Pat Boone + Fox News = a most interesting scenario.
The legendary pop/gospel singer and avowed conservative appeared on Fox Business News on Wednesday night, joining Neil Cavuto to give his expert opinion on the deficit fight and sequestration. Instead of fiscal wonkery, though, Boone reached back into the past several years of Tea Party rhetoric to accuse Obama of being a socialist, bent on destroying economic progress through policies advocated by Saul Alinsky.
Something I’ve wondered is how so many people, regardless of their backgrounds, are experts on so many topics. I’ve run into plumbers who are experts on evolutionary theory. I’ve run into sales clerks who know more about biology than professors who have devoted their life to the subject. Heck, my neighbor is evidently an expert climatologist. Go figure.
But back to Boone.
“He is following his playbook, which is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals,” Boone charged. “This is the guy that trained him to be a community organizer, a Marxist, a socialist, a progressive, who wrote the rules for doing what Mr. Obama is doing.”
It seems we’ve got a bit of paranoia a play as well.
Cavuto suggested, jokingly, that Obama was individually targeting Boone, to which the singer responded that he was, indeed, on the president’s “enemies list” in 2009 — a document published by the tabloid “The Globe.”
Boone has long been a critic of Obama’s, suggesting in the past that he was a Kenyan Muslim, among other things.
Here’s a clip if you can stand it. I don’t know if I should feel angry at his words or very sad for the man.
http://youtu.be/fleP9YXW5dk
