Posted on 04/24/2017 1:47:46 PM PDT by drewh
Liberal activist and Hollywood director Rob Reiner slammed President Donald Trump on Monday and suggested that Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election was the "greatest attack" on American democracy since Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
"We've had the greatest attack of this democracy since 1941, and we have to understand that," Reiner said on MSNBC.
Reiner also suggested that American society might collapse given the pressure Russia placed on democratic institutions in the country.
Japan drew the United States into World War II after attacking its naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941, killing more than 2,000 Americans soldiers. Reiner did not mention the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed more than 3,000 Americans.
"Great societies last 250, maybe 300 years. Well, we're at that cusp right now. The question is, will our institutions withstand this attack that we've had from a hostile, foreign power?" Reiner asked in an apparent reference to Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
He added that Trump wrongly attacked the press by using the term "fake news."
The media, Reiner argued, should not "normalize" Trump's presidency through its reporting. He appeared to warn MSNBC host Chris Jansing that although her job entailed reporting on Trump's presidency, she and others in the media shouldn't treat recent events as "normal."
Reiner criticized elected politicians for not decrying the attacks on American democracy, asking why Republican leaders, in particular, did not take a stand.
"Where are our Republican leaders, elected leaders, standing up and saying ‘we've been attacked here, our democracy is being compromised?'" Reiner asked.
Reiner has spoken out strongly against Trump since the president's emergence on the political stage. Last year, he said Trump's candidacy for president had "unearthed" racists in America.
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Once a meathead, always a meathead.
You still would have lost, meathead.
Define ‘Attack’?
Seems to me there’s a lot of outlet that peddle ‘information’ and fake news Like RTV, National Enquirer and the likes of the now defunct Gawker no one mentions them as a threat. People are wicked smhart enough to distinguish between these and propaganda from Russian sources? Puhlease.
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Wikileaks says the leaker was a Democrat. Other sources say it was a disgruntled Bernie supporter, working for the DNC, who has been identified in some articles. Of course a pro-Bernie socialist has Russian socialist connections! The problem with the narrative though is that I haven’t seen any description of a mechanism for Russia affecting the election.
The things that mattered were internal: The leaker inside the DNC mattered, as did the non-secure passwords used by others in Camp Hillary. Hillary’s incompetence, health problems, and lack of any positive personality traits mattered. The Wiener exposure mattered, especially the timing. Corruption on both sides in the primaries mattered. Russia? Tell me what they are alleged to have done if you want me to care.
Some, perhaps many, in Hollywood are on our side.
The only way they get to express conservative or center political views is when they have so much money and are close to retirement.
See Clint Eastwood and Mel Gibson and to a lesser degree, Jay Leno.
The greatest attack on my blood pressure is listening to a douche like Meathead!
It looks like liberal activist and Hollywood director Rob Reiner has a seriously disordered mind. Like Democrats and communists Rob Reiner gets too much of his information from CNN. There is ZERO evidence that Russia was meddling in the election.
It just does not make sense because there is no description of exactly what they could have done to change the votes, or even generally what tangible things the Russians could have accomplished to change the votes.
Does Rob Reiner have a history of drug use?
Those pesky Russians are waiting for the right moment to hamstring President Trump with profound revelations of various misdeeds.
South Park sure had Rainer nailed to a T!
Wait. What is that strange sound ? Ah. It is just Rob Renier showing Meg Ryan how to fake an orgasm. Stick to your day job Rob.
His tombstone will read “Meathead”. Touching. Appropriate.
Back when his show was on the air, there was no alternative media to decry it.
Idiot? Lunatic? Both.
I thought 9/11 was far more serious. But Meathead is a Meathead and he is not thinking straight. He has gorged on DNC talking points and that has removed logic and fact based analysis from his brain.
He is a robot, a talking puppet, and it’s very creepy.
Russia Russia Russia is the new mantra, from a Democrat Party that failed and cowardly laid down to the Soviets from, the surrender of Eastern Europe, to the Bay of Pigs, and the mess that was Vietnam until Reagan grabbed the reins of power. Now the Dems lecture on Russia!
Meathead always manages to outdo himself. Never doubt that he can always say something even dumber.
Except the fact that we can prove who attacked Pearl Harbor.
As John Belushi said, it was the Germans.
The Bronx was an alternate universe.
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