Channel 5's coverage of last week's invocation at the City Commission meeting.

Click here for the story about the tweet by Preston Smith made last summer, referred to in the video. The reason McVoy's fellow commissioners left the room, I am guessing, is that they feared what this person was capable of saying at the podium. It was their choice not to hear what he had to say.

Another article about the tweet can be found here.

Choosing not to listen to someone is not "un-American" as Commissioner McVoy claims in the video report. For example, no one is compelled to visit this blog and read its contents. Some simply choose not to. Is that un-American?

As of 8:15 a.m. this morning (12/9), there have been 13,413 views of the original video.