Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) appeared on MSNBC over the weekend and talked trash about Trump for three solid minutes, calling him a wannabe dictator. Then, when the host brought up the recent shooting of two Democrats in Minnesota, she suddenly claimed that we all need to tone down the rhetoric.Maybe Duckworth should lead by example and begin by examining her own choice of words.NewsBusters reports (emphasis is theirs):
Lemire started with this Democrat-friendly spin: “The vast, vast majority of these ‘No Kings’ protests were very peaceful and the crowds were huge. White House officials tell me that they, the crowd at the military parade, not what they had hoped, certainly smaller than expected. What are your thoughts as a veteran about that spectacle we saw this weekend about the military, the army being honored for 250th birthday, but also falling on President Trump’s birthday.”
Yeah, this was not about the army’s 250th birthday. You wanted to celebrate the army’s 250th birthday and spend $60 million. You could have spent it on tuition for our troops. Funding for military families. You could feed all the homeless veterans in this country. So, if you truly wanted to celebrate the army’s 250th birthday, then spend the money the correct way, not with a parade for a tinpot dictator wannabe, which is what Donald Trump is. I felt that it was obscene to have done that at a time when we’re trying to cut funding for V.A. when we’re firing people from their jobs in federal government. And frankly, we’re the greatest military in the face of the Earth. We don’t need a parade to prove it…
Ironically, Duckworth added later when asked about the political murders in Minnesota that “I represent everybody in the state of Illinois. We should be working to bring down the level of rhetoric, the level of targeting of one another. And that starts with every one of us that’s elected. But it also starts at the White House.”
Note how MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire sets up questions for her like a tee-ball coach:
Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota is doing the same thing. After months of calling Trump a dictator, and suggesting that Democrats need to get meaner, while addressing the shooting in his state, he’s suddenly talking about how we have to find ways to a deal with our political differences.
Who is this ‘we’ that these Democrats keep talking about? All of the inciting rhetoric is coming from them.
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