Ex-GOP Congressman Hopes ‘Cowards At CNN, MSNBC’ Are Beheaded

ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, OCT. 14 AND THEREAFTER - In this Oct. 9, 2012 photo, incumbent Republican U.S. Rep Joe Walsh makes a point during a debate with his Democratic challenger Tammy Duckworth in Rolling Meadows, Il... ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, OCT. 14 AND THEREAFTER - In this Oct. 9, 2012 photo, incumbent Republican U.S. Rep Joe Walsh makes a point during a debate with his Democratic challenger Tammy Duckworth in Rolling Meadows, Ill. Walsh, a tea party favorite with a history of headline-grabbing comments, and Duckworth, an Iraq veteran and former helicopter pilot who lost both her legs in combat, have engaged in a series of contentious debates in their run in Illinois' 8th Congressional District. (AP Photo/Daily Herald, Patrick Kunzer) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT, TV OUT MORE LESS
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Former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) said on Wednesday he hoped that staffers at news outlets like CNN and MSNBC would face beheadings for their refusals to air cartoons published by the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo.

Walsh, who now works as a conservative radio host, made the comments on Twitter in light of reports that numerous media outlets were refusing to publish Charlie Hebdo’s depictions of the Muslim prophet Muhammad in the wake of terror attacks at at the publication’s Paris office.

Amid a storm of criticism, Walsh dug in his heels:

Walsh also had a testy exchange with Mother Jones Washington Bureau Chief David Corn:

Walsh was an outspoken member of Congress when he served from 2011 through 2013, His time as a pundit since losing re-election has included using racial slurs on his radio show and calling for the profiling of “young Muslim men.”

This post has been updated.

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  1. Yet if, say, Andre Serrano’s “Piss Christ” was on view at his local museum, he’d probably be the first one on the picket lines.

  2. You can always count on old Joe to say something reprehensible.

  3. Nobody but nobody but nobody cares what this deadbeat non-entity thinks or has to say about anything. He was an embarrassment to his district during his brief tenure in the Tea Party class of 2010 and he will never hold office again. Move along, nothing to see here.

  4. “Former” Rep.

    Ha Ha!

    /Muntz

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