VIRTUE SIGNALING ALERT: Liberal Media Smears Gen. Kelly’s Criticisms of Congresswoman Who Listened in on Grieving Widow’s Call as Boston-Style Racism, Sexism
Hours after White House Chief of Staff John Kelly finished holding a press conference in which he expressed his shock that a Florida congresswoman listened in on a condolences call President Donald Trump made to the widow of a fallen soldier, a narrative labeling General Kelly as racist and sexist over his Boston Irish upbringing quickly formed in liberal media corners.
MSNBC political correspondent Joy Reid apparently took her cue from network colleague Lawrence O'Donnell, who used his pulpit as host of MSNBC's The Last Word to try to tie Kelly's criticisms of a black female lawmaker with the decorated general's Oak Square background:
With swift vivacity and vulgar duplicity, the Massachusetts Legislature — and, as expected, the executive branch — effectively signaled that "bump stock" accessories to rifles, rarely used in crimes, pose a greater threat to Commonwealth residents than fentanyl-laced heroin, killing daily. Demands are made incessantly for so-called "common sense gun control." But corresponding calls to action for "common sense opioid control" have been largely unanswered, as government has been largely ineffectual. So, action and answers are arriving on the latter front from the private sector, with the likes of S.A.F.E Coalition. And recovery angels.
As creators and custodians of public policy, public officials have, it must be emphasized, resoundingly failed in arresting the opioid crisis here because of a lack of seriousness. Consider:
