Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison was on “Hannity” tonight, and man, was it the best talking-heads-yelling-at-each-other session we’ve seen in a long time. Ellison called Hannity “the worst excuse for a journalist I’ve ever seen.” Hannity called Ellison “a total waste of time.” And Hannity finally kicked Ellison off. High quality bad TV right here, folks.
Keith Ellison on Twitter after speaking at the House Homeland Security Committee hearing. Read the full transcript here.
We also have an updated version of the clip up (via Soup and @irincarmon)
Here’s a clip of Keith Ellison breaking down while speaking about a Muslim 9/11 first responder. We’ll put up a better clip when we find one. (EDIT: Updated with a better version via soup)
So yeah, this may perhaps be one of the reasons why this whole meeting was a mistake.
First off, this is a spectacular photo of Rep. Peter King. He’s straight-up draped in America in this pic, and it’s something that we must admire. Anyway, King (the chair of the Homeland Security committee) is planning these Congressional hearings about radical Islam this week, and they have some people up in arms. For example, here’s Rep. Keith Ellison, a Muslim himself who showed up on CNN’s “State of the Union” with King: “It’s absolutely the right thing to do for the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee to investigate radicalization. But to say we’re going to investigate a — a religious minority, and a particular one, I think is the wrong course of action to take.” King claims that radical Islam poses a graver threat than other types of radicalism. source
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