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Kevin Fischer is a veteran broadcaster, the recipient of over 150 major journalism awards from the Milwaukee Press Club, the Wisconsin Associated Press, the Northwest Broadcast News Association, the Wisconsin Bar Association, and others. He has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for over three decades. A longtime aide to state Senate Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature, Kevin can be seen offering his views on the news on the public affairs program, "InterCHANGE," on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10, and heard filling in on Newstalk 1130 WISN. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, and their lovely baby daughter, Kyla Audrey, in Franklin.
Signs, signs, everywhere are signs
During last weekend’s broadcast of InterCHANGE, I argued that the massive Tea Party in
1) Ideology
2) Partisanship
Average, hard-working, taxpaying families have major policy differences with the dramatic transformation of our federal government. And yes, there are partisan elements at play.
But racism?
Playing that card is oh so easy. It’s also lowdown and dirty, sinking to a despicable level.
I did concede that unfortunately, in this day and age, there will be some knuckleheads who, if I might quote my president, “act stupidly.” However, it is unfair and inaccurate to suggest that a few knuckleheads are representative of the thousands and thousands and thousands of dissenting citizens including the elderly, elderly in wheelchairs, moms and dads, moms and dads with mortgages, moms and dads pushing young kids in strollers.
My co-panelists, ultra-liberal Joel McNally and Denise Callaway insulted those folks. They countered by pointing to one or two disgusting signs they saw at the D.C. Tea Party as evidence that the un-American mob was racist.
Frankly, I was surprised to hear the two disagree with President Obama who said last week that racism was not instigating his opposition.
But, Kevin, the signs, the signs. What about those ugly signs?
The Marquette Warrior writes about some of those signs, and yes, they’re ugly and unacceptable. But as I pointed out on InterCHANGE when Callaway pulled out her Kumbayah speech that we all need to stand up against these horrible displays, I didn’t hear any such outrage from the left when President Bush was crucified for eight years.
And the Marquette Warrior has those ugly signs, too.
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