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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/07/allen-west-chick-fil-a_n_1752172.htmlA Democratic lawmaker says Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) offended the entire Congressional Black Caucus by delivering Chick-fil-A chicken and biscuits to their weekly meeting -- and then walking out -- when it was his turn to provide the group with a formal lunch.
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) told The Huffington Post that the incident happened about six months ago but is now fresh in his mind given West's recent comments in support of the fast food chain, which is run by a well-known Christian and backer of anti-gay religious organizations. Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy last week sparked a nationwide response from gay rights activists after publicly denouncing marriage equality.
"We have a rotation in the Congressional Black Caucus where every member provides the lunch one of the weeks when we meet," Hastings said in a Monday interview. The lunches, he said, are often quite delicious.
... "He did it deliberately," Hastings said, explaining that he saw West's message as, "You know, 'That's what I think of you all.'"
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)You mean immature petulant child.
Oh, and has nutty control problems. The ego....It's HUGE!
What kind of people could vote such a train wreck in?
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)down here in DFW.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Well, I'm in rural NC.... but, y'know, as awful as Jesse Helms was, he didn't come across as just completely nuts.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)don't seem to care how much their crazy shows.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,083 posts)That just about says it all.
Robb
(39,665 posts)"So I sent Chick-Fil-A!! Har-dee-har!!"
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Allen West sez:
HURR DURR HERP DERP and BALLS HURR DURR and me calling Harry Reid a MOUSE and stuffs HURR DURR DERPY DERP...
its gunna be so totes awesome and epic and stuffs you gotta go check it out oh...
HURR DURR HERP A DERP BOOGERZ total lulz right guys... I should do this more often because its so kewl to disrupt... DROOL SLURP HERP DERP
Well, what do you think he thought he was doing there?
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Excellent pun, sir!
Much cleverer than anything West could come up with.... even if it was accidental.
Initech
(99,914 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)This is the darling of the far right for ya. A completely unadulterated jackass.
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northoftheborder
(7,566 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Why didn't he wear a pointy hood while he was at it?
Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)He's unstable and psychopathic.
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)but in more graphic terms. But...he knows it and is wanting it to happen.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Panasonic
(2,921 posts)I dont care if hes a black. He does NOT reflect or represent African Americans well
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)What a piece of shit.
spanone
(135,633 posts)SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)as much of a baffoon as herman cain.
Chorophyll
(5,179 posts)And this lunch thing is a HUGE douche-move.
And Alcee Hastings said that West hasn't been back to any CBC meetings since then. Wow.
LoisB
(7,073 posts)He doesn't know he's Black.
MADem
(135,425 posts)He's a stupid, deliberate asshole, too. Self-hating, stupid, deliberate asshole--what a fucking tool!
elbloggoZY27
(283 posts)Rep West is nothing but a voice of the GOP and nothing more. The GOP gets a F- on just about everything and no member thinks for themselves.
They really are the Party of NO.
W T F
(1,145 posts)UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)It was 6 months ago. Before any of the shitstorm that is flying now. How can you suddenly be offended by something that happened 6 months prior to facts coming out? I hate Allen West as much as the next guy, but this is NOT the way to attack him. I didn't know CFA's stance until a couple weeks ago. What's to say West didn't either.
wryter2000
(46,016 posts)I'm white, but even I know better than that.
Scalded Nun
(1,231 posts)a dick in the military. Should have been court-martialed and sent off in disgrace. Would have been nailed if he were enlisted.
No rules matter but his.
Now a tool for the GOP. Does not care about getting anything done, just constantly stirring crap up. In emotional and professional turmoil there is profit. The GOP learned that long ago.
chervilant
(8,267 posts)Mr. West's boyfriend and assure both of them that life is better outside of the closet.
Marr
(20,317 posts)I remember when Republicans had their own ideas about things. In the last twenty years or so, they seem to have just become the Asshole Party, reflexively taking whatever position seems likely to make Democrats/liberals angry. There's no coherent political philosophy there-- just a dickish need to provoke and insult.
Robyn66
(1,675 posts)How is that possible?
Chan790
(20,176 posts)The ones where it's effectively a one-party race.
For that matter, until the last few months, it was thought that Eric Cantor also had one of those districts...but now there's a fair chance Cantor may lose...and that's more of a chance than any previous challenger to Cantor has had and more of a chance than any challenger his GOP predecessor ever faced had.
Lesson: If you're a big enough dickhead, you can even lose a district gerrymandered to favor your party by a 20% margin.
OneTenthofOnePercent
(6,268 posts)Article said he brought the food six months ago...
The national outcry over Chick-Fil-A is a fairly recent phenominon.
Does nobody else see the disconnect here?
Chan790
(20,176 posts)It's just that the rest of y'all finally caught up. For that matter, this Congressional Black Caucus incident offense in a very real sense has nothing to do with the current scandal. Let's take CfA out of it.
Allen West sent the CBC fried chicken sandwiches and biscuits when it was his turn to provide lunch. Clearly, watermelons were out of season. He then left the meeting he was supposed to provide "a nice lunch" for with a smug grin on his asshole face...and hasn't come to another CBC meeting since.
If you need it clearer...Allen West is a smug racist and a smug asshole.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)hughee99
(16,113 posts)since they've had that before, the issue sounds like it was that he's supposed to provide a "nice lunch" and they got fast food.
pstokely
(10,510 posts)nt
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)I'll bet he's thinking "Damn, I should have brought them watermelon!"
SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)and send them all back to his office, with the high stink rotting food creates... with a note saying "this is what we think of you..."
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)...