Hello My Dear Friends. It’s been awhile! I know that I’m not
updating you as I should but, the truth of the matter is, I’ve just grown weary
of it all. We are being so bombarded with “politics” that there is no escape;
no reprieve. I’m not here to bash Hillary or to defend The Donald, I’m here because
of a video I saw on Facebook. It really got my cat dander up. It was a video by
leftwing blogger Ezra Klein. It wasn’t his video that bugged me. It was the
header that read “I dare you to watch this and defend voting for Donald Trump”. I dare
you to watch this, as if he were speaking the Gospel, and defend voting for Donald Trump, as if my vote were anyone’s
business but my own. You see, my friends, it’s this type of self-righteous
hypocrisy that makes me want to scream. Let’s look at the latest “controversy”.
Donald Trump offended a Gold Star
family. I get it. No one has sacrificed more for this Country than Gold Star families
and they deserve nothing but respect. Trump was wrong. Let’s just get a little
perspective here. During the DNC a Gold Star father called out Donald Trump,
questioning if he had ever read the constitution and berating him for “never
sacrificing a thing”. In a subsequent interview Trump said, in part, “You saw
the mother, she didn’t say anything, maybe she wasn’t allowed to speak, I don’t
know”. That set off a firestorm in the media because Trump only questioned
whether or not she was allowed to speak because she was a Muslim. This, then
morphed into an attack on all Gold Star families and “proof” that Trump was
unfit to be President of the United States. OK. Here’s the perspective part. In
2012, a week after the Benghazi attacks that killed 4 Americans, including a US
Ambassador and 2 former Navy SEALS, Hillary Clinton met with the parents of
Tyrone Woods, one of the former Navy SEALS, and told them their son died in a “spontaneous
protest over a YouTube video”. She went on to tell the Woods’ that she would
get to the bottom of this and punish those responsible. When the truth came out
and we learned that Mrs. Clinton had been lying about what happened, Mrs.
Clinton claimed she never told the Woods about the video, affectively called them
the liars! Then, when questioned about those inconsistencies before a house
panel, Mrs. Clinton said, “What difference, at this point, does it make”. That
made “news” for a minute or two and then it was gone.
OK, now, let’s take the names and the politics out of this
and just examine the facts. Which do you find more offensive? Questioning
whether or not a woman was allowed to
speak based on her religion or lying to a family about the death of
their son, then calling the grieving parents themselves liars, then saying how
their son died was really that important.
I don’t know about you but, it seems to me, that this is yet
another case of ‘it’s not what you say, it’s who says what’. But why let a
little reality douse a perfectly good firestorm.
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