Posted on 10/08/2018 3:36:35 AM PDT by reaganaut1
American political discourse gets worse by the day, a lesson weve seen first-hand again this weekend. The Twitter mob on the political left is claiming that our Saturday editorial headline, Susan Collins Consents, was intended as a sly rape joke.
The editorial praised Maine Senator Collins for her thoughtful speech on Friday explaining her support for Brett Kavanaughs Supreme Court nomination. We said her thorough consideration was an exemplary case of fulfilling the Senates advice and consent duty under the Constitution. Senators are supposed to offer their advice and then offer or withhold their consent for a presidential nominee. The editorial mentioned advice and consent no fewer than six times.
Yet for some on the political left the editorial wasnt about the Senates constitutional duty or praising Sen. Collins. They said we were making fun of rape. A reporter named Emily Stewart even wrote a story about the headline for Vox, the left-wing website, saying it seems like a rape joke and calling it an apparent double-entendre.
Ms. Stewart may be angling for a job at the New York Times alongside Maggie Haberman, a reporter who retweeted something from someone named Rosa Goldensohn that Its a play on words, get it? With rape. This is the political culture that New York Times reporters like Ms. Haberman marinate in and promote.
Like several readers in our comments section, our first reaction was that these people should get their minds out of the gutter. But the distortion of our headline is worse than that and reflects the lefts corruption of language to serve its political ends.
The left-wing mob doesnt want to credit Senator Collins with making a considered judgment, or our endorsement of her speech as praise for the correct way the Senate should behave in assessing a nominee.
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I did not give the title a second thought when I saw it. The left has become deranged.
But the distortion of our headline is worse than that and reflects the lefts corruption of language to serve its political ends.
The only Commandment for the left:
The leftist orthodoxy is thy god. Thou shalt have no god before it.
The left is very mean. And they will try all means to get to their end.
The LIVers on the left do not even know that a Senators job is to advise and CONSENT...or not. Understanding the Constitution is not for the left. Dem leadership must keep their voters uninformed or they might break away.
Hegelian dialectic
“I see your lips moving. I am offended by your hate speech.”
— The Left
The left has no decency remaining. They used it all way back before I was born. They are an angry, self-loathing cancer on the skin of this country. They need to be rendered incapable of further damaging this country.
Leftists distort everything.
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