Posted on 11/15/2017 5:35:02 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Not an Onion story. I swear. Though I wouldn’t blame readers for doubting me.
The Washington Post published an article today by Avi Selk ripping Roy Moore’s campaign for describing Moore as being the victim of a “witch hunt.”
So what’s got Avi’s undies in a twist? The fact that most victims of actual witch hunts, like the ones in Salem, Mass. back in the day, were women.
Believe it or not, the headline is: “Roy Moore says he’s a ‘witch hunt’ victim. Tell that to thousands of women killed in real ones.”
Get the rest of the story here.
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The Salem witch hunts were initiated by young ladies !
How many Dems belong to that Socialist organization?
Bernie Sanders was only ever willing to call himself a Democrat to get on the national ballot for President.
And look at local political races, I’m seeing more open Communists run for Mayoral races.
Apparently all of them.
Neither Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz nor the Hildabeast, could describe the difference between a socialist and a RAT.
When metaphors are outlawed, only outlaws will have metaphors.
From May:
Investigating Clinton & Obama’s Benghazi Debacle Was a “Witch Hunt”
“I’ve said it before and I will say it again: There has been a witch hunt against every prominent person of color that has served alongside the President. And this is part of it.”
— MSNBC’s Richard Wolffe on Now with Alex Wagner, November 27, 2012, talking about criticism of Susan Rice for her Benghazi lies.
Investigating Obama’s IRS Targeting of Conservatives Was a “Witch Hunt”
“You would think they [Republicans] may have learned something from their experience in the Clinton years where — you know what? — going after scandals and, you know, in that case, it was all the way to impeachment, really did nothing to harm President Clinton’s numbers, in fact. They just kept getting higher and higher, and the economy was part of that, but also this witch hunt was another part of it....Republicans have to get onto a position that voters like and stop personalizing it, because otherwise they’re going to face a disaster in 2016, and they’ll lose their third in a row.”
— MSNBC.com executive editor Richard Wolffe talking about the investigation into the IRS targeting of conservative groups, MSNBC’s PoliticsNation, June 6, 2013.
Investigating Radical Islam Was a “Witch Hunt”
“The hearing [on radical Islam] hasn’t even started yet and already you are being compared to Joe McCarthy, hell bent on a witch hunt....There are a lot of Muslim-Americans who are concerned about it. They’re gonna feel alienated because of it. They are fearful of it. They’re fearful of Islamophobia, more Islamophobia, in this country. How do you avoid that? Or do you care if that’s a byproduct?”
— Co-host Meredith Vieira to Rep. Peter King (R-NY) on NBC’s Today, March 9, 2011.
Investigating Bill Clinton’s Perjury and Obstruction Was a “Witch Hunt”
“I think that in history, I mean you know were talking 50 years from now, will be seen as his shining moment, that he stood up to that witch hunt. I don’t see that as a big badge of dishonor for Clinton....I’m glad he lied. He lied about something that deserves a lie. When he disputed the word ‘is’, I was like, ‘you go girl!’ You tell them that. That was like the shining moment of his presidency.”
— Bill Maher, host of ABC’s Politically Incorrect, October 13, 2000 Chris Rock Show on HBO.
“This guy [Ken Starr] is leaving as a pious prosecutor, an inept prosecutor, someone who engaged in partisan witch hunts for whatever the reasons.”
— Wall Street Journal Executive Washington Editor Al Hunt on CNN’s Capital Gang, July 3, 1999.
“Speaker Wright, during McCarthy’s sort of communist witch hunt, the really turning point was when one person being grilled by the Senator said ‘ do you have no decency.’ Do you see anybody with the credibility in Washington right now to ask that same question?”
— Matt Lauer talking about Clinton’s impeachment with former Democratic House Speaker Jim Wright, who resigned over ethical problems, December 21, 1998 Today.
“History will eventually record that Washington’s excruciating investigative culture of perjury traps and sexual witch hunts was a greater threat to the republic than Clinton’s illicit sex and lying, no matter how sordid and stupid they were.”
— Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter, October 5, 1998 issue.
“Couldn’t this be just a witch hunt, couldn’t the Democrats and President Clinton’s people who’ve been defending him all these months be right, that even though he screwed up there’s some political motivation there. Couldn’t that be right?”
— Good Morning America co-host Lisa McRee to humorist P.J. O’Rourke, September 10, 1998.
“Lots of people in Washington are expecting the White House to go on the offensive with regard to Kenneth Starr and his investigation, and people are expecting detailed questions to leak out of that grand jury testimony, questions that make Kenneth Starr and his attorneys look like zealots who are on some sort of witch hunt. Do you think that might happen?”
— Co-host Lisa McRee to Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz, on the August 19, 1998 Good Morning America.
“We don’t live in Salem and I think the country is sick of the witch hunt....The notion that Ken Starr would indict this woman for a possible consensual relationship, if it existed, is a public relations disaster and I think a legal disaster also in the terms of how this country operates and what we stand for.”
— Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift on the McLaughlin Group, April 4, 1998.
etc. etc.
Faux outrage. Everyone understands the generic term.
This is just an opportunity for them to huff and puff and claim the white guy is a racist and/or a misogynist.
Great research!
Agreed. “Witch hunt” is such a common term that to claim it offends long-dead women who were victims of witch hunts hundreds of years ago is completely ridiculous, and faux outrage exemplified!
Yes, their headline alone shows their level of intelligence:
“Tell that to thousands of women killed in real ones”
Salem: They were primarily hanged. And I think one man was pressed to death.
Well, dozens at least!
Maybe a queer or 2...
I still think its a misreading of ye olde documentS....those aren’t “w”’s they are “b”’s
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