By Peter Burrows elburropete@msn.com - silvercityburro.com 10/8/15

I was watching Morning Joe this morning (10/8/15) and the topic was Dr. Ben Carson's €œoutrageous € statements about having a Muslim president and what Dr. Carson recommended people do if they find themselves caught in a mass-murder situation.

I like Morning Joe. I think it's by far the best thing on MSNBC, and I find it much more entertaining than Fox and Friends, which likes to have lots of €œhuman interest € stuff, e.g. some kid who grew a big pumpkin. No thanks. Not interesting to this human.

Joe Scarborough, the "Joe" in Morning Joe and former Republican congressman, more than holds his own with the lib crowd. He's damn good. Nothing phony. I €˜m even getting to like his number one co-host, Mika Brzezinski, in spite of her look of oh-so tolerant superiority every time someone says something she disagrees with.

Importantly, Morning Joe gives me an insight into how the typical liberal thinks, at least the East Coast crowd of libs. They, like a lot of people, have had a difficult time figuring out the Donald Trump phenomena, and they have come to the conclusion that both Trump and Bernie Sanders on the Democratic side are appealing to a whole bunch of folks who are really, really PO'd with the DC crowd.

I think this attitude out there on the part of the public was news to Joe and his co-hosts, although not to anybody I know. Similarly, Dr. Carson has them puzzled. His remark that a Muslim would not be acceptable as president had one of the little pinheads on Morning Joe equating such an attitude with wanting to deport illegal Mexicans, as though it was some racial thing. (From Ben Carson!)

They just don't get it. The public does, though. Mark Halperin, frequently on the show, showed a clip of an Iowa political focus group that he had moderated in which 11 of 11 agreed with Dr. Ben's Muslim president comment. Halperin said 7 of 11 in his New Hampshire group also agreed. This decidedly not €œpolitically correct € response can be easily explained, and it's not some racial thing.

It's a matter of common sense. People see the constant stream of barbarities perpetuated in the name of Islam and most of them come to the correct conclusion: Islam is an abomination

I have long held that opinion. When I first heard President George Bush say €œIslam is peace, € I went through the roof. That was the last straw with Bush. Every time I saw him on TV after that, I would go into an obscene rampage, a thing that lasted until my dear wife informed me that if I kept that up she was going to morph into somebody very much like her late mother. That cooled me off. (Think of the TV show, €œThe Hulk. €)

Every now and then, Joe Scarborough shows his RINO side and he used this occasion say that he had known a lot of €œnice people € who were elected to various positions who were a disaster because they had no political experience, ergo Dr. Carson is not acceptable to Joe. Gee, Joe, ever known somebody with a lot of experience as an elected official who was also a disaster, hmmmm? How about Bush, Bush and Obama, for starters? Throw in LBJ, too.

What Joe and the political class don't understand is that Dr. Carson, at least when it comes to Islam, knows how the world works. The PC blinded do not. If Jeb Bush, somebody Joe really likes, becomes president and has the same view of Islam that his brother had, i.e €œIslam is peace, € then he is, in my opinion, totally unqualified to be president. If he can't see Islam as the existential threat it is, than what good is all his political experience?

The other Carson comment that had the talking heads tut-tutting was that Dr. Carson thinks the best course of action when under the gun of a mass-murdering lunatic is to attack the lunatic. This is something most people agree with, the only caveat being that most of us don't know if we have the courage to do so.

Doesn't anybody remember United Airlines Flight 93, the one hijacked by al-Qaeda on September 11, 2001 as part of that infamous terrorist plot? There were four commercial aircraft hijacked that day, and only Flight 93 did not reach its intended target, which was probably either the White House or the Capital Building. It crashed in a field. Nobody knows its intended target. Why doesn't anybody know?

Ask Dr. Ben Carson.

FYI: Ten articles on Islam at silvercityburro.com 
Monsters From The Id, 2/25/14
Groucho, Chico and Islams's Useful Idiots 12/4/14
Islam 101, Part One 12/18/14
Islam 101, Part Two 12/27/14
Islam 101 Part Three 1/6/15
Islam For Smart Dummies 1/11/15
Islam 101 Part Four 1/18/15
Move Over, Neville Chamberlain 4/6/15
Slandering The Prophet 4/26/15
The Deadly and Suicidal Side Effects of the First Amendment 7/19/15

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