DISQUS

FeeinTennessee · 3 years ago

Montel had on his show the people you mentioned, plus a Muslim lady journalist and a Muslim scholar. Both were trying to get folks to think that there is an all out war against Islam. HELLO!!Who is the one who declared war on the West? They need to "check" the folks in their religion who is spreading this hatred if they are such a "peaceful" religion. I won't even go there anymore in this post...but Lou Dobbs, the middle class suffering, he's right. The mention of Chavez and trying to make him look in a good light, laughable. Same with Ahmadinejad, both are nuts.

I watch Montel here and there, I don't watch every show. There are times when I agree with him, sometimes, I don't. And the only thing on the show today that made sense was the fact that the middle class is struggling. Everything else was a bunch of crap.

Amy Proctor · 3 years ago

Ms.U

I was not able to answer in several cases. It was frustrating.

I'll call you!

Carl · 3 years ago

Montel Williams is simply a mental midget who couldn't effectively debate his view if his life depended upon it. Remember this is the same maroon who regularly has fake psychic Sylvia Browne on as a guest passing her off as the "real deal" although she's just doing a pretty piss-poor job of cold readings. Check out James Randi's website (http://www.randi.org/) for information about Sylvia Browne and her fraud. From Mr. Randi's site:

"On September 3, 2001, Sylvia Browne accepted the specific protocol for a definitive test for the JREF million-dollar challenge, on Larry King Live. The box shows the number of weeks since that date. And, it has been more than 288 weeks since she first agreed to be tested on March 6, 2001!"

Amy Proctor · 3 years ago

Ms.U

Thanks for recording this. :) I'm posting below a letter I wrote to Montel Williams after the show. I was really depressed at how the audience and guests bought hook, line and sinker the stupid rhetoric presented with no fact to back it up:

Dear Mr. Williams,

First, thank you for having me as a guest on your show last week with Jesse Jackson, et al. Unfortunately, the number of guests on the panel and my desire not to be aggressive as a first time guest prohibited me from saying all I had hoped, but I believe it is very important that you hear this side from the spouse of an active duty soldier who has been to Iraq for a year.

This is what was left out of the discussion on:

THE WAR IN IRAQ
- You said on the show that instead of “forcing democracy down their throats” we should spend that money on American education. Firstly, if throwing money at educational problems were the answer there would be no problem of which to speak. The districts which receive the most funding are the most problemed, such as Washington DC and NY. States like Utah that receive the least funding have the highest academic scores. Money is not the solution. The President’s No Child Left Behind Act has been very successful, but I won’t discuss that here.

Secondly, I don’t think you have any idea how offensive the term “forcing democracy down their throats” is. This is an egregious error in rhetoric made when democracy is not truly valued. Montel, to this day we have Iraqi friends and your comment could not be further from the truth. When my husband arrived with the 82nd ABN DIV in Baghdad, they found a children’s prison occupied by incarcerated 5-12 year olds. The prison served as punishment by Saddam for their parents’ disloyalty to him and some children had been there for 5 years. They know what forcing feelings like and now what democracy feels like. They view American forces as liberators, not occupiers. This is only one of many examples. The majority of Iraqis understand that America is helping and that this transition from tyranny to democracy is hard but necessary.

As Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki said when he visited the US Congress this summer, “Iraqis have tasted freedom and we will defend it absolutely." The fate of our country and yours is tied. Should democracy be allowed to fail in Iraq and terror permitted to triumph, then the war on terror will never be won elsewhere.”


RACE and EDUCATION

-I was appalled that Jesse Jackson attempted to spin my comments about single gender learning into a racial decoy by calling it segregation. This was an attempt to divert attention from an undeniably successful charter program by demonizing it using race. As for your comment that my daughter “needs to learn get along with” your daughter, be assured that as a lifetime Army brat she has had ample “learning” in a lifestyle of ethnic and religious diversity. We are surrounded by every conceivable combination of humanity and we love it. The connotation that I am perhaps a racist or segregationist was disturbing. (**Please note the attached photos of our “after war party” in 2004. These are our friends who returned with my husband in his unit and their families.)

http://www.johnnyproctor.com/sqsp2/postparty.JPG

I was unaware that calling an African-American “black” was wrong but if so, forgive me and please refer to me as Polish-American and not “white” or “Caucasian.”

AMERICA'S REPUTATION IN THE WORLD
- The panel lamented the reputation of America in the world, implicitly accusing the Bush administration of dragging our reputation down the toilet. There are several things to consider:

1) A world that capitulates to bullies, succumbs to corruption, turns its back on the innocent and suffering in the name of "peace", embraces humanism and atheism, struggles economically and is pregnant with social and moral failure is not a world the US needs to beg an opinion from... except by those who are also morally bankrupt. If you examine the state of the world side by side with the state of the United States, you will see why the US is the world’s leader.

2 ) It is no wonder the world has an anti-American opinion. Democrats unyieldingly bash the US and demonize Pres. Bush, setting the criteria for how foreign countries should view the US. Instead of banding together, Democrats have chosen to take a machete to the unity of America and her reputation abroad to promote their flawed political ideology. Foreign leaders critical of the US or President Bush have only to cite Democratic talking points. Foreign criticism of the US should be placed at the feet of the President’s political opponents rather than the President.

RELIGION and SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
- The Separation of Church and State is not in the US Constitution. That reference is a citation of a personal letter from Thomas Jefferson to a pastor who was concerned that the State would censor or limit his religious freedom. The 1st Amendment to he Constitution states: “ Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

There is no question that President Bush is not establishing a state religion, and he also has this constitutional right to express his religious belief, which was mocked by some on your panel. There was no condemnation or concern about the many times Bill Clinton also spoke about God in various speeches and addresses to the nation, however.

Montel, please keep these thoughts in mind the next time you air a show about these topics, and especially the war in Iraq. Again, thank you for the opportunity.

Sincerely,

Amy Proctor