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Bill Maher defends racism charge from Allen West
On Friday night’s episode of “Real Time,” host Bill Maher –and a panel that included Amy Goodman, Lizz Winstead, Fareed Zakaria and California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsome– discussed backlash from a column Maher wrote recently that compared the modern-day Republican Party to “The Rise of the Planet of the Apes.”…
West: Female critics are my ‘liberal groupies’
Rep. Allen West (R-FL) added to his growing list of eye-raising statements at his latest town hall event Tuesday afternoon in Boca Raton, Florida, including calling woman who disagree with him as his “groupies.” “Oh those are my liberal groupies,” West said while pointing to a camera person. “I’ve got…
Rep. Allen West defends key provisions of ‘Obamacare’
Tea Party darling Rep. Allen West (R-FL), the freshman congressman and outspoken critic of the Democratic Party and the Obama administration, has spoken out in favor of key provisions of the Affordable Care Act, the health care reform act that is mostly known to conservatives as “Obamacare.” In an interview…
Allen West on LGBT workplace discrimination: ‘That don’t happen’ in the U.S.
Tea party favorite Rep. Allen West (R-FL) is denying that LGBT people face employment discrimination in the U.S. On Thursday, Think Progress’ Scott Keyes asked West if he would be willing to support a law that bans hiring or firing of people based on their sexual orientation. “That don’t happen…
Rep. Allen West (R-FL) accuses Obama of ‘destroying the black community’
Florida Republican congressman Rep. Allen West has torn a page from Sarah Palin’s book and issued a proclamation to the world via his Facebook page. West cited the 13 percent unemployment rate among black Americans and wrote, “The failed economic policies of President Obama are destroying the black community and…
NAACP ousts Allen West after ‘Communist’ quip
A Florida chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has uninvited Rep. Allen West (R-FL) from speaking at an event after he insisted that up to 81 Democratic members of Congress were secretly members of the Communist Party. The Martin County NAACP had invited West…
Allen West: Nugent has no ‘ill will’ toward Obama
Tea Party darling Rep. Allen West (R-FL) on Thursday defended conservative rocker Ted Nugent after he got the Secret Service’s attention by saying that members of the National Rifle Association (NRA) should defeat President Barack Obama and other Democrats and “chop their heads off in November.” During an interview on…
Rep. Allen West: Thin line between communism and progressivism
Rep. Allen West, a tea party Republican from Florida, said Tuesday that he did not regret describing the members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus as communists. At a forum, he called on journalists to study the political spectrum of ideologies and claimed that in the early 1900s, American communists called…
Raw Story’s Megan Carpentier on Rep. West ‘communists in Congress’ remark
Megan Carpentier, the executive editor of Raw Story, said on The Young Turks Wednesday that claiming Democrats are members of the Communist Party was not particularly outrageous in today’s political climate, considering how often unsubstantiated smears get thrown around. Rep. Allen West (R-FL), a tea party favorite, said Tuesday that…
Allen West suggests 80 House Dems are Communist Party members
Tea party darling Rep. Allen West (R-FL) on Tuesday warned that as many as 80 Democratic lawmakers are members of the Communist Party. Speaking to about 100 supporters and 15 protesters in Jensen Beach, the freshman congressman refused to name names after saying that that he had “heard” that 80…
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