West Tells it like it is and the Liberal Spin Machine Goes on the Attack

by Craig Andresen

It's not often one has the opportunity to do a direct compare and contrast between the real story and the liberal spin when it comes to a statement by a conservative who exhibits the brass to tell it like it really is.

Today, Congressman West was reported on and spun at nearly the same time.

Here, from "The Hill" is the report by Molly K. Hooper

"The White House is "fear mongering" by warning that Social Security checks might not be sent out after Aug. 3, Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) said Tuesday. 

"That's fear mongering that's not leadership, that's sad and pathetic," West told reporters. "There's revenue that's coming into this country the president needs to prioritize."

Obama in an interview with CBS said he couldn't guarantee Social Security checks would be sent out on Aug. 3 if Congress did not raise the debt ceiling by Aug. 2, when the Treasury Department has said it will no longer have the money to pay all of the U.S. bills."

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And HERE is the SPIN from TPN and Benjy Sarlin

"File this under "do as I say, not as I do." 

Rep. Allen West (R-FL), a Tea Party-backed freshman, complained to reporters on Tuesday that the White House is trying to scare Americans in the debt ceiling fight.

"I am sick and tired of leadership that's based on fearmongering and intimidation," he said. "That's not how I led my unit in the military and I don't think that's how you should lead a country."

Funny story, about West's military unit, though. The reason he no longer commands them is that he was forced out of the Army for beating a man in Iraq. After West grew suspicious that an Iraqi policeman was helping terrorists, he ordered his men to abuse the soldier before personally firing his pistol past his head to, well, fearmonger and intimidate the suspect into giving up information. The man was never linked to any attacks and West didn't just own up to his actions, he campaigned on them. "
 
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What the liberal media and liberal thinkers WON'T tell you is that West did NOT intimidate HIS troops...but he DID intimidate the enemy!

Yes, West scared the hell out of the enemy, took the info he got from that episode, broke the back of those bent on killing American soldiers there and took full responsibility for his actions!

THIS is exactly what West and conservatives are up against heading into the 2012 election cycle but one thing IS certain...Allen West will NOT be intimidated.

For the liberal spin here to make ANY sense whatsoever, it would require that those whom Obama is attempting to intimidate and scare...be the ENEMY...and only then can a direct comparison between what Obama is attempting and what West did in Iraq be made.

Now...who exactly IS Obama trying to intimidate?

Conservatives? Old people? We the People? Yes on ALL counts.

Perhaps I have jumped to the wrong conclusion here as it seems clear that ALL of the above ARE, in Obama's and the liberals minds...the enemy and therefore, the spin may well have some validity.

None the less...West is clearly correct in HIS comments and the left spin...well...is unintentional in it's truth while completely lacking in substance.