From the Enough Is Enough Files
Tim Farley hosts a radio show called POTUS on XM radio. I listen every now and then because he has on guests from all political ideologies without all that damn fake debate and screaming at each other. He’s calm, reasoned, and even handed.
Until yesterday.
A host on SiriusXM radio today cut off a guest for declaring that President Obama “is a Muslim.” On “The Morning Briefing with Tim Farley,” retired Air Force Col. Dick Brauer Jr. said, “The key thing is that, our president being a Muslim, and he is a Muslim because his father -”
retired Air Force Col. Dick Brauer Jr.
At that point, host Farley stopped him with these words, “All right, well, we’re just going to take you right off the air now, so we don’t need that on the air because that’s ridiculous and just, we’re not going to let you put falsehoods on the air. So I appreciate your being here. But that is not something we’re going to allow to get on the air because it’s a ridiculous accusation.”
The rightwing has gone beeeeserk. They know THE REAL REASON why Brauer was kicked off, including the “Islamization of the World”, “the truth hurts”, and “barry o’fraud” adoptive father was a communist.
My grandpa told me that you can shear a pig but you’re gonna get a lot more noise than wool. Same deal here. I would just like this opportunity to thank Tim Farley for not shearing the damn pig.
The poor guy. He ain’t allowed to say the n word no more so he was told by someone that mooslim is the appropriate word for it. And if he can’t say mooslim what is he supposed to say?
1Where do Christians get this idea that your a Muslim simply because your father is? Maybe it’s in the Quran, but I thought Christians don’t care what’s in the Quran.
And who do these people think they are going around telling people what is going on inside their own heads?
2Hey, Brauer needs his meds checked. If he was active duty, he’d be in such deep doodoo he’d never see the stars again.
3“The key thing is that, our Christian conservatives being pedophiles, and they are pedophiles because their priests-”
See, it’s like mad-libs. just fill in the blank with the group you hate and the worst accusation you can think of, and it works for anything.
4I am becoming concerned that the Tea Party can win the WH in 2016 by ignoring the Dem candidate and campaigning against President Obama.
5Finally, someone who doesn’t need to pretend that the loonies have a point or that they just have a legit difference of opinion! Most hosts are so enslaved to the notion of “balance” that they can’t call a nut a nut.
6Hmmm! I have Sirius Radio in my car. Never listened to this guy. May have to give him a listen. As far as the reaction from the RWNJ’s, just more opportunity for derisive laughter. That the President takes all this in stride makes him twice the man and human being than any RW cretins.
7@TruelyTexan
We have a winner!
*Heavy Sigh* If only everyone understood this.
8I’d like to join you, JJ, in thanking Tim Farley for not shearing the pig. (And thanks for teaching me a new saying!)
9As a native San Antonian of a certain age, I can tell you that there are many bright, intelligent well-informed retired AF colonels. Probably about three-fourths of them. The rest know everything except how incredibly dumb they are. Most of them like to called colonel. If an older guy in SA who calls himself colonel asks you for directions, don’t write anything down. He probably can’t read.
10The only way right wingers can “win” arguments is by changing what words mean. In this case, “Muslim.” Brauer is just making stuff up.
BTW, did you know that the name “Brauer” is derived from “he who brays?” (See, I can make stuff up too.)
11Another Dick who thinks he’s got it right, without the facts.
12evangelize: verb. convert, proselytize, recruit, save, redeem, preach to
13If this is so, does this mean that all present and prior converts from whatever and wherever are not now christians, eg.? How does one go about proving they are a christian? Or muslim? Is there some sort of certificate, indelible mark stamped on the body, etc, that I missed in my life?
I actually asked a white race supremacist regarding Obama to prove their christianity. After the smoke cleared somewhat from the exploding head, I was thrown out of the house.
The point I didn’t get to make is the equal application of whatever standard to be used should be used for all.
As a disabled vet and the father of an Iraqi war vet who is in the process of being medically discharged because of his injuries, this colonel can tarnish the good image of vets who haven’t gone over to the dark side. I don’t hate him but I have little, if any, respect for him and his kind.
apparently the Texas legislature has not put any money into
14infrastructure or flood control or anything to help the situation they are in now.
Who will come to the rescue other than the man all in Texas
love to hate, I understand he will be supplying temporary housing, bottled water and food supplies etc. Don’t suppose many in Texas know that!
Applause to Tim Farley for having a brain and some moral standards. Both seem to be rare on talk radio, from what I hear second-hand.
Yep, “Muslim” is the buzzword now, unless they can manage to work “terrorist” in. They can’t call people slightly to the left of Papa Bush “communists” anymore, so they’re real glad that 9/11 gave them some new people to hate. If they get a chance, they’ll also shove in “environmental extremists,” who are those of us who don’t want the Earth to look like the Moon.
Used to be witches and demons, then it was communists, now Muslims…. Wonder who it’ll be in another 10-15 years.
15@Rhea
16Hopefully in 10-15 years it will be the word republican.
I guess my Catholicism is now open to debate.
17Talk radio seems to work on the same lines as the Daily Mail Drinking Game, named for a right-wing British tabloid:
1. Post the most bigoted thing you can think of.
2. Take a shot for every Like you get.
You should be drunk by the second refreshing of the page.
18Gawd. Just visited the link & feel like I need to go through haz-mat detox to get rid of the filth I’ve been splattered with. The “certainty” is the most frightening aspect of it.
New band name: Kool-Ade Drinkers of Oblivion.
19The funny thing is that I don’t remember the constitution requiring any established belief to run for office. So, let’s say he was a Muslim. Would that fundamentally change anything about him? Yeah, I know it would effectively make him unelectable but just to prove the point…….
20@Scott, Article 6 of the Constitution ends with: “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”
But you probably knew that and were just funnin’ with us.
21Colonel Brauer is repeating a vicious, lying right-wing meme that has undermined whatever respect I once had for religious conservatives who have joined (so-called) Movement Conservatism.
Most of us “liberals” (Actually we’re non-reactionaries of varying stripes from wise-awake Gerald Ford-style Republicans to genuine socialists) are aware enough that had a white man from a Muslim family background embraced political conservatism and Evangelical Christianity, Focus on the Family, the 700 Club, and other Religious Right organs would be praising him, his choices, and his politics non-stop since his nomination for President back in 2008.
But, as we all know, Barrack H Obama is an Afro-American who was moved by the example of Afro-American parishoners in a Chicago church to embrace Christianity as his faith. Worse, Barrack Obama isn’t a straight down-the-line right-wing reactionary–so of course the oh-so-holy Pharisees of America’s Religious Right fall over themselves to throw filth at him.
22@Rhea,
Yeah, you caught me. I used to teach Government to seniors and have that dreaded political science degree. I used to teach a small unit on the difference between the official and unofficial qualifications. The students were always sufficiently surprised at the difference.
The problem with the religious test is that you can never know what is in someone’s heart. Furthermore, there usually is a disconnect between personal belief and public action. I have no doubt that GWB genuinely believed and that belief helped him tackle addiction. You just didn’t see enough of it in his public life.
I certainly don’t hold that against him more than I would anyone else. I simply choose to ignore stated belief and go straight to evaluating public action. Stated belief is just too subjective anyway.
23As a Jewish atheist, I never expected to see any MOTT (member of the tribe) running for President. Then, along came Senator Bernie Sanders, my candidate.
24here’s a “backslid methodist” (from texas yet)who can hardly wait for a chance to vote for bernie sanders.
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