Posted on 04/04/2020 5:34:45 AM PDT by yardboyd
A CNN pundit took heavy online ridicule for her word choice on Tuesday, after referring to President Donald Trump as “retarded” in a now-deleted social media post.
Sophia Nelson, who describes herself as a “frequent” guest on CNN, was reacting to a critical tweet about the president from fellow anti-Trump Republican Rick Wilson, when she replied, “They just always got an excuse to cover for his retarded ass!”
The backlash came quickly against Nelson, the former GOP counsel for the House Oversight Committee, and she explained that she deleted her comment after the father of a special needs child called her out “with class and grace” for using the derogatory term. Nelson then noted that the “nasty ass twitter bully mob” still came after her.
Nelson admitted that she understood why the word “retarded” is offensive to many people, yet she continued to defend herself for her choice of language. She argued that she used the word because it was used frequently among people of her generation in the past, while asserted that referring to the president as “retarded” was “being kind.”
Nelson is also a senior adviser to the Lincoln Project, whose mission is to “defeat President Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box.” Mr. Wilson is a co-founder of the initiative.
When a reporter from the Daily Caller pointed out Nelson’s position, she doubled down and insisted on calling the president “retarded” once again.
“This is a great hit job you guys are attempting because I called Trump a ‘retarded ass.’ He is that,” Nelson wrote. “This has zero reference to disabled or special needs persons.
Are you sure that’s not Don Lemon in drag?
Is it wrong of me to look forward with glee as to how the Trump Curse will manifest itself in the lives of his haters?
One can never be certain but I ain’t checking.
“She argued that she used the word because it was used frequently among people of her generation in the past, while asserted that referring to the president as “retarded” was “being kind.” “
Hmmm. You probably don’t want to go there with that type logic, Ms Nelson. A lot of words used in the past are not used now (and some rightly so).
People of my generation had a word we used for people like her, too, but we’re intelligent enough not to use it any longer - unlike the rappers of her genre.
Just another angry black woman that can’t get over Obama’s eight years of blunders. She needs a good strong black man in her life (there are many) to straighten her out.
“They just always got an excuse to cover for his retarded ass!”
CORRECTION:
“They just always have an excuse to cover for his retarded ass!”
NOTE TO SELF: Do not look like a retarded ass when calling somebody else a retarded ass.
People like this are why Republicans lose elections. Not because of race or gender but because they’re idiots and a segment of the Republican establishment loves to hire them.
Why is she so ashamed of being black? Why does she pretend to be white by either wearing a white persons hair color or straightening and dying her hair to appear white?
She needs to figure out her own identity problems before she attacks others.
Yes, of course, because we all know that a retarded person could create a multi-billion dollar international real estate and property development enterprise and become president of the United States in his very first political effort, defeating, not only more than a dozen career politicians in the primaries, but the “smartest woman in the world” in the general election.
“They just always got an excuse to cover for his retarded ass!”
Illiterate low class trash talking POS. IMHO
Why would you sentence any man to being stuck with her??? She should be consigned to a solitary life, far away from any levers of power.
anyone who gets offended over being called retarded is a retard... as is anyone who would apologize for it
I think she did pole dancing before being a guest at CNN. We used to call them Go Go girls.
“Nelson, the former GOP counsel for the House Oversight Committee” WTF!!! How the hell did that POS get that job? Trump should learn who vouched for her and fire their ass.
This pundit should be fired for using slanderous language like that! If I commented about her using a derogatory word like “_____-ass” (fill in the word of your choice), I would be fired immediately. Words mean things, or does that only apply to republicans?
She'd probably chit herself if everybody started using a term that was frequently used by people of my generation in the past.
Sophia Nelson rides the short bus.
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