Teabagger fave Allen West (R-FL): "We also should be censoring the American news agencies"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Rep.-elect Allen West (R-Fla.) may have proven himself a prime pupil for fellow Rep. Michele Bachmann's forthcoming constitutional classes, when he recently displayed selective reverence for the Tea Party's most sacred document by calling for American news outlets to be censored for running stories based on the recent WikiLeaks cable dump.

Here's the transcript of what the soon-to-be congressman said on a conservative internet radio program last week, via ThinkProgress:

WEST: There are different means by which you can be attacked. I mean it doesnt have to be a bomb or an airplane flying into a building. It doesn't have to be a shooting. It can be through cyber attacks, it could be through leaking of very sensitive classified information. Regardless of whether you think it causes any harm, the fact that here is an individual that is not an American citizen first and foremost, for whatever reason gotten his hands on classified American material and put it out there in the public domain. And I think that we also should be censoring the American news agencies which enabled him to do this and also supported him and applauding him for the efforts. So that's kind of aiding and abetting of a serious crime.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/14/allen-west-censoring-wikileaks-_n_796574.html

[MilesColtrane]

1. No need to, champ.

Their self-censoring.

The same corporations that own government own big media.

[Poboy]

7. beat me to it.

[MilesColtrane]

12. "Their self-censoring."

THEY'RE DAMMIT!

[DisgustipatedinCA]

20. you'll want to place a comma after the corrected contraction

And damnit is spelled, well, like I just spelled it.

[MilesColtrane]

22. The ghost of my eighth grade grammar teacher will appear in my bedroom tonight....

to terrorize me for staring at Barbara Ramirez instead of paying attention to the lesson plan.

[hobbit709]

2. Consider the source-why was he cashiered?

[Yavapai]

3. Sieg Heil

[bottomofthehill]

4. They like to say the word Constitution but......

Like the Tea Party favorite from Deleware, they have no clue of what it really means.

[Drale]

5. I thought you had to take a government class to graduate from high school?

If there is any evidence that water and food pollution have adverse effects its the tea baggers. That is the only thing that could possibly explain the stupid people that have appeared before us the last couple of years.

[Canuckistanian]

6. He wants a "government takeover" of the media?

I thought they HATED big government throwing it's weight around.

[bighughdiehl]

10. Yeah...

Conservatives show themselves to just be pathological liars when
they say they do not like "big government".

[Canuckistanian]

13. They like big government just FINE when they're punching hippies

Or even punching anyone who cares about the middle class or the poor.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. My there are days

he does know the oath means protecting the first amendment too, right?

No wonder he got cashiered from the service.

[Angry Dragon]

9. Stupid ass congress people should also be censored

talking to you west

[Lint Head]

11. This SOB does not know what the hell he is talking about

[Historic NY]

14. Start with FOX we know they make shit up.

[krabigirl]

15. Typical "small government conservative" advocating for quite a large govt power grab.

[NuclearDem]

16. I'm ashamed that this bastard ever wore the uniform

And then has the gall to turn around and shit on the Constitution he swore to uphold.

One evil son of a bitch.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

26. When he wore the uniform, he ashamed himself pretty well.

He was forced out of service after an incident where his men beat an Iraqi detainnee, and then he put a gun next to the head of the detainnee and fired it in order to get "intelligence." He later admitted the information he recieved wasn't actionable.

Whoopsie! (Waa-waa-waa-waaaaaah).

If you ask me, he belongs in Fort Leavenworth, not Capitol Hill.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

17. More from the Big Government When It Suits Us idiots.

"So that's kind of aiding and abetting of a serious crime."

That crime? Telling the Truth. Something Allen West hates.

[cilla4progress]

18. What district did HE get elected from?

Praise goddess...let's hope not Grayson's?

[NuclearDem]

19. Webster won in the 8th, which was Grayson's district

West won in the 22nd.

[last_texas_dem]

21. We should revoke the voting rights of citizens who even considered

voting for crazy idiots like West.

(Hey, one ridiculous, over-the-top statement deserves another, right. And I can't do nearly the damage this fool can.)

[democracy1st]

23. What a freakin idiot,trying to get conservative cred by attacking civil liberties..

[sakabatou]

24. "Freedom of the Press? What's that?"

[tomm2thumbs]

25. that little earpiece tells him what to say and when to say it

obey 'the voice' - it is your leader