Sen. Jon Ossoff delighted liberal journalists when he smeared younger Trump aide Natalie Harp (who’s 35) as carrying on a sexual affair with the president (who’s 80). It confirmed “the artwork of the viral clip,” claimed CNN’s Brian Stelter. They did not actually care to ask: However is that true?
MRC Senior Analysis Analyst Invoice D’Agostino and Mediaite columnist Brad Slager joined the present to evaluate the Harp smears and the remainder. Amazingly, they tried to make it sound prefer it was Trump that violated human decency. A CNN.com transcript of Erin Burnett OutFront carried the headline “Trump, White Home Unload On Senator Ossoff With Identify-Calling, Crude Assaults.” The Harp smear wasn’t a crude assault? Trump in contrast Ossoff to Pee Wee Herman, which is far milder than evaluating Trump to Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot.
Erin Burnett additionally tried to dig into Natalie Harp by bringing on her estranged brother Preston, who clearly did not appear to know a lot about his sister’s latest historical past — plus he slammed his mom, claiming she taught them “American exceptionalism,” together with the quaint idea that proudly owning slaves did not make anybody a nasty individual.
Liberals chided Trump for name-calling, however the journalists weren’t being nicer. Take this headline from Individuals journal on-line: “White Home Correspondent Says Trump’s Doting Assistant Natalie Harp Is Like His ‘Binky’ amid Scrutiny Over Their Relationship.” The correspondent was Maggie Haberman of The New York Occasions.
Visitor-hosting on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Dwell, Rosie O’Donnell referred to as Trump “President Petty Roosevelt,” and the viewers clapped like seals. She added: “You bought to understand it’s time to hold up your wig and let Natalie tuck you in.” On one other present, she claimed Trump made her “re-famous,” including “You introduced me again, identical to you probably did with fascism and the measles.”
That is one in all our contenders for Worst Media Quote of the Week, alongside HBO’s John Oliver, who trashed Ronald Reagan once more for insisting unborn infants are human. Oliver mentioned “It appears you can’t hint the supply of any fashionable downside and not using a cameo from this messy bitch. He really is the Forrest Gump of societal ills.”
Brad’s from Florida, so we mentioned the shock victory of DSA member and state Rep. Angie Nixon within the Democrat major for U.S. Senate. CBS was surprisingly powerful on Wednesday morning, asking how the socialists would pay for issues like Medicare For All. They pressed a number of instances. She saved saying make the billionaires pay their justifiable share, which is simply inherently foolish. There’s not sufficient billionaires to fund what she desires. Nixon obtained a way more predictable bathtub on Morning Joe, together with a celebration of the DSA’s hateful stance on Israel.
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