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Pentagon nominee Anthony Tata apologizes for old ‘anti-Muslim,’ ‘anti-Obama’ tweets

Jul 2, 2020 11:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Biden has told black people “You ain’t black” if you’re still trying to decide whether to vote for him or Trump, but he got away with it. All he said in response to criticism was that he “shouldn’t have been such a wise guy,” and he remained as arrogant as ever.

But “‘Joe Biden’s agenda for Muslim-American communities’ vows to undo Trump’s Muslim ban on ‘day one’ and confront ‘discriminatory policies’ that affect the growing community.” In other words, Biden (that is, his handlers) will initiate a media-approved restoration of the Obama-era agenda that saw the Muslim Brotherhood flourish and billions flow into the coffers of Iran. Policies that build the interests of the red-green axis are what mainstream media outlets promote, while they attack anyone who advocates for Judeo-Christian values and democratic principles.

This is what Anthony Tata tweeted that got him embroiled in the latest media hunt: he called “Islam the ‘most oppressive violent religion I know of'” and claimed that “Obama was a terrorist leader.” Can the media identify any other religion that is so consistently invoked to justify violence and oppression? Can the media name any other religion that instructs its following to murder non-believers, to strike their necks, to aim for global dominion? As for Obama, he supported the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and through its proxies in the U.S.

Although Tata’s words were supposedly offensive to many, only Democrats and their supporters are allowed to saying anything that is beyond the bounds of currently acceptable discourse, as well as to riot and destroy without suffering any consequences, while the media covers for them and nitpicks at conservatives.

Even where he was wrong, Tata should have moved on without apologizing. To apologize only emboldens the mob. To allow himself to be browbeaten further weakens the forces of freedom in America.

“Establishment Media Crushes Pentagon Nominee Tony Tata over Old Tweets About Obama, Islam,” by Kristina Wong, Breitbart, June 29, 2020:

Media outlets have pounced on old, controversial tweets from Pentagon nominee Army Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Anthony Tata. However, these same outlets have ignored old controversial remarks from the 2020 Democrat nominee Joe Biden.

Trump this month nominated Tata to become the top Pentagon official for policy — the number three position at the department. Tata is a supporter of bringing home U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and would be in an influential position to help the president finally carry that out.

Tata first needs to be confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate, but at least six Democrats say they will oppose his nomination over tweets he made several years ago as a private citizen about Islam and Democrat politicians.

First unearthed by CNN, Tata’s tweets (most of which appear to be part of an argument with another Twitter user) call Islam the “most oppressive violent religion I know of” and claim Obama was a “terrorist leader.”

Tata’s tweets were incorrect and indefensible. He has deleted and apologized for his most controversial tweets. One of those tweets on July 2, 2018, included the conspiracy that Obama is Muslim:

No the point is that Obama is a Muslim who got other countries involved via corporate greed to support a regime (Mullahs) that sponsors anti West hatred and violence using money US unfroze or gave. He made no secret of his belief that a weaker America made for a stronger world.

Tata also tweeted, “No he is just a terrorist leader,” to the same Twitter user, in reference to Obama.

The tweets are being newly and legitimately scrutinized given Tata’s potential role at the Pentagon. However, mainstream media outlets reporting on them — namely CNN, Politico, and the New York Times, have not similarly covered racially insensitive and offensive remarks by the 2020 Democrat nominee Joe Biden.

For example, Biden said during a hearing on busing in 1977 that non-“orderly” racial integration policies would cause his children to “grow up in a racial jungle,” according to Business Insider. Biden had said:

Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point.

Snopes.com, a fact-checking website, in a recent article confirmed Biden’s remarks, writing, “Biden at the time had emerged as the Democratic party’s crusader against busing, taking the same side as segregationists.”

Yet, a search on CNN.com found no reporting on Biden’s “racial jungle” remark — only an opinion piece authored by a media studies professor.

Politico, which has reported extensively on Tata’s nomination as well as his tweets, does not appear to have reported on Biden’s “racial jungle” remark, according to a search of its website.

The New York Times has reported on Tata’s tweets. While the paper did an in-depth report on Biden’s opposition against busing as a way to desegregate schools, it did not include on Biden’s specific “racial jungle” remarks.

Biden also has a litany of other racially offensive remarks, including most recently saying that African Americans who support Trump “ain’t black.”….

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  1. kunling says

    Jul 2, 2020 at 11:06 am

    I agree with Gen Tata’s original comments.

    • rubiconcrest says

      Jul 2, 2020 at 5:48 pm

      I’m sure many thousands agree with you. The most important question to ask, however, is how much have his opinions changed, if at all? His twitter comments indicate where he was at one time and we know that Islam has not had a reformation. I hope G Tata’s nomination is approved. We are in an ideological war. Words matter. We can be diplomatic and at the same time truthful. Only fools light fires where none are needed. We need to educate 100 million people not turn them away.

      Islam hates us; Mosques in the USA have jihad supporting literature for sale; FMG is a problem wherever large populations of Muslims live; Mosques harbored the 9/11 terrorists; a surprisingly large number of CAIR members have been charged with terrorism; Islamic sharia is incompatible with the US constitutionally protected rights, not all Muslims want to be governed by Sharia; death for apostasy or blasphemy is evil; etc…

      Lets hope we can learn to address issues so that ‘fact checkers’ cannot deny their reality.

    • DazzleMe says

      Jul 4, 2020 at 3:41 am

      Myself included kunling!

  2. Marttheman says

    Jul 2, 2020 at 11:55 am

    The leftards are so hypocritical that it is getting comical again. Nobody remembers the nuances of history. We conveniently forget that the majority of slaves in the past were white if you go far back in history, not black. In many European languages there is still the proverb/warning referring to muslims coming to European coasts by boat to nab slaves. “There are pirates at the coast!” In more recent history Blacks were just as much slave drivers as whites and Arabs. Slavery is still thriving today in Africa, the ME, and Asia, in fact it has nothing to do with racism. In fact the qur’an condones it. All races can be turned into slaves. Blacks in Europe and the US are only using it to their advantage to push the cabal’s agenda. The cabal sponsors them. If they really were concerned about slavery, they would go to Africa and the ME to free their brothers and sisters. Yet they don’t seem to be all that interested. So blm, HDM (History doesn’t matter). All people supporting blm and other minority groups and those wannabe chiefs of important organisations bending over backwards to appease whatever minority group, are all useful idiots. That’s what makes it so comical and transparent.

  3. owensgate says

    Jul 2, 2020 at 12:31 pm

    Absolutely no idea who Tata is, but one thing stands out, that whoever he is, offering a sincere apology for a “tweet” stating a provable fact, makes it obvious he shouldn’t be nominated for anything but “useful idiot of the year award”. Aside from that, a second look at U.S. Forces in Afghanistan is warranted, for the simple fact of the enormous wealth of “Rare Earth” elements, the fifteen lanthanides, as well as scandium and yttrium, which are very necessary for modern technology, and in serious risk of being defaulted to China if we abandon them.

    • PRCS says

      Jul 3, 2020 at 11:56 am

      “This is what Anthony Tata tweeted that got him embroiled in the latest media hunt: he called “Islam the ‘most oppressive violent religion I know of’” and claimed that “Obama was a terrorist leader.””

      His statement concerning Islam’s oppression and violence, factual as it was, with the caveat ‘that he knows of” requires no apology and should be used to ignite a national discussion about Islam’s actual teachings.

      That he apologized for that is a flaw in his character.

      He should have stuck to his guns.

      However, calling Obama “a terrorist leader” is the kind of over the top nonsense which rightfully gets people in hot water. IMO, given that he damn well should have known better, his apology, though needed, will be viewed by many as nothing more than a CYA tactic.

      When will ‘they’ ever ‘get it’?

  4. LB says

    Jul 2, 2020 at 12:59 pm

    Another spineless “republican” dancing along the democrats’ tune who’s desperately clinging to office even if it means going against any morals he might’ve had. Get him out.

  5. Carolyne says

    Jul 2, 2020 at 1:33 pm

    Tata’s tweets were correct and defensible.

  6. James Lincoln says

    Jul 2, 2020 at 3:49 pm

    Pentagon nominee Army Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Anthony Tata has just disqualified himself due to his spineless “apologies”.

    And a retired Army Brig. Gen., I’m very disappointed…

  7. tgusa says

    Jul 2, 2020 at 4:10 pm

    Tata is certainly no General Patton.

    “I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.”
    General George S. Patton

    “Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.”
    John Wayne playing the role of Captain Nathan Brittles in 1949 western, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.

    How far our military leaders have fallen.

    • James Lincoln says

      Jul 2, 2020 at 6:03 pm

      Great quotes, tgusa.

      • tgusa says

        Jul 2, 2020 at 7:26 pm

        Thanks James Lincoln.
        Another pertinent Patton quote that would apply to ours leaders is,

        “Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book! ”

        • gravenimage says

          Jul 2, 2020 at 7:35 pm

          Yes–I have often thought this is applicable to the vicious Qur’an.

        • tgusa says

          Jul 2, 2020 at 7:42 pm

          Sure does gravenimage. Now how do we get that point across to our leadership?

        • gravenimage says

          Jul 2, 2020 at 7:55 pm

          tgusa, I write a lot of letters to those in political and other leadership about the threat of Islam here. I know most of these head straight for the shredder, but I hope if enough of their constituents write and otherwise speak out that it will eventually make a difference.

        • tgusa says

          Jul 2, 2020 at 8:10 pm

          “straight for the shredder”
          gravenimage, Send it in an envelope with stationary that look like hundred dollar bills. That will get their attention.

        • gravenimage says

          Jul 2, 2020 at 8:24 pm

          🙂

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 2, 2020 at 6:42 pm

      +1

  8. gravenimage says

    Jul 2, 2020 at 6:40 pm

    Pentagon nominee Anthony Tata apologizes for old ‘anti-Muslim,’ ‘anti-Obama’ tweets
    ……………………..

    How is Tata’s calling Islam the “most oppressive violent religion I know of” “incorrect and indefensible?

    This is perfectly true.

  9. curious george says

    Jul 2, 2020 at 9:30 pm

    There is nothing new here; it’s the same ole same ole. Time and again, we see people cave to the left’s agenda. The left’s tactics have succeeded in various countries around the world, and now it appears their tactics are working in the USA.

    It’s a war of incrementalism and attrition. The tactics of the left slowly but surely grind the opponent down, to the point of nonresistance and eventual surrender.

    It appears that the USA is at the nonresistance stage; next will be capitulation and acceptance.

  10. OLD GUY says

    Jul 3, 2020 at 11:13 am

    It is sad to see these politicians so spineless that they will say and do anything to stay in office or gain votes. It appears that speaking the truth is no longer a good political idea, you must now change your views to appease the group or person you are speaking too. If you can’t stand for what you believe you won’t stand for anything.

    • curious george says

      Jul 3, 2020 at 1:27 pm

      OLD Guy,

      +1

      What’s sad is the American “sheeple” who continually vote these lazy, self-serving miscreants back into office.

      Einstein once said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result.”

      • DazzleMe says

        Jul 4, 2020 at 3:45 am

        +1

  11. Gourdhead says

    Jul 6, 2020 at 5:16 pm

    Just what we need, a gutlesss candidate.

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