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Thu Jun 6, 2013, 06:39 PM Jun 2013

Put Allen West on Michael Savage's show...

The stupidity reaches near-critical mass.

Fox News contributor Allen West agreed with radio host Michael Savage's assertion that "Khmer Rouge feminists" are attempting a "coup" against the military by proposing to change the military chain of command in sexual assault cases. West also used the sexual assault issue to criticize liberals for wanting to "put women into combat arms units" "so they can meet some sort of socially engineering goal or egalitarian goal."

Savage, who hosts Cumulus Media Networks' Savage Nation, began the segment by playing audio of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) talking about changing the military chain of command in sexual assault cases. After saying Gillibrand "sounds like a college chick at a dorm," Savage told guest West: "When I watch these Khmer Rouge feminists try to take over the military, this looked like an attempted coup to me, Colonel West."

West replied: "Nah, you're absolutely right and that's a big concern that I have because when you start to get -- you know, I understand civilian oversight of the military. We all understand that as all officers who served in uniform. But when you start to have this interjection of, you know, political, you know, will against, you know, the military, good order and discipline, where you start to try to usurp the commanders' authority and I guess replace it with some type of political, legal officers, and things of that nature. Then the next thing you know, it goes from just dealing with this, you know, sexual assault thing to, you know, making decisions on the battlefield."

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/06/06/foxs-allen-west-uses-military-sexual-assault-ep/194378

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Put Allen West on Michael Savage's show... (Original Post) Archae Jun 2013 OP
how can you get that much stupidity on one radio show? dlwickham Jun 2013 #1
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