by David Safier
Jesse Kelly may not be talking about his application for endorsement by ALIPAC in 2010 and the group's re-endorsement this time around (you can watch 37 seconds of Jesse stonewalling the question in the next post), but ALIPAC sure is eager to talk. William Gheen, the group's President and Spokesman, has responded to KGUN a few times. The most recent (I think) is An Open Letter To the Liars Like Forrest Carr at KGUN 9.
To recap: During an interview with Kelly, KGUN reporter Marcelino Benito asked him a question sent in by a viewer. Benito was cut short before she finished the question: "Recently you accepted the endorsement of the Americans for Legal Immigration group. Senator John McCain and the Anti-Defamation League have denounced –"
Gheen's open letter is long and repetitive. You can read his whole rambling defense of ALIPAC if you have the patience. I'm pulling out a few choice passages so you get a sense of what Gheen is willing to say while he's defending the group [Note: I put some of the text in boldface for emphasis]:
It was awful when the ADL [Anti-Defamation League] lied about the character of our organization claiming that a few anonymous postings on open source racist websites constituted "ties" to our organization. It sucked when that amnesty supporting traitor against the American people, Senator John McCain, dispatched his campaign worker to carry their attack forward.
[snip]
By attacking multiracial groups that are fighting hard to save American jobs [Gheen states repeatedly that ALIPAC is multiracial], property, taxpayer resources, and very lives from being lost to millions of illegal immigrant invaders, you are a supporter of that invasion Mr. Carr which means there is blood on your hands due to your lies and efforts.
[snip]
What do you have to say to the families of all of the Arizonans that will be killed by illegal aliens this year because liberals like you attack the blacks, whites, and Hispanics working together to prevent those deaths through Americans for Legal Immigration PAC as being backed by phantom neo nazis? What do have to say to them Mr. Carr because very soon they will learn of your role supporting policies contributing to those deaths? It's just a question Mr. Carr, one of our viewers would like to know.
[snip]
If KGUN 9 wants to ask candidates about tenuous or nonexistent "ties" to neo nazis that were tied to the murder of six million Jews during the holocaust, then what about your more direct and clearly documented role in the American Holocaust where thousands of Americans are being slaughtered by illegal aliens each year due to the illegal immigration invasion you support with lies and ability to broadcast via KGUN 9?
I really should leave the post with the quotes above, but I simply can't leave out this italicized note at the end of the letter:
Last edited by HAPPY2BME; 05-26-2012 at 03:57 PM.
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So, Gheen’s impression is that the border is being overrun by scary brown people, whose sole intention is to rape and pillage. His position lies in direct contradiction to actual facts. Not that it will stop him from fear-mongering.
Ever notice that every position, every opinion, every proposed legislation by the radical right is a response to some (rarely) real or (mostly) imagined threat of some sort? Their cowardice makes me embarrassed for them. I wonder what it’s like to live in such a state of constant fear?
He won’t disavow anything. This is why he was smirking and not answering questions. He is a proud racist hick that probably privately enjoys this endorsement. May he never get the chance to represent AZ in any office. He needs to move back to Texas where his views will be more appreciated .
Reporters should ask Jesse Kelly is he disavows and repudiates the views of William Gheen expressed to KGUN 9.