For a guy who’s a “senior fellow” at the Media Research Center, Allen West is utterly uninterested in doing even the most basic research.
In July, we caught West spreading long-discredited lies about Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. In his Sept. 10 column at MRC “news” division CNSNews.com, he repeated those lies and added a couple more:
Then we have the amazing tale of two organizations, comparing the NRA with another organization, Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood was founded by a person that was a white supremacist, a racist, someone who referred to blacks as “weeds” and “undesirables.” Sounds a lot like “deplorables” doesn’t it? And yes, there is a correlation, since the person who referred to some Americans as deplorables is a recipient of the Margaret Sanger Award, the founder of Planned Parenthood.
Again: Sanger was not a “white supremacist” or a “racist.” And as we’ve also documented, Sanger never called blacks “weeds.” We’ve found no evidence that Sanger ever called blacks “undesirables” — she did refer to “undesirables” in a speech, but it was in reference to the “breeding of defectives and insane” (a reflection of her belief at the time in eugenics) and no racial reference was made.
West also ranted that Sanger was “someone that wanted to exterminate – yes, strong words, but true – the black community.” Again, not true.
West then huffed:
The first Roy Innis Memorial Award will go to an American black man, a former soldier, someone who stood up against the tyranny of being unarmed, Otis McDonald of Chicago. Yes, the same Otis McDonald for whom the Second Amendment case, McDonald v. City of Chicago, is named. And who was it that stood with Otis McDonald? It was not Planned Parenthood. It was the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, the National Rifle Association. Hmm, how many blacks have been awarded the Margaret Sanger Award?
Actually, among the four people who received the first Margaret Sanger Award in 1966 was a black man — Martin Luther King Jr. The 2015 recipient, Dr. Willie Parker, is also a black man.
If the MRC’s own “senior fellow” can’t stop telling lies, and his employer can’t be bothered to fact-check him, why trust anything his employer claims?