Posted on 10/30/2019 4:08:05 PM PDT by robowombat
New Hampshire Republican top dog apologizes for his predecessor bringing in Robert Spencer to speak
OCT 30, 2019 2:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER
Just yesterday I criticized New Hampshire State Representative Steven Smith and his colleagues in the Sullivan County Republican Party of New Hampshire for being cowards and fools and allowing the Left to dictate the parameters of what they could do and could not do. And here they go again, richly earning the sobriquet “Stupid Party.”
“Britton, a retired Navy captain with 25 years of active duty and Navy Reserve service, had raised concerns about the impact of Spencer’s appearance on a Muslim family who lived near the original proposed venue for the fundraiser in the Eastman Community Association. Smith said he had not heard Spencer speak so didn’t want to make a judgment about his content, but also apologized on air to the Muslim family. ‘That family in Eastman should not have to have gone through this,’ Smith said. ‘They came to this country to be Americans. And that is one of the values that we want to support. We don’t want to make these people feel not welcome.’”
Smith didn’t see me speak, and so he says he doesn’t want to judge the content of my speech, and then he apologizes to this Muslim family for it. What a weasel. If he didn’t see it, what is he apologizing for? If he doesn’t know what I said, how does he know there is anything to apologize for? Essentially he is apologizing because the Left was unhappy that I spoke, and he believes Leftists uncritically. If he had watched the video, he would have seen that I didn’t mention this Muslim family. I didn’t know this family existed. I never said that they were not welcome, or that Muslims were not welcome in the United States. Nor did I say anything to the effect that non-Muslims in Sullivan County, New Hampshire, or anywhere else should be unkind to their Muslim neighbors. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty. If he cared anything about facts, Smith could watch the video of the speech, and he would see that there is nothing “hateful” in it at all. Here it is:
The reality is that all I do is oppose jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women and others. The idea that there is anything wrong or objectionable about what I do is an invention of Leftist and Islamic supremacist propagandists, and Smith is voluntarily buying into their claims, without examining them or giving me the opportunity to clear my name. Keith Hanson, the former Sullivan County Republican Chairman who brought me in to speak, had me in the meeting during which he was ousted, via Skype from California. But these cowardly, Republicans, ever submissive to their Democrat masters, voted down a motion to allow me to speak. It figures. (Meanwhile, “journalist” John P. Gregg didn’t bother to contact me for comment. Once again, it figures.)
If Steven Smith and his ilk think that opposition to jihad mass murder cannot be aired because it will somehow threaten kind and friendly local Muslims, then no opposition to jihad mass murder will be aired. Then the jihad will be able to advance unopposed and unimpeded, with everyone afraid to say a word against it, for fear of this kind of treatment. Steven Smith appears to be completely oblivious regarding that possibility, or blithely indifferent to it.
“Personal attacks are not the way to do business,” says Randy Britton. Yet New Hampshire Democratic Party Chairman Raymond Buckley called me a “white supremacist” and as far as I know, neither Britton nor Smith uttered a syllable of protest, despite the fact that Buckley’s claim is outright libel. Apparently personal attacks are not the way to do business unless the Democrats engage in them, in which case cowardly, spineless, clueless, self-defeating Republicans such as Steven Smith and the Sullivan County Republican Party of New Hampshire will eagerly fall into line.
“New Sullivan County GOP chairman apologizes for predecessor’s remarks,” by John P. Gregg, Valley News, October 29, 2019:
NEWPORT — Sullivan County Republican Chairman Keith Hanson was forced out last week after making vulgar comments about constituents on social media and calling a Navy veteran a “traitor.”
The new chairman, state Rep. Steven Smith, R-Charlestown, said Hanson resigned after members of the Sullivan County Republican Committee began discussing a motion to replace him at a meeting in Newport on Thursday.
“The committee should be fighting a vigorous fight on all the issues and never attacking anybody personally because we want to welcome everybody to the Republican party,” Smith said on Tuesday. “We don’t care where you came from.”
Hanson, a former radio talk show host on WNTK whose program also was canceled recently, had drawn criticism for bringing Robert Spencer, a critic of Islam and the author of the Jihad Watch blog, to be the keynote speaker at a Republican county fundraiser earlier this month.
Hanson also had used vulgarities on his Twitter account to disparage New Hampshire residents who were critical of the planned fundraiser, and on his radio show had called Grantham resident Randy Britton a “traitor because you want to silence people like me who don’t agree with you.”
Smith, who discussed the transition in an interview on WCNL radio on Monday, said he had apologized to Britton, saying his “integrity was above reproach.”
Britton, a retired Navy captain with 25 years of active duty and Navy Reserve service, had raised concerns about the impact of Spencer’s appearance on a Muslim family who lived near the original proposed venue for the fundraiser in the Eastman Community Association.
Smith said he had not heard Spencer speak so didn’t want to make a judgment about his content, but also apologized on air to the Muslim family.
“That family in Eastman should not have to have gone through this,” Smith said. “They came to this country to be Americans. And that is one of the values that we want to support. We don’t want to make these people feel not welcome.”…
“That to me is of a kind to the type of attack I suffered, but I’m grateful that at least locally people are recognizing that personal attacks are not the way to do business,” Britton said.
9/11 was a much bigger win for Islam than we want to acknowledge.
That disturbing thought occurred to me not long after the muzzards attacked. The regular people and EM’s were energized the general officers seemed demoralized and concerned about the various stupid things they had agreed to do during Clintontime. Then The Prez’s ‘Religion of Peace’ remarks were a gut punch. He had an opportunity to tell the muzzards. ‘clean up your act or else’, instead we got a constant diet of official pablum and BS. The muzzards did score a victory over our so=called leadership class, which displayed what a sorry bunch of gutless wankers they were.
Only in terms of the real leftists making excuses to come out of the closet and push their agenda harder.
Screw this jihadist bitch. REPLACE THE BASTARD!!!
What’s the difference between a “”Top Dog” and a “Head Honcho?”
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