“Fox and Friends” host Brian Kilmeade is throwing more of a fit over President Donald Trump being called a racist than the racist tweets that got the President in trouble in the first place.
Water is Wet would make a more shocking headline.
Would that be Brian “the swedes have pure genes” Kilmeade?
"Enabling is different from helping and supporting in that it allows the enabled person to be irresponsible."
Not that I picture this guy much, but when I do I picture him sleeping on a cot behind the set because they’re worried he wouldn’t be able to find the studio otherwise.
It’s just ‘anything goes if it’s against liberals’ and racist turtles all the way down the conservative media/voter chain. Stop trying to convert or work with these people and focus on winning and mobilizing the non-voters Dems!
Brian Kilmeade is, imho, the ‘model’ of a repugnican congressional representative: bigoted, ignorant and proud of it. He could get elected anywhere in 'red ‘Murica’.
Such is the rule they would rather not change, decorum and all.
MAYBE he should pay attention to the issue at hand rather than what he WISHES the ‘issue’ to be. The REMARKS were RACIST. Period. Full Stop. If you want to twist and drool and spit and deflect whether POTUS is racist or not, then that’s a separate issue…
“We finally have a leader who speaks our language and everybody’s upset,” Kilmeade said, shaking his head. “What is this world coming to?”
“I’ve also said that members cannot accuse the President of having made bigoted or racist statements."
Wait–what? I seem to remember every comment that Obama made that involved an African American coming under fire for racisim.
Kill me now and stop me from being tempted to ever watch another clip of this Brian guy bloviating in defense of rank Republican cupidity.
“Congressman Collins is going by the manual of parliamentary practice that Thomas Jefferson put into play.”
This is BS. As Cervantes pointed out on a related thread yesterday, the rules in question have nothing to do with Jefferson: in the main, they were written into the book by the Reactionary caucus in the months after Drumpf’s candidacy became a matter of fact.
From Mediaite:
Earlier, we posted about MSNBC airing unearthed footage of President Donald Trump and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein together at a 1992 party in Palm Beach. Now, one particular moment from the video is getting some attention on social media.
In a moment flagged by Time editor at large Anand Giridharadas , Trump — at the 1:30 mark in the video above — can be seen grabbing a woman from behind, and then patting her on the buttock.
The women at the Mar-a-Lago bash were cheerleaders for the Buffalo Bills —
In the linked video, he sure looked like a big fan of Epstein. He also looked like a big fan of the cheerleaders. He looks as happy as a kid in a candy store.
Given that Fox’s low information on-air “personalities” are charged with keeping their viewership appropriately misinformed, I suspect the invocation of Thomas Jefferson will be all anyone needs to hear. The rest is nuance and nuance is for sissies.
Among whites being called racists is bigger crime that making actual racist statements. Kilmeade has an a white audience to comfort, they all have said what Trump said one time or another.
Ya drunken Irish Gobshite
Didn’t ya see the sign They knew what kind of people you are. Go back to your country
Re: the rules:
In general they prohibit saying nasty things about other congressional officials. Yet (as we saw with Steve King) congress does manage to censure its members for racist conduct. And Congress has said some bad stuff about other members it has disciplined, and even expelled.
In other words, I suspect that there is some kind of exception to the rules where you can talk about what someone did when that is the subject of action in the House. (That being said, an actual censure, rather than a “sense of the House” resolution like that passed yesterday, might not meet the “action” threshold)
“Personally” offended. Methinks he, and his ubiquitous ilk, doth protest too much.
Brian Kilmeade is the prime example of why, instead of running his doomed presidential campaign, Mayor Bill De Blasio should be more concerned with solving New York’s bedbug problem.
