Candy Crowley and CNN panel: should people be permitted to critique Dear Leader's policies?

That's strange: CNN never seemed to ask these questions when a man named George W. Bush was president.

CNN Panel: Was Doctor’s Conservative Speech In Front Of Obama ‘Offensive,’ ‘Inappropriate’?

Dr. Benjamin Carson, a pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, raised a number of political eyebrows in Washington this week when he took to a stage he shared with President Barack Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast and advocated a number of conservative reforms. On Sunday, the panel guests on CNN’s State of the Union weighed in on whether it was appropriate for Carson to use the forum of the prayer breakfast to advocate for free market reforms to healthcare and a flat tax code.

“Whoa,” said CNN anchor Candy Crowley after playing a portion of Carson’s speech in which he linked the biblical principle of proportional tithing to a flat taxation system... “This was really interesting, number one for the venue, number two for the person doing this,” Crowley said.

...Crowley turned to Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and asked if she found “anything offensive” in Carson’s speech.

“I think that there is a political correctness that he was trying to use to appeal to a conservative audience,” Schakowsky said. “I think it’s really not really an appropriate place to make this kind of political speech and to invoke God as his support for that kind of view.”

Schakowsky concluded by saying that Carson’s message displayed an “empathy gap” between where the American propel are and where Carson, and other conservatives, want the nation to go. “We need to have an economy that works for everyone,” she concluded.

I seem to remember Democrats openly chortling and celebrating when a shoe was thrown at George W. Bush. Open criticism of the president, in any venue imaginable, was actively encouraged and cheered on by CNN... then.

CNN's message is clear: it's not appropriate nor legitimate to criticize the government, at least when a radical Leftist is openly subverting the Constitution.

The best word to describe CNN's contempt for even gentle criticism of Obama's policies? Fascism.

Furthermore, Jan Schakowsky is a known Communist sympathizer. As such, she doesn't deserve any sort of forum on national television, let alone serving as a member of Congress. Schakowsky can't honestly take an oath to uphold the Constitution while working with radical groups like DSA.

Oh, as an aside, Ms. Crowley may want to lay off the nachos for a while. Just sayin'.