message has never been elected to office and therefore has no title. See? It’s totally different.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    And West said he owes no apology to anyone! – and he da-m well doesn’t.

    We’re sick & tired of the PHONY UMBRAGE liberals use to silence dissent – NOT THIS TIME BABY!

  • http://twitter.com/KingMike33 That’s Sir Eli

    If Conservatives and Fox News wont call Barack Obama, “President Obama”, then Alan West doesnt deserve to be called “Representative” or “Lt”…PERIOD! Pure hypocrisy!!

  • Anonymous

    Appologize for what?

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    hear hear

  • Anonymous

    reason

  • Anonymous

    nonsense.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Good for Bob.

    Miami Vice Bolling is a hypocritical gasbag, and his sudden concern that officials be referred to with their titles is as phony as his spray-on tan:

    Just two weeks ago, Bolling referred to Obama as “Barry.” When Beckel objected, Bolling replied: “That’s his name, right? Barack. Barry Soetoro. I think he called himself Barry Soetoro when he was a model in college.”http://mediamatters.org/blog/201201300021

    Other names Bolling has called the president” ”The Socialist-Spewing Policymaker, The Food Stamp President, Comrade Obama, Apologist For America Overseas”

  • Centrist79

    Good for you Beckel.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QUGVMSBBEAOYINQ5UOKMV36IQA Sanchia

    Allen West  don’t hold your breath!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    guess you missed the rightwing political correctness in the Bush years. Remember Dixie Chicks boycotts and conservative attempts to silence critics?

  • http://twitter.com/rosierifka rosierifka

    Does “the five” always ask that Obama be referred to as President Obama…does West?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    I hear Allen “Cut-and-run” West is about to flee to another district because he can’t win the election a home.

  • Gloves Argyle Donahue

    “Bob Beckel went off on the comments, saying he’d “never heard anything more disgraceful in my life.”

    Except out of his mouth on a regular basis.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    No, Bolling regularly refers to the president as “Barry Soetero” and “Comrade Obama”

  • Anonymous

    If you read and internalize “A Conflict of Visions” by Thomas Sowell, you eventually see that the liberal/conservative divide, as currently construed, is at least 300 years old. It means that people who were raised in the same country, state, city, even family(!) can differ on issues without being bad people or having different value premises. I tend to think liberals’ main problem is that they reject history and the idea that there is a human nature. Otherwise, everything they promote would be nonsensical, even to them. But with all that said, these libs are here to stay. They are also our brothers and sisters, as sad as it is to admit. Therefore, we shouldn’t be saying what Col. West said. I like the guy and it pains me to say it, but Beckle getting pissed and “disrespecting” West, to the minimal extent he did, doesn’t bother me at all.

  • david r

    I remember all that “America, love it or leave it” crap from the Vietnam era.   It is completely unproductive. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Hemmer/1061080208 Adam Hemmer

    LOL. Demanding an apology from somebody offended by you demanding they leave the country. GTFOOH, headcase.

  • Anonymous

    The real take-away here is the story behind the story. Leftist Media Hacks like Beckel, Schultz, Matthews and Krugman have lived the most miserable lives since their beloved OBAMO was carried in on a throne by them. Imagine that: You enter OBAMO’s regime eating like One-percenters, gorging on caviar and champagne, back-slapping each other for a ‘job well done.’ And here they all are…livid and near self-immolation.

    Awesome!

  • Anonymous

     West had the option of facing a court martial and then like now HE CUT AND RAN WITH ALL HIS BENEFITS INTACT so it seems cut and run is is standard fall back posistion.

    And as concerns his switch in districts: is he going to live in this district or is he going to be another “republican carpet bagger” bagger? AGAIN!!!

  • Ch Ob

    Because of all this semantics, I will now refer to Governor Romney as Blackbeard Romney. or CPO Romney (Chief Predatory Capitalist) Get it?

  • Anonymous

    “Yesterday, things got pretty fiery on The Five thanks to the comments Rep. Allen West made this weekend saying that President Obama….”You lost your point right off the bat.

  • Anonymous

    Beckel- wears suspenders AND a belt- what a fat piece of lard he is.

  • Anonymous

    No- your comment was too juvenile for anyone over 2.

  • Anonymous

    Speaking of gasbags, there you are right on time.

  • Anonymous

    That’s because Obama’s parents were well documented Socialists.

  • Anonymous

    Agree 100%.  Until republicans call Barack Obama, President Obama the only title West deserves is wingnut, whack-job, nutcase,loser (in November), or teabagger.  Take your pick West.

  • Ch Ob

    Well you read it, so that confirms that you are infantile. Cheers!

  • J M

    you will lose.. bad in November. And Ill laugh like I did in 2008.. I really hate you obstructionists.. A challenge for all of you right winged retards.. Name a successful far right government in history. Ill wait. 

  • Anonymous

    Actually, West do us a favor and hold your breath until Bob Beckle apologizes.

  • Anonymous

    Reading it has nothing to do with age. Writing it showed you have the wisdom of a fool.

  • Anonymous

     I have read that book and and usual for a conservative you are projecting a false interpretation of the subject and why would I INTERNALIZE it? Are you demanding as the word is defined that I incorporate it in to my world view and make it a part of my belief system? HOGWASH.

    Your just as bad as West demanding EVERYONE believe as you do or else.

    Let me help you with something you need to INTERNALIZE human nature for conservatives LIKE YOU is to continually demean and disparage those who do not bend their knee to you or your IDEOLOGY of hate and division.

    So take this contraction to heart SIUYA and maybe use some of that snake oil you slime everything with, wouldn’t want to cause you pain or discomfort.

  • Anonymous

    You’re not known for being inarticulate Mr. West or known to misuse and abuse the language to get a pass. You forgot your meds and spoke your heart, “take your message and get the hell out of the USA” could not be plainer. You said it, you meant it, be a man and own up to it and apologize or come up with a better lie that does not disrespect people’s intelligence

  • Anonymous

     Hold on a minute you may have given us a clue as to what is wrong with West, HOLD YOUR BREATH….????…. he has been holding his breath on a whole host of issue and oxygen deprivation has caused severe and permanent conservative brain damage syndrome.

    It explains a lot about conservatives being so ethically and morally brain damaged.

  • Anonymous

     Oh thats good the “I’m rubber and your glue” defense, talk about infantile.

  • Anonymous

    Allen West left the military in disgrace, he had to get the hell out. His actions in Iraq are an embarrassment to those of us who served honorably.

  • Anonymous

    somebody tell Allen West..that Billy Ocean haircut is so 1985

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    and birthers like you are certifiably insane.

  • Anonymous

    A liberal admit their wrong?  Not likely.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/RPX7BMCO2WQ7BNGOCOGXFQ5FWI Truthsayer

    Well now it’s finally out of the bag. All of the in the closet Lib’s came about and showed their real side, Good old Southern Democrats. What I heard from Rep. A. West was Rosa Parks speaking, I will not move to the back of the bus anymore,( we will not be your punching bags anymore). Then that was it, all of a sudden Beckel, MSNBC’s ED and Maddow all came out. Beckel, can’t stand having any minority talk to him like that, without the proper Yes sus and no sus, Ed show, he’ll be gone next year we’ll see to that, Maddow on Rubio, he’s to stupid to know what the word “worse” means. All in one day they came out, screaming to get back on your welfare, shut up, you know your place!  Well guess what Lib’s the cats out of the bag, you all are showing your real racial bigotry. No we won’t go back. Every day there are more and more Minorities moving to the Conservative side of the isle understanding that Dem’s like us on welfare, and Conservatives want us to have a chance, find a job, get off the government payroll. Dem’s just see us as a vote, held down to never speak up, not to demand our rights. Well damn you Democrats, we are going to speak up, we are going to demand our rights. So damn you all that are trying to hold us down.

  • Anonymous

    Uh no, that was Mr Bershad calling him President Obama, not Conservatives and Fox News.

  • Anonymous

    And your father may have been a bright man. That doesn’t mean you are!

  • Anonymous

    OBAMO? What the hell is that supposed to mean?

  • Anonymous

    Bob Beckel needs to pack his bags and get the hell out of America also he could drive the bus when he gets his nose outta Barack Hussein Obama’s big black butt.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Casey-Sweete/100003307894715 Casey Sweete

    I served, happily, proudly, my country for 8 years, probably before West was born.  I will be as liberal or as conservative as I want, West.  How dare you! What happened to FREEDOM?
    Nothing has made me madder in a long, long time than your comments.
    Where do you get off with your comments. What horrible things to say!
    I APPLAUD Mr. Bob Beckel.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Casey-Sweete/100003307894715 Casey Sweete

    Can you elaborate on his service?  I didn’t know that about him.

  • Anonymous

    Easy there Your Truthiness, nobody’s trying to hold you down that doesn’t make money from your misfortune (the 1%). 

    And it’s awful strange that you heard Rosa Parks talking because he didn’t say “I will not move to the back of the bus…”, what he said was “GET THE HELL OUT”. And he’s got no right to tell ANY American to get the hell out, much less my President. He’s a war criminal a coward and a bully, and he can kiss my butt.Ya see, WE’RE going to speak up too! 

  • Anonymous

    You sound like a fairly angry and deranged peraon so I’ll keep this short. My point, is not, that your liberal vision or pespective is rational or legitimate. I don’t believe it to be either. So my comments may very well offend you, boo hoo. My point is not that you libs aren’t a bunch of misery spreading stains, it’s that I accept that you’re here to stay, nothing more.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dolf-Fenster/100000420267385 Dolf Fenster

    He bullied an unarmed Iraqi in his custody by firing a gun next to the guy’s head.  And you know his troops just loved him, because they ratted him out with little prodding. It can’t have been the first screw-up on dummy’s record, either, because the Army instantaneously drummed him out at a time when my great-grandmother was stop-loss’ed.  Sure, it may have been the gumby hairdoo as well, but I suspect, in the end, it was the dresses, the Big Girl.

  • Ben

    Huh?

    What a big plate of crap,with a side of BS…..seriously.

  • Anonymous

    God bless Bob Beckel

  • Anonymous

    Watch out Bob!! West will put a gun to your head!!

  • Anonymous

    Typically, liberals are a
    hostile and intolerant lot, unless you agree with them and like to be highly
    regulated.
    No wonder you adore Slob Beckel.

  • Anonymous

    And not to mention Obuma hung around with  with
    left wing radicals , domestic terrorists and corrupt religious-facade community organizers

  • Anonymous

    What rights to you think you should be demanding that the Dems don’t want you to have?

  • Anonymous

    Barak Obama changed his name from Barry Soetero to Barak Obama.

  • Anonymous

    You can’t spell liberal without the LIAR. And you certainly are that. I don’t know what communist-loving, blogtrash website you copied and pasted that propaganda from but you need to find another source to plagiarize.

    What you purposefully left out was that during intense combat, a few of those men under West’s command were captured and one suspected insurgent was also captured.
    With the lives of American soldiers in danger and knowing what Iraqis customarily did to American captives, when our interrogators were getting nowhere in locating the American prisoners, West forcefully demanded the Iraqi reveal the location of his soldiers. When he still refused, West placed his pistol near the prisoner’s crotch, fired, and advised him the next shot wouldn’t miss.
    Evidently not as dumb as he looked and hoping to procreate more jihadists, the prisoner spilled his guts, the Americans were rescued.
    LTC saved American lives. What the hell have you ever done in your miserable, putrid life, Dolf?

  • Anonymous

    Soft soap all you want, your attempts to characterize YOUR hate in soft terms does not make it any less disgusting, you continue to assert that anything other than YOUR beliefs is deranged and not rational or legitimate.

    Do you think it’s cute to call someone a misery spreading stain?

    “My point IS NOT that you libs AREN’T a bunch of misery spreading stains,…”

    thus when cleared of the twisted abuse of the language: You are saying “my point is that you libs are a bunch of misery spreading stains,…”

    If you wish to practice being a PSEUDO INTELLECTUAL I suggest you you avoid pulling that shit in front of an educated individule as you will always be exposed as a scumbag who thinks he is being both sly and cute.

    I expect this garbage from Lizard Gettinrich and NOW you.

  • Anonymous

    Please don’t have children. Good night.

  • Centrist79

    Of course you failed to mention charges brought against West.

  • Anonymous

     To late scumbag, you roused my righteous wrath and just so you know exactly how I feel about you : lets just say in person and face to face my solution would have me making cash bail and you would be in the hospital. And later I would be getting the charge reduced to a misdemeanor due to your provocation and you would be flinching every time I looked your way.

    I know violence doesn’t solve anything and is wrong… but for you I would be getting it wrong on purpose.

  • corri anderson

    “our politicians keep trying to infuse modern culture into our military, maybe the infusion should be reversed” – I wonder what Greg was inferring by that?   Whatta douche.  I also like how he unnecessarily yelled out about his hatred for cinnamon tea.

  • corri anderson

    It’s funny how conservatives are the most predictable people in society and they consistently start their arguments by making broad innaccurate statements about those “liberals,” whom they don’t understand.  Outside of Fox talking points most conservative trolls got nuthin’.

  • Anonymous

    Well, West might to apologize to that innocent man he threatened to murder in Iraq. I mean, he committed the war crime, shouldn’t he as he was sorry? Or, are the Geneva Conventions part of liberal “phony umbrage”?

  • Anonymous

    Worst part? Bolling doesn’t believe that crap. He’s sold his soul to Ailes and he has to act like Mediaite right wing troll to make bank. What an a$$ he is

  • Anonymous

    Only if ou didn’t do it. If you’re guilty, like he was, he’ll take he plea deal and run away

  • http://www.facebook.com/hehilljr Howard Hill Jr.

    What we?  West is another interesting Racist…a Black one!

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget Mooslims, teleprompters, terrorists, and didn’t write anything in college.

    If you’re going for he full Hannity, then don’t stop in the middle!

  • Anonymous

    Link?

  • Anonymous

    Someone called Beckel a ” leftist”. He calls himself a Democrat, but we don’t want his center-right views. Leftist? Beckel is only a leftist by wingnut Mediaite standards, where Mitt Romney’s not a Rightist

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Well, he’s certainly no Chris Christie.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Please have this comment removed.

  • Anonymous

     Thats an Out and Out LIE, he had 4 of his men beat the guy when he kept telling them he didnt know what they wanted he dragged the man out next to a discharge barrel and he fired it next to his head, the guy was innocent and the information he gave trying to save his life was worthless as to some kinda of rescue???? NEVER HAPPENED.

    You are such a worm, the transcripts of his pre-courts martial investigation are very clear about the facts and you have none of them right except you do seem have false RIGHT WING facts.

    He was offered a resignation process in lieu of prosecution, it was his choice to save his ass from Leavenworth and keep his benifits, when people ask him to tell what really happened he ALWAYS REFUSES to discuss it.

  • bob ross

    Well boys this is what you get when you give a pass to a prick officer for war crimes, you end up with an arrogant criminal with entitlement issues.
    Should of made him do the 5 years in Leavenworth, He’d of been a better person for it.

  • Anonymous

     What an incredible LIE.

  • http://www.facebook.com/hehilljr Howard Hill Jr.

    I served my Country HONORABLY in KOREA and was HONORABLY DISCHARGED.
    I think WEST is suffering from Post Traumatic Syndrone, or he is just STUPID!

  • Anonymous

     WELL DOCUMENTED?????? You will make up and repeat any lie what-so-ever which shows what kind of scumbag you really are.

  • Anonymous

    Mr. West has proven repeatedly that he is not a gentleman, therefore, shall not be afforded due respect from Beckel.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    West is an unhinged kook who is lucky he is not in prison for his war crimes. Even the Florida GOP are distancing themselves from him by re-drawing his district out.

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  • Anonymous

    Remember, when it’s your side, it’s dissent, if it’s the other side, well, they’re a-holes.  God, politics is fun.

  • Anonymous

    They’re all hypocritical gasbags.

  • Anonymous

    True, but the funniest thing is calling liberals a hostile and intolerant lot while defending a guy who got in trouble for firing a gun close to a guy’s head because he thought an innocent Iraqi was planning to ambush him.

  • Anonymous

    Allen West is a nut job. Who apologizes to nut jobs? West needs to be recalled and sent back to the asylum.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

    The problem with West is that he thinks he’s still in the Army and projects that Army officer mentality. I’ve been there. It’s a totally different world. He should stop acting like a Drill Seargent and act like someone who represents voters, not the other way around. You serve. You don’t get served. Who do hell is he to demand appologies. This is not the first time he’s gone off the reservation. To be fair, his counterpart on the DNC side is no less polarized, but she’s a bit more careful with her words.

  • bsorin1

    West’ next “suggestion” will be to put liberals in internment camps.

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps the resignation offer was payoff to shut him up. War is a dirty business.

  • Anonymous

    Seriously guy, move on and get some mental help. By the way, I’m at The Lion’s Head bar on 109th & Amsterdam in nyc at least 2 nights a week for an hour or two after work. If you’re ever in the area, come on down. I’ll be the 6’3″ Irish guy who will gladly take you up on your offer. And for such a genius, I would expect you to know how to spell the word, “too”. Keep it moving bitch.

  • Anonymous

    Dreams from my father, Obama’s book! You must be a liberal. You don’t read!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    Try reading his book for some enlightenment!
    He self-identifies it as Socialist.

    Brad will await YOUR APOLOGY!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Casey-Sweete/100003307894715 Casey Sweete

    How dare you tell me, an 8 year veteran, anything.  This is a free country and I will be as liberal as I want.  Or as conservative as I want. You need to read up on the Constitution.

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  • Anonymous

    Wrong for what, wanting to stay in America? 

  • Anonymous

    Oh, yeah, when he was 8 and his step-father sent him to Catholic school.  What a telling anecdote.

    Still, I think that makes two of us who didn’t read “Dreams of My Father.”

     Might I suggest you bookmark, Snopes.com for your future bither ramblings?

  • Anonymous

    That “innocent man” was a terrorist who would put you and your family on his list to be killed, but figured that you would not be worthy of his attention.

    Would you lefties, please, please stop already any and all references to the Geneva Convention, when you try to protect your beloved Muslims.

    The Geneva Convention is clear about the fact that if enemy combatants don’t wear the uniform of their country, they need not apply for protection. 

  • Anonymous

    And, Ronald Reagan was a union president and a Democrat.

    My parents are both Limbaugh listeners.  I am not. 

    Guilt by Association toward the sitting President of the United States looks pretty stupid, Brad.  Try impugning him for what he’s done in office:  you know, saved two American car companies; kept us out of Depression; enacted a health insurance reform act which originated in the Heritage Foundation, was enacted in Massachusetts by his General election opponent, and championed by his future opponents rival; killed Osama bin Laden; and, withdrew us from Iraq.

    You want to talk sinister, brad?  I hear Romney’s dad wasn’t even born in America!

  • Anonymous

    Obviously you have forgotten when your ilk referred to President George W. Bush as “chimpanze”, “traitor”, “murderer”, “clown”, “illiterate”, “shrub” and many more only fitting on signs carried by liberal trash and or written by liberal scum in liberal papers or spoken on liberal television and (thankfully almost non-existent) radio. 

  • Anonymous

    I always think of Kid N Play.   Remember them?  
    Of course, if you put Wacko West into some hammer pants he would be a lot easier (and more entertaining ) to stomach!

  • Anonymous

    Firing a gun near the head of a terrorist could not have been more frightening to that terrorist than the threat by President Obama to the producers of this country to double their income tax.

  • Anonymous

    But you’re ok with Kid N plays 80′s hair?  really now.

  • Anonymous

    Aren’t you the guy who just made fun of someones clothes?

  • Anonymous

    That innocent man was investigated by the Army and cleared of having anything to do with the opposition. He did, after that, refuse to work with the US any longer, so there’s that.

    During a subsequent military hearing, Hamoodi said he was not sure what
    he told the interrogators, but that the information was meaningless and
    induced by fear and pain, the New York Times reported.

    The Times reported that at least one man named was taken into
    custody and his home was searched. No plans for attacks on Americans or
    weapons were found. West testified at his hearing that he did not know
    whether ”any corroboration” of a plot was ever found. ”At the time, I
    had to base my decision on the intelligence I received,” West said.
    “It’s possible that I was wrong about Mr. Hamoodi.” Yet he also notes
    that no attacks occurred after the interrogation.

    Hamoodi was detained another 45 days after the incident, then released without being charged./blockquote>

    http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2011/mar/23/glenn-beck/glenn-beck-says-allen-west-modern-day-ronin/

    http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/27/world/struggle-for-iraq-interrogations-colonel-risked-his-career-menacing-detainee.html?pagewanted=all

    Gavin must be so disappointed his Daddy is so scared of other people

  • Anonymous

    Thousands who claimed to love it, proved that they never actually did, by fleeing to Sweden or Canada.

  • Anonymous

    Does Gavin know his Dad is a bigot against a billion other human beings because they worship the same sky fairy he does only in a different way?

    The Geneva Conventions (and the UCMJ) prohibit mock executions in interrogations.  So, in regards to LTC West (ret), no I won’t stop bring up what a coward he was

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     You are full of S$IT.

    West said ” It’s possible that I was wrong about Mr. Hamoodi.”

    Hamoodi was beaten by four soldiers from the 220th Field Artillery Battalion on the head and body.

    Hamoodi was detained 45 days after the incident, then released without being charged.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     with the proof.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     And has governed since President as a Republican.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Naaa

    Add a mustache and a bright red codpiece and he is Larry Blackmon from Cameo
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjAantupsA

  • Anonymous

    Word up!

  • Anonymous

    I wonder if the Rs will put together a rap band after the election. Herman Pain, Allen West will beat box and dance and Mitt can play keyboards.  He can do back up singing too.  He can be the Linda McCartney of the group…god knows you do not want Mitt singing….it aint pretty.

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    Name: Allen West
    Title: Blowhard

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_R3LI6ZDBFX5AS4722XRBQIKGCQ Thomas

    I hear him called President all the time on Fox.  He may be a crappy Leader but they use his title all the time.

    I’m one that was fooled into voting for him last time.  Never again will I vote for someone who turned his job over to other people (Congress).  Leadership is not blame.  President Obama likes to place blame on others. 

  • Anonymous

    Beckel…just another over the top thin skinned liberal…when the situation fits they get all enraged…But if HE had said that about Bush…then there would have been applause and joking.

    Beckel is an old drunk…no secret….perhaps he did not have his share of the bottle and that’s what makes him so cranky all the time.

  • Anonymous

    Yaa  Suha Massah.  
    I gonna be a good niggah and do jus what ya say, I wont stray from the
    Democrat plantation no moh, or speak uppity to my betters.

  • Anonymous

    Why is West parsing his words? If he said they should get the hell out, then stick with it. Don’t apologize and don’t expect an apology from anyone.

  • Anonymous

    Tb116. From snopes, proof that Barak Obama, used to go under the name Barry Soetero. Nice straw man argument about birthirism. That started from the Clinton campaign.Meet the Soetoros

    Indonesia
    Left to Right: Lolo Soetoro, Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, baby Maya Soetoro, and 9 year old Barry Soetoro

    This registration document, made available on Jan. 24, 2007, by the Fransiskus Assisi school in Jakarta, Indonesia, shows the registration of Barack Obama under the name Barry Soetoro made by his step-father, Lolo Soetoro.

    Name: Barry Soetoro
    Religion: ….. Islam
    Nationality: ….. Indonesian

    How did little INDONESIAN, Barry Soetoro, (A.K.A. Barack Obama) get around the issue of nationality to become president?

    Someone who tells lies is a L __ __ r?
     

    After her divorce from her first husband, Barack Obama’s mother married an Indonesian student named Lolo Soetoro who was attending college in Hawaii; in 1967 the family moved to Indonesia, where Barack attended elementary school in Jakarta until 1971, when he returned to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents. Much has been made of the above-displayed registration from St. Francis of Assisi School in Jakarta, which ostensibly shows Barack Obama’s stepfather having listed his stepson’s nationality as “Indonesian” (thereby supposedly indicating that Barack Obama relinquished his U.S. citizenship at some point)

    However, Lolo Soetoro’s putatively listing his stepson’s nationality as Indonesian on a school registration form does not in itself demonstrate that Barack Obama was officially regarded as an Indonesian citizen by the government of that country. In any case it’s a moot point, since the same form shows that Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, thereby making him a U.S. citizen from birth, and U.S. law states that a foreign nationality acquired through an alien parent does not affect one’s U.S. citizenship status, nor can a child’s U.S. citizenship be renounced solely through the actions of his parents:

  • Anonymous

    NO APLOGIES BECKEL!!!!  It’s hysterical to me that on a network that hosts all kinds of numnuts who refuse to acknowledge PRESIDENT Barack Obama as President and who frequently refer to our president as “Obama” without dignifying HIS office, that they’d get their nuts in a bunch over a Florida representative….   GET REAL YOU PHONEY BALONIES!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Phony???  Look at every pundit/host on Fox.  They make me shudder.  Eeewwww.

  • Anonymous

    Amen!  Although, they DO like our President’s middle name an awful lot….  Have you heard that President Barack HUSSEIN Obama is not a US citizen, maybe that’s why no one on Fox calls him our President!  Hmph. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NXVHOJCQFWDDT3L5CX4DIHNOV4 Cathy

    Oh give us a dam- break, the media and the demorats excoriated George Bush for eight years, even booed him at Obama’s inaugural, talk about disgraceful and deplorable.

  • Anonymous

    Happy to oblige – that would be the United States of America, pre-2008.  What you like to call “far right” is a belief in the right of free people to govern themselves by representative democracy unfettered by the constraints of an over-reaching, corrupt and over-sized federal bureaucracy concerned only with forcing its own radical agenda by any means it deems appropriate, constitutionally compliant or not.

    Now, can you name any liberal who can express their opinions without resorting to insults, name-calling and insinuations that anyone with a differing opinion is a “retard.”   I’ll wait…

  • http://twitter.com/Socoral Tom Green

    Mr. West has to earn an honorific.  He was given one when he was elected but he willingly gave that up when he told half the country to leave.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NXVHOJCQFWDDT3L5CX4DIHNOV4 Cathy

    Like the demorats ever referred to George Bush as President Bush.  Hypocrisy from the demorats “all day long”.  All right Allen West, give it to these European socialist wannabe’s.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NXVHOJCQFWDDT3L5CX4DIHNOV4 Cathy

    Allen West for President.  At least Allen West is a true American unlike the American trashing, disgraceful occupant now.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NXVHOJCQFWDDT3L5CX4DIHNOV4 Cathy

    Maybe because ever where Obama goes he trashes the United States of America, how can you respect anyone like that.  If he doesn’t like America, there’s the door.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NXVHOJCQFWDDT3L5CX4DIHNOV4 Cathy

    Beckel’s an ole druggie, in his own words, along the fact that he’s an old gasbag.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NXVHOJCQFWDDT3L5CX4DIHNOV4 Cathy

    At least Allen West doesn’t trash the United States of America everywhere he goes, like the current occupant of the WH; never was in the military and never held a real job.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NXVHOJCQFWDDT3L5CX4DIHNOV4 Cathy

    Like I’m sure for eight years you referred to George Bush as “President Bush”.  Give us a break.  Don’t be lame.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, Cathy, by committing a war crime on an innocent man who refused to help the US military later, he was the walking embodiment of “trashing the United States.”

    Still, I enjoyed the false equivalency.  “Our guy is  terrible, but I heard the president is worse!”  is not a defense of this loon

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NXVHOJCQFWDDT3L5CX4DIHNOV4 Cathy

    Thank you Allen West for your service.  If another terrorist attack hits America, we can thank Obama and the “politically correct insanity” on the left for it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NXVHOJCQFWDDT3L5CX4DIHNOV4 Cathy

    So should we be calling him Barack Hussein Obama or Barack Soetero?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NXVHOJCQFWDDT3L5CX4DIHNOV4 Cathy

    And there you go.  Why is he afraid of calling himself a socialist, when it is so clear to everyone.

  • Anonymous

    Nobody else…..NOBODY ELSE did what Bob did. Eric calls the President, Obama, a lot of times. Just like the left called Pres. Bush just Bush or worse. I’m Conservative and I thought West was out of line with the get the hell out of the Country.

  • Douglas W. Rodrigues

    Wow.  The left-wing nut jobs are thick on this blog.

  • Mari Johnson

    Number one, if my grandmother were alive still, she would call out West for his disgusting suggestion.  Then if my Mom were still alive, she would wash his mouth out with soap because of his swearing.  How different our party has become these days!  

  • Anonymous

    Where do you come up with these “facts”. Read some factual
    material that is readily available and don’t just swallow all the
    hate and misinformation that floats around. Think for yourself.

  • Anonymous

    Facts are nasty things. Where is your proof or do you just parrot 
    back what you hear on teabagger communication networks.

  • Anonymous

    the full Hannity…brillant!!!!

    dont forget…. “rev wright rev wright”…awwkk…like a parrot

  • Anonymous

    I see herman ‘sugar’ cain and allen ‘sgt fury” west…and i totally forgive Sammy Davis for hugging Nixon

  • http://www.facebook.com/bruce.kennedy3 Bruce Kennedy

    Good job Bob. Don’t back down to that POS, West. West is as worthless as they come. I saw Dave Chappelle do a whole skit about West once. The only difference was, West isn’t blind.

  • :)

    Number one, If your grandmother was alive, she would be absolutely flabbergasted at the debt that elected officials have placed on our future generations. 
     
    Number two, if she knew which party is attempting to implement austerity measures to put our spending in check while the other party resorted to scare tactics and class warfare rhetoric in order to maintain our fiscal tailspin into the ground.  And after she realizes this, then she would join West in telling the main offenders of this affront to our future generations..saying “Get the Hell out of My Country!”
     
    She would agree with you that your party, that being the democratic party, has changed much since the times of JFK.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Eric-Crittenden/100000916171322 Eric Crittenden

    You do know that of the $5 trillion that Obama ‘supposedly’ has added to the deficit:  $2 trillion of that is the 2 wars that republicans want to continue indefinitely (never paid for by the REPUBLICAN congress that passed it; it’s only been added to the deficit because Obama put the costs for both wars on the ACTUAL budget instead of using fake ‘Emergency Defense Authorization Bills’ to get around the budget deficits), $500 billion is the Medicare Part D (never paid for by the REPUBLICAN congress that passed it), $1.5 trillion is the tax cuts for the wealthy (never paid for by the REPUBLICAN congress that passed it), plus another $20-50 billion/year we have to pay on the interest from all the money we borrowed to ‘pay’ for all these REPUBLICAN approved policies.

    Funny how these REPUBLICAN policies have added over $4 trillion to the deficit, Obama gets the blame, and YOU get to say stupid things like republicans are “attempting to implement austerity measures to put our spending
    in check while the other party resorted to scare tactics and class
    warfare rhetoric in order to maintain our fiscal tailspin into the
    ground.”

    Supposed ‘Conservatives’ have added more to the $15+ TRILLION in debt than the hated ‘Tax and Spend Liberals’ yet we are supposed to believe that they are the ‘Party of Personal and Fiscal Responsibility’?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Eric-Crittenden/100000916171322 Eric Crittenden

    …and anyone who criticized president Bush was called ‘un-American”, was ‘siding with the terrorists’, or was ‘committing what was tantamount to TREASON for criticizing the President during a time of war.’

    Yet, you get to call THIS president a ‘Kenyan radical Muslim socialist who wants to destroy America and enslave white people in FEMA camps,’ on Fox “News” DAILY and I’ve never heard any conservative get called ‘Un-American’ or a ‘Traitor’ for ‘criticizing the President during a time of war’?

    Bush got equated with Hitler for starting an unprovoked unnecessary war and torturing people. Obama got equated with Hitler for trying to provide the uninsured poor and sick people with health care…

    Give me a break.

  • Anonymous

    Would you like some tissues for your crybaby whining?

  • Anonymous

    Yes, in total contrast to GWB, who worked his way up from pump-jockey at a Valero station in Houston. 

    Oh wait, he never worked a friggin’ day or produced anything of value in his life either.  Nor did his dad, or Ronald Reagan.  At least Bush I had the balls to serve in WW2, though – he gets credit for that.

  • Anonymous

    …and political affiliations are hereditary, right?  Sins of the father, etc.?

  • Anonymous

    You forgot a Saul Alinsky reference (though you’ve probably never read any of his work or really understand what he was about).

  • Anonymous

    If Barack Obama is a Socialist, he’s the WORST one EVER.

  • http://spacegod.tumblr.com/ spacegod

    Yep. No racism from the rightwads.

    You give Americans and human beings a bad name.

  • Anonymous

    Its called ironic sarcasm, twit.  Beckel is one of the self styled plantation massahs trying to punishing a independent American who happens to be black that has the chutzpa to think for himself.

  • Anonymous

    Answer: Independent thought by a black man

  • Anonymous

    bob ross,
    He smacked a terrorist upside the head while harmlessly discharging his side arm and thereby saved the lives of at least 10 of his men when the scumbag spilled the beans about an ambush.  Ya, let’s punish him for that Tweedledum.  I still remember the bell telephone hour in Vietnam.

  • Anonymous

    What REP. ALLEN WEST, R-FLA really said was: “Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneur will and spirit of the American people, somewhere else. You can take it to Europe, you can take it to the bottom of sea, you can take it to the North Pole, but get (it) the hell out of the United States of America.” (consistency of subject)

    It’s their message of economic dependency, their message of enslaving the entrepreneur will and spirit of the American people that he wants expatriated not them.  Clearly he wants them to change their message.   But let’s continue this farce of a straw argument misrepresented by this article and Beckel anyway.

  • Anonymous

     That guy in the whitehouse nothwithstanding.

  • Anonymous

     

    Dem’s just see us as a vote, held down to never speak up, not to demand our rights.

    Yeah, that’s why the Dems have worked to help send minorities to college and provide a better education , while Republicans campign on getting rid of the dept of education. Oh, and elected the first black president. To keep minorities down.
    Sure , the Dems see helping the poor and minoriities as part ofthier poltical identity. And yes, welfare programs can help , but can also dreate dependency. It’s not a perfect system. To stretch that into the idea that Dems want to keep minorities down is just political paranoid fantasy.

  • Anonymous

    Nothing independent from the Democrat / Marxist / herd about him, there is about West.

  • Anonymous

     right. If you don’t think like I do you’re un American and should get the hell out.   That’s some original thinking there.

  • Anonymous

    tim,
    You lie again. The Geneva Convention does not protect a terrorist period.

    Under what article does either the Geneva Conventions or the UCMJ prohibit mock executions?

    When has the discharge of a firearm near someones head been defined as a mock execution?

    I wonder why you got banned in the first place?
     Thanks for another example of your failed law career.

  • Anonymous

    Before I delete this second account to avoid your stalking, let me set you straight on like ten points

    First, had you read anything on this case, and it’s clear from the rest of your comment you did not, the man West tortured was not a terrorist. He was released and the Army could find no proof he was associated with insurgents at all, so your idiotic interpretation of the rule re: combatants out of uniform does not apply.

  • Anonymous

    Of course you failed to mention the soldiers that LTC West and his valiant service to this country.
    What have you ever done troll?

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