10/29/18: Kellyanne Conway, whose salary taxpayers sadly foot, appears on Fox News. She is there to defend the president. Really, that is the only job this benighted woman performs.
Did Trump’s daily dosage of hate in any way fuel the actions of any of this week’s haters? Oh, no, she explains. The true victims are people like herself, Conway says, people who are religious. What led the killers and would-be-killers to act? “The anti-religiosity in this country that is somehow in vogue...making fun of people who express religion, the late-night comedians, the unfunny people who go on TV...It’s always anti-religious,” she tells the Fox News host.
Yes, those comedians with their…humor…making people hate others and go buy automatic weapons and stockpile ammo.
Conway cites Dylan Roof, an avowed white supremacist, who shot up a church in South Carolina in 2015. She fails to mention a white Kentucky man who murdered two African Americans in a Kroger store just days earlier – after yanking at the door of a nearby African American church and finding it closed. It wasn’t the white supremacist beliefs of both shooters that caused them to start blasting. It was all those comics and their punch lines.
Finally, to wrap up one of the dumbest arguments ever put
forward by any aide for any president, in any century, Conway opines, “this is
no time to be driving God out of the public square.”
Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley also comes to Trump’s defense and says this is no time for
assigning blame. Nobody blamed Obama for the shooting in Charleston, she says.
So why blame President Trump now? This seems odd because in 2016, during the
campaign, Haley, then governor of South Carolina, specifically blamed Trump and his hateful diatribes for the
Charleston shooting. “I know what that rhetoric can do. I saw it happen,” she
said, at the time.
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SINCE WE’RE TALKING about stooges, let’s not skip over Press Secretary Pinocchio. Today Sarah Sanders claimed that her boss won the popular vote by an “overwhelming majority” in 2016.
This was her first press briefing in weeks; but Pinocchio proved that even a long layoff had not reduced her ability to conjure untruths from thin air. She also said that Trump bore no responsibility for any of the violence in recent days.
In fact, Sanders made the astonishing claim that the press was responsible for stirring up the people who sent pipe bombs to leading Democratic figures, both in and out of office, and for convincing the anti-Semite to shoot up the Pittsburgh synagogue. How did the press do it? By being mean to the president.
“You guys have a huge responsibility to play in the divisive
nature of this country, when 90 percent of the coverage of everything this
president does is negative despite the fact that the country is going extremely
well,” she grumbled, “despite the fact that this president is delivering on
exactly what he said he was going to do if elected. And he was elected by the
overwhelming majority of 63 million Americans who came out and supported him
and wanted to see his policies enacted.”
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