3) Emerson's website bio says he "has testified before and briefed Congress dozens of times." DOZENS!
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4) Until at least 2010, the liberal channel MSNBC used to frequently have Emerson on to bloviate as a terrorism "expert." Not Fox, MSNBC!
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5) Now, 2010, you're thinking, that was a long time ago. Yes, but it was also *long* after Emerson was exposed as a hacky bigot.
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6) Recently, Emerson addressed the annual AIPAC confab in two consecutive years ('12 and '13).http://mondoweiss.net/2013/03/approval-islamophobe-emerson …
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7) After the Boston Marathon bombing, Emerson said using ball bearings and nail bombs was the 'hallmark' of jihadist suicide bombers...
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8) But of course the Boston bombings weren't suicide bombs & plenty of non-jihadis have used nails and ball bearings.http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/16/emerson-literally-forgets-ok-city-says-boston-bombs-bear-hallmark-of-muslim-radicals.html …
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9) Those sort of mistakes speak not only to Emerson's bigotry, but also to his unbelievable lack of any critical scholarship.
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10) What's surprising isn't that Emerson went on cable news and said something really stupid, it's that he went on cable news...
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11) ...the frightening thought that he feeds (almost always bad) information to Congress, that he speaks to mainstream groups like AIPAC.
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12) Emerson shouldn't be barred from these fora, but rather he should always have an oppositional speaker at his side.
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@Ali_Gharib Plenty of very hawkish, but credible, "terror" researchers out there. If Congress chooses him, they're choosing propaganda
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