Posted on 03/01/2017 6:33:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Via Newsbusters and RCP, go figure that the most affecting moment of the night, more memorable than anything in eight years of Obama SOTUs, would irritate the left more than any other.
The claim here is that Carryn Owens was treated like a “prop.” Question: Was Khizr Khan a prop? Hillary Clinton benefited politically far more directly from his cameo at the convention than Trump will from this four years from now. Follow-up question: Should Owens not have been invited to the speech? Once she accepted the invitation, should Trump have refrained from thanking her? According to Sean Spicer, he asked her permission beforehand to acknowledge her, which she granted. (“The president said he would like to raise this, and she said, ‘I would like that.’”) The problem with the “prop” argument, as Mary Katharine Ham explained last night, is that Carryn Owens isn’t a child. She wasn’t kidnapped. She chose to attend when no one would have blamed her for declining and she was palpably moved by the gratitude expressed by the audience. If she’s okay with what happened and you’re not, whose prop is she really?
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The source of irritation among Trump’s critics, I think, is the fact that Ryan Owens’s father lambasted Trump in a Miami Herald story a few days ago for putting boots on the ground in Yemen needlessly, in his opinion. William Owens wouldn’t agree to meet Trump either when Ryan’s remains were returned to the United States. There are few political attacks more potent than the grieving family of a fallen soldier criticizing an official for incompetence that contributed to their loved one’s death, something with which both the left and the right have experience. The fact that Carryn Owens was willing to appear at Trump’s speech and accept the nation’s gratitude to her husband complicates the attack, though. It’s harder to turn Owens’s father into Cindy Sheehan if Ryan’s wife is in the gallery standing next to Ivanka Trump. That’s why she has to be called a “prop” — only if she’s blinded by grief, not thinking clearly, exploited by the White House can the “family blames Trump” narrative be preserved. If she has no agency of her own then her opinion doesn’t count.
There’s misinformation in both clips too. Moore sneers that Trump authorized the Yemen raid at dinner with his politically inexperienced son-in-law Jared Kushner. True. Also at the dinner but unmentioned: Joint Chiefs chairman Joe Dunford and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who had signed off on the raid two days before and who was, allegedly, enthusiastic about its game-changer potential against AQAP. As president, Trump bears ultimate responsibility for what went wrong in the raid but there’s nothing to support the idea that he forced it on an unwilling military. Military professionals, including professionals in the Obama administration, had developed the plan and approved it. The fact that it didn’t achieve its objectives (which is disputed) doesn’t mean it was ill-conceived. As for Maher, he hits Trump here for using Carryn Owens as the easiest possible applause line, saying, “Who wouldn’t stand and applaud for a war widow?” Well … Democrats, actually. See this post by Ben Shapiro tracking Democratic reaction in the chamber while the rest of the audience stood and cheered. Being part of “the Resistance” evidently means sitting on your hands even during moments that should transcend partisanship if it requires clapping for something that came out of Trump’s mouth.
Turns out the future of American politics is Van Jones as the voice of reason on the left. Good luck, everyone.
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Maher prefers to defend pedophilia.......
Their god recognized, applauded and supported all sorts of anti-American freaks.
They are utterly evil. To their very core.
Their hatred of America cuts clean to the bone.
Insane, simply insane - only dorks like these two could insist that Trump should not have honored Ryan Owens.
Of course what really has their panties in a twist is not that Trump honored Owens but the way that honoring was received by members of Congress and the millions watching at home.
There are many ways of dealing with a severe case of butthurt.
Some of them are quite strange and counterproductive.
The fact that we are even discussing this gives it credibility . She honored her husband the best way she could. I thought it beautiful. She lost half of herself and will never be whole again. It matters not what others think.
“Maher, Moore attack Trump for recognizing Ryan Owens’s wife during speech”
Only because it was very effective.
Attacking a Gold Star window. Shameless
Where were Maher and Moore when Obama recognized a severely wounded veteran at the State of the Union in 2014?
Sgt. First Class Cory Remsburg was seated beside first lady Michelle Obama as President Barack Obama heralded his sacrifice in Afghanistan.
During his final tour of duty in October 2009, Remsburg was severely injured by a roadside bomb in Kandahar...
This is slamming of Trump for something they praised themselves for doing is a typical Democrat slime tactic. The rules are always different for Democrats, the two faced essobees.
It was also effective to keep the Left from turning Owens father into “Cindy Sheehan, Part Deux”.
Even the lefties on Fox, Beckel and Geraldo, didn’t agree with this disgusting reaction from some of the more anti-American, anti-military radicals.
50 million people watched that astonishing speech....Trump had the democrats paralyzed and dazed....stock market skyrocketing..coal industry roaring back. And its only been 45 days. We may be witnessing the death of the democrat party. This Trump guy is amazing....
Desperation of the insignificant.
Where is the 24/7 gold star family outrage at from the media?
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