Fox’s George Will Blames KY Clerk Kim Davis’ Lawlessness On Obama

If you thought Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis’ defiance of a court order to issue same-sex marriage licenses was something Fox would not be able to blame on President Obama, think again.

On Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace began a discussion about Davis by making her lawbreaking about Obama. Wallace teed up the ball for conservative Fox News contributor George Will to use against Obama.

WALLACE: Well, that clerk Kim Davis says that God's law outweighs man's law. The Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage and a number of Republican presidential candidates including Ted Cruz and Rand Paul and Mike Huckabee jumped on her bandwagon.

George, your thoughts about the principle and politics of the rule of law and also, what about Barack Obama who seems to sometimes pick and choose which laws he's going to enforce?

Not surprisingly, Will ran with it.

WILL: Well, there's no question that the president's selective interpretation of the constitutional provision that the executive shall see that the laws are faithfully executed, his selective approach to that perhaps has encouraged a kind of lawlessness down the ballot. People are saying, "Well, I can do whatever I wish."

Then Will took it a step further by suggesting that Davis’ defiance of the law is a Democratic thing.

WILL: But surely it is a wholesome rule that executives should obey legitimate court orders. That's true whether your name is Orval Faubus, the Democratic governor of Arkansas in the 1950s, or George Wallace, the Democratic governor of Alabama in the '60s, or Kim Davis, the Democratic county clerk in Kentucky.

She made a choice. She -- unquestionably, her faith is important to her. Evidently, her paycheck is also because she did not resign her office.

Surely Will knows that Davis’ stand is more in synch with Republicans than Democrats just as he knows that the Dixiecrat segregationists later became Republicans.

Watch the political sleight-of-hand below, from the September 6 Fox News Sunday.

6/30/19 update: Video no longer available.

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commented 2015-09-09 11:08:18 -0400 · Flag

Elected or not elected, don’t people who work for the Government have to swear some sort of allegiance and don’t the vast majority of those ceremonies involve placing one’s hand on the Bible? My reading is that Kim is in contempt of the Holy Book. I never cease to be amazed at the total disconnect of some people, between what they say and what they do.

Like the prime minister of Hungary – Orban – who says that his inhumane treatment of desperate people is motivated by his wish to defend everything that Christianity stands for. Laughable, were it not so sad.

commented 2015-09-09 06:13:27 -0400 · Flag

Mike Huckabee gets a free pass on VOCALLY ON NATIONAL TV saying MS Davis had every right to break a law that FIVE UNLECETD JUDGES had NO RIGHT OR AUITRHOITY TO MAKE? Was he saying that the constitution gives the Justices NO AUTHORITY to do what they did? Wow I see a rend for him and Cruz advocating that the Supreme Court is IRRELEVANT. As for being unelected they were elected by CONGRESS to the job!! Don’t these would be PRESIDNERTS know this?? Seems very dangerous to come right out and say they are not to be trusted and have no right to dO their job UNLIKE Ms Davis who is an elected official and REFUSES TO DO HER JOB! RUZ STARTED THIS IDEA A FEW WEEKS AGO TNAT THE US SUPREME COURT should not be allowed to operate according to the Constitution! So it has NOT been the fault of President Obama at all but these men who would be President.

commented 2015-09-08 20:12:50 -0400 · Flag

KKKim Davis hearts Gomer Huckabee.

commented 2015-09-08 10:38:17 -0400 · Flag

The blatant attempts at theocracy in the guise of “religious freedom” are so transparent. Kim Davis is not allowed to impose her religion via a government job, period. She does not belong on the taxpayer’s payroll. She belongs in the private sector, ideally working for a church where she can be a religious bigot to her evil heart’s content.
Claiming that right-wing fundamentalism is “God’s Law” is a farce. It is also a completely false interpretation of the Bible. “Literalism” and “Inerrant” crap is just that – crap. Think “Creationism” and “End Times”. (666=Nero, dumbasses.) Bogus religion that excludes Jesus the human. (Liberal!)
Look at the books of Matthew and James and strip the interpolated religion out of it. See the social justice messages? “Parables” vs. “miracles”. (Yep – people brought extra loaves and fishes.)
When modern society takes a critical look at contemporary “Christianity”… (It won’t happen on commercial national TV news – bad for ratings to look at Christianity and the Bible historically and via critical thinking.)

commented 2015-09-08 10:29:52 -0400 · Flag

George Will is spewing ye olde fallacie. Add Chris Wallace’s loaded question, another ye olde fallacie.
If this were an objective interview, Wallace (not his dad) would not have asked a fallacy question – the pick-and-choose nonsense. This is opinion questioning, not objective news journalism.
George Will’s “selective” results in “lawlessness” (“down the ballot”?) is b.s. on its face value. What authoritarian planet is George Will from?
Fox is built on fallacy. It is a propaganda outlet. Stop the fallacies with reason.

commented 2015-09-08 10:15:04 -0400 · Flag

Jiminy f*ckin’ Xmas ~ what’s next for these morons?

NewsHounds posted about Fox’s George Will Blames KY Clerk Kim Davis’ Lawlessness On Obama on NewsHounds' Facebook page 2015-09-08 09:01:10 -0400

He also tried to make it a Democratic thing.