Coleen Rowley: "...Just Denounce the Pacifists for Lack of Patriotism..."

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Coleen Rowley

"...Just Denounce the Pacifists for Lack of Patriotism..."

Posted April 5, 2008 | 10:13 PM (EST)


How uncanny that exactly 40 years after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated during the Vietnam War (and some think possibly because of his opposition to the Vietnam War), we would turn on our radios to hear a Twin Cities radio host re-applying the principles of Hermann Goering to plans for the upcoming anti-war march on the Republican National Convention (RNC). If you listen (here), you won't hear anything resembling "Minnesota Nice" on Chris Baker's show yesterday, the program that comes on before Rush Limbaugh's. His vitriolic, denouncing rants came in bursts between interviews with a Minneapolis Assistant Police Chief and Minneapolis Police Federation President John Delmonico as to how the right-wing radio host "can't stand these protesting varmints", "these spitting, frothing at the mouth lunatics", including his opinion that "protesting is an industry funded by billionaires and communist organizations (and) they are well coordinated and incredibly dangerous."

Baker's tirades were sparked by a Star Tribune newspaper article that reported apparent disagreements between Minneapolis police officials as to whether police officers patrolling at the time of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul should be armed with riot helmets, chemical spray and Taser guns for use on protesters.

The radio talk host demonstrated little effort to engage in legitimate debate on these issues and soon transcended from merely disparaging remarks to something far worse, coming very close to, if not crossing the line, of basically inciting violence against those he called the "stinky protesters."

After Delmonico agreed that "one of the (protesters') main missions is destruction," Baker added, "You must have order, you cannot have a civilized society without order and if that means cracking a few skulls, so be it...a good ole boy network is what you need and hand out some ax handles."

The absolutely worst tirade, however, comes towards the end of the program after the interviews with the police, when KTLK host Chris Baker lets go with this ostensible incitement to violence: "So we've been talking about police protection during the upcoming convention when all those stinky protesters are coming. There seems to be a big debate over whether or not police officers will be able to wear helmets, carry shields, use pepper spray and tasers on this crowd. You know, I'll tell you what works on a crowd like this--a machine gun, that always works very well."

"Mow 'em down, baby!" excitedly adds Baker's co-host "Jordan".

more...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/coleen-rowley/just-denounce-the-pacifis_b_95259.html

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Here's some tibits from a Chris Baker Michelle Bachman interview.

MB: It all depends on if they get their way. I mean, let's face it, those who are on the left side of the equation have a different view of the world and it's their view or no view, and that's what it comes down to. No, we do talk about this. We all came to our offices on a Monday morning and discovered that over the weekend that Nancy Pelosi had somehow had somebody sneak into our offices, unscrew all of the incandescent light bulbs – I'm not kidding – in all of our offices and replace them with the compact fluorescent bulbs. Over the weekend. We had nothing to say about it. They all came in and that's the way it is now with, quote, the greening of the Capitol

http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/2008/04/michele-bachmann-on-chris-baker-show.html

LOL