Those pouncing, attacking, seizing, warring Republicans
It’s become obvious and commonplace: when Democrats do something for which they can be heartily criticized, instead of criticizing them the MSM attacks and pounces and seizes on the Republican reaction and characterizes it in aggressive and somewhat sinister terms such as the aforementioned attacking and pouncing and seizing, as well as warring.
Call it MSM jujitsu (in the sense of using an opponent’s force against themselves). I don’t know how successful it is—I’m not their intended audience—but they certainly must think it’s successful because it’s standard operating procedure for the MSM.
And so we have this:
“TRUMP’S ALL-OUT WAR AGAINST HOUSE PROBES”
That’s the headline of a Washington Post story (print edition) about the clash between the White House and House Democrats over the latters’ investigations of the former. The article notes that President Trump “is blocking more than 20 separate Democratic inquiries.” According to the Post, this “amount[s] to what many experts call the most expansive White House obstruction effort in decades.”
Let us pause here for a moment to reflect on how verbally clever that is. In using the word “obstruction” in its vernacular colloquial sense, the Post inserts an echo of one of its pet projects, the idea that Trump was guilty of the crime of obstructing justice a la the insinuations of the Mueller Report.
Moreover, the Post has the big picture backwards. It is House Democrats, having launched more than 20 separate investigations of the president, including many relating to his personal and business affairs (and those of family members), who are waging “all-out war” against Trump. They are engaged in the most expansive harassment campaign against a president in decades, and probably ever.
It’s natural — a matter of simple math — that the more investigations the House launches against a president, the more instances of resistance it will encounter. That’s especially true when House committees insist on unreasonable conditions like refusing to let witnesses bring White House lawyers with them.
Whether the accused is some random Republican, Donald Trump, or Judge Kavanaugh in justified outrage against the flimsiness of the potentially destructive charges against him, the person on the right who uses lawful means to launch understandable defenses of him/herself, and shows justifiable anger at what’s being done by those out to destroy him/her, will be characterized by the press as being the aggressor and wrongdoer.
Omri Ceren reacting to WaPo’s “House Republicans criticize Rep. Tlaib over remarks on Holocaust, Israel”: Go ahead and reset the Time Since Republicans Pounced clock to 0″
https://mobile.twitter.com/omriceren/status/1127955547872006144
For a decade and a half, I had a relative by marriage who was a sociopath. This was her favorite ploy. Whatever rude or greedy or hurtful thing she said or did, upon its being discovered, she always blamed the other person for doing the awful thing which she, herself, did. It was never her fault.
Palestinian rules (yes, I know I’m being repetitive).
The Democrats (and their MSM running dogs) are outraged that the GOP has not allowed themselves to be destroyed by the Democrats (the Democrats, who are so obviously more qualified to govern, who really did in fact win the 2016 presidential elections).
The nerve of the deplorable GOP and its Usurper in Chief….
Long Live the Resistance!!
David Marcus, The Federalist: Bowing To The Socialists, Hoyer Says Tlaib Deserves An Apology
https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/13/bowing-to-the-socialists-hoyer-says-tlaib-deserves-an-apology/#.XNm5iWXJcmM.twitter
“For a decade and a half, I had a relative by marriage who was a sociopath. This was her favorite ploy. Whatever rude or greedy or hurtful thing she said or did, upon its being discovered, she always blamed the other person for doing the awful thing which she, herself, did. It was never her fault.” Kate
That is exactly the MO of the democrats, leftist regimes across the world and of the Iranians and Palestinians.
Is denial of reality a determinate factor with sociopaths? Is denial of reality a determinate factor in those with anti-social mentalities? Is denial of reality a determinate factor in those who embrace evil?
Well, GB denial of reality is required to ‘balance’ the minds of leftists, hard core to soft. They live in a world far, far beyond reality. And make everyone else suffer because of their warped perspective.
Doc Zero on point, as usual.
John Hayward was a fantastic contributor to the old Green Room at Hot Air before Salem shut it down, then went to Breitbart – which never used him to his full potential as an essayist in the Mencken mold – and is now on Twitter, but I only read the unrolled threads because I hate trying to decipher linked Tweets 9and I don’t want to encourage them).
Read now before Twitter discovers he is a conservative and suspends his account.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1128267270243876869.html
Edit function substitute:
the “9” should be an “(” — Hayward is still writing straight news posts at Breitbart.
He had a brief run at Human Events as an op-ed writer, but isn’t active there anymore.
https://humanevents.com/author/John-Hayward/