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 Nelsons 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.
She is a talking head on CNN.
Mr. Trump is the President of the United States.
Guess she can’t figure out who is the retard.
bless her heart.
The pot is calling the kettle black.
She looks SPOOKy. Silly MONKEY. What a BABOON.
I’m sure she doesn’t mind being called anything either so its ok.
As for the word 'retarded', well it is an insult on face value when associated with the President. He's not retarded. People should be upset that she insulted the President and not because to the word she used. I think most people were upset because she insulted the President. It had nothing to do with her choice of words. Saying there is a problem in her choice of words leaves open the possibility that the insult is deserved, and it would have been completely fine if she had said, 'low IQ'd' instead.
Just another loudmouth black woman.
It's how Don Lemon usually dresses. She's in drag when on the Don Lemon show.
Another “nobody” looking to be famous.
She looks like stereotypical SoCal idiotic trash to me. Talks like it too.
—> She needs a good strong black man in her life (there are many) to straighten her out. <—
Aint that the truth.
You are right in that.It is us they hate.Donald Trump not do much. they associate President Trump with us and vent on him because they can’t vent their spleen on us. Yet.They have a hatred for us that will make the hatred that the National Socialists had for the Jews seem like a love fest in comparison.
Not so fast here. We’ve become a nation of “expert”- worshippers and “retardedness” may very well be her area of expertise resulting from her lifelong affliction with it. (Then again, she may just be suffering from Stage 3 TDS, a less fatal but a much more debilitating mental condition.)
How do fake republicans like this ever get near congressional committees?
I have no use or sympathy with anyone who uses that word in the context that clown Nelson did. An Attorney??? Seriously????
As the years go by I find that it is always being used by a person who is guilty of the very thing of which they accuse another and is thus a prime example of psychological projection, or hypocrisy to the max.
The Democrat have for years made a fine art out of accusing the Trump side of the body politic of committing all the ills and crimes the left does all the time without any guilt nor any notice by their cohorts in the drive by liberal media.
For what it is worth, Sophia Nelson is just another chunk of the manure sprayed out and about these days in blaming Donald Trump for any and every evil, real or imagined, under the sun. And no matter how well she washes, the stink will be on her and her ilk forever.
The US has more fake news media than any country in the world.
The US has more fake news media than any country in the world.
I have no use or sympathy with anyone who uses that word in the context that clown Nelson did. An Attorney??? Seriously????
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