Just a day after rationalizing the leftist violence by Antifa against police, bystanders, and the press as some twisted form of greater “morality,” CNN host Chris Cuomo closed out Tuesday's PrimeTime by condemning and scolding the President for using coarse language against his opponents. Yet, at the same time, he suggested the President was acting worse than a child and like a drunk at the bar.
After beginning his “closing argument” by insinuating that he would do something harsh to his son if he talked like Trump, Cuomo demanded that you “don't defend President Trump calling Omarosa a dog. Don’t defend him calling anyone a dog, period. Stop making it all okay whatever Trump says.” “Mama says 'if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing,' for a reason. Same in your house, right,” he declared.
I don’t know about Cuomo’s “mama” but mine would never make excuses for Antifa's behavior like attacking an NBC reporter and camera crew, or attacking the police, or attacking an elderly man, or throwing a bottle of urine at officers, or saying “murder the President” (all done by the far-left group). Maybe he should say that to his good buddy Don Lemon, who often chides Trump supporters as just a bunch of racists “who will lie, steal, and cheat, lie to their mother.” But that’s hypocrisy for you.
Cuomo didn’t stop there. Unironically, he said “this kind of ugly talk is contagious. It creates coarseness that leads to unintelligent confrontation.” “Our President should not be defended like some drunk guy in a bar who said somethings and did some things but somehow is not to be taken too seriously,” he huffed.
He then targeted Trump supporters by suggesting they were too dumb to see through Trump’s act of false strength:
And by the way, he’s playing you who excuse his words and deeds. Because insults are not insights. It’s getting off cheap. Going personal in court or in a debate suggests you have no good arguments on the facts or the law. And it seems like that now as well. And yet, he is rewarded for knowing less and insulting people that he can’t out think. Trump is rewarded for crude language when it is misinterpreted as strength.
That’s really not a nice thing to say, Chris. It’s sort of like how he lectured pro-life conservatives a couple weeks ago and argued that they weren’t as moral as they thought they were because they didn’t believe exactly what he prescribed for them. So according to Cuomo, pro-lifers weren’t moral but somehow Antifa was. Mind = Blown.
He then shifted gears and began talking down to Trump supporters in an effort to convince them he was right. Before suggesting he knew people close to him who supported Trump, he tried to get in their heads: “I get their desperation for better out of government to get help for their families and I get that they made a bet on Trump and they don't want to see their man go down.”
“But, my Trump supporting brothers and sisters, that doesn't mean you can't hold the President and all our leaders to the same standards that you would your kid,” Cuomo exclaimed.
Cuomo proceeded to ramble on about how “better argument, better ideas, better actions, those are the real blows. Demand that from our leaders. Demand that they disagree with decency. Demand they help us to be better, not worse.” Oh, and here I thought the “real blows” were to this man’s head when Antifa wanted to steal his American flag.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
CNN's Cuomo PrimeTime
August 14, 2018
9:55 p.m.CHRIS CUOMO: Welcome back to Prime Time. So, if my 12-year-old, Mario called someone a “dog” he would not say it again my presence. I guarantee you he would apologize. In fact, if he said most of the things that the President says about people he’s threatened by or doesn't like his cheeks would be glowing. And that's because we teach our kids, we make our kids do right because it shows respect for people and respect matters.
So don't defend President Trump calling Omarosa a dog. Don’t defend him calling anyone a dog, period. Stop making it all okay whatever Trump says. Fighting back is not automatically a virtue. Mama says “if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing,” for a reason. Same in your house, right? Discretion could be the better of valor. Some in your house, right?
Why? Because this kind of ugly talk is contagious. It creates coarseness that leads to unintelligent confrontation. You wouldn't say it at your best. You wouldn't let your kids say it. Why let the President? This is the man charged with the greatest powers in the world, over the mightiest nation, and the most powerful people. We should expect better. Our President should not be defended like some drunk guy in a bar who said somethings and did some things but somehow is not to be taken too seriously. He is in the most serious position.
And by the way, he’s playing you who excuse his words and deeds. Because insults are not insights. It’s getting off cheap. Going personal in court or in a debate suggests you have no good arguments on the facts or the law. And it seems like that now as well. And yet, he is rewarded for knowing less and insulting people that he can’t out think. Trump is rewarded for crude language when it is misinterpreted as strength.
You know, I do a lot of self-defense, I do a lot of fighting. Every coach I ever had taught me, when you're assessing a room never fear the guy talking trash. If he were dangerous, he would act not talk. And by the way this isn't about macho, or might. This is about what makes someone worthy of respect and attention. It’s about exhibiting real strength, sensitivity, forbearance.
Why? It’s always easier to say what Trump does than bite your lip and to instead of saying mean things prove her wrong. The irony is, tactically, by talking the way does he’s only adding legitimacy to what Omarosa says and to her allegations.
So being decent could be tactical as well as ethical. The bottom line is we have to be better than this. Division, indecency it’s getting us nowhere. And take a look around, it makes it easy for lawmakers to do nothing. As the bard wrote, Shakespeare, “This type of behavior is the insane route that devours intellect and takes reason prisoner.”
It used to be that we looked to leaders to show us the way, but now it is on the rest of us. It’s never okay to call someone a dog, you know that. And so much of the crap Trump says about her or other women or men. It’s indefensible. We all know it, so why is it tolerated?
Now one reason I want to discuss. Many of you will be quick to say because the base agrees, they feel the same way. Now, that is true for some. And Trump's ugliness as attracted fans that most Republicans would never by their side. But I get why others who support the President stand up for him. And it's not because they’re bigots. I get their desperation for better out of government to get help for their families and I get that they made a bet on Trump and they don't want to see their man go down. I get it. I have many people in my life who feel that way. And they’re good people.
But, my Trump supporting brothers and sisters, that doesn't mean you can't hold the President and all our leaders to the same standards that you would your kid. The Vice President wrote exactly what I’m saying about another president, Bill Clinton that he has apparently forgotten in his new role. I want to remind you of his words:
“If you and I fall into bad moral habits we can harm our families, our employers and our friends. The president of the United States can incinerate the planet. Seriously, the very idea that we ought to have at or less than the same moral demands placed on the chief executive that we place on our next door neighbor is ludicrous and dangerous.”
And you know what? Mr. Vice President, you were right and say it now.
We all know what’s right and how people should be treated. And we know why. It is not weakness. It is strength. Insults are weakness. Better argument, better ideas, better actions, those are the real blows. Demand that from our leaders. Demand that they disagree with decency. Demand they help us to be better, not worse. Don't let Trump off the hook by forgiving his language as a form of leadership. It isn't.
