Meet the Press Uncritically Features Radical Rep Elect Alan West

[RamboLiberal]

This morning on NBC’s Meet the Press, Rep.-elect Allen West (R-FL) somewhat puzzlingly joined the show’s panel, which also featured Paul Gigot of the Wall Street Journal, author and reporter Richard Wolffe, and the New York Times’ Robert Draper. West is not yet a member of Congress, and is known mostly for his history of extreme statements targeting Islam, liberals, women — all issues host David Gregory chose not to explore with West, instead asking him somewhat banal questions about things like TSA screenings and a possible Sarah Palin candidacy.

Gregory began the panel by asking West if he thought the uproar over TSA screenings would become an expanding political issue. West calmly replied that it may, given heightened holiday travel, and wondered if there is “a better way here,” like perhaps “psychological profiling” in the Israeli model.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/11/21/allen-west-mtp/

I watched it at 2am and was pissed but not surprised that "Dances with Rove" Gregory didn't ask one damn probing question of this jerk sitting there with a row of military pins on his lapel about his radical views, his past or even the RW 2nd amendment nut he was going to appoint as his chief of staff before the shit hit the fan on her.

I'll give it to West he is well-spoken for a tea partier and could see how the damn media will let him fly under the radar & the likes of Gregory will treat him as just another congressperson.