10/30/18: Fox News is running scary stories about the “migrant caravan” heading toward America. President Trump says the caravan includes “very scary people.” Also known to Fox News fans as: “non-white individuals.”
There could be “Middle Eastern people” hiding among all the Spanish-speaking asylum seekers.
Also known to Fox News viewers as Muslims – and, ipso facto, terrible people.
The rhetorical China shop bull who is now our president.
According to David Ward, some “expert” who appears in one Fox segment, these people are bringing diseases like leprosy and smallpox, and we can’t allow them to breach the border.
Smallpox! I for one am suddenly scared and think I should go buy guns and head south to defend America. Then I remember. Smallpox was eradicated in 1980. So, I guess Fox is just running stupid, scary stories.
And that would be “Fake News.”
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Smallpox! |
In related right-wing-nut news, three Kansas men are convicted in a plot to blow up mosques and the homes of Somali immigrants. Because Somali immigrants are just as scary as SMALLPOX!
Their lawyers beg for leniency, basically arguing that Trump made their clients do it. Trump, lawyers for one of the defendants
insist, appealed to “lost and ignored white, working-class men” like the
defendant, who was “an early and avid supporter [emphasis added here and
throughout]” of the president.
“The court cannot ignore the circumstances of one of the most rhetorically mold-breaking, violent, awful, hateful and contentious presidential elections in modern history, driven in large measure by the rhetorical China shop bull who is now our president,” the lawyers wrote in their sentencing memorandum.
Lawyers for a second defendant note that the president continues to stoke fear with his warnings about caravans filled with dangerous individuals.
As long as the Executive Branch
condemns Islam and commends and encourages violence against would-be enemies,
then a sentence imposed by the Judicial Branch does little to deter people
generally from engaging in such conduct if they believe they are protecting
their countries from enemies
identified by their own Commander-in-Chief.”
So, there’s that.
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