1. Height Of Hypocrisy 5: Roy Moore Hypocrisy & Deficit Hypocrisy Show GOP Stand For Nothing. Not Family Values. Not Fiscal Responsibility. Nothing. Except Maybe Pedophiles.
2. Height Of Hypocrisy 6: GOP & Fox News Helps Trump In Obstruction Of Justice Showing They Don't Care About The Rule Of Law... And Now, The Nation Is in A Constitutional Crisis!
3. Height Of Hypocrisy 7: The Executive Order & Dictator/Tyrant Hypocrisy
4. The Right Wing Are Basically Terrorists Or "Terrorist Creators" (Alt Right Terrorists Is The Politically Correct Term)
5. Trump's White Supremacist - And Anti First Amendment - Attack On The NFL's Black Players Backed By Fox News And The GOP While Simultaneously Promoting & Being Nice To White Supremacists & Neo Nazis...
Would you be civil to Hitler and the Nazis determined to take over your country? Would being civil to Hitler have stopped him? Sometimes, when faced with tyranny, lack of civility in the only way to go. But when tyrants lack civility and then use "civility" as a tactic to silence their critics then we are talking about a Democratic atrocity. For the GOP or Trump to say to be civil, given their on going and past behavior, is yet another example of the GOP's height of hypocrisy on everything under the sun.
WHAT HAPPENED TO CIVIL DISCOURSE? Members of the Trump administration were confronted by protestors while dining out at restaurants, and Jordan fears that the left is incapable of civility.
The Trump propagandists are arguing that there is no civil discourse...
Which stands in sharp contrast to thier own behaviour on video (such as "demon rats" below)...
But the best part is that Trump's own behavior makes it clear that civility is the wrong way to go as civility to a tyrant just leads to more tyranny and Trump and his Administration and Fox News are clearly as Un American and tyrannical as they come (and probably put Putin to shame!)...
Trump made fun of a disabled reporter (worse than yelling at someone in a restaurant)...
Trump encouraged violence at his rallies...
Trump attacked the US Justice system base don race of the Judge...
Not to mention the "civility" Trump rhetoric is causing all across the nation...
A Latino man and his mother who were doing yard work in California were verbally attacked by a woman who called them "illegals" and "rapists" https://t.co/u3svmFqANg— CNN (@CNN) June 26, 2018
Trump attacks women by alluding to thier periods...
Trump once asked his "second amendment people" to kill Hillary (so, obviously he would be willing to collude with Russia to win!)...
Trump attacks his opponents by calling them foreigners (un American) ...
True. People on the left turn and run when faced with any threat and must surely resemble the left of pre world war 2 Germany, who succumbed to the hatred and hateful rhetoric of the Nazis authoritarians and fascists (who are basically an older form of trump ism but derived from the GOP and its discriminatory stances).
Here are some people, of media matters, begging the left wing "news" media - and totally debunking the rights 'civility" argument in the process - not to succumb to false rhetoric they are supposed to face down as "the fourth estate"...
Hang this in the Louvre. CNN's "both sides" montage perfectly encapsulating the fallacy of mainstream media equivalence: all the conservatives examples are bald racism and all the liberal examples are...being rude pic.twitter.com/B6mOARNEv6— Steve Morris (@stevemorris__) June 25, 2018
Stephen Miller is a white nationalist -- call him that: https://t.co/RYLlq6f7Dv— Media Matters (@mmfa) June 25, 2018
If Miller isn’t a white nationalist then they just don’t exist. It’s pathetic to use appeals to “civility” to obscure the evident truth. We must face the truth about the extreme racism in the government right now and not shrink from painful reality. https://t.co/CsAVnkf8jd— Hussein Ibish (@Ibishblog) June 26, 2018
Laura Ingraham once outed closeted gay college students and attacked a school shooting survivor pic.twitter.com/vnUzTIduYk— Brian Tashman (@briantashman) June 26, 2018
Good God, the footage includes threats and warnings to the kids not to talk to the press because then maybe they won't protect them "and then you don't know what might happen". They are literally THREATENING children. https://t.co/9k89eGhgji— HawaiiDelilah (@HawaiiDelilah) June 26, 2018
Erick has an unhealthy obsession with trans people. He turns every single topic into some bizarre-ass dog at trans people. But sure, hey, toss him on the ol’ teevee as yr “civility” spokesperson or whatever pic.twitter.com/nSrrVLGUsq— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) June 25, 2018
Jesse Watters says there are no examples of Trump supporters harassing people, claims Heather Heyer doesn't count https://t.co/Yo9oP9mu9R— Media Matters (@mmfa) June 25, 2018
The civility game does nothing but privilege the people whose views and actions are horrific https://t.co/xKcSJaJwup via @SimonMaloy pic.twitter.com/IdefbAROD3— Media Matters (@mmfa) June 25, 2018
Bill O'Reilly: "Insulting people holding different political views is not the American way."— Jennifer Mendelsohn (@CleverTitleTK) June 25, 2018
Also Bill O'Reilly: Says Maxine Waters Has A 'James Brown wig' https://t.co/c4aujzbLwc via @YouTube
Bill O'Reilly on the Dixie Chicks:— Jay Bookman (@jaybookmanajc) June 25, 2018
"These are callow, foolish women who deserve to be slapped around." https://t.co/LskarLHt6I
Trump allies pushing the narrative to support unconstitutional politicians (tyrants) to harm America through its power in the media?...
Washington Post editorial board chose to ignore decades of violence and harassment by anti-abortion extremists in call for civilityhttps://t.co/MXUCT6PeYK— Media Matters (@mmfa) June 25, 2018
Pro-Trump social media figures have been spreading a fake quote from Chuck Schumer on child separation. https://t.co/SxeTUFnSAV pic.twitter.com/QL0JcWsa7M— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) June 25, 2018
great take on the same day the GOP used a stolen Supreme Court seat, appointed by a President who lost the popular vote, to allow extreme amounts of gerrymandering so they can keep power in the House even through a landslide defeat. https://t.co/faqY3020oB— Michael T Sweeney (@mtsw) June 25, 2018
Fox & Friends covered Republicans being heckled 4 times more than it covered immigration and family separation this morning: https://t.co/35Ju9Q1iYF pic.twitter.com/P3W429Hlej— Media Matters (@mmfa) June 25, 2018
Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweet about Red Hen initiated Pizzagate-style harassment by pro-Trump trolls https://t.co/IwaZK7uja4 pic.twitter.com/GDpn106Egg— Media Matters (@mmfa) June 25, 2018
CNN anchor Kate Bouldan is uncomfortable with calling White House adviser Stephen Miller what he is, a white nationalist:— Media Matters (@mmfa) June 25, 2018
"Honestly, I have not seen that."https://t.co/RYLlq6f7Dv pic.twitter.com/f5GB1QbuYl
Erick Erickson in 2017 argued that gay men should expect to be assaulted when they walk into bars. Why is he the media's expert on civility? https://t.co/210OOgSPSm https://t.co/nqZHuI1gGR— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) June 25, 2018
The media’s bullshit civility debate helps Trump https://t.co/xKcSJaJwup via @SimonMaloy pic.twitter.com/3H991fENuj— Media Matters (@mmfa) June 25, 2018
One thing the Red Hen situation has made abundantly clear is that the vast majority of people in the national media identify more closely with the White House press secretary than with anyone who might be in a position to cook or serve food to her in a restaurant.— Nick Baumann (@NickBaumann) June 25, 2018
FOX NEWS: "We find racism deeply offensive and wholly inappropriate, and we do not in any way condone it."— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) June 25, 2018
ALSO FOX NEWS: "Tonight on Tucker, how opposing the God-Emperor's child internment camps will lead to the death of the white race." https://t.co/42rWgH04VA
Being called out for your racism is not the same thing as being the target of actual racism. Tell a white journalist. https://t.co/gFkAeKiZGx— Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) June 25, 2018
this is a perfect example of the inability to understand “white nationalist” or “racist” as a analysis of an ideology and not some insult. https://t.co/6dRxaxzSPE— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) June 25, 2018
CNN anchor: "I just did an entire segment about civility here, I don't know if you want to call Stephen Miller a white nationalist" pic.twitter.com/iXAhpBBynX— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) June 25, 2018
The fact that Trumpers physically assaulting a restaurant unrelated to the controversy will attract less coverage than Red Hen declining to serve Sanders is a reminder that the actual issue here is the disproportionate clout of conservative propaganda television and not civility.— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 25, 2018
Fox sent a correspondent to the Red Hen restaurant with much more urgency than they sent a correspondent to the border to cover family separation— Lis Power (@LisPower1) June 25, 2018
McKelway: "There are no hoard of media out here."
... yeah, no shit. pic.twitter.com/evwsG2II3K
the trump administration, in one fox news screenshot pic.twitter.com/v4GJzUVjXU— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) June 25, 2018
NRATV host says right-wing figures "don't ever engage ever in proactive violence ever because it's just not part of our moral code" https://t.co/XMqykoDBqb pic.twitter.com/US046rSJXR— Media Matters (@mmfa) June 25, 2018
Fox News is *still* straight up lying to its viewers, claiming that the policy that led to systematically separating children from their parents was also in place under Obama— Katie Sullivan (@KatSulls) June 25, 2018
Sessions announced the policy 2 months ago pic.twitter.com/nya7qgutI4
Two restaurants (one of which has nothing to do with the story) are the focus of a harassment campaign provoked by the Trump admin because of a constitutionally-protected act of political dissent. Washington's bipartisan political elite is lecturing the restauranteur on civility.— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) June 25, 2018
Fox & Friends says that Sarah Sanders was discriminated against: https://t.co/88XoRekJ8N pic.twitter.com/eeSfjCTR2C— Media Matters (@mmfa) June 25, 2018
Glenn Reynolds now: Denying Sarah Sanders a cheese plate will plunge our country into chaos and start a civil war— TBogg - more or less (@tbogg) June 25, 2018
Glenn Reynolds then: Murder black people with your car. LOL. pic.twitter.com/cdJ7Mk27t7
1. Unsurprisingly, this bit of kneejerk onanism from the WaPo editorial board completely misses the significance of this whole episode. In fact, it gets it wrong in exactly the same way Very Serious People have been getting in wrong in DC for decades. https://t.co/I5isNFt01N— David Roberts (@drvox) June 24, 2018
My own input;
*throat.— Deadpool Abe (@DeadPoolLiberty) June 25, 2018
Being civil to the party that did 9/11 is what got us into all this trouble in the first place https://t.co/JKF5mGkjeo
They are terrorists and traitors and should be seen that way when dealing with them. #msnbc pic.twitter.com/7Lc12oLWqP
Note: Historically, rudeness is normal in American politics.
Oct 10, 2017: Political Insults In American Politics Are As Old As the Republic
It may seem that name-calling has reached its high water mark in American Politics. However, in actuality political insults in the U.S. are as old as the Republic.
Thomas Paine, who wrote the 1776 pamphlet Common Sense, was a vociferous critic of President John Adams. He enjoyed belittling the President. He once deadpanned: “Some people talk of impeaching John Adams, but I am for softer measures. I would keep him to make fun of him.”
In 1800, while seeking re-election, Adams was involved in arguably the dirtiest Presidential campaign in American history against his arch-nemesis Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson hired political pamphleteer James Callender to attack Adams’ reputation. Callender successfully spread a mendacious rumor that Adams’ ambition was to order an invasion of France. Adams coefficients labeled Jefferson: “a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mullatto father.”
Adams son, John Quincy Adams, had a similar rivalry with his Presidential successor Andrew Jackson. Adams’ supporters referred to Jackson’s wife Rachel as an “adulteress” because she had not completed her divorce from her first husband. Mrs. Jackson died days before the election. An inflamed Jackson put the blame on Adams for his wife’s death, averring: “May God Almighty forgive her murderers as I know she forgave them. I never can.”
In 1833, Harvard University awarded an honorary degree to President Andrew Jackson. John Quincy Adams, a Harvard University alumnus, boycotted the ceremony. Adams had lost his re-election bid to Jackson in 1832. In his diary, Adams called Jackson, who had no college education: “A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.”
CNN: August 22, 2008 - Founding Fathers' dirty campaign
Negative campaigning in America was sired by two lifelong friends, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Back in 1776, the dynamic duo combined powers to help claim America's independence, and they had nothing but love and respect for one another. But by 1800, party politics had so distanced the pair that, for the first and last time in U.S. history, a president found himself running against his vice president.
Things got ugly fast. Jefferson's camp accused President Adams of having a "hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman." In return, Adams' men called Vice President Jefferson "a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father." As the slurs piled on, Adams was labeled a fool, a hypocrite, a criminal, and a tyrant, while Jefferson was branded a weakling, an atheist, a libertine, and a coward. See 8 great campaign slogans » Even Martha Washington succumbed to the propaganda, telling a clergyman that Jefferson was "one of the most detestable of mankind." Mental Floss: Jefferson: The sensitive writer type Jefferson hires a hatchet man Back then, presidential candidates didn't actively campaign. In fact, Adams and Jefferson spent much of the election season at their respective homes in Massachusetts and Virginia.
But the key difference between the two politicians was that Jefferson hired a hatchet man named James Callendar to do his smearing for him. Adams, on the other hand, considered himself above such tactics. To Jefferson's credit, Callendar proved incredibly effective, convincing many Americans that Adams desperately wanted to attack France. Although the claim was completely untrue, voters bought it, and Jefferson stole the election. Jefferson paid a price for his dirty campaign tactics, though. Callendar served jail time for the slander he wrote about Adams, and when he emerged from prison in 1801, he felt Jefferson still owed him. After Jefferson did little to appease him, Callendar broke a story in 1802 that had only been a rumor until then -- that the President was having an affair with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings. In a series of articles, Callendar claimed that Jefferson had lived with Hemings in France and that she had given birth to five of his children. The story plagued Jefferson for the rest of his career. And although generations of historians shrugged off the story as part of Callendar's propaganda, DNA testing in 1998 showed a link between Hemings' descendents and the Jefferson family. Just as truth persists, however, so does friendship. Twelve years after the vicious election of 1800, Adams and Jefferson began writing letters to each other and became friends again. They remained pen pals for the rest of their lives and passed away on the same day, July 4, 1826. It was the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Mental Floss: The post-White House lives of presidents John Quincy Adams gets slapped with elitism John Adams lived long enough to see his son become president in 1825, but he died before John Quincy Adams lost the presidency to Andrew Jackson in 1828. Fortunately, that meant he didn't have to witness what many historians consider the nastiest contest in American history. The slurs flew back and forth, with John Quincy Adams being labeled a pimp, and Andrew Jackson's wife getting called a slut. As the election progressed, editorials in the American newspapers read more like bathroom graffiti than political commentary. One paper reported that "General Jackson's mother was a common prostitute, brought to this country by the British soldiers! She afterward married a mulatto man, with whom she had several children, of which number General Jackson is one!"
What got Americans so fired up? For one thing, many voters felt John Quincy Adams should never have been president in the first place. During the election of 1824, Jackson had won the popular vote but not the electoral vote, so the election was decided by the House of Representatives. Henry Clay, one of the other candidates running for president, threw his support behind Adams. To return the favor, Adams promptly made him secretary of state. Jackson's supporters labeled it "The Corrupt Bargain" and spent the next four years calling Adams a usurper. Beyond getting the short end of the electoral stick, Andrew Jackson managed to connect with voters via his background -- which couldn't have been more different than Adams'. By the time John Quincy was 15, he'd traveled extensively in Europe, mastered several languages, and worked as a translator in the court of Catherine the Great. Meanwhile, Andrew Jackson had none of those privileges. By 15, he'd been kidnapped and beaten by British soldiers, orphaned, and left to fend for himself on the streets of South Carolina. Adams was a Harvard-educated diplomat from a prominent New England family. Jackson was a humble war hero from the rural South who'd never learned to spell. He was the first presidential candidate in American history to really sell himself as a man of the people, and the people loved him for it.
After America's initial rudeness in politics politeness became a theme as this segment indicates...
.@DesiLydic takes on cable news panels, comparing the heated political debates of yesterday and today.— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) June 25, 2018
Full piece: https://t.co/yLsV23FNJG pic.twitter.com/eOKAZNbucM
Update Jun 27 2018:
The Daily Show with Trevor NoahPublished on 26 Jun 2018 Conservatives demand "civility" in an attempt to silence critics of the Trump administration and Trevor points out that calls for civility tend to come from people in a position of privilege.
The Daily Show with Trevor NoahPublished on 26 Jun 2018 Dulce Sloan weighs in on the controversy surrounding a white woman who called the police on an eight-year-old black girl for selling bottled water without a permit.
Relevant Tweets:
Isn’t it Interesting how calls for civility tend to come from those in a position of privilege?: https://t.co/gsQPKEHst2 pic.twitter.com/k2AnjsMRF1— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) June 27, 2018
Tonight at 11/10c: Conservatives attempt to drag Martin Luther King, Jr. over to their side of the “civility” debate. pic.twitter.com/J4pkkMIw7j— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) June 27, 2018
The Trump administration gets a taste of what it's like to be a minority. https://t.co/6SVLPGN8UG pic.twitter.com/jSaAEJ2rgJ— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) June 26, 2018
Right still DEMONIZING liberals as they have for years;
Conservative media folks are whining about Nazi comparisons -- they didn't seem to mind them so much with the Obama administration pic.twitter.com/9lgpfCkoKP— Media Matters (@mmfa) June 27, 2018
Laura Ingraham: Liberals today are "agents of a historical and cultural purge" and "hate our American traditions, and a lot of our heritage" https://t.co/yEzyG7CqBq— Media Matters (@mmfa) June 27, 2018
Laura Ingraham just compared protesting Trump officials to treatment of African-Americans in "the racist south" so either slavery or Jim Crow, it's kinda unclear pic.twitter.com/YZaBso6Lbj— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) June 27, 2018
Exactly like Nazis (i.e. go after liberals for using facts by calling them lies which works because everyone only listens to Fox and the GOP know this);
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) June 27, 2018
This is how Alex Jones works. Sensing that his side could do something dangerous, he tries to get ahead of it and says he believes there'll be some false flag attack, while at the same time enlisting his devoted fans to do some vigilante detective work. https://t.co/jDGhXNLtdk— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) June 27, 2018
1/2— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) June 27, 2018
Here's Tucker Carlson tonight saying that the left making Nazi comparisons "could very well end in tragedy. You start talking like this, you don't know where it's going to go" pic.twitter.com/JBl6UbiH3L
BREAKING: Nazism Has Been Repackaged as "Conservatism"
Exactly like Nazis (authority/party-official worship);
Sinclair is forcing local viewers to watch Sarah Huckabee Sanders whine about the media: https://t.co/b6Svg4MfQt pic.twitter.com/4XNrBDn5gK— Media Matters (@mmfa) June 26, 2018
Sarah Huckabee, daughter to con man Huckabee (who stole his server to hide his crimes - obviously, why else would he do it? - and then hypocritically went after Hillary for her emails like the con man he is), is now showing that children of Republican politicians have a tendency to continue on with treason and lies (have you seen John McCain's daughter?);
It's been 96 hours since Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn't get her lobster mac n chz— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) June 26, 2018
And Fox News' "real news" show Special Report still has a reporter live on the scene pic.twitter.com/eB90vs4dr2
The network that brought you Jeffrey Lord, Corey Lewandowski, Jason Miller, Ed Martin, Steve Cortes, Kayleigh McEnany, Stephen Moore, Rick Santorum, Andrew Bauer, Jack Kingston, Ben Ferguson, and Ken Cuccinelli now wants to talk about civility.— Media Matters (@mmfa) June 26, 2018
Really.https://t.co/MYv4RQtdkF
Right-wing media are criticizing Maxine Waters over "civility" -- so why don't we take a look back at what they’ve said about her in the pasthttps://t.co/Wvn69HyCAP pic.twitter.com/mvkBhfsfd7— Media Matters (@mmfa) June 26, 2018
Media outlets, stop using the term "catch and release" https://t.co/HP7Fnx1VHY pic.twitter.com/uUoylpAFWT— Media Matters (@mmfa) June 26, 2018
Ted Koppel tells Sean Hannity he is bad for America: pic.twitter.com/ibnLnJnGDy— Media Matters (@mmfa) March 26, 2017
lazy pundits will compare what's happening now to the tea party but the tea party got soaked in dirty money and 24/7 airtime from news networks that hung on their every word like it was the Gospel.— Stagger Lee Shot First (@elongreen) June 27, 2018
CNN hosts Corey Lewandowski to talk civility, and he immediately accuses the mother of the ten-year-old with Down syndrome of being a "potential member" of a child smuggling ring https://t.co/YyXvXulUN2 pic.twitter.com/bvUIXibCrk— Media Matters (@mmfa) June 27, 2018
Media
This is the moment Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old Latina running her first campaign, discovered she had ousted 10-term incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley in New York's 14th congressional district https://t.co/Q7namRbcEk pic.twitter.com/D4lzJZo1z3— CNN (@CNN) June 27, 2018
GOP's "Height Of Hypocrisy" Series
The national debt is set to skyrocket, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office. https://t.co/9SjLHrDuxl— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 27, 2018
.@maddow reads Justice Sotomayor's descent in the Trump Muslim ban case which points out that the animus behind Trump's policy doesn't have to be exposed because he already tweeted it. https://t.co/VToF3lZV7s— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 27, 2018
Donald Trump
HHS offers conflicting reports over the number of migrant children in their custody. @jacobsoboroff has new details from a department spokesperson. https://t.co/AH6fxacyuz— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 27, 2018
.@HardballChris breaks down how the conservative 5-4 Supreme Court majority helped elect President George W Bush, the Citizens United ruling, and now helped uphold the Trump travel ban. https://t.co/u1uLliWUW7— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 27, 2018
OBVIOUSLY the GOP is calling for civility now. I mean, it has to be now because of the civility pledge they refused to sign back in 2010. https://t.co/FMNiJQ8ASG— The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper (@TheOpposition) June 27, 2018
Overview Of The GOP/Republicans
“If the president was a liar, would he draw crowds so big that they literally get bigger every time he tells that story? Checkmate, media.”— The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper (@TheOpposition) June 27, 2018
- Jordan Klepper takes on the libs who call Trump a liar pic.twitter.com/7tNX8kzUjH
Conservatives have been dancing around immigration for too long: They just want you to be the RIGHT kind of immigrant. pic.twitter.com/GrNmc3r4lh— The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper (@TheOpposition) June 26, 2018
“America’s in crisis. Our borders are open, and a mysterious customer service robot keeps asking me to dial two "para sexo.” In short, we have an immigration problem.”— The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper (@TheOpposition) June 26, 2018
- Jordan Klepper tackles the immigration crisis pic.twitter.com/utOno3NSUW
