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.
Let’s hope that when the Islamists next strike they first behead the appeasing cowards at CNN, MSNBC, etal who refused to show the cartoons.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 14, 2015
Amid a storm of criticism, Walsh dug in his heels:
Islamists dont take orders from me and they’ll inevitably strike again, and cowards continue to empower them. Get fucking serious
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 14, 2015
Get real. I don’t hope for another act of terror but I know it will happen. And the appeasing cowards at CNN etal only endanger all of us.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 14, 2015
I’ll say it again. Islamists have declared war on us and the appeasing cowards at CNN, MSNBC, etal will get more innocents killed.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 14, 2015
Walsh also had a testy exchange with Mother Jones Washington Bureau Chief David Corn:
.@WalshFreedom Hey Joe, should I show this tweet to my kids before I head over to MSNBC studios? Have a nice day.
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) January 14, 2015
.@DavidCornDC I would bring the latest copy of #CharlieHebdo to the studios. They seem not have their own.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 14, 2015
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.”
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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.
You can always count on old Joe to say something reprehensible.
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.
“Former” Rep.
Ha Ha!
/Muntz
How do you profile a young Muslim man?