On left-wing NBC’s Sunday Today, Political Director Chuck Todd and host Willie Geist remarked on the sad state of America’s political discourse in light of Tuesday's “condolence” controversy—the claim of recent military widow Myeshia Johnson that President Trump’s empathetic phone call of support was comprised of a conversation of insensitivity.
In discussion of the week's state of affairs, the analysts naturally placed blame solely on the Trump administration, refusing to recognize the Peacock network’s ludicrous labeling of General John Kelly as a racist for his denunciation of Florida Representative Frederica Wilson, who was with Johnson when she received the call from President Trump. According to Todd:
"I think we're witnessing the continued destruction and erosion of our political discourse...I don't think it was a coincidence, Willie, that on Thursday former presidents Bush and Obama both came out to indict President Trump's brand of civil discourse essentially.”
Commenting on the recent critique of the Trump White House, Todd continued:
“I think they were responding to the latest like, 'Oh, now we're--now we've polarized condolences?' There is no bottom to how low our dehumanization of politics and civility can go, and I think it's--look, this was a shameful week in American politics.”
But the hosts disregarded NBC’s significant part to play in that “shameful week.” Soon after General John Kelly—White House Chief of Staff—defended the Commander-in-Chief, saying he had coached Trump on what to say, MSNBC immediately went to the mat by calling Kelly a racist. Regarding Kelly's criticism of Representative Wilson for attacking Trump over his condolence call, the news network’s Lawrence O’Donnell declared about the Gold Star father that “He took time, a lot of extra time, to call a black woman who he doesn't know...'”
Moving in for the kill, O’Donnell charged:
“You know what wasn't sacred when he was a kid growing up where he was growing up? Black women or black people. And, oh, by the way, women were not sacred either. They were not honored.”
On Twitter, MSNBC’s Joy Reid piled on:
“Wow. @Lawrence scorched General Kelly tonight, including calling out his segregated Boston upbringing and dehumanization of a black woman.”
MSNBC's irrational and immediate labeling of Kelly as a racist was unconscionable. Yet, as Sunday Today profiled a particularly "shameful week" of political discourse, there was no mention of their own network's part in the devolution of dialogue. The leftist media is all too ready to take discussion in the political arena to a new low and to refuse to place blame anywhere but the Republican Party. Because, in the war for political power, the Left never plays defense. It is always on the offensive -- a lesson Republicans should take to heart.
