Posted on 10/11/2018 1:44:21 PM PDT by jazusamo
Full title: Sen. Hirono Condemns McConnell Calling Leftist Protestors a 'Mob', Says It 'Dangerously Underestimates' Them
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Thursday for using the word “mob” in reference to left-wing protestors that have been targeting GOP lawmakers over the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
“It is the richest of ironies that the majority leader has taken to calling those opposed to the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh a mob when several nights a month the president whips his supporters into a frenzy to attack his target of choice,” she said in a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting.
Hirono then issued a somewhat ominous message to McConnell, warning him that he was “dangerously underestimating" what Kavanaugh's confirmation had "awakened."
“To characterize the women who identified with Dr. Ford, who demonstrated and marched here to Washington from around the country to demand the Senate not confirm a man credibly accused of sexual assault as a ‘mob’ dangerously underestimates what this confirmation process awakened,” she said.
“Women are tired of being dismissed and disbelieved and if you want to be responsive to the American people we would all be wise to listen to them with respect,” Hirono concluded.
In his floor speech on Tuesday, McConnell referred to the “unhinged tactics” of leftist protestors which included chasing GOP senators out of restaurants and in airports , screaming at them in the halls and floor of the Senate, and even banging and clawing at the doors of the Supreme Court.
“The far-left mob is not letting up,” he said Tuesday. “Earlier today former Secretary of State Clinton sent this signal as clear as today. This is Secretary Clinton. She told CNN exactly how she views millions of Americans who hold different political views from her own.”
“Here’s what she said: ‘You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for. If we’re fortunate enough to win back the House and/or the Senate, that’s when civility can start again,’” he continued, simply quoting Clinton’s remarks .
While she would like McConnell to condemn the word “mob,” Sen. Hirono has refused to condemn protestors targeting the GOP in restaurants and at their homes.
"It is one thing to protest at the Supreme Court,” CNN’s Dana Bash told Hirono, “it's another thing to run senators out of restaurants, go to their homes. Is that going too far?"
"I think that it just means that there are a lot of people who are very, very much motivated by what is going on,” Hirono replied, “because what happened with Judge Kavanaugh is from the very beginning, this was not a fair process."
"Well, this is what happens, you know, because when you look at white supremacists and all of that, this is what is coming forth in our country," she added. "There is a tremendous divisiveness in our country, but this is the kind of activism that occurs, and people make their own decisions. If they violate the law, then they have to account for that."
Sen. Hirono is not the only one who has developed sudden scruples over the use of the word "mob" to describe the extreme leftist protestors. CNN hosts Brooke Baldwin and Don Lemon have both chastised CNN panelists for using the term, claiming that it is being weaponized by the right.
Free Beacon's Andrew Kugle compiled clips of the behavior of leftist protestors with clips of the CNN hosts condemning the term mob:
SUPERcut of reporters telling people to not use the "mob" word cut with video of the mob.
Here are clips of MSM calling the Tea Party “mobs”.
https://www.mrctv.org/videos/flashback-media-and-democrats-referring-tea-party-protesters-mobs
if hawaii left the union even lincoln wouldn’t care
Tried finding this witch’s contact information but couldn’t locate it.
Too bad McConnell did not say “Mob of nasty women.”
Dumbest EVER Demoncrat.....
NO>>> NO>>> NOO>>> Wait.... what about good old Hank Johnson who said Guam was going to tip over if we put too many troops there. That THAT is one of my all time favorites. What a gomer.....
But..... you are all correct... Patty cakes Murray, always by upChuck’s side, Boxer, Mad Maxine.... sigh.
VOTE GOP...... ALL of them need to be elected to overwhelm DC.
Trump said that Eric Holder’s “kick them” remark was “disgusting”.
So I guess we are the Deplorables and they are the “Disgusting”.
I’ll take it.
A mob is a mob is a mob ... and I'm beginning to despise the Democrat/Left almost as much as they have hated -- a carefully chosen descriptor -- the Right for decades.
“CRAZIE MAZIE”.
Priceless!
maybe McConnell should ask the STATE of HAWAII if there still exists sunshine in their fair state....perhaps this dark figure needs to return home
How in the hell did this Senator from a tiny little state that 99% of our population will never see get so much attention?
Speak English that we can understand, lady. And the GoToH.
The more this woman opens her mouth the stupider she proves herself to be. To call Trump’s rallies the same as the in your face harpies is the height of ignorance. Trump does not tell people at his rallies to attack or go out and get in the face of the Leftists and they do not. Hardly the same thing you brainless -itch.
Good question, the only thing I can think of is her outrageous tirades on the Judiciary Committee at the Justice Kavanaugh hearings.
The dem party is the mob.
Crazy Mazie is a far leftist POS, a Hawaiian POS. An Anti-American slobbering Neanderthal...
Absolutely, all of those and a few more.
Says the Maui Mobster.
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