Lew Rockwell advocates secession on Fox News

[Puppycow]

Link

(Lew Rockwell wrote Ron Paul's racist newsletters)

Here he is on Judge Napolitano's show saying that states can secede or nullify federal laws. Not mentioned is something that happened in 1860-65 which settled that question.

This seems a bit extreme even for Fox News. I thought that Fox News started out just slightly right-of-center, but now it is becoming more and more friendly with the loony right.

 

[Policenaut]

Secession talk has been going on for a while:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,278564,00.html

Mostly I remember it from Texas, Alaska and Vermont.

 

[Ausmerican]

Any chance that this would be like the rapture? Texas secedes and all the fundies rush to move there, so to the rest of us, they are just......gone.

 

[LibraryLady]

Any relation to this guy?

 

[Brainster]

Link

(Lew Rockwell wrote Ron Paul's racist newsletters)

Here he is on Judge Napolitano's show saying that states can secede or nullify federal laws. Not mentioned is something that happened in 1860-65 which settled that question.

This seems a bit extreme even for Fox News. I thought that Fox News started out just slightly right-of-center, but now it is becoming more and more friendly with the loony right.

Napolitano is a fruitcake; a few months ago he had Alex Jones on his show and introduced him as "the great Alex Jones". That, to me, indicated that Napolitano has no business being on TV; he should be running a crank internet radio show.

 

[dudalb]

Right, Lew.
It REALLY worked well last time somebody tried.

Guess he never heard about Appomatox....

As a Civil War buff, this is the funniest thing ever.

 

[dudalb]

Napolitano is a fruitcake; a few months ago he had Alex Jones on his show and introduced him as "the great Alex Jones". That, to me, indicated that Napolitano has no business being on TV; he should be running a crank internet radio show.

Agreed. I haved been a semi defender of Fox News at times...mainly because I get sick of the endless Lefty whining about how biased it is..as if biased news was something brand new and unheard of...but Fox does seem to be going from appealing to main stream Conservatives to appealing to the lunatic fringe on the right, probably because of the unexpected sucess of Glenn Beck.
I know someone is going to post that Fox has always appealed to the extreme right, but I note that a great many Left Wing ideologues cannot distinguish between mainstream conservatism and the lunatic frings, just like a many Right Wing ideologues cannot distinguish between mainstream Liberalism and the Extreme Left.

 

[Cleon]

Agreed. I haved been a semi defender of Fox News at times...mainly because I get sick of the endless Lefty whining about how biased it is..as if biased news was something brand new and unheard of...but Fox does seem to be going from appealing to main stream Conservatives to appealing to the lunatic fringe on the right, probably because of the unexpected sucess of Glenn Beck.
I know someone is going to post that Fox has always appealed to the extreme right, but I note that a great many Left Wing ideologues cannot distinguish between mainstream conservatism and the lunatic frings, just like a many Right Wing ideologues cannot distinguish between mainstream Liberalism and the Extreme Left.

That's largely because the line between "mainstream conservatism" and "the lunatic fringe" isn't particularly clear these days. It's not just Fox News; Limbaugh seems to carry more weight than Michael Steele among conservatives these days.

So where is the line drawn? If Fox is "appealing to the lunatic fringe" more these days, does that mean they're ignoring the majority of conservatives, or does it mean that "mainstream conservatives" are moving more towards the "lunatic fringe?"

 

[Cain]

I support secession. Unless they intend to bring back slavery. Get rid of most of the South, I say. Then those conservatives living up in evil New York City and Washington D.C. can move out to their Biblical paradise.

 

[Toke]

Any relation to this guy?

Amazing.

Anyway having texas try to secede with all the fundies will likely be a mess just like last time.

 

[Thunder]

I'd love to see the part of the Constitution that talks about seccession from the Union.

 

[Juniversal]

I support secession. Unless they intend to bring back slavery. Get rid of most of the South, I say. Then those conservatives living up in evil New York City and Washington D.C. can move out to their Biblical paradise.

Ahhh I can see it now. Texas secedes and becomes the primary target of mexican immigrant migration. They'd be begging to come back to the union lol..

 

[Puppycow]

Secession talk has been going on for a while:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,278564,00.html

Mostly I remember it from Texas, Alaska and Vermont.

But I think it's different now. Your link is more of a news story about people who want to secede, while this seems more about editorializing in favor of secession.

Any chance that this would be like the rapture? Texas secedes and all the fundies rush to move there, so to the rest of us, they are just......gone.

I support secession. Unless they intend to bring back slavery. Get rid of most of the South, I say. Then those conservatives living up in evil New York City and Washington D.C. can move out to their Biblical paradise.

These may be in jest, but in case they aren't, I think too many people gave their lives in the Civil War to allow this, and it would create more problems than it solves.

Any relation to this guy?

Not that I am aware of. Probably no relation to Norman Rockwell the painter either.

Napolitano is a fruitcake; a few months ago he had Alex Jones on his show and introduced him as "the great Alex Jones". That, to me, indicated that Napolitano has no business being on TV; he should be running a crank internet radio show.

Wow. Just amazing.

Agreed. I haved been a semi defender of Fox News at times...mainly because I get sick of the endless Lefty whining about how biased it is..as if biased news was something brand new and unheard of...but Fox does seem to be going from appealing to main stream Conservatives to appealing to the lunatic fringe on the right, probably because of the unexpected sucess of Glenn Beck.

I also agree with this. It's a mixed bag, but there seems to be more and more looniness in the mix lately.

 

[INRM]

After the civil war was there any specific law or regulation that made it illegal for a state to seceed?

 

[Brainster]

Well, let's remember, cranky liberals were talking secession after the 2004 election. Remember those maps of the United States of Canada and "Jesusland?"

 

[Praktik]

You know I still feel like Canukistan got a raw deal out west. Oregon and Washington, I'm looking at you.

Come join the party.

 

[dudalb]

After the civil war was there any specific law or regulation that made it illegal for a state to seceed?

I think that issue was decided by Generals Grant and Sherman.....

 

[Dr Adequate]

Why Do They Hate America?

 

[Dr Adequate]

Well, let's remember, cranky liberals were talking secession after the 2004 election. Remember those maps of the United States of Canada and "Jesusland?"

That cartoon was advocating secession?

Golly. Who knew?

 

[leftysergeant]

That, to me, indicated that Napolitano has no business being on TV; he should be running a crank internet radio show.

Here in the Seattle market he is on the crank radio with Brian Kilmeade. I think it's the same station that carries either Mark Levin or Michael Wiener. Hard to remember which. I only listen to them when the station that runs AAR is preempted for football.