Sunday, June 26, 2022

October 5-7, 2017: Republican Hypocrites on Abortion

 

10/5/17: Republicans high-five each other in the House of Representatives after passing legislation, by a 237-189 vote, limiting abortion to the first twenty weeks of pregnancy. 

 

GOP hypocrites on abortion. 

One House stalwart who voted for the bill stops high fiving when a text from his mistress is revealed. She had previously wondered why he kept posting anti-abortion messages on his Facebook page “when you had no issue asking me to abort our unborn child just last week.” 

This query baffles Rep. Tim Murphy, to whom it was directed. By day’s end Murphy resigns his seat. 

Still seated is fellow hypocrite, Tennessee Republican Dr. Scott DesJarlais. He likes to brag about his “100 percent pro-life views.” In recent divorce proceedings it has been shown he encouraged both his now ex-wife and a patient with whom he was having an affair to have abortions. (See: 4/14/18.)

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10/6/17: Post later withdrawn, as duplicative.

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10/7/17: Trump rises early on a fine Saturday in fall. What’s foremost on his mind? Gun issues in the wake of the Las Vegas slaughter? How to get aid to a badly battered Puerto Rico quickly? 

He’s mad because comedians are making fun of him. At 7:00 a.m. he yawns twice, rolls out of bed in nothing but tightie-whities, and tweets: “Late Night host [sic] are dealing with the Democrats for their very ‘unfunny’ & repetitive material, always anti-Trump! Should we get Equal Time?” 

Apparently, the president forgets he already has an entire comedy network on his side: Fox News. 

Jimmy Kimmel gets wind of the tweet and responds with one of his own. He offers to trade jobs with Trump and help him make America great again. This provokes a response from Don Jr. in defense of dear old President Dad. Don Jr. wants to know what Kimmel thinks about the story of Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood producer and major donor to Democratic causes. Weinstein is suddenly up to his pussy-grabbing eyebrows in a sex abuse scandal of his own. 

Don Jr. apparently thinks he has Kimmel in a box. Kimmel doesn’t hesitate. “You mean that big story from the failing, liberal, one-sided @nytimes?” he replies. “I think it is disgusting,” he adds, in reference to Weinstein’s disgusting behavior. See how easy it is to condemn sex abuse? 

Cough, cough. Your dad! 

“Great!” Don Jr. cluelessly replies. He will “look forward” to a changing tone in Kimmel’s monologues next week. 

Kimmel suggests – in the meantime – Jr. might “enjoy this.” He links a clip of the Access Hollywood tape featuring Don Sr. and Billy Bush in a philosophical discussion involving how to get away with assaulting women.



Saturday Night Live did a spoof on the same tape.

 

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THE NEW YORK TIMES, which Don Sr. and Don Jr. routinely label “Fake News,” published a lengthy indictment of Weinstein days earlier. Any decent man, Democrat, Republican or Know Nothing, who read the exposé would be appalled. And while we’re on the subject of sexual harassment, we should note that the Times also published exposés involving Bill O’Reilly and Roger Ailes. 

That’s how real news organizations work.

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