“What is it about this President that has stripped away the veneer of respect that normally accompanies the office of the president. Why do republicans think that this president is unpresidential and shouldn’t dare to request this kind of thing … It strikes me that it could be the economic times, or that he won so big in 2008, or, It could be, let’s face it, the color of his skin.”
“Stripping away the veneer of respect?” He’s joking, right?
When the President told his supporters (and they listened, literally) “punch back twice as hard,” “get in their neighbor’s faces,” “bring a gun to a knife fight,” (and they again listened, literally) when Nancy Pelosi called Americans “Nazis,” when Frederica Wilson called us “the enemy,” when Maxine Waters told us to go to hell and she would help take us there, when Vice-President Biden called us “terrorists,” when President Obama referred to Republicans as “enemies,” When Andre Carson called half of the country racists and lynchers, where was this expectation of a respectful veneer?
I realize Wolffe is a British-born Obama sycophant, but surely he has more self-preservation than sense to see how such a laughable double-standard renders him irrelevant and ignorant. Whatever happened to the veneer of media objectivity, Richard Wolffe?
The administration and many members within its party showed little if any respect for the American voter before the first grassroots criticism resonated off the walls of the Capitol dome. Respect for public office is a two-way street and elected leaders aren’t sanctified idols. They also are called to respect the office, not disgrace it, which is what Wilson, Wasserman-Schultz, and many more have done as they abuse their power for party and believe their office is a free pass for rude behavior and vitriolic remarks.
But Wolffe is too good of a trained media dog to bite the hand that feeds him, which is why you won’t hear so much as a whimper of this impropriety.
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