Posted on 02/10/2021 6:40:06 AM PST by Kaslin
The Utah senator wasn't talking about Trump or impeachment, but trying to be polite toward his Democratic colleagues.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, was given an opportunity to bash Democrat politicians for some of their recent violent political rhetoric. During a TV interview yesterday, clips of Democrats using violent or aggressive rhetoric against Republican-affiliated individuals were played from Sen. Chuck Schumer, Rep. Maxine Waters, and Sen. Cory Booker.
“I want to tell you Gorsuch, I want to tell you Kavanaugh: You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price,” said now-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on the steps of the Supreme Court less than a year ago. He was speaking as Gorsuch and Kavanaugh were hearing a case that Schumer wanted ruled on in a particular way. His remarks appalled even left-wing commentators, although he faced no censure or impeachment for them.
“If you see anybody from [the Trump] cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd, and you push back on them and you tell them they’re not welcome!” screamed Waters to a crowd of angry Democrats in 2019. Trump officials were on the receiving end of harassment, as were individual Republican voters.
“Please don’t just come here today and then go home,” Sen. Cory Booker told activists recently. “Go to the hill today, get up and please get up in the face of some congresspeople!” Booker also disrupted the constitutional process for confirming a Supreme Court justice by repeatedly violating Senate Judiciary Committee procedures. Those hearings were disrupted and voting delayed by the actions of hundreds of activists, many of them arrested for occupying Capitol buildings and attacking the front of the Supreme Court.
Lee was given the opportunity to criticize these Democrats for their rhetoric, even as they are working to convict Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. While, unlike the Democrats mentioned above, Trump explicitly called for marchers to “peacefully and patriotically” make their voices heard, the pro-impeachment caucus says he should be convicted of incitement for complaining bitterly about how the 2020 election was run.
Amazingly for a politician, Lee declined the opportunity to criticize even Schumer’s attack on Supreme Court justices. Instead, he talked about human nature, how people make mistakes, and all politicians should try to talk about issues rather than individual personalities or violent rhetoric.
“These are outgrowths of the same natural impulse that exist from time to time among anyone in this business and in many other businesses. Look, everyone makes mistakes. Everyone is entitled to a mulligan once in a while. And I would hope, I would expect that each of those individuals would take a mulligan on each of those statements because in each instance they’re making it deeply personal. They’re ceasing to make it about policy, instead they’re talking about getting up in people’s faces, and making individuals feel perfectly uncomfortable and that’s not helpful. The best way to handle this is to talk about issues rather than individual personalities,” Lee responded.
There can be no question that he was talking about the three Democrat politicians whose violent rhetoric had just been aired. His reward for trying to turn down the temperature was to be lied about and disparaged by liberal media outlets such as The Daily Beast, Business Insider, and The New York Times.
“Mike Lee Suggests Trump Should Get a ‘Mulligan’ for Capitol Riot Day Speech,” The New York Times’ Glenn Thrush falsely wrote. The article is riddled with errors.
Thrush falsely claimed that the video clip that provided the context for Lee’s remarks included remarks from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. While Pelosi has in fact engaged in violent rhetoric — she accused Republicans of trying to kill people, accused Sen. Tim Scott of being complicit in George Floyd’s murder, called for anti-Trump uprisings, and encouraged rioters during the Summer of Rage (in which cities suffered from billions of dollars of property damage, attacks on federal buildings and churches, and the killing of dozens of Americans) — Pelosi’s comments weren’t aired in this particular clip.
Thrush asserts, without evidence, that Democrats’ year-long embrace of attacks on the rule of law that were pictured in the clip “resulted in violence.”
Thrush’s propaganda piece against Lee also mischaracterizes the histrionic rhetoric of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. She falsely accused Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, of trying to murder her. “You almost had me murdered 3 weeks ago,” she claimed publicly and without evidence, saying that she wouldn’t work with him because he was “trying to get me killed.”
Thrush and The New York Times downplayed this unhinged rhetoric by describing it as blandly as possible. “[S]he recently took a swipe at” Cruz, the paper claimed.
The New York Times engaged in what would be called “reckless disregard for the truth” in a court of law. Lee was in no way referring to Trump with his “mulligan” remarks, but to Democratic politicians whose inflammatory remarks he was specifically asked to respond to.
He chose to be polite. Liberal media outlets decided to reward him for that by treating him the way they treat any other Republican elected official who does not cater to their whims: by lying about him and disparaging him.
Mike Lee is a weasel, not much better than Romney.
Isn’t that the guy the people of Utah voted for? Just like his fellow Senator? They should be proud of the people they send to Washington, DC to represent them.
Mike is pretty well known for putting cash In his pocket before the Country.
Now it is time to tear down the demonrats.
"Thrush and the young woman met at her colleague’s going-away party at a bar near the Politico newsroom, she told me, and shared a few rounds of drinks in a booth. The night, she said, ended on a Washington street corner, where Thrush left her in tears after she resisted his advances.The encounter was troubling enough to the woman that her friend Bianca Padró Ocasio, also 23 and a journalist, confronted Thrush about his behavior via text message the next day.
“I want to make sure you don’t lure young women aspiring journalists into those situations ever again,” she texted. “So help me out here. How can I do that?”
Five years ago, when Thrush and I (ed note: the author of the linked piece) were colleagues at Politico, I was in the same bar as Padró Ocasio’s friend — perhaps the same booth — when he caught me off guard, put his hand on my thigh, and suddenly started kissing me. Thrush says that he recalls the incident differently.
Details of their stories suggest a pattern. All of the women were in their 20s at the time. They were relatively early in their careers compared to Thrush, who was the kind of seasoned journalist who would be good to know. At an event with alcohol, he made advances.
As many people told me in the course of reporting this story, Thrush is a talker — or, as many put it, “a bullshitter.”.
In the course of reporting this story, I was told by a male reporter who’d worked at Politico at the time that my instinct was right. He said that the day after that night at the bar, Thrush told him about the incident, except with the roles reversed. I had come onto him, the reporter said Thrush told him, and he had gently shut it down. The source said that Thrush frequently told versions of this story with different young women as the subject.
But Thrush was far from being the grown-up who prevented things from going too far; instead, she says, she was the one to raise objections. “I remember stopping him at one point and saying, ‘Wait, you’re married.’"
First we have to tear down the Republicans blocking for the Democrats.
Mike Lee is bought & paid for by Tech.
He is a big part of the reason nothing has been done about online censorship.
Mike Lee is what’s wrong with the republican party.
Star New York Times reporter suspended for alleged sexual misconduct (Glenn Thrush)
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