Nolte: Trump Calling Chuck Todd a Son of a B*tch Is Good for America

[Emjay]

The theory goes that if you put a frog in a pot of water and slowly turn up the flame, the frog will not notice it is being boiled to death. This is exactly what is happening to free speech in our country, and President Trump’s greatest service to America might be the example of his belligerent refusal to stay in the pot.

While appearing at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania Saturday night, Trump called Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd a “sleepy-eyed son of a bitch.”

Like most of what Trump does, there was a method to the madness.
The president, who has already announced his intent to run for a second term in 2020, knows that he must again pull off the hat trick of winning the rust belt states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

On Thursday, Todd had Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers, on his MSNBC show to discuss Trump’s new steel tariffs — an interview that apparently did not sit wellwith steelworkers in Pennsylvania.

And so, with six simple words (“sleepy-eyed son of a bitch”) Trump told this important constituency that he is on their side, that it is them against the condescending elitists, that it is Delta House against the Omega snobs. In other words, calling Todd a SOB is great politics. Using the language of the steelworker is even better politics. And this, to me, is the most important thing… the boiling frog thing…

Personally, I would not call Todd a SOB, but my feelings are not the point.
The point is freedom — good old fashioned American freedom and defiance, the freedom to disagree, to offend, to say what you believe without living in fear of being excommunicated as a heretic from the public square by the squares, the prigs, the Puritans, the close-minded scolds.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/13/nolte-trump-calling-chuck-todd-son-bch-good-america/

[Emjay]

Interesting take on the SOB thing.  I particularly enjoyed the author's discussion of a couple of classic movies that could not be made today because we are prisoners of political correctness and afraid to take a stand.

[Emjay]

Pretty nice compilation here:

"The point is freedom — good old fashioned American freedom and defiance, the freedom to disagree, to offend, to say what you believe without living in fear of being excommunicated as a heretic from the public square by the squares, the prigs, the Puritans, the close-minded scolds."

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

I thought you left?

[Emjay]

I thought you left?

Hope springs eternal.

[Fantom]

I thought you left?

I have never thought Emjay a leftist..... you on the other hand....

[Emjay]

I have never thought Emjay a leftist..... you on the other hand....

I am half sick of leftists cried the Lady of Shalott.

Or leftists posing as conservatives while spending all their TBR time attacking the Republican President.

Not sure what kind of Utopia they are trying to live in but it doesn't exist. 

The reality is that Trump will be the President for 3 more years at the least. 

I wish him well.

[Emjay]

This is a good article.  I wish everyone wouldn't ignore it.

[Fantom]

I am half sick of leftists cried the Lady of Shalott.

Or leftists posing as conservatives while spending all their TBR time attacking the Republican President.

Not sure what kind of Utopia they are trying to live in but it doesn't exist. 

The reality is that Trump will be the President for 3 more years at the least. 

I wish him well.

Indeed  and at the rate Trump is going... Four More Years!

[INVAR]

Or leftists posing as conservatives while spending all their TBR time attacking the Republican President.

Once again, you people are equating Conservative with being a loyal They-Can-Do-No-Wrong-Republican.

That don't fly no more since your party jettisoned Conservatism for Big Government Statism as their own brand and reneged on all the promises they made to stop and repeal the Obama Agenda that they have made permanent.

[Emjay]

Once again, you people are equating Conservative with being a loyal They-Can-Do-No-Wrong-Republican.

That don't fly no more since your party jettisoned Conservatism for Big Government Statism as their own brand and reneged on all the promises they made to stop and repeal the Obama Agenda that they have made permanent.

The Republican party has too many tenured Senators who've lost track of their conservative roots

However, they did not "jettison Conservatism for Big Government Statism"

Overstatements like that weaken your arguments.

Like Rush used to say, "I live in Realville."  It's a place where we have a Republican President who is trying hard to keep his promises in a climate of hate from not only the media and the entertainment industry but from Republicans who just don't like him.

We are very conscious that a lot of elected Republicans are failing us right now but I'm still hoping we will elect a large enough majority that we can get things done.

But YOU, you have no plan and no hope.  You're just a constant black cloud hanging over everything.

[INVAR]

The Republican party has too many tenured Senators who've lost track of their conservative roots

However, they did not "jettison Conservatism for Big Government Statism"

Oh really?  Shall we look at the fruits of your party for the last 8 years - if not longer?  Do you want to start with the repeal of ObamaCare?  How about Funding Obama's agenda in full?

How about their leadership working together with Democrats to sabotage actual Grassroots Conservatives or saying they will vote for the Democrat rather than the GOP candidate who is Conservative and might not lick McConnell's boots?  Where do you want to start?  I got a nice long list.

Overstatements like that weaken your arguments.   Like Rush used to say, "I live in Realville." 

Yeah, it's populated by people who abandoned the principles they paid lip service to in order to "win" and have an audience or get into the exclusive clubs and dinner parties they once loathed.  "Realville" has no use for actual Conservative principles in a government and culture that is going full blown statist and Socialist at the behest of the Oligarchy in power.

As I am fond of saying, I don't give a rat's ass if 99.99.99% of the nation decides that Marxist Populism is the way to go - I will stand on my principles, even if I stand alone.

But YOU, you have no plan and no hope.  You're just a constant black cloud hanging over everything.

I do have my own ideas and plans, they do not include practicing insanity.  I do not put my hope and trust in men or corrupted institutions.

I actually recognize what time it is that we now exist in.

[Emjay]

87 pie in the sky voters went Mickey Mouse and may have cost the Republicans a close election.

That's what I'm talkin' about.

[INVAR]

87 pie in the sky voters went Mickey Mouse and may have cost the Republicans a close election.

That's what I'm talkin' about.

What difference does it make given the fruits of the Republican Party in power?  Mickey Mouse would have been an improvement.

We may as well have elected Democrats for what your party has achieved and refused to do as promised.

I frankly don't give a damn anymore about the stupid GOP.  They deserve to go the way of the Whigs and I intend to help bury them right alongside.

[cato potatoe]

The rust belt voters must not have been impressed with his brilliant speech.  Like casting pearls before swine, I tell you.

[edpc]

The rust belt voters must not have been impressed with his brilliant speech.  Like casting pearls before swine, I tell you.

He didn't take it far enough.  A couple f-bombs and a special guest appearance by Hope Hicks to do some twerking would have made all the difference.

[Frank Cannon]

I am half sick of leftists cried the Lady of Shalott.

I'm not familiar with that song, but I crank the knob to 11 when I hear the Lady of Marmalade.....

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[Right_in_Virginia]

Once again, you people are equating Conservative with being a loyal They-Can-Do-No-Wrong-Republican.

Don't flatter yourself @INVAR

[Right_in_Virginia]

I frankly don't give a damn anymore about the stupid GOP. 

Yet you can't stop posting this drivel.  Just who are you trying to convince @INVAR?

[Right_in_Virginia]

87 pie in the sky voters went Mickey Mouse and may have cost the Republicans a close election.

That's what I'm talkin' about.

Conscience votes @Emjay ...

[Right_in_Virginia]

Pretty nice compilation here:

"The point is freedom — good old fashioned American freedom and defiance, the freedom to disagree, to offend, to say what you believe without living in fear of being excommunicated as a heretic from the public square by the squares, the prigs, the Puritans, the close-minded scolds."

Don't forget the hypocrites .....

[Concerned]

If the President wants to call out people he disagrees with, I think he should do it based on substance.  Using childish, profane, name-calling is not good for America and not good for the Office of the Presidency IMO.  The President should be someone who represents the values and principles of the country.  Acting like a petty 5-year-old bully by calling people names just doesn’t do that IMO.

[INVAR]

Yet you can't stop posting this drivel.  Just who are you trying to convince @INVAR?

You're a True Believer, so you're a lost cause altogether.

A Mob Zombie.

So people like you are a lost cause.

I just see you exactly as I would a Marxist Leftist whose god is Trump.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

The theory goes that if you put a frog in a pot of water and slowly turn up the flame, the frog will not notice it is being boiled to death. This is exactly what is happening to free speech in our country, and President Trump’s greatest service to America might be the example of his belligerent refusal to stay in the pot.

Frogs always go in the blender.

[skeeter]

If the President wants to call out people he disagrees with, I think he should do it based on substance.  Using childish, profane, name-calling is not good for America and not good for the Office of the Presidency IMO.  The President should be someone who represents the values and principles of the country.  Acting like a petty 5-year-old bully by calling people names just doesn’t do that IMO.

Ridicule is man's most powerful weapon.

A good tactic is one your people enjoy.

While I agree it would be nice if everyone sat down and had a reasoned, civil debate in good faith we're way past that, because the other side doesn't play that way and hasn't for decades.

Besides, if there is an institution that is undeserving of respect its the mainstream news media.