You must watch the unhinged rantings of Trump supporter Clarence Mason Weaver on Fox Business Network today. Among other things he said, he praised Trump’s attack on Mexicans: “Everything he said was true. They are raping, there are gangs, they are bringing in drugs. No one is denying that. What did he say [that] is wrong?” Weaver also excused Trump’s hiliarously insulting taco bowl tweet.
The segment started with a clip of the former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox, saying of Trump yesterday, “Of course he’s a racist. He has expressed being a racist. That’s what we all see, we all perceive.”
Host Trish Regan noted that Fox’s comment came “just a day after he apologized to the presumptive Republican nominee. Even inviting Trump to Mexico.” She continued, “So why the change of heart? Maybe it was because of this tweet?”
She then showed Trump’s Cinco de Mayo tweet, showing him eating a taco bowl, with text that said “Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics!”
After Regan introduced “former Black Panther leader turned Conservative commentator,” (and Trump supporter) Weaver, she asked, “How would you tell Hispanic Americans to interpret what Donald Trump says about them?”
Of course, Weaver had no problem with the Tweet. “I would tell them to interpret it as a man who likes Mexican food and enjoys Mexican company. I would tell them to interpret it the way any human who is aware and alert and conscious would interpret it.”
Regan offered mild pushback. “He’s said some things. Don’t forget the opening speech when he announced from Trump Tower that he was gonna be running. He said the Hispanics that are coming here from Mexico, they’re rapists, they’re drug dealers. I mean, you remember the whole quote. It played for seven days straight all over cable news. How does the Hispanic American deal with that side of Donald Trump when maybe they like some of the other stuff?”
If you thought Weaver’s first answer was bad this one was a doozy.
WEAVER: Everything he said was true. They are raping, there are gangs, they are bringing in drugs. No one is denying that. What did he say is wrong?
Weaver now deflected to attacking liberals, as if they are the only ones against Trump. “Liberals hate the truth. The truth is painful. It’s like a brick to their head and they cannot stand you saying the truth,” Weaver said, without challenge. “So the way they stop you is by calling you a name.”
Well, that’s ironic because Trump is the king of childish name calling.
Weaver continued, “Any name: Uncle Tom, racist, sexist. And it stops you from discussing the issues and allowing you do defend yourself.”
But wait! It gets even better with this astounding comment:
WEAVER: No one cares if Trump is a racist. Is he gonna build a wall? No one cares if he hates women. Is he gonna bring America back and fight against China? No one cares if he doesn’t like black people. Will he in fact make America strong again? That’s all we care about.
Regan gave her seal of approval to that ridiculous comment by saying, “I think that’s a fair point.”
Later, Regan helped validate Weaver’s views. He said he doesn’t “live in demographics” and doesn’t “wake up in the morning saying, ‘I’m a black man, what am I going to eat today?’” She chimed in, “Some people do. I think that the left has succeeded in certainly making some people think that way.”
The Fox Business Network seems more like the Trump Business Network with all the favorable coverage their hosts give Trump.
But this one may take the cake. Watch it below, from the May 6 The Intelligence Report with Trish Regan.
I have lived a long life, owned 11 businesses and lived in three states…none of that is in my bio either. My children, property and financiers are not in my bio…does it mean I have any?
Fox News is interested in my commentary based upon their interest. Others reflect on my Christian deliverance from my radical past.
And bye the way…the girl had a white sheep dog and I was too full of stupid racial hatred to realize both were beautiful.
These so-called black conservatives swing where the money is-GOP. If they place nice with the massa in the GOP they will throw them some money and a couple of paid speaking engagements.
They play nice with Trumpster thinking he will throw them some pocket change. Little do these clowns know Trumpster’s inner-circle friends don’t look like Weaver and company. He will find out the hard way.
I’m not saying I have a slam-dunk argument. Just that I have reasonable suspicions. Any day now ace reporters at FOX News will vet him just like Wayne Simmons. ;^)
I agree it’s quite possible for a change. But the timeline for him going from black radical (who supposedly hated whitey so much he couldn’t stand a white dog) to the Navy and then working for Department of Energy as a top employee with security clearance within 15 years seems rather dramatic.
In other words, he may have been a black radical but if so, I suspect it was a brief flirtation and not real activism.
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To be honest, this goes far beyond the usual hate-mongering and reality-twisting we expect on a daily, nay, hourly basis. It smacks of Colbert or, if it happened to be in one of its rare ‘actually funny moments’™, Saturday Night LIve.
If one of Fox’s trained seals (not the navy kind) happens to be unmasked as a guerrilla comedian smuggled in to make the Murdoch/Ailes/O’Reilly crime family look even more ridiculous than they already are, are any Most Outrageous Quote wins forfeited?
“This is the sort of non-verifiable mythology along the lines of George Washington chopping down a cherry tree……”
OK, I know this is off topic, but after reading this excerpt, I just couldn’t help but think of the following riddle:
Q: Why do cherry trees smell?
A: Because George Washington cut one!
:D
One thing I need to add that raised red flags with me regarding Weaver is the one-liner that shows up in all the Xeroxed right-wing blog articles: “Clarence Mason Weaver was once so filled with hatred towards white people in America, that he broke up with a girlfriend who had a white dog.” This is the sort of non-verifiable mythology along the lines of George Washington chopping down a cherry tree which greatly polish his brand but is so over the top it reeks of total bulls—t.
I think all roads lead to a Daily Caller article, a web site at least as fair and balanced as FOX Nation. Weaver’s done a video commentary which allegedly outlines his moving tale but I haven’t bothered watching it. I tend to prefer picking my fiction off of Netflix.
My first thought was that the Black Panthers were around in the 60s and 70s, way before the internet, so there wouldn’t be much online from that time. But then I found Mason’s online bio and it says nothing about being in the Black Panthers.
http://www.clarenceamason.com/about-clarence/
Here are the first two paragraphs:
Mason’s distinctive point of view is a direct result of a past tragedy that has produced a present day triumph After approximately 2800 pounds of steel and iron plates fell on him, while on active naval duty in San Diego, California, the Navy classified him disabled and discharged him.
Mason found himself unskilled and disabled. He had to discover a new way of earning a living. After graduation from UC Berkeley with a degree in Political Science, he won a position with the US Department of Energy against 2,400 applicants for four job openings. Between 1976 and 1980 he was promoted from an entry level employee to a Mid Level Senior Contract Specialist with a “Confidential Security Clearance”. He negotiated many multi-million dollar government contracts with major contractors, including TRW, General Dynamics, and General Electric.
So before his first promotion in the DoE, in 1976, he got a college degree and that was after being disabled during an accident in the Navy. The Black Panthers were founded in October, 1966. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/27-important-facts-everyone-should-know-about-the-black-panthers_us_56c4d853e4b08ffac1276462
He could have joined the Panthers before going into the Navy but it’s an odd career move from radical to Navy, even if he was drafted. And why doesn’t he say anything about the Panthers in his own bio? And why does his bio have two different last names?
Very odd indeed.
What’s next? FOX Sports expands and adds a FOX Sports News channel that only talks politics too?
I’m having Wayne Simmons flashbacks. Doing the standard Google search Weaver links explode on the scene only recently. The problem is they all appear to be conservative echo chamber blogs repeating the same story word-for-word. His [promotional] saga of a Black Panther learning to parrot Rush Limbaugh is the sort of mythology conservatives are attracted to like flies to bulls—t.
The problem? He’s an author but surprisingly his biography mentions none of this: http://www.amazon.com/Clarence-Mason-Weaver/e/B00MEZUUMW. No surprise he has political ambitions so has run for office but, again, his Vote Smart bio says nothing of him being a Black Panther: https://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/28855/clarence-mason-weaver#.Vy1Gf4-cFhE.
So if this guy flirted with the Black Panthers it’s been over 40 years ago and since the ‘70s he’s been about as boring and mainstream as one can be. However, you won’t hear any of that from FOX News who see this guy as a useful idiot to sell his sizzle to snow the Trumpster rubes.