The Rush to Judge Ilhan Omar

[Anonymous]

Remember when Donald Trump called into the local Fox station and bragged that because of 9/11, he had the tallest building in NYC?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcKlPhFIE7w

Let's hold the disgust please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She is a bad combination of angry and not that bright. It’s a recipe for disaster.

I said this exact thing to DW last night. Very true. She’s not too bright and yet magazines use her on the cover as the ‘future’ of the country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Remember when Donald Trump called into the local Fox station and bragged that because of 9/11, he had the tallest building in NYC?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcKlPhFIE7w

Let's hold the disgust please.

Mmmm, yes and no. As you know, context matters.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-bragged-tallest-building/

"So it is true that during the course of that interview, in response to a query about whether his own buildings had sustained any damage, Trump stated, in reference to the Trump Building, that “now it’s the tallest” [in downtown Manhattan]. Whether that remark constituted “bragging” is a matter of subjective interpretation, however.

Critics maintain that Trump’s referencing the relative height of 40 Wall Street in the immediate aftermath of the World Trade Center towers’ fall was completely gratuitous and irrelevant to the discussion, the hallmark of an egoist with no compunctions about using tragedy as an opportunity for self-promotion.

But in the context of the full interview, Trump’s remarks could perhaps be considered defensible.

First of all, the newscasters to whom Trump was speaking were appealing to their audience by repeatedly referring to his status in the New York real estate community, describing him as the “man behind lots of real estate in Manhattan” and a “visionary in New York real estate,” and they specifically asked him about the Trump Tower and the Trump Building, which they termed “one of the great tourist attractions in the world” and “one of the landmark buildings down in the financial district,” respectively. It was to be expected that he would respond to those lead-ins with at least a little bit of subtle swagger (which he expressed matter-of-factly rather than hyperbolically).

Second, Trump’s remark was made in response to questions about whether his buildings had sustained any damage and whether he was taking any precautions to protect them. In the chaos of that day, it wasn’t too much of a stretch to think that Trump was pondering whether the (as yet unknown) terrorists, having destroyed the two tallest buildings in lower Manhattan, might be coming after the next-tallest.

But then again, the office building at 70 Pine Street is listed as being 25 feet taller than 40 Wall Street (although it has four fewer floors), so perhaps Trump could be considered to have been “bragging” for claiming an honor that wasn’t actually his."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She is a bad combination of angry and not that bright. It’s a recipe for disaster.

I said this exact thing to DW last night. Very true. She’s not too bright and yet magazines use her on the cover as the ‘future’ of the country.

Plenty of non-bright people end up on the cover of magazines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She is a bad combination of angry and not that bright. It’s a recipe for disaster.

I said this exact thing to DW last night. Very true. She’s not too bright and yet magazines use her on the cover as the ‘future’ of the country.

Both Omar and AOC. AOC talks seemingly intelligently, but her words are nothing more than platitudes of meaningless tripe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Remember when Donald Trump called into the local Fox station and bragged that because of 9/11, he had the tallest building in NYC?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcKlPhFIE7w

Let's hold the disgust please.

He's such a gross and disgusting human being.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She is a bad combination of angry and not that bright. It’s a recipe for disaster.

I said this exact thing to DW last night. Very true. She’s not too bright and yet magazines use her on the cover as the ‘future’ of the country.

I just watched her on the Colbert show the other night and saw no hints of "angry" in her- she was cool as a cucumber, had a very engaging demeanor, was introspective, rational and sane, something sorely lacking in Spanky. And she was quite well spoken, 100x more articulate than Cadet Bone Spurs, who can't say anything that isn't either garbled or a lie.

[Anonymous]

This whole thing is manufactured outrage by the right because they need to have a bogeyman. Since Hillary is only partially viable for this, they choose two freshmen congresswomen of color.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This whole thing is manufactured outrage by the right because they need to have a bogeyman. Since Hillary is only partially viable for this, they choose two freshmen congresswomen of color.

Sure. That's it.
It has nothing to do with the fact that Omar has said some quite inflammatory, negative things and that AOC is bat$hit crazy and her ideas would absolutely bankrupt our nation.
Their gender and race have nothing to do with why people are upset. It has everything to do with their rhetoric and their policy ideas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This whole thing is manufactured outrage by the right because they need to have a bogeyman. Since Hillary is only partially viable for this, they choose two freshmen congresswomen of color.

Tell that to all the Democratic Jews who believe she is an anti-Semite.

[Anonymous]

What is worse - a millenianal who never witnessed mass pain or a millenianal who is too insensitive to their own experiences?

[Anonymous]

The cavalier attitude with which she views the events of 9-11 are deeply offensive to those of us who lost loved one in the attack and to any American who remembers the unprovoked attack by the terrorists.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The cavalier attitude with which she views the events of 9-11 are deeply offensive to those of us who lost loved one in the attack and to any American who remembers the unprovoked attack by the terrorists.

Do you feel the same way about Donald Trump and his cavalier attitude in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, when his most pressing concern was to gloat that his building was the tallest in downtown Manhattan?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The cavalier attitude with which she views the events of 9-11 are deeply offensive to those of us who lost loved one in the attack and to any American who remembers the unprovoked attack by the terrorists.

Do you feel the same way about Donald Trump and his cavalier attitude in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, when his most pressing concern was to gloat that his building was the tallest in downtown Manhattan?

He actually didn’t do that. Only the most partisan idiots would think that. Read up:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-bragged-tallest-building/

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The cavalier attitude with which she views the events of 9-11 are deeply offensive to those of us who lost loved one in the attack and to any American who remembers the unprovoked attack by the terrorists.

Do you feel the same way about Donald Trump and his cavalier attitude in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, when his most pressing concern was to gloat that his building was the tallest in downtown Manhattan?

He actually didn’t do that. Only the most partisan idiots would think that. Read up:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-bragged-tallest-building/

If Omar's critics have demonstrated anything in this thread, it is that they don't care about context. You are quite willing to completely ignore what she was actually saying and misrepresent her entire point. So, why do you expect different treatment for Trump? If you want to condemn Omar for a few words taken out of context, then it is hypocritical to expect Trump's words not to be handled likewise.