Who Are You — Who, Who, Who, Who?

It’s a great song by The Who, but when it comes to Democrats it is also all that matters. It was the question Democrat Congressman Bob Etheridge asked the young man who asked him, simply, if he supported the Obama administration. It is absolutely telling.

Who are you, who are you, who are you? Over and over again Etheridge asked. I counted at least a dozen times that Etheridge asked the young man “Who are you?”—or “tell me who you are?”

Why does it matter who is asking a legitimate question? Just answer it, Bob.

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Certainly, the violence displayed by Etheridge is one issue, but another issue is, why should Etheridge care who is asking a legitimate question? I could care less who asked the question and if they want to remain anonymous forever then that is fine with me. They have no obligation to reveal their identity to anyone. The left seem obsessed with trying to find out who dared ask this question to a big, brave Congressman so they can try to discount and destroy the questioner. Let them wonder forever.

When the American left have run out of answers (which is often), they attack the person asking the question, sometimes literally. All they care about is “who are you?” What right do you have to ask me, the mighty Democrat U.S. Congressman from North Carolina, a question?

For 30 years in newsrooms around the country I’ve asked questions and been asked questions. Never once have a cared who asked them. I took the question on face value and answered, simple as that. Only the paranoid spend their time trying to constantly figure out the politics behind who is asking the questions. Detract, deflect, and destroy. Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals are spreading to Democrats in the south.

“Attack the messenger” is a phrase I heard often in newsrooms. Reporters sometimes use that phrase when they don’t want to answer questions posed by the public. They discount sometimes legitimate questions with a media talking point that absolves the reporter of all responsibility. If I said something controversial on air I welcomed phone calls and e-mails and took and answered them all. Bring ’em on. If I took a position I welcomed the chance to defend that position — no matter who asked me the question,

When hosting talk radio shows I welcome all callers, especially those with opposing viewpoints. It doesn’t matter a lick to me who is asking the question—I just take the question. Perhaps that’s one explanation why left wing talk radio does so poorly. They can’t see who’s asking the question to try to figure out where they may be coming from, or what their agenda is.

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Bob Etheridge is a different kind of beast, typical of the modern fascist Democrat: ask him a question and instead of answering, he wants you to show him your papers. “Who are you?” If an Arizona cop asked that question during a traffic stop, Bob and his ilk might call them racist—but he can refuse to answer and instead, attack the messenger.

I don’t know Renee Ellmers, who’s running against Etheridge in November, but on Nov. 3 I hope the citizens of North Carolina will be able to walk up to Bob and say, “Who were you?”