Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Allen West Stoops to Profanity on TV

Becket Adams shares video footage of Allen West's lapse of good manners, and TV's "Five" bickering about whether he showed "disgraceful, despicable, disgusting" "hatred" by using the name of a small town in Michigan in an imprecise and disparaging way.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/bob-beckel-rips-rep-west-i-have-never-heard-anything-more-disgraceful-in-my-life/

The point here is that Bob Beckel is reacting to Congressman West's political affiliation, not to his language. Apparently Beckel has no problem with, say, Maxine Waters' careless references to the same part of Michigan.

If either Representative West or Waters is trying to avoid being drafted for the presidential campaign, this kind of speech may be a good strategy. Use of "Army language" in what ought to be a peaceful situation isn't presidential.

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