When challenged, he "qualified" that assertion by saying "his comment about Islam was meant to address the threat of Islam to America's belief system, not its infrastructure."
"WAAY-TV pulls ad about Griffith's 'Islam' remark," by Niki Doyle for the Huntsville Times, October 25:
A local TV station has pulled the latest National Republican Congressional Committee ad in the 5th Congressional District campaign, apparently because of disputes over Democratic candidate Parker Griffith's statements about "radical Islam," according to an NRCC spokesman.WAAY-TV Channel 31 did not air the ad, which features black-and-white footage of several terrorist bombings and the Sept. 11 attacks before airing audio of Griffith saying, "We have nothing to fear from radical Islam."
NRCC spokesman Brendan Buck said the station told him that some of Griffith's words were taken out of context.
Station mangers at WAAY-TV Channel 31 did not return phone messages left Friday afternoon.
Buck said the NRCC is working with the station to clear up any misunderstandings and hopes to have to the ad back on the air early next week.
"It's just like any other campaign ad where you show video and then take a sentence from a newspaper or other publication and show it," he said. "I don't see a difference between that and this. We're working with the station ... but it's indisputable that Parker Griffith said radical Islam is not a threat to America."
A statement issued from Griffith's campaign accused the NRCC of creating an ad that was "misleading and false."
Griffith, a state senator running against Republican Wayne Parker, told The Times last week that his comment about Islam was meant to address the threat of Islam to America's belief system, not its infrastructure.
The comment was recorded during a question-and-answer session with the Colbert-Lauderdale Baptist Association in September,
"I don't think anyone in the room misunderstood what I was saying," Griffith told The Times. "I was in a room full of Baptist ministers, and we were talking about religion, not matters of national security. The point I was making was that if we are strong in our Christian beliefs, that is stronger than any Islamic threat."
This is the second NRCC ad that WAAY-TV has chosen not to air without modifications. The station and WAFF-TV Channel 48 yanked an ad that attacked Griffith's medical career. The ads were aired a few days later with revisions.
Parker Griffith gets my vote for incredibly stupid Dhimmi of the Year. Someone like this should be disqualified from running for having an obvious mental deficiency.
What's troubling to me is that a television station chose to censor an ad that correctly quoted a candidate. The ad should run with the quote with the candidate left to clarify his comments.Like Obama having to clarify his "spread the wealth around" remark.
Certainly even the likes of radical Islam are less dangerous and insidious to Americans over the long haul than are the ignorance and stupiditiy of pols like Parker Griffith.
This man actually makes me ashamed to be an American.
Calling representative Sue Myrick!!
Sickening, though I suspect he's just the first of many Democratic appeasers of Islam that are going appear in a Obama administration.
Floating around in his cotton candy political fantasy world he failed to consider what is happening to the schools and churches in the UK where the mohammedans have just a little more influence than they have here.
He apparently also didn't notice that when Imadimmerjerk came to the UN, a number of lefty church groups rushed out to make kissy-face with the islamo-nazi.
We seem to be dying of mediocrity.
"Griffith said radical Islam is not a threat to (Islamic) America."
He probably thinks radical islam is not a threat to leftist America too. Unfortunately he would be dead wrong. Islam will just as surely turn against the leftists when they have no more use for them.
"his comment about Islam was meant to address the threat of Islam to America's belief system, not its infrastructure."
This is laughable. It sounds like Islam is sort of a reverse of the neutron bomb, which only kills people but leaves the buildings intact.
Ahhhhhh, but "there's no difference which party wins in November" (PMK)
...indeed!
Gee,
I sure wish someone would explain this 'radical Islam' thing to me.
You know, how 'radical Islam' differs from Muhammad Ali's Islam.
How 'radical Islam' differs from Ibrahim Hooper's Islam.
How 'radical Islam' differs from Mike Tyson's Islam and Kareem Abdul Jabar's Islam and Cat Stevens' Islam and Hamid Karzai's Islam and Keith Ellison's Islam, and Zuhdi Jasser's Islam, and...
No, not how each individual Muslim interprets Islam. Not their own personal Islam, but 'radical Islam' as opposed to any other kind of Islam.
How 'radical Islam' differs from, say, Salafism, for example.
Nothing to fear from Islam eh?
Guess Griffy was in a coma when Muslims threatened newspapers and TV stations with violence to prevent them from showing the Motoons or SouthPark from showing murderous MO. Or that their tendency to riot or kill infidels every time a Christian leader like the Pope says something that doesn't praise murderous Mo.
Guess Griffy hasn't paid attention to the numerous arrests of American Muslims planning to commit mass murder on non-Muslim Americans.
Griffy never read the PEW Poll results showings 25% of Muslims in the U.S. support suicide bombing.
Its no wonder he's so oblivious to the threat Islam poses to the U.S.
"Griffy never read the PEW Poll results showings 25% of Muslims in the U.S. support suicide bombing.
Its no wonder he's so oblivious to the threat Islam poses to the U.S."
Posted by: waltc at October 25, 2008 10:54 PM
Don't forget, those so-called American Muslims believe that suicide bombings can sometimes be justified 'in defense of Islam'.
Another fact apparently unbeknownst to Colin Powell.
Sure, Colin, we need people like that in the White House.
What a surprise! The ad never did air on television because another MSM station realized that it was what this dhimmi liberal actually said. Oops We cannot have ANYONE cricizing islam, let alone RADICAL islam. More censorhsip of the truth and it shows the ignorance of the liberals when it comes to islam, period. They think islam is great, a wonderful religion and culture. When was the last time any liberal stood up and told the truth about islam? It is a culture and cult of death watered by the blood of innocents around the world. Guess Griffith was asleep or out of the country when 9/11 happened, when the muslims were arrested for their plans of attacking Ft. Dix and the list goes on and on. Some people should not run for any political office and this wahoo is one of them!
We cannot have ANYONE cricizing islam, let alone RADICAL islam.
Posted by: PatriotUSA at October 26, 2008 3:44 AM
You're right. America could not have a presidential candidate cricizing islam:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbC3UfQEj44
Islamophobe:
You missed the point. The Left wing of the Democratic Party is the party of the cultural suicide pact. They're screaming advocates of women's and gay rights, including the form of infanticide known as partial birth abortion and miseducating youth to think homosexuality is healthy; but, as soon as some jihadi sticks a knife to their throats, it's burkas and public stonings all the way.
BTW, I was driving home and did a double-take when I thought I saw an Osama bin Laden sticker. It turned out it was just Obama-Biden.
But my guess is that the Obama administration will get the rude awakening Biden prophesied within six months.
I saw the ad in question several times tonight on a Huntsville TV station, though not WAAY. He not only said that "radical Islam" is not a threat, but that "America's biggest enemy is America."