https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/10/opinions/why-dont-editorial-boards-call-for-trump-to-resign-lockhart/index.html
By the height of the Watergate scandal in 1974, virtually every major
newspaper in America had called for President Richard Nixon's
resignation. During the investigation and impeachment of Bill Clinton in
1998, more than 100 newspapers called for him to resign.
But President Donald J. Trump? He could stand in the middle of Fifth
Avenue and shoot somebody... and not a single major daily newspaper
would call for his resignation. I admit that -- just like the original Trump quote it references -- that Fifth Avenue statement is a bit hyperbolic, but think about it:
After three years of political and actual carnage under Trump, including Robert Mueller's description of acts that amounted to, he told Congress, obstruction of justice; Trump's "fine people on both sides" reaction to
a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville where a counter-protester
was killed; his rampant conflicts of interest and credible accusations
of his violations of the emoluments clause of the Constitution; his close to 17,000 false statements; a travel ban that primarily targets mostly Muslim-majority countries; impeachment for
alleged extortion of a foreign government (he was acquitted in the
Republican Senate), and the gross mishandling of a deadly pandemic,
you'd think somebody on an editorial board might say it's time for the
President to leave.
This article is a joke. When Trump was still president-elect all the editorial boards were screaming he had to go. On his first day in the White House and every day since, they have been screaming that he has to go. They've been screaming so much, nobody is listening anymore!
ReplyDeleteWhat an interesting strategy! - be so outrageous that people accept being outrageous as normal and then criticize anyone who can still be outraged!
ReplyDeletethat's reminiscent of what you said about the Hareidi screaming and shouting about the State, the army, etc.
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