Tom Tancredo Walks Off MSNBC Set Because Of Markos Moulitas (VIDEO) »
Posted By Progressive 1 week, 6 days ago in Political News
On MSNBC Friday night, David Shuster (filling in for Ed Shultz) addressed hateful signs at Thursday's Capitol Hill "House call" against health care reform. But the discussion escalated into a fight that led a Republican guest to walk off the set.
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MeanMrMustard1 week, 6 days ago
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Tancredo was a republican student activist during the Vietnam war,he had every opportunity to not just talk but enlist to support his cause but chose not to...in other words he is a lifelong chickenhawk who talks a great game but is more than willing to let others do his dirty work.He should expect nothing less than what a real vet gave him and showed his true cowardice by taking his ball and running home.
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jordan111 week, 6 days ago
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It had to have been difficult for a vet to sit there and listen to someone who got a deferment cause he was 'depressed', speak for vets. I'm glad he left. It gave more time to the vet. Maybe next time the 'good' congressman speaks he'll be prepared with facts to back up his ramblings, rather than make generalized statements. It's a waste of time.
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uncle-dave1 week, 6 days ago
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In 2003 then Colorado State Treasurer Mike Coffman, a Gulf War veteran, (now a Republican Congressman) refused to share the stage with Rep. Tancredo at a pro Iraq war rally. He said this:
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"I just didn't feel (Tancredo) had the moral authority to send other young people off to war when he was not willing to go himself."
When Tom Tancredo’s college deferment ran out and he was re-classified 1-A he told his draft board that he was treated for depression when he was a teenager and was taking prescription drugs for it for a period of 5 years. Well, Mr. Tancredo thought that should exempt him from service in the armed forces, but apparently not as a Presidential Candidate and Commander in Chief.-
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harpro2071 week, 5 days ago
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Everytime Coffman appears on TV or in public, the first thing out of his mouth or the mouth of the person introducing or interviewing him is about how Coffman served in Iraq. Every GD time. A cynic or someone paying attention would think Coffmans only reason for serving was to promote his political careeer.
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Ratskii1 week, 6 days ago
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Tancredo certainly is a long ways from being the only Vietnam war supporter who avoided serving. There are so many chicken hawks that the republican party cannot deny consciousness of them. Yes, some democrats didn't serve, but they didn't hypocritically support the war at the same time.
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CRYMTYPHON1 week, 6 days ago
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Well said, Ratskii.
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Bill Clinton at least had
the moral consistency to wave a sign that
said "I don't want to go and I don't want anyone else to go".
It is not merely that hypocrisy is ugly;
in national matters it is dangerous.
Those who supported the Vietnam war and dodged it,
- were the ones years later who gave us the Iraq war.
Bush, Rush, O'reilly, Krystol, George Will, Rove, Cheney, Feith, Perle,
Tancredo, Krauthammer, Gingrich, etc etc ad nauseum ad profundus ad infernum.
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sinophil491 week, 6 days ago
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It is interesting that the Republicans issue with the health care reform is that they equate it to the Dachau death camp. That is why they put up that giant poster of Dachau Holocaust victims. This echoes the "death squads" the Republicans were ranting about.
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Then when Tancredo was confronted by the ugliness of the poster, he tries to evade the controversy by declaring he wanted to talk about the "issues" and not about the poster. He conveniently forgot that the death squads and the Dachau poster were, in fact, issues brought up by the Republicans themselves.
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wrwayne721601 week, 5 days ago
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Tom Tancredo is one of the few politicians who is actually honest nowadays. He was fighting against the infestation of this country by illegal mexicans, but when the enemy is made up of RINO neocons who want that cheap wetback labor along with scum of the earth Obama/Pelosi communists who want them here to help destroy this country and turn it into another third world ****hole then the war is almost impossible to win.
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harpro2071 week, 5 days ago
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Tancredo? "Honest"???? LMAO That's about the stupidest comment I've read in a long long time. When Tancredo first ran for Congress in Colorado, his entire campaign was based on term limits. He vowed repeatedly and publicly to serve only three terms in Congress. He served four. While Tom Tancredo was loudly beating his racist drum about illegal immigration, those same illegals he was villifying werre remodeling the basement of his Littleton Colortado home. There is nothing honest about Tancredo. He's a sleazy opportunist.
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