Who knew?
This week’s adventure with Fake News had President Trump riffing out of the blue as follows, reported here by The New York Times:
“‘We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in — we’re stopping a lot of them,’ Mr. Trump said in response, during a session where he complained that the United States has ‘the dumbest laws on immigration in the world.’
‘You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are,’ the president added. ‘These aren’t people, these are animals, and we’re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that’s never happened before.’”
Cue the Fake News outrage. As captured here by NewsBusters’ own Scott Whitlock:
“ABC, MSNBC, The New York Times, and other media outlets on Wednesday and Thursday distorted Donald Trump’s attack on MS-13, the brutal gang of illegal criminals, into a slur on “undocumented immigrants.” On MSNBC, the network graphic misled: “Trump Calls Some Undocumented Immigrants ‘Animals’ in Rant.”
The New York Times on Wednesday pushed the disingenuous narrative that the President was simply talking about the “undocumented.”
The correct story, which took hours to catch up, was that the President had never slurred immigrants or illegal immigrants. His remarks were a response to a comment from the Fresno, California Sheriff who had just said: “There could be an MS-13 gang member, I know about, if they don’t reach a threshold, I cannot tell ICE about them.”
But well aside from the Fake News aspect of this - and Fake News it was in spades - here’s the interesting part. In response to the description of MS-13 members as “animals - their motto is “Kill, Rape and Control”, all of which the gang has done with horrific brutality - liberals in and out of the media suddenly started channeling a very, very curious view.
Here’s a non-member of the media to set the stage. Said House Minority Nancy Pelosi - bold print supplied:
“We believe that some of us who are attracted to the public arena or to government and public service, that we’re all God’s children, there’s a spark of divinity in every person on Earth and that we all have to recognize that as we respect the dignity and worth of every person, and as we recognize our responsibilities with that spark, that divinity within us.”
Immediately the liberal media was on board.
Tweeted CNBC’s John Harwood:
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell tweeted this:
There was more liberal outrage but we all get the point, don’t we?
Startling as it may seem, Pelosi, Harwood and O’Donnell - thorough-going lefties all, have suddenly - thanks to Donald Trump - become ….gasp!…pro-life!
Human life is a “spark of divinity” ? MS-13 murderers and rapists are “human beings IMHO”? If we don’t condemn Trump’s words those of us who are Christian “don’t understand their own religion”?
Actually, I do understand my religion. If we’re going to talk Jesus, let’s go straight to Matthew 19:14:
“But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”
Or we could go to Luke 18:16:
“But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.”
One could go on. Try as I might I don’t see anything in the Christianity of which O’Donnell speaks about “reproductive choice” or “Planned Parenthood” - both of which are part of the Gospel of Modern American Liberalism to which Harwood, O’Donnell and Pelosi all subscribe with a fervor that summons an image of what is their real religion - with abortion being at the top of the list of sacraments.
In other words? If in fact liberals in and out of the media are suddenly becoming pro-life then, why, what an amazing life change. But then, here’s this news story that broke only hours after the “animal” kerfuffle. Here’s a sample headline, this one from Politico: “Trump to target Planned Parenthood with new abortion curbs.”
And…..cue the liberal outrage.
“‘This is an attempt to take away women’s basic rights, period,’ said Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which promised to fight the ban.”
So, with their newly stated support of the pro-life movement, one can certainly expect Harwood, O’Donnell and so many more in the liberal media outraged by Trump’s animal remark - and Pelosi, of course - to quickly be stepping up to the plate and supporting the President’s new abortion “curbs”, right?
After all, all those unborn children are, in Harwood’s words, “human beings.” And understanding the Christian religion as O’Donnell instructs, we must not kill or “shed innocent blood.” And of course, the very definition of a child in the womb is Pelosi’s “spark of divinity” for which, in her words, “we recognize our responsibilities with that spark.” So liberals will stand up and cheer Trump’s actions here, right? Right.
This moment has been an amazing change in the mindset of liberals in and out of the liberal media when it comes to respect for human life. Who would ever have thought that Donald Trump and MS-13 murderers and rapists would have brought all these liberals suddenly, in Road to Damascus fashion, to the pro-life view of the sacredness of human life?
Unless, of course, they don’t believe a single word they are saying.
As the saying of a certain television news network goes: “We report - you decide.” And try not to laugh.
