5/30/18: Today’s topic is “Nuts on Twitter.” First up, Roseanne Barr, the suddenly unemployed television star.
Yesterday she stormed into contention, for “Twitter Nut of the Year,” with a racist tweet comparing an African American woman to a baby born from the union of a Muslim terrorist and an ape.
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Barr and Trump compete in a race to win “Twitter Nut of the
Year.”
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Until that moment, President Trump had “Twitter Nut of the Year” locked up. But a look at the body of Barr’s work marks her as a dark horse candidate to take home this year’s prize. (It’s a trophy of a golden head jammed up a golden ass.) Barr has been all over the place in the past, insulting all manner of individuals and groups. She once told an interviewer that the Pope “owns almost every dollar in the world.” She called Hillary Clinton’s aide, Huma Abedin, “a filthy Nazi whore.” As Vox noted, racist tweets have long been a staple of her feed. Barr referred to Susan Rice, an adviser to President Obama, as “a man with big swinging ape balls.”
In the same way, there was no conspiracy theory Barr wouldn’t swallow. In March she tweeted about a survivor of the Parkland school shooting. She insisted he performed a Nazi salute during the “March for Our Lives.” Later she had to admit the image she had seen and tweeted about was doctored. Barr offered up Twitter support for Pizzagate conspiracy sites. This was cool, assuming you were a right-wing nut. It was sad if you were the dumb schmuck who believed Hillary was holding children in a pizza parlor basement as part of a child sex ring. Then you, the poor dumb schmuck, would march into said parlor, fire your assault rifle several times at a locked basement door, get arrested and be sentenced to four years in jail.
Total children found and saved: 0.
If you tweet your belief in imaginary child sex rings, that’s
how you win “Twitter Nut of the Year.”
Trump, of course, is a tough Nut to beat but Barr has serious
chops. She said Obama organized the Boston Marathon bombing so he could trample
gun rights. At one point she called Israel “a Nazi state,” and insisted Zionism
was a creation of the Third Reich. That’s like saying General Custer was
plotting with the Sioux to get the Seventh Cavalry wiped out.
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OF COURSE, to become the champion you must beat the champion, and the “Twitter Nut of the Year,” three years running, 2015, 2016 and 2017, has been the President of the United States.
Trump gets in another great shot today. With iPhone in hand, he could have tweeted something like: “Roseanne Barr’s comments are totally unacceptable in a diverse country based on the ideal that ‘all men and women are created equal.’” He could have posted: “All good people, of all races, religions and ethnic backgrounds deserve to be treated with….”
Trump tweets instead:
Bob Iger of ABC called Valerie
Jarrett to let her know that “ABC does not tolerate comments like those” made
by Roseanne Barr. Gee, he never called President Donald J. Trump to apologize
for the HORRIBLE statements made and said about me on ABC. Maybe I just didn’t
get the call?
That’s how you win the Nut Award: ignore racism and be a
whiny bitch about how mean the media is to you.
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SPEAKING OF WHICH, President It’s-All-About-Me has been tweeting madly about the Mueller investigation all week.
Last Saturday, he unleashed a flurry of Twitter yelps:
With Spies, or “Informants” as
the Democrats like to call them because it sounds less sinister (but it’s not),
all over my campaign, even from a very early date, why didn’t the crooked
highest levels of the FBI or ‘Justice’ contact me to tell me of the phony
Russia problem?”
Okay. Let’s follow the president’s logic. There were “spies.” They were “all over” his campaign.
No one warned you about the “phony Russian problem?” That would be true – unless you counted James Comey and James Clapper who spoke to him about the investigation on January 6, 2017. And you probably should count Sally Yates, who came to the White House on January 26, six days after he took the oath of office, to warn that General Michael Flynn, the man he chose as his National Security Adviser, had been lying about contacts with Russians.
The tweet barking continued:
Who’s going to give back
the young and beautiful lives (and others) that have been devastated
and destroyed by the phony Russia Collusion Witch Hunt. They journeyed down to
Washington, D.C., with stars in their eyes and wanting to help our
nation...They went back home in tatters!
Such young lives ruined! Michael Flynn, pled guilty, age 59; Paul Manafort, indicted, but still starry-eyed at 69.
Judge Napolitano blows a big hole in the “Spygate” boat.
Unfortunately, not even some of the regulars at Fox News could support Trump’s absurd comments about spies and infiltrators swarming his campaign. Judge Andrew Napolitano, a legal expert who appears regularly, blew a big hole in Trump’s “Spygate” boat.
Speaking with Martha MacCallum, he said:
The allegations from Mayor
Giuliani over the weekend, which would lead us to believe that the Trump people
think the FBI had an undercover agent who finagled his way into Trump's
campaign and was there as a spy on the campaign seem to be baseless – there is no
evidence for that whatsoever.
But this other allegation with this professor (whose name we’re not supposed to
mention), that is standard operating procedure in intelligence gathering and
criminal investigations.
The professor Napolitano refers to is the single informant
known to have talked to three members of the Trump campaign. (See: 5/24/18.)
Rep. Trey Gowdy then all but sank the Spygate boat. He is one of a handful of members of Congress who sat in on meetings with the heads of the F.B.I., Department of Justice and U.S. intelligence agencies earlier this week. This was after Trump demanded investigators provide information about all the “spies” investigating his campaign. Now Gowdy had this to say in an interview on Fox News. First, the F.B.I. routinely used informants, he pointed out:
I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens
would want them to do when they got the information they got, and that
it has nothing to do with Donald Trump…It looks to me like the FBI was doing
what President Trump said: “I want you to do, find it out.” President Trump
himself in the Comey memos said, “If anyone connected with my campaign was
working with Russia, I want you to investigate it.”
Sounds to me like that was
exactly what the FBI did.
What about the idea that Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani had
been floating lately, that the president should never sit down with the Mueller
team and talk? Gowdy responded, “If he were my client, I’d say if you’ve done
nothing wrong, you need to sit down and tell Mueller what you know.”
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