Angela McGlowan, a conservative commentator on Fox News who is now seeking the Republican nomination to run against Rep. Travis Childers (D-MS), is finding herself having to apologize for implying that she might have been in favor of gun registration.
McGlowan was attacked by Red State on Wednesday for having said during a radio show appearance last year, “I think the government has the right to know what guns are in the homes.” McGlowan’s seeming advocacy of the government knowing about guns — separate from the question of restricting them –Â put her on the defensive.
McGlowan released a statement yesterday, stating that she was simply playing devil’s advocate. “I’m a conservative, pro-life, pro-gun, anti tax-and-spend Mississippi Republican who is deeply committed to the 2nd Amendment and unequivocally opposed to any government attempt to infringe on the right of law abiding Mississippians to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution,” McGlowan says.
“Though, I am human and do make mistakes. Last year, as a Fox News political analyst, I participated in Paul Gallo’s radio show and, after admitting that I didn’t have a clue as to what the Blair-Holt Amendment was, made the mistake of talking about a piece of legislation that I knew nothing about, compounded that honest mistake by playing ‘devil’s advocate’, which is how political analysts are trained to provoke debate, and failed to circle back with the audience to make clear my personal, unequivocal support for the gun rights of law abiding Mississippians. And, for these mistakes I am truly sorry.”
If elected, McGlowan would be the first African-American Republican woman in Congress, and she is seeking the GOP nomination in a contested primary in a majority-white district, against state Sen. Alan Nunnelee. She is attempting to parlay her career as a right-wing activist and pundit into a seat in Congress, and it will be very interesting to see whether she can do it.
Let’s not doubt McGlowan’s credentials in the area of liberal-bashing. In her book Bamboozled: How Americans are being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal Agenda, McGlowan praises the seven percent of Ohio black voters who switched from Gore in 2000 to Bush in 2004, likening the Democratic Party to a raping slavemaster. “These brave Ohioans left the plantation protesting with their votes,” McGlowan writes. “They refused to stand by and let the liberal neo-slavemaster have his way as he did for centuries during a time when our race was raped, lynched, and pillaged. Oh a change is gonna come! A change is gonna come!” (Taken from the Kindle free sample, starting at location 38.)
And yet she needs to apologize for being insufficiently strident in her right-wing credentials.
