WASHINGTON POST EDITORIAL
Yes, Kelly owes the congresswoman an apology. But Kelly owes all of America even more of a apology for using his son's death as a shield for Trump.
Kelly's defense of Trump's having called three black women* liars aside, his belief that Trump deserves the "benefit of the doubt" is the outcome of believing that white supremacy is always conscious and deliberate.
...or non-existent unless there's a pillowcase hood attached to it.
White supremacy at the level which Trump suffers from it, can, has, and did, issue forth from Trump's mouth like a sneeze or a burp upon realizing he was talking to a Black American widow.
And did Kelly really expect us to believe Trump didn't deliberately try to say President Obama didn't honor fallen soldiers...as if it isn't obvious that Trump is obsessed tearing down the black president who did absolutely EVERYTHING better than Trump does.
Twelve days of silence, then a swipe at Obama: How Trump handled four dead soldiers
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-obama-slain-soldiers-families-20171017-story.html
So, John Kelly just proved
you should always be judged
by the company you keep
because you become more and more like
the company you keep
every minute you associate with that person.
Maybe it's just desperation, but I was really hoping Kelly was the voice of reason in the White House. I was really hoping he was standing between Trump and Trump pushing the button over a temper tantrum.
But this week? We got to see just how much alike Trump and Kelly are at the core, where it counts.
Kelly has more common sense and knows what to say in public, unlike Trump. But his attack on Frederica Wilson was just manipulation gone bad. Kelly made a mistake. That's true. But he meant to tell factual truths to sell the lie that Trump was being kind when he called the Black American widow and that Trump did not attack President Obama when under pressure...again.
Kelly just screwed up and got one the things he planned to use to tell the big lie a little twisted up. That mistake is a matter of somebody on his staff doing incomplete research. But Kelly intended to tell the two big lies -- that Trump has empathy for anybody not-white and that he doesn't hate President Obama to the center of his bone marrow.
When you look at the big picture, Kelly shouldn't apologize for that little factual mistake at all. He should apologize for being less of a man than America needs him to be.
BLACKCHICKROCKED.BLOGSPOT.COM *= La David Johnson's wife, mother, and Congresswoman Frederica Wilson
Mr. Kelly took to the lectern in the White House briefing room Thursday to defend President Trump’s handling of a condolence call to a widow of one of the soldiers killed in Niger and to attack Ms. [Frederica] Wilson as selfish and politically motivated for her criticism. To bolster that characterization, he offered up his remembrance of the dedication of the FBI building in memory of two FBI agents who had been killed in the line of duty. He claimed Ms. Wilson used the occasion to take unseemly credit for securing federal funding for the building.
“We were stunned,” he said, “stunned that she had done it. Even for someone that is that empty a barrel, we were stunned.”
But, as a video by the Florida Sun Sentinel of Ms. Wilson’s remarks...shows...she did not say she got money for the building... And she spent most of her nine-minute speech praising the FBI agents killed in a gunfight with drug dealers..Read More:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/john-kelly-owes-the-congresswoman-an-apology/2017/10/20/c81205e2-b5c1-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.f362c9922a7d
Yes, Kelly owes the congresswoman an apology. But Kelly owes all of America even more of a apology for using his son's death as a shield for Trump.
Kelly called Trump "brave" for attempting to make the difficult condolence calls to families who have lost a loved one.
There is "no perfect way to make that phone call," Kelly said, disclosing that when he became chief of staff he had advised Trump not to make condolence calls to the grieving families "because it’s not the phone call that parents, family members are looking forward to."
Kelly, recalling the meaningful calls he and his family received after his son died, said the most important calls are from those in the military who served with their children...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/us/politics/statement-kelly-gold-star.htmlKelly even went on to say how shameful it was for the Congresswoman Wilson to listen to the call
...when she just happened to be with the widow in a car when the call came in.
...when he himself was likely listening in himself, to what Trump was saying, on the other end
Kelly's defense of Trump's having called three black women* liars aside, his belief that Trump deserves the "benefit of the doubt" is the outcome of believing that white supremacy is always conscious and deliberate.
...or non-existent unless there's a pillowcase hood attached to it.
White supremacy at the level which Trump suffers from it, can, has, and did, issue forth from Trump's mouth like a sneeze or a burp upon realizing he was talking to a Black American widow.
And did Kelly really expect us to believe Trump didn't deliberately try to say President Obama didn't honor fallen soldiers...as if it isn't obvious that Trump is obsessed tearing down the black president who did absolutely EVERYTHING better than Trump does.
Twelve days of silence, then a swipe at Obama: How Trump handled four dead soldiers
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-obama-slain-soldiers-families-20171017-story.html
So, John Kelly just proved
you should always be judged
by the company you keep
because you become more and more like
the company you keep
every minute you associate with that person.
Maybe it's just desperation, but I was really hoping Kelly was the voice of reason in the White House. I was really hoping he was standing between Trump and Trump pushing the button over a temper tantrum.
But this week? We got to see just how much alike Trump and Kelly are at the core, where it counts.
Kelly has more common sense and knows what to say in public, unlike Trump. But his attack on Frederica Wilson was just manipulation gone bad. Kelly made a mistake. That's true. But he meant to tell factual truths to sell the lie that Trump was being kind when he called the Black American widow and that Trump did not attack President Obama when under pressure...again.
Kelly just screwed up and got one the things he planned to use to tell the big lie a little twisted up. That mistake is a matter of somebody on his staff doing incomplete research. But Kelly intended to tell the two big lies -- that Trump has empathy for anybody not-white and that he doesn't hate President Obama to the center of his bone marrow.
When you look at the big picture, Kelly shouldn't apologize for that little factual mistake at all. He should apologize for being less of a man than America needs him to be.
BLACKCHICKROCKED.BLOGSPOT.COM *= La David Johnson's wife, mother, and Congresswoman Frederica Wilson
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