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Grief and Politics

Having observed the political scene for the past half century I sometimes think I have seen it all, but the disparate treatment given to Patricia Smith and the Khan family truly nauseates me.  Note how the CNN talking head in the video above attempts to turn Patricia Smith into a weapon against Trump.  For my entire life most of the media has been in the tank for the Democrat party and each year it gets a bit worse.  Now we have an example of how some parental grief simply does not matter if it cannot be turned against the GOP.  Jim Geraghty at National Review Online gives us the disgusting details:
Hey, remember when the first night of the Republican convention featured Patricia Smith, mother of Sean Smith, one of the Americans slain in Benghazi? Remember how her speech was called a “cynical exploitation of grief”? Or the “unabashed exploitation of private people’s grief” or “the weaponization of grief”? Remember how she “ruined the evening”? How it was, “a spectacle so offensive, it was hard to even comprehend”? How some liberal commentators said, “Mrs. Smith was really most interested in drinking blood rather than healing”? How her speech represented an “early dip into the gutter”? Remember how a GQ writer publicly expressed a desire to beat her to death?

In every interaction about the Khan family, Donald Trump reveals what most observers already knew: He’s a narcissistic ass who can’t even be bothered to fake empathy. But the Democratic convention organizers’ decision to showcase the Khans as the spokespeople for the message that Trump is morally unacceptable to be the leader of the country is the mirror image of the Republican convention organizers’ choice to showcase Smith. And we see that most people’s reaction to each grieving parent aligns precisely with their partisan perspective.

Go here to read the rest.  I will believe the outrage of the media against Trump over the Khan family when I see a fraction of that outrage for Clinton lying to a grieving mother to her face as to why her son died.

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@FMShyanguya
Tuesday, August 2, AD 2016 3:21pm

It ought to be clear that the Hillary Rodham Clinton in the One, the Chosen One.
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Tuesday, August 2, AD 2016 11:07pm

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Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd
Wednesday, August 3, AD 2016 2:19am

The media has no moral compass or rather uses moral issues to support immoral ends. We should be hearing from the Catholic Church on this kind of thing. But we won’t as they are generally in bed with Democrats and as secularized as the media. At least that’s the way it appears. Shameful to say the least.

Micha Elyi
Micha Elyi
Thursday, August 4, AD 2016 2:32am

Ironically, if Muslims weren’t allowed in America, Khan wouldn’t have deployed and died.
How much simpler can it get?

Seriously, I dislike Trump but I detest the crooked Mrs. Clinton and all her false show and all her myrmidons, especially her servant Democrat media operatives with bylines.

Donald Link
Donald Link
Tuesday, August 9, AD 2016 4:48pm

While I do not judge the condition of Mrs. Clinton’s soul, I can not help but remember the old adage of being careful what one says while standing in the vicinity of a thunderstorm.

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