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.â€
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 bitchâ€) 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/