SMACK DOWN-Laura Ingraham Makes Charlie Rangel Look Feeble

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New York Congressman Charlie Rangel should have quit after having his wrist slapped by the Congressional Ethics committee. The poor guy is not as sharp as he used to be, either that or he has never been interviewed by the likes of Laura Ingraham.

Ingraham has been filling in for Bill O' Reilly this week. On Wednesday she interviewed, Allen West, Congressman from Florida (who is a real mensch!). Congressman  West made a pretty controversial (but true) statement during the interview. The Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) made the point that the Democrats have  been ignoring the Black voters for years, because they knew African-Americans will vote Democratic no matter what.

West Described himself a" modern day Harriet Tubman" who can help rescue blacks from the Democratic Party by leading them "on the underground railroad away from that plantation." West told Laura Ingraham that some black leaders "are nothing more than the overseers of that plantation."





In the interests of "Fair and Balanced" the next night Laura Ingraham had Charlie Rangel as a guest on the show so he could rebut Congressman West.

Rangel began his rebuttal with a rambling speech. He seemed to be saying that Lt. Col. West, an African-American,  nor any other Republican of any race,  had a right to use the terms Plantation, slavery or Harriet Tubman, etc.

Ingraham followed up by asking if Rangel meant that West couldn't use those terms.  That's when the way past his prime Congressman  began to lose it.

Rangel was too "all over the place to really understand what he was saying.  Poor Charlie began to incoherently ramble terms such as Plantation, Tubman, we inherited, and GOP Caused.

At one point he even stumbled into a disparaging remark toward Ingraham.

“Bill O’Reilly told me he had a secret weapon– I didn’t know it was just a pretty girl.”

Anybody familiar with  Laura Ingraham's work knows she is a heck of a lot more than just"just a pretty girl." She is an intelligent advocate for the conservative point of view andat the age of 47 with children of her own I am resonably sure she hasen't considered herself a feminist"girl" for many years. But long an advocate of what the liberals consider woman's rights, you have to give Rangel the benefit of the doubt.  I doubt if the 40 year veteran of  Congress even knew what he was saying at that point.

As the interview proceeded, Rangel reminded me of Captain Queeg breaking down on the stand near the end of Caine Mutiny Court Martial, I'm sure that many in the audience were expecting him to start playing with little metal balls and and say something like:

Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers...

Many conservatives(myself included) call for a constitutional amendment creating term limits for members of Congress. The rationale for such an amendment is when people are in Washington DC  too long, even the most honest of people get sucked into the "special interests game." Glenn Beck calls it a" losing your soul."

I would submit to you that there is a second reason for term limits, to prevent people like Charlie Rangel, who served his country as an infantryman in Korea, and a Congressman for 40 years, from embarrassing themselves on Television.

You know something... When I was studying law, and Mr. Keefer here was writing his stories, and you, Willie, were tearing up the playing fields of dear old Princeton, who was standing guard over this fat, dumb, happy country of ours, eh? Not us. Oh, no, we knew you couldn't make any money in the service. So who did the dirty work for us? Queeg did! And a lot of other guys. Tough, sharp guys who didn't crack up like Queeg. - Character, Lt. Barney Greenwald, Caine Mutiny Court Martial

I strongly believe that Charlie Rangel's political positions have never been right for this country, but he served this country for a very long time and until recently, very honorably. It is sad that just like Captain Queeg, Charlie Rangel's time passed years ago and it is sad to see him as feeble shell of what he used to be.

Stupid CNN Tricks: Randy Kaye On Ed Schultz 'There Are Mixed Interpretations' of the Term 'Slut'

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Last night Ed Schultz was suspended for one week for calling Laura Ingraham a slut.

 

Instead of condemning their colleague for his inappropriate misogynistic remarks, the liberal media is closing ranks around the MSNBC host.

CNN reporter Randi Kaye was interviewing media reporter Howard Kurtz today and defended Schultz by saying, "

"Yeah, but you know when you hear the word 'slut' – I mean I hate to even say it on our air, to be honest with you – but there are mixed interpretations about the word."

She is correct, first I went to dictionary.com to find out what the word means.

slut /slʌt/ Show Spelled[sluht] 

–noun

1. a dirty, slovenly woman.

2. an immoral or dissolute woman; prostitute.

That's the common definition, but after further research I learned that the following are also called slut

• Slut (band), a German indie rock band
• Slut (EP), a J. G. Thirlwell album
• South Lake Union Trolley, a streetcar line in Seattle

For Kaye to be correct Shultz was calling Ingraham a rock band, an album or a street car, well either that or she was simply being a typical liberal reporter defending her liberal colleague. Watch the video below and you decide.

Kurtz didn't buy it either. Without saying it, he was very clear that Kaye was simply performing another stupid CNN trick:

RANDI KAYE: Howard, Schultz has come out, he's apologized to Ingraham, calling what he said, quote "vile and inappropriate language." And to be fair, he offered to take himself off MSNBC for an indefinite period of time without any pay. What's your take on this?

HOWARD KURTZ: Well I think he was lucky to get away with just being off the air for one week. A lot of broadcasters might have lost their jobs by saying something so stupid, offensive, and misogynistic. And I agree with Ed Schultz, it was vile and offensive. I give him credit for apologizing, and I give MSNBC credit for moving quickly and not letting this thing fester.

KAYE: Yeah, I mean he says he's embarrassed himself, he's embarrassed his family. Meanwhile, Ingraham has some biting words of her own. Her relationship with Schultz – I mean, how would you describe it?

KURTZ: Probably non-existent after this point. But look, I mean, she's a conservative who works for Fox and has her own radio show. Ed Schultz is a passionate liberal who works for MSNBC. I don't expect them to like each other, and he's entitled to beat her up over her views every day of the week. But to go where he went, into the gutter with that kind of language, it's really hard to understand.

But I have to tell you, Randi, this is not the first time that Ed Schultz has talked his way into trouble. In fact, MSNBC management has talked to him before about toning things down, because he's been very personal in calling, for example, New Jersey governor Chris Christie a "fat slob," refers to Rush Limbaugh as "the Drugster." He used to have a segment on his show called "Psycho Talk." MSNBC got rid of that. So he knows the power of words to wound. He has gone over the line in the past, never like this. This is the worst thing he's ever said, by his own admission.

KAYE: Yeah, but you know when you hear the word "slut" – I mean I hate to even say it on our air, to be honest with you – but there are mixed interpretations about the word.

KURTZ: Well, I think that it is a word that stings, in a – it's a word certainly you would never apply to a man. Sometimes we kid around and say "Oh, you're a media-whore, you'll go on anything." But when you just say "she's a slut, she's a right-wing slut," I mean you know, it's a clearly a sexually-derogatory term. And you know, Ed Schultz is smart not to try to defend it by saying "Well, what I really meant to say, and this is the meaning," he realizes what he did. That was a very emotional and full-throated apology that he delivered, that indeed he had to deliver on the air. So I give him credit for that, but this is a guy who makes his living broadcasting every day on the radio, on television. He should know better. And as I say, other people – Don Imus comes to mind, making fun of the Rutgers women's basketball team – have lost their jobs over slurs like this.

Source MRC