With the TV-news yapping about Melania Trump’s speech plagiarism winding down, TV talking heads finally are beginning to notice how “dangerous” has been the original rhetoric spoken at this weeks’ RNC.
On a special RNC edition of Bill Maher’s Real Time on HBO last night, panelist Dan Savage agreed with the host that the hate at this year’s convention is “out of control” though a certain amount of tearing down the other party goes on at all political conventions.
“You have Israelis writing columns comparing what is being said now about Hillary with what was said about Rabin before he was assassinated by an unhinged right winger,” Savage said.
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in November of 1995 after attending an anti-violence rally in support of the Oslo Accords, by a conservative opposed to the pact.
“This is the ugliest convention I’ve ever seen and it’s really an extension of the candidate, of the nominee,” Minnesota’s Sen. Al Franken told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell this morning.
“Here’s a guy whose whole campaign started with ‘Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers’, and ‘John McCain’s not a war hero because he got captured’, and ‘I saw on TV Muslims, thousands of Muslims in New Jersey, cheering when the World Trade Center went down’, and on and on. There’s too much to chronicle. And so it’s probably not surprising that you see a convention in which there’s so much spewing of hate: ‘lock her up, lock her up’. And worse. A lot worse.”
The Secret Service says it is investigating Trump adviser Al Baldasaro, after he said in an interview that presumptive Dem nominee Hillary Clinton should be “put in the firing line and shot for treason” because of the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
“Donald Trump’s overtaking of the Republican party – and his constant escalation of outrageous rhetoric – is in danger of mainstreaming the kind of hatred that has long been relegated to the fringes of American politics where it belongs,” Clinton Communications Director Jen Palmieri said in a statement about the investigation. “This week at the Republican convention, we’ve seen the clearest embodiment yet of this dangerous phenomenon.”
Even if Clinton wins, the scorched earth campaigning of the GOP has ensured that her presidency will be hampered by the phony “lock her up” lies that Obama had with the birther lies and ensures that the country will remain polarized.
It was Hillary who was the original birther back in 2008. Educate yourself.
I’m a liberal and Dan Savage is a shill for Criminal Hill. Nothing he says in support of her has any validity…
If you’re a liberal, then I’m the Queen of Romania.
Good luck with that wall Pedro.
Because all Hispanics are illegal, right? Racist prat.
No just the ones with American born children who grow up to be federal judges.
I’m sure we all believe you are a liberal. Either way, you seem to have completely missed his point.
Anyone endure that wretchedly comical parade of under qualified automatons the GOP marched out to give speeches the past few days? It is truly the end of days for this country.
I’m looking forward to the shuck and jive artists performing at the DNC next week. It’ll be good for a laugh. Or at least as something to help get me to sleep when Ambien won’t.
It’s just the end of the GOP as a viable party; a group of frightened, racist, hypocrites who no longer believe in the values that used to be the cornerstone of America’s strength. At least the myth used to be strong.
That’s rich coming from Dan Savage who spews hate even at children. Of course he “forgets” that the liberal media (Hillary’s sock puppets) constantly attacks Trump and refers to him as Hitler and everything else under the sun, obviously hoping to dehumanize him to the point some nut goes out and assassinates him for them just like it’s made to be “okay” for them to attack Trump’s supporters physically including hunting them down like dogs in the street.
Not sure what planet you’re living on, “Anonymous”, but the one we’re living on here tells us there’s only ONE CANDIDATE in this race who has openly called for violence, offered to pay the legal bills of a man who attacked a rally protester, and pulled the press credentials of a newspaper he thought was giving him “unfair coverage.” Not to mention the coded racial language and tweets he’s used to signal to all his white supremacist followers, making it acceptable for them to spew their vile to Latinos, Blacks, Muslims, gays, women… anyone who’s not a good ol’ American white man. If you don’t wake up and smell the coffee real soon, you’re going to be living in a Putin-like police state where even this free-flow exchange of ideas we’re having right now we’ll be monitored and up for prosecution. Wake. Up.
Classic victim mentality of the failed white person.
And, BTW, I’m white, just not a failure.
I remain confused by the hatred. The lack of civll discussion. The internet comments sections birthed into reality. Sad.
I wouldn’t vote for either candidate but I fnd the irony of this years election jaw dropping. I use to love to bash Republicans, the Bush crime syndicate made that easy.
However , with no passion for either candidate since I find them equally detestable. I must say the rhetoric and lies and the made up comments attributed to Trump is eye opening. I use to count on the right for that. However, I’ve never seen the vicious, mostly unfounded attacks against Trump and his wife and children detestable. Snoopy77 is a perfect example. Where is your proof? All I’ve seen is protesters start violence going to a Trump convention. He said about the refugee’s from Syria we need a 30 day hold to check their backround, I think that’s rational. I’ve never heard him say he hates any group. I read in several interviews that 13 times over the past 20 years he has denounced David Duke and called him a pariah. So the press asks him one more time because it’s a set up.
Hillary just recently accepted $22 million in “contribuions” for her founation to broker a deal as “Secretary of State” to then supply 5 Arab countries with the worst human rights on record mustard gas, tanks, drones, an AK-47’s. Get them out of America and sell them ti the people that want to kill us? These governments that will kill you if you are gay, if a woman looks at a man, shows her ankles, speaks in public, forget jews they are not allowed in the country and Chrsitianity is an act punishable by death.
It’s not that Trump is so great, I just don’t like liars period. It’s the fact that you are character assasinating Trump by protecting a lying, thieving 9 figure liberal neocon that makes you a fraud, If Trump is Hitler then Hillary is Chairman Mao. The point is your comments are empty because the candidate you and lib/progressive’s/Dems. support makes you immoral.
Here is another hateful remark from the Donald…..
John O’Donnell, who was president of the Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino and later wrote a memoir about his experience, said Trump blamed financial difficulties partly on African American accountants.
“I’ve got black accountants at Trump Castle and at Trump Plaza — black guys counting my money!” O’Donnell’s book quoted Trump as saying. “I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. Those are the kind of people I want counting my money. Nobody else. . . . Besides that, I’ve got to tell you something else. I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is; I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.”