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Related: About this forumFox pundit rips Tucker Carlson for shunning child refugees: 'Have you read the Bible?'
What the Republicans are trying to do is they are basically trying to take away due process, Fox News analyst Kirsten Powers pointed out. Its taking away from them the opportunity to actually get a fair hearing to determine whether or not they should be granted asylum.
What the Republicans want to do is the opposite of humanitarian, and I think that we need to be clear about that, she added. Thats not hawkishness, thats un-American.
So, youre saying that the United States has an obligation, Carlson interrupted. Anyone whos suffering around the world has a right to come here and be supported by you and me?
Hey, have you ever been to the Statue of Liberty? Powers shot back. Im saying, yes, we are a refuge. We are a refuge to the people of the world who look to us as a shining city on the hill. Does that sound familiar to you?
So, I have a moral obligation to share my earnings, and my country with people Ive never met because they are suffering? Carlson complained.
Are you a Christian? Powers quipped. Have you read the Bible? Because the Bible is crystal clear.
This is not a theocracy! Carlson exclaimed. No, no. The country is not run according to Christian precept here.
I didnt make this up! Powers argued. Our country is based on this. Youve never heard of America as a refuge of people who are persecuted?
When Powers asked Carlson if he would have treated Jewish people the same way fleeing violent pogroms in the Russian Empire during the 1800s, he refused to compare the situations.
Im not even going to engage on that, he said.
Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/31/fox-pundit-rips-tucker-carlson-for-shunning-child-refugees-have-you-read-the-bible/
corkhead
(6,119 posts)savalez
(3,517 posts)So THIS time it's not?
BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)What is he afraid of?
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)agitation in England against the crown. My mom's mom's side came here in 1857 to flee pogroms. Other members of my family on both sides have been here since 14,000 BC for some and the 1700's for others. All of them were in great fear of their life. WHEN DID THAT LITTLE FUCKER THINK THAT ANYONE IN FEAR OF THEIR LIFE COULDN'T COME HERE!?!?! IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN SO! SEND SOME OF THOSE LITTLE BABIES TO MY HOUSE! I WILL TAKE THEM! THANK YOU, AMERICA, FOR TAKING US IN WHENEVER WE CAME SO I CAN LIVE HERE FREE AND LOVE YOU SO MUCH I COULD DIE LISTENING TO FUCKERS LIKE THIS HATE ON LITTLE KIDS! I LOATHE THIS MAN!!!!!
Good for you, Powers. Matthew 25:33-45.
FUCK YOU, CARLSON!
PS Fucker Carlson ... my great (x about 6) grandpa, Thomas Paxton was one of the sixteen invited guests at Christmas Dinner at Valley Forge with George Washington, the Marque de Lafayette and half a dozen other famous patriots. Show me your bonafides, Carlson. These are mine and I WELCOME ALL THE SUFFERING TO COME HERE!
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Hating children is lower than the dust.
libodem
(19,288 posts)QuestForSense
(653 posts)vssmith
(1,224 posts)"I've got mine, now fuck you."
yorokmok
(33 posts)So, I have a moral obligation to share my earnings, and my country with people Ive never met because they are suffering?
Well, yes you do...yes you do. That is exactly what you have to do!
And the rest of the people on the couch need to just shut their mouths out of pure stupidity. Wrapping children seeking asylum together with people who are crossing the border illegally is just wrong headed. The fact that they do that so easily displays their complete ignorance of the situation and, to themselves, gives them a 'get out of jail free' card to display when someone decides they are wrong and acts on the plight of these children. Then they can say 'I agreed with this approach all along!'
czarjak
(11,278 posts)Don't tell me what I don't want to hear, like facts and the truth. Huh Tuck?
butterfly77
(17,609 posts)"We have people suffering in this country" Thanks to Tucker and the rest of the crew sitting on the couch who are doing their damndest to make more.
Lodestar
(2,388 posts)by allowing more immigrants into this country. That's the message they (rightwing) are sending and the issue that concerns them most, apparently.
Lodestar
(2,388 posts)by allowing more immigrants into this country. That's the message they (rightwing) are sending and the issue that concerns them most, apparently.