Kris Kobach found himself under ridicule in the last 24 hours, as controversy stirred surrounding commentary he provided in regards to ethnic cleansing.
Following commentary on Right Wing Watch, and Daily Kos (both my diary and Jen Hayden's here: http://www.dailykos.com/...), Kobach felt as though a response was needed:
http://www.kansas.com/...
Friday morning, Kobach said his comments had been “ripped out of context.”
“The whole preceding hour was about the rule of law being under threat. That’s all I said. But I said very clearly in the comments that I still don’t think it could happen here,” Kobach said. “I find the leftwing attempts to read into my statements things that are not there ridiculous.”
Kobach said he was just trying to be polite to the caller.
Now that's called good Kansas manners. Going along with a guy about the potential for ethnic cleansing.
Kobach goes on to say that the first hour was really strong radio:
“The whole preceding hour was about the rule of law being under threat. That’s all I said. But I said very clearly in the comments that I still don’t think it could happen here,” Kobach said. “I find the leftwing attempts to read into my statements things that are not there ridiculous.”
Kobach said he was just trying to be polite to the caller.
“The guy just brought up ethnic cleansing out of the blue and I tried to be polite with him as I disagreed with him and said that’s not going to happen,” Kobach said. “I’m actually a very friendly host.”
I've had time to talk with several of the members of the Latin American organization community and the general answer is: "Non-Apology Non-Accepted"
I think part of it may have to do with the content of that "great" first hour which was about the rule of law, which contained moments like this chestnut:
In response, a caller shared her theory that the president thinks “everything is all about him” and “is mentally incapable, I think it’s rendered him somewhat handicapped in his ability to process things” in a logical manner.
“You know, I wonder if goes all the way back to his upbringing, where, and I’m thinking more in terms of college and law school, where the affirmative action culture just lavished praise upon him and he could do no wrong,” Kobach responded. “And he got into Harvard Law despite not being that impressive a student and once there, he became law review editor because, ‘Oh my goodness, we have this wonderful student.’ He was not winning it himself, but he was told that he was great from the moment he set foot.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...
Nothing says 'great radio' like a long debate over the mental health of the president laced with barbs he may be mentally handicapped. Great radio, there Kris.