Okay I'll admit it .I am a C-Span junkie.I watch it all day everyday taking short breaks for "up to the minute news on local and national stations . I update on news when their is a break in a hearing or a quorum call for a pending vote.When I can't watch C-Span I listen to it on my computer or radio.I do not make appontments before 10:15 so I can watch the Washington Journal.This morning my beloved C-Span made me sick.
The final voice on the Washington Journal was a man named Andrew McCarthy.As always I looked up his bio online just to see what angle he was coming from.This leads me to the title of this journal.Whomever booked this man for the C-Span show Washington Journal had to have known who he was .The fact that they gave him a 20 minute infommercial for his far right agenda without a person with an opposing viewpoint is shameful.
http://www.c-span.org/...
The link to his appearance is here but those of you short on time ,suffereing from elevated blood pressure or weak stomachs' I will highlight some of his outlandish statements.
McCarthy claimed that Ronald Reagan umlike Barak Obama seized the opportunity to take down the Soviet Empire and Obama should have done the same when the citizens of Iran were protesting.Never mind that sticky little fact that Gorbechev was a willing partner and the entire world short a few nations like Cuba and China did not support the Soviet Union's existence.
If Obama could negotiate with the Iranian leaders and had the world's support that Iran should not exist he could rightfully make this comparison but it is a false scenario so Mr McCarthy and those like him are as usual wrong.
Not to far into the interview I began really researching his "foundation" the FDD.I always got to the "who we are " page to see if that is any indicator of the viewpoint of the speaker.My mother always lectured me "a man is known by the company he keeps" and as much as I hated the repetition of her omniscent warning much of the time I had to admit she was right.No comment needed .This is the link.
http://www.defenddemocracy.org/...
I will reiterate I have no problem with this man airing his views on C-Span or anywhere else. I resent an idealogue to be allowed a chance to promote his book and air his views unchallenged for an entire segment on C-Span is despicable on C-Span's part.The far right went unchallenged by the established media and policy shapers for too long in our very recent past and what did we get?
A war based on lies in Iraq ,a devasted trickled down economy and unregulated corporations decoratingour Gulf Coat with oil.Not to mention the Wall Street scandals that are still unfinished business and toxic dog chow from China.
If you have read the parade of stars on the "who we are link" provided above and see what their policies hace given us Mr.McCarthy and those he associates with have rarely been correct.
The icing on the cake was this statement pulled right from their "what we do " section.
"Meanwhile, here at home, apologists and enablers for radical Islamist regimes and anti-democracy movements spend hundreds of millions inculcating their beliefs into our universities, underwriting advocacy organizations, and hiring lobbyists to influence the U.S. government and American public.
On college campuses, they fund student groups, train activists, and supply speakers who advocate ideologies that justify terrorism and disdain democratic ideals. These funds are not gifts; they are investments. Appeasers of and apologists for Islamism increasingly dominate Middle East and national security studies.
And radical left-wing groups such as MoveOn.org, which ran media ads attacking General Petraeus as "General Betray Us," are once again holding sway over many on Capitol Hill.
The battlefield is global. The enemy is relentless. The apologists are pervasive and persuasive. Much work remains to be done."
I could not get through on the Washington Journal during his interview that was primarily done so he could support his new book titled The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America.
I wish I could have asked him how we could ever call ourselves fellow citizens or fight together for our nation when people like him continue to promote fear and hate towards half of his fellow Americans.
I would like to ask him why he has linked me with people that want to kill me because I have politically different ideas than he does.Please go thoroughly through the Foudation For Defense of Democracies website.It should not be allowed to fly under the radar.It has a dangerous agenda and a who's who of right wingers hiding under the gentle word foundation.They must be challenged directly with the truth.
http://www.defenddemocracy.org/...
Instead he sat and gave what seemed to be credible answers to the callers questions and never once was he asked how he could stand to be in the same nation with citizesn like me.The fact that he accomplished his mission this morning leads me back to the title of this diary.
Shame on You C-Span!