He probably would fit right in as Buzz Windrip's press secretary, though. Hey, at least I'm not
comparing Trump to Hitler. Anyway, I've gotta put up some comments on Mark
Hannity's Frost's latest screed against Hillary Clinton. Unfortunately I have no way of linking to it. The piece I'm referring to is titled "Hillary the Hateful." Do you see where it's going? And, of course, she's hateful for
calling deplorable people deplorable. Trump can say anything nasty thing he wants, but she has to walk on eggshells.
So, here's the portion of the speech M
HannityF prints in his paper.
(Y)ou could put half of Trump's supporters into what I
call the basket of deplorables. Right?
If you go to the link, you'll note that's a mighty small sample. so, let's start the process I like to call de-Hannitization. It's so new spell check doesn't recognize it. OK, here's what precedes that quote.
You know, to just be grossly generalistic,
OK, I'm going to admit that generalistic is not a word. I believe it's not too much of a stretch to intimate she was going for the idea that she was generalizing, which is a word. If that was included though, it would have been harder for Frost to say,
"If Trump is polling at, say, 40%, Hillary thus trashed about one in every five American voters."
So let's put up some more of HRC's speech that didn't fit into the Chronicle.
The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic,
Islamaphobic -- you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And
he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to
only have 11,000 people -- now 11 million. He tweets and retweets their
offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks -- they
are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America."
It's not really that long. It does seem to indicate why she might be referring to some of Trump's supporters as deplorable. Let's meet some of them. WhiteGenocideTM,
come on down.
The account, @WhiteGenocideTM,
tweets obsessively about white women allegedly raped by various minority
groups. “Africans and Muslims rape more than anyone else,” reads one of the user’s retweets. “Don’t let them in.” Many of
the tweets are accompanied by the hashtag “#rapefugees,” apparently a
combination of the words “rape” and “refugees.”
The account also dabbles in support for Nazi Germany.
“Hitler SAVED Europe,” reads another tweet.
Could just be one bad apple, though.
Nope.
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on
Tuesday retweeted an apparent white supremacist, something he’s done multiple
times this election.
The user, who goes by the name Jason Bergkamp, writes
for an online publication called Vanguard 14. According to its website, the
publication covers issues like “white nationalism and genocide.” Bergkamp’s bio
on the site says he is a “Dutch based journalist writing about European,
American and South African events.”
Then there's the made up data suggesting a massive crime wave by blacks against whites. He got that from a Twitter user named "
CheesedBrit" whose avatar is a swastika and who says we should have listened to "the Austrian chap with the little moustache."
Far from the last I could put up is the
Star of David obtained from a white supremacist message board.
"The image was previously
featured on 8chan's /pol/ — an Internet message board for the
alt-right, a digital movement of neo-Nazis, anti-Semites and white supremacists
newly emboldened by the success of Trump's rhetoric — as early as June 22, over
a week before Trump's team tweeted it.
Having beat the stuffing out of that horse, let's move on with the rest of the quote which Frost commented on, but did not actually provide for his readers.
"But the other basket -- and I know this because I
see friends from all over America here -- I see friends from Florida and
Georgia and South Carolina and Texas -- as well as, you know, New York and
California -- but that other basket of people are people who feel that the
government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares
about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures,
and they're just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where
it comes from. They don't buy everything he says, but he seems to hold out some
hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their
jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those
are people we have to understand and empathize with as well."
And what does he have to say about that?
"As for the other half of Trump's adherents, she said they deserve 'empathy and understanding.'
OK, so when did empathy become a bad thing. I suppose it helps when you gloss over her actual comments.
Not respect, but pity.
Oh, I see. You take the word empathy which is difficult to spin in a negative way and translate it into pity which in some lights can be seen as a negative. Very clever.
In one fell swoop, Hillary revealed both the intolerance and the condescension that so puts off so much of the electorate.
So, he's criticizing Clinton for not being tolerant towards out and out racists. Shame on her. And I would really love to know where the condescension is found in there. For old times sake (2 years back) Mark Frost is
the guy that endorsed a man who said, "We need guns to defend ourselves against tyranny. If you don't understand that, you're not paying attention." I have no problem seeing condescension there. Also over the top wingnuttery.
Where is the mission to represent everyone, to respect us all.
It's in the part of the speech you didn't present to your audience so they could make up their own minds.
But, you say, what does he have to say about Trump?
But Trump is so much worse, they'll counter.
This is me countering, yes he is!
