It can happen to anyone, the self-inflicted wound called foot-in-mouth disease. For a select few, it is a disease they will keep with them for the rest of their lives.
The only cure is embarrassment. Some politicians don’t care — they want to spread hate and anger toward Republicans with their voters.
A few months ago, this dreaded sickness almost infected yours truly. I was doing research for my weekly column on the evils of socialism. Months earlier, I had set aside a link on the web that would help make a point.
When I went back to the link for the quote, it was gone. It turns out that story was proven wrong and removed. Glad I waited before using that information.
Some politicians don’t wait. They just put their foot in their mouth. Calif. Rep. Adam Schiff’s foot is in his mouth so much it’s a wonder he has time to eat.
Last month a gunman killed 10 people and injured 10 more at a Southern California ballroom dance studio. All the victims were Asian-American.
Liberals like Schiff, Chuck Schumer, and Wis. State Rep. Francesca Hong blamed the shooting on “bigotry” and “white supremacy,” two favorite scapegoats of the left.
Police identified the alleged shooter as Huu Can Tran, an Asian-American.
Last November, there was a shooting at a Colorado Springs gay nightclub. Five people were killed and more than two dozen others were injured. For three days, Democrats blamed “anti-LGBT” rhetoric.
Targeting Colo. Rep. Lauren Boebert, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. tweeted, “You have played a major role in elevating anti-LGBT+ hate rhetoric and anti-trans lies while spending your time in Congress blocking even the most common sense gun safety laws.”
They shut up when it was announced that the prime suspect, Anderson Lee Aldrich identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns.
But for three days, Democrats were able to blame Republicans. I’m sure they were happy about that.
It’s only natural for observers to wonder about a motive, but it’s irresponsible to blame any group before the facts come out, and the victims are identified.
In March 2021, a mass shooting spree targeted massage parlors in Atlanta, killing six Asian Americans. Democrats in congress, like Mich. Rep. Rashida Tlaib rushed to blame white supremacy and racism.
Robert Aaron Long, the 21-year-old suspect, according to police, was motivated by a sex addiction.
Again Democrats put their foot in their mouth, jumping to conclusions.
After David DePape attacked then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, in their home, the liberal media portrayed him for weeks as a MAGA supporter. This continued even though DePape is an illegal immigrant from Canada, registered with the Green Party, and is most likely mentally ill. At one time, he lived in an abandoned school bus with a Black Lives Matter sign in the back window and an LGBT flag in the front.
Former CIA officer Buck Sexton put it this way: Democrats took the opportunity to “weaponize this clear psycho’s act for political reasons.”
Democrats also blame racism and white supremacy even after the facts negate their talking points. The reason is simple, that rhetoric helps keep Blacks away from the Republican party.
Case in point: Five police officers from Memphis, Tenn. are facing murder charges after a brutal beating of Tyre Nichols last month.
Democrat U.S. Reps. Cori Bush (Mo.) and Maxwell Frost (Fla.) blame this on white supremacy.
They blame it on white supremacy even though Memphis is a Democrat stronghold with a Democrat mayor and a Democrat city council, the police chief is Black and all five officers charged in the killing are Black.
In an opinion piece in the New York Post, Rich Lowry explains it this way: “There’s nothing white supremacy can’t do. It is to the contemporary left what capital was to Marx, sex was to Freud and gravity was to Newton. It is the “King Charles head” of American public life — a matter of obsession that comes up in debates and contexts where it has no possible relevance.”
After the Colorado Springs shooting in November Whoopi Goldberg — in trying to blame Republicans — said “this is what rhetoric brings, words matter.”
Words do matter. It matters for what Republicans say AND it matters when Democrats falsely accuse Republicans. It’s a shame, but Goldberg can’t see that.
