Why Hasn’t the Outrage Mob Come for Mika Brzezinski?
“angrily called Secretary of State Mike Pompeo a “wannabe dictator’s buttboy” on Wednesday”
In April of this year, Laura Ingraham of FOX News faced a full-blown boycott campaign for being mildly critical of David Hogg. Just last week, comedian Kevin Hart lost his gig as host of the Oscars when the media dredged up gay jokes he made on Twitter years ago.
Yesterday, Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, used a gay slur to describe Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Where is the angry mob?
Why does Mika get a pass?
David Rutz of the Washington Free Beacon has details:
Brzezinski Blasts Pompeo Over Response to Khashoggi Murder: He’s Like a ‘Wannabe Dictator’s Buttboy’
MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski angrily called Secretary of State Mike Pompeo a “wannabe dictator’s buttboy” on Wednesday in criticism of his response to Saudi Arabian crown prince Mohammed bin Salman’s reported role in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Pompeo appeared on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday, where he toed the Trump administration’s line on the murder, saying it was unclear what role the crown prince played and touting the importance of the relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.
“The murder of Jamal Khashoggi was a tragic incident. It was heinous. It is not something America approves of,” he said. “But America has an important ally in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”…
“I understand that Donald Trump doesn’t care … But why doesn’t Mike Pompeo care right now?” she asked. “Are the pathetic deflections that we just heard when he appeared on Fox and Friends, is that a patriot speaking, or a wannabe dictator’s buttboy? I’m dead serious. I’m asking, are these the words of a patriot?”
Here’s the video:
Mika later addressed the comment with an “oops” on Twitter:
Totally agree with you -SUPER BAD choice of words .. I should have said “water boy”… like for football teams or something like that.. apologize to @SenatorDurbin too! SO SORRY! https://t.co/zIqsGdK3Tk
— Mika Brzezinski (@morningmika) December 12, 2018
Richard Grennell responded:
accepting apologies is important. We all fail. But I don’t see that you’ve actually apologized to gays? Your words demean, mock and therefore try to control whole groups by minimizing our humanity. @morningmika https://t.co/whNqjHYjfn
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) December 12, 2018
So did Donald Trump Jr.:
This is disgusting! How can @KevinHart4real essentially be forced to lose his Oscar’s gig for comments he made years ago as a comedian, but Mika can make a seriously homophobic slur on a major news station, have the network try to cover it up & its not an issue? Give me a break! https://t.co/dTaBMkJa7x
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) December 12, 2018
Joe Concha, media reporter for The Hill is probably right about this:
This “butt boy” comment could be problematic for Mika. Good news for her is that Colbert made similar comments some dubbed homophobic last year and no reprimand came. Smart money here is apology and no consequences. https://t.co/NSDGdkwnfW
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) December 12, 2018
This is not an isolated incident on MSNBC, either. In June, MSNBC’s Joy Reid came under fire for homophobic content on her own blog, which she denied writing.
We are living in a time of blatant double standards. People on the left get away with things that are more outrageous than anything that would be tolerated from anyone on the right.
Does anyone believe Mika’s apology would be accepted if she worked at FOX News?
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“Why does Mika get a pass?”
I guess you forget who Daddy is?
Ok, I should have known…
https://heavy.com/news/2017/06/mika-brzezinski-family-father-zbigniew-ex-husband-jim-hoffer-children-engaged-photos/
As a gay man I resent homosexuality being used as a bludgeon for any reason. I can take a joke. I can laugh at gay jokes. Some of the best gay jokes are told by gay people.
However when useing homosexuality to degrade someone with whom you disagree or to use it to silence someone because it’s the cause celleb. That I resent. Will someone please bring back common sense and decorum.
You certainly have the right to be offended by whatever you like. We have the right not to care. I’M offended by plenty of stuff that gays do and say. That’s life.
And I support you right to be offended. I even support your right to be offensive.
COMMON SENSE would dictate that biological males become fathers and biological females become mothers. The actions of the LGBT speak so loud that I cannot hear what they’re saying, but they have the “right” to not care about my analysis or evaluation and continue to destroy ‘themselves’ with fantastical imaginations.
For Don, Jr: when did MSNBC become a “major news station”?
Do as I say, not as I do.
We all know why nothing will happen.
This PC bullshit sickens me.
It’s the double standard that bothers me.
Tongue in cheek question, no doubt. The answer is pretty obvious.
Why is anyone surprised? It has always been like this. It’s like saying, ‘democrats are the real racists’. Well no kidding, they know it, we know it, everyone knows it. No one really cares it’s baked in the cake.
Oh, the party of Clinton, Bull Connors and Kennedy is corrupt? Shocker! It’s a one way street. Quit pretending it’s anything else. The only time one of theirs gets clipped is to encourage the others. Somebody quit clapping too soon.
Where was this outrage when Iran was killing American soldiers(still is by the way) and Obama sent $150,000,000,000 in cash to Iran and opened up the world market to them…crickets!
I despise hypocrites!
Sounds like “teabaggers” redux.
The Left doesn’t care what gay activists grouse about, as long as they stay on the plantation.
Mika’s intellectual crime here isn’t the primitive schoolyard name-calling, it’s her grotesque debasement of the concept of “patriot.”
Because Media Matters hasn’t called its NPCs into action.
Mika is a useful idiot for the liberal/Progressive leadership. As long as she is useful, any of her peccadilloes will be ignored by the PTB [Powers That Be]. Also, the left cares very little about members of the LGBT “community”. The members of that community are virtually statistically insignificant. The LPs only “champion” the interests of that group to drive a wedge into society. The LP leadership does not care about the black community either. But that community is much more statistically viable and is monolithically supportive of LPs through the Democrat party. If she had used the N word, instead of the B word, there would likely be hell to pay.
However, it is always refreshing to see liberal’s disdain for the fringe groups that they publicly “support” and claim to care about.
‘wannabe dictator’s buttboy.’
Uh, Mika. Obama is no longer potus, and Pompeo never worked for him, so you’re wack-a-doodle off base.
The reason for no outrage remains the same – Fen’s Law: Leftists don’t truly believe the things they lecture about to the rest of us.
It’s why I don’t care about the outrage social media mobs targeting conservatives with accusations of misogyny, racism, homophobia, xenophobia, whatever.
Outside of a capital offense conviction, I don’t care what kind of low-life sleeze ball a politician might be. All I care about is if he or she will vote or opine the correct way to make government smaller and more limited.
Period. That’s it. I’ll leave the good moral life example to my pastor and church family.
Well, word is that Mika didn’t make this morning’s show, so maybe MSNBC is contemplating at least a wrist slap.
Because the ‘Outrage Mob’ is only outraged when a Republican says or does what their current ‘outrage’ is.
No Outrage – Bill Clinton sexually harassing, groping, diddling numerous women culminating getting Lewinsky’s from a young intern in the Oval Office – team to demean harassed women – Bimbo Eruptions; just sex, nothing to do with how he does his job; personal matter between Bill and his wife; etc.
President Trump – unproven allegations from over 10 years ago by those who now must be believed (Playboy Bunny and Porn Star) – grounds for impeachment.
Maybe Joe’s Butt-Girl should reflect on her inner homophobia. . . .
Author, in regards to your article title, you aren’t REALLY asking this, are you? The reason why she hasn’t been railroaded by the leftist outrage mob (yet) is that she has female Commiecrat privilege. They almost NEVER get to suffer the consequences of their various pratfalls, misdemeanors and felonies. The only recent example I can think of is uber-corrupt Congresscritter Corrine Brown, she of the absurd wigs, going to the slammer for bilking her own education charity.