Posted on 11/27/2015 2:56:21 PM PST by EveningStar
...Mocking a disabled person for their disability has been universally passe since at least the 1950s, and so some of his supporters have been out on twitter over the last couple of days offering various defenses for Trump's behavior on this video. It is important to note that Trump himself has (as far as I know) offered only this by way of "explanation" for his actions:
Defense 1. Trump didn't know Koveleski was disabled...
So, to believe that Trump had no idea what Koveleski looked like or the particulars of his disability, you would have to believe a) that the entire written record of their numerous interactions is fabricated, and Koveleski in particular (the very person on whose word Trump is staking his 9/11 claims) is flat out lying b) that he said "the poor guy" when referring to Koveleski because... well, I have no idea what the "because" is even supposed to be on that one and c) Trump was able to pull off an imitation of Koveleski's specific physical deformity purely by chance...
2. "The Media" mocked Trig Palin for having Down's Syndrome, so they are fair game.
...if Tom Brokaw insulted Dick Cheney, that would not give Rick Santorum free license to punch Jake Tapper in the face. That's more or less exactly the defense that is being raised by Trump supporters, though.
3. No one is above mockery...
The problem comes when people are mocked, not for the things they've done, but for the physical conditions over which they have no control...
Trump has demonstrated time and time again that he simply is not suited for the office either by temperament or by judgment...
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
My "main squeeze" happens to be my spouse.
How about you just slithering off, back under the rock you crawled out from underneath and go back to sleep; didums?
He does just keep digging, doesn’t he? LOL
Just because one has a handicap does not mean they are a saint....many are horrendous a-holes...personally know a few and their enablers.
“The ME is coming apart and the economy is profoundly sick, and the thing we should worry about is whether a candidate is sufficiently “sensitive”?”
That’s pretty much the whole point of the thing, isn’t it?
The media depend on us for their existence. Why don’t we require them to act right?
“And who will Trump hire to build the wall that will be inescapable, or impossible to enter...let me guess...the Mexicans?”
How about some of the 93 million Americans who are today without jobs?
FDR got broke and unemployed men to work on WPA projects. There is no reason Trump couldn’t do the same.
The reporters condition is congenital so he has had it from birth
“Now I remember when folks on Free Republic thought that George W. Bush could do no wrong”
No, you don’t. You don’t remember any such thing.
“And Trump went on to say that government proved to be a disaster during the Bush administration. So how do you square those things together?”
Firstly, I doubt your version of events. For the sake of argument, though, adults don’t have to “square” such things. It is only a child’s immature sense of fairness that demands such things.
No matter what Trump may have said or done in the past, he is the **only** one of the candidates of any party who even **says** the right things about the most pressing crises of our day. That earns him a lot of slack.
I saw a clip of this “reporter” someone linked on FR. His hand periodically twitched. It was nothing like Trump’s exaggerated movements.
Trump was mocking a weasely liar. He absolutely was not mocking the handicapped.
Your TDS is causing hallucinations.
Concurring bump. NYT laid a snare by putting a crippled reporter on Trump's case, hoping Trump would swing.
Well, guess what, politics ain't beanbag, and if "other-abled" </cant> playas wanna play, then they can step up to the pass line and pay.
Screw Kovaleski for a whiny little bitch.
I'm for Cruz myself, but Trump deserves our support in this hoked-up p*ssing contest with the vindictive, nasty, conspiratorial editors of the New York Slimes.
Any REAL republican would have been ridden out on a rail.
Presidential demeanor?
http://www.redstate.com/2015/11/27/can-donald-trumps-mockery-disabled-reporter-defended/
That's what Rove keeps whispering in the ears of RiNO tools. It's what he counseled George W. Bush when we were steadily losing the 2006 and 2008 elections to MSM backstabbing, sliminess, and treason.
It's what he was telling everyone who'd listen, on Charlie Rose last night, about how Republicans need to AVOID conservative candidates like the plague because minorities media wimmins demongrafx, bla bla bla.
While pushing his new book idolizing Gilded Age beau ideal Wm. McKinley, whom I identified ages ago as the man whose policies the GOP-E have been trying to replicate since Bush 41 was rammed down our throat in 1988.
Maybe we should celebrate by arranging a new Triangle Shirtwaist Fire to showcase America's commitment to the Business Roundtable's management priorities.
It pure, bully mockery - he says ‘ya gotta SEE this guy...” and then launches into the mockery - watch the hands.
For the deniers - pot other videos showing these are normal gestures for trump -
Freepers used to be honest with themselves
http://www.redstate.com/2015/11/27/can-donald-trumps-mockery-disabled-reporter-defended/
Screw "demeanor" and "TONE" too !
I just watched the clip for the first time...Trump was definitely NOT mocking a guy's disability...Trump was mocking the 'feigned' ignorance of the reporter who claimed the celebration event never happened even tho he wrote about it, clearly lying...
BRAVO !
Not all of them and you are a great example of someone who isn’t honest at all.
Lmao!!!!
Thin Q, sir. <Bows deeply, then finds gay NYT editor in the back row with a chunk of raw potato>
Beg pardon for the pleonasm, "gay NYT editor".
Come on out, Erik. We know you’re in their.
Go away for a day and the thread TRIPLED in size!
We might be ON to something here!
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