Posted on 12/03/2016 5:02:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
No clear-thinking conservative attacked Barack and Michelle Obamas children over the last eight years. Sasha and (until recently) Malia Obama are just teens, and no matter how nasty politics gets, for the most part decent people (and the media) go out of their way not to make the children of politicians the story.
Or at least, they do if the politician is a Democrat.
Consider what Rosie ODonnell recently said about Barron Trump, the youngest child of President-Elect Donald Trump. The cantankerous comic, who joined and left The View not once, but twice, sent an outrageous Tweet about the ten-year-old boy:
Barron Trump Autistic? she tweeted. If sowhat an amazing opportunity to bring attention to the AUTISM epidemic. ODonnells tweet featured a link to a video analyzing the boys behavior. The clip speculated that the boys movements suggested he suffered from a form of autism.
Raising awareness for a condition by outing a child who doesnt even necessarily have that condition is beyond the pale. Celebrities occasionally do raise awareness for important causes, but its done proactively by adults who understand the consequences. Take Michael J. Fox, for example, who has used his own experience of Parkinsons disease as a platform to raise awareness about the condition and raise money for research for a cure.
Barron Trump is a child who didnt sign up to be a role model.
Although many people on social media erupted in anger over ODonnells tweet, she offered only a weeks-late and grudging apology. There was no crush of op-eds decrying her comments. Her future job prospects will remain as they were before the tweet. We didnt even hear from autism groups (many of whom have celebrity spokespeople) about ODonnells behavior.
Why not? Because it was Donald Trumps child caught in the cross hairs.
Even Trumps grown children are now considered fair game for his critics. The #GrabYourWallet campaign aimed at Ivanka Trump hopes to succeed in getting stores to stop carrying her retail products, thus harming her business. As well, the Halt Action Group recently started an anti-Ivanka Instagram account that juxtaposes glamorous images of Ivanka with captions from people who are angry about her fathers election. Dear Ivanka, one caption reads, Im an American Muslim and I was attacked on the subway, as if Ivanka was somehow personally responsible for this supposed attack.
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Some people might argue that the adult children of presidents are fair game, especially if they campaign for their parents; if so, then why is it that Trumps adult children have come under far greater scrutiny and attack than Chelsea Clinton, who has lived off of her parents largesse since they left the White House, and actively campaigned for her mother during both of Hillarys failed presidential bids? The mainstream media writes puff pieces about Chelsea (and covered her wedding as if she was royaltyoh, wait, the New York Times actually declared that she is royalty); it was left to conservative media outlets to report on Chelseas misuse of Clinton Foundation funds and other ethical lapses, as well as her future plans to run for Congress.
This isnt the first time the children of GOP politicians have been targeted, of course. Remember when Saturday Night Live aired a sketch mocking President George W. Bushs daughters following his re-election? It depicted the duo as dimwitted party girls who questioned their own fathers worth as a leader. Later, when Mitt Romney ran for the Oval Office, SNL mocked his grown children as robotic and stiff.
No outrage ensued.
Although the media (properly) refrained from writing about the Obama children when they were still kids, Malia Obama is now an adult. She recently made headlines when a video surfaced of her smoking marijuana at a party which the cops eventually had to shut down. Why didnt SNL jump on that story, as they did when the Bush daughters had some drunken adventures?
Perhaps the most outrageous attack on a GOP politicians child came from Bill Maher. Heres what the HBO star said in 2011 in an attempt to slam former Alaska Gov. (and Vice Presidential candidate) Sarah Palin:
And when I point out that Sarah Palin is a vainglorious braggart, a liar, a whiner, a professional victim, a scold, a know-it-all, a chiseler, a bully who sells patriotism like a pimp, and the leader of a strange family of inbred weirdos straight out of The Hills Have Eyes, thats not sexist. Im saying it because its true, not because its true of a woman.
For non-horror fans, The Hills Have Eyes features a mutant family that murders strangers for sportand when Maher calls the Palins inbred weirdos, hes including in that group the Palins youngest son, Trig, who was born with Down Syndrome. Imagine the outrage if it was a Democratic candidates special-needs child being maligned.
Mainstream media hypocrisy is nothing new, of course, but left-leaning pundits and journalists are setting a new low with their treatment of Donald Trumps children. Disagree with Trumps political views all you want to, but dont attack his children. Thats not playing fair. Thats deplorable.
Can’t remember that late night host, Dave something, that accused Palin’s youngest daughter of having sex with a baseball player. He had to apologize.
He has since retired. I’m so old I remember when he was funny.
True, but you never hear the MSM mention that. Wouldn't fit their narrative.
Because they lost.
When he was funny?
That had to have been many decades ago
sorry
About the time I got out of the service, circa 1983-85. He had a hilarious show with Larry ‘Bud’ Melman, Chris Elliot, Jay Leno and many more people, plus guests.
Liberals are the most greedy, fascist, hate-filled, mean-spirited, envious, resentful, vicious, close-minded, violent, murdering, child-abusing, amoral, stupid, censoring, horse-punching, book-burning, ignorant, uneducated, unskilled, childish, prejudiced, racist, women-hating, man-hating, perverted, thieving, destructive, American-hating, Christian-hating, muslim-loving, communist, vote-rigging, vulgar, dirty, smelly, regressive, restrictive, prohibitive, bed-wetting, poo-flinging, cop-killing, and scared little lying thumb-sucking idiots God has ever created.
I admit I have called them Malaria and Sharia so often I can’t remember their real names.
Letterman? He’s a jerk.
Or Sausage and Bulimia.
You are that old and not dead? Move over Methuselah!
And those are their good points!
I think her husband supposedly is from Yup'ik ancestry, but I think she hails from Italian heritage doesn't she?
But is wouldn't that more correctly be native eskimo, not natice American Indian?
Great name too. "Barron."
It has a much better ring to it than Shasta or Malaria.....or whatever Barry and Michael named their kids.
Dayum, Toady, tell us what you REALLY think!
I have always considered Malaria and Sharia to be off-limits.
The early to mid-80’s.
The left is viscous and evil when cornered and losing. The left is viscous and evil when controlling and winning. The left is viscous and evil.
Because the Trump’s are ALL Handsome, Accomplished and SMART!!
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