Klamath Falls, OR—Cue the baying tweet choruses of whataboutism! Need to discredit an opponent's position without directly confronting it? Start tweet-shouting hypocrisy and "double standard" with lots of exclamation points.
The right, on the back foot ever since Barr suffered another of her periodic bouts of Twitter derangement, had been trying, without much success, to turn attention away from Trump-supporting Barr's bald display of racism and focus instead on liberal miscreants and their misdeeds.
<---- (What about this one? The Right did not have a problem with this one as long as their theme Make America Great Again was on it now did they?)
The "double standard" argument:
This is by far the strongest theme among conservative tweeters and right-wing pundits who tweet. "Fire Samantha Bee," was their rallying cry. Even Barr endorsed the idea via a retweet.
"Why aren’t they firing no talent Samantha Bee for the horrible language used on her low ratings show?" Trump tweeted Friday, "A total double standard but that’s O.K., we are Winning, and will be doing so for a long time to come!"
"The hypocrisy is sickening," said Ari Fleischer, a spokesman for President George W. Bush.
"Hypocrisy & cruelty from the Left, per usual," added Fox News' Britt McHenry.
"If Roseanne lost her show for tweeting a joke, Samantha Bee should be on the same list for spewing real, vile hatred on live TV. The double standard is REAL!" tweeted a pro-Trump Twitter feed called the The Trump Train.
In Washington, statements of shock and outrage emanated from the White House, both West, and East wings.
"Vile and vicious," declared the president's spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
The what-about-Trump's-vulgarisms argument:
<----(What about this one? That is OK by the Right as long as the person being called a "cunt" is Hillary. Talk about "Double Standards" by the Right.)
Speaking of POTUS: After 48 hours of mocking and dismissing the right's whataboutism, suddenly the left was on defense — and turning to Trump's history of trashy talk, including the use of the very word that so infuriated them Thursday.
Some tweeters posted the full transcript of the infamous Access Hollywood tape of Trump talking about grabbing women's genitals (he used a different vulgar term) and getting away with it.
Others posted pictures of people at Trump rallies during the 2016 campaign wearing t-shirts that referred to Democrat Hillary Clinton by the C-word. Still others pointed out that rocker Ted Nugent called Clinton by that word, too, and Trump invited him to dinner.
"Seeing all of this fake outrage over Samantha Bee using the C-word towards Ivanka by the same people who wore, post daily, share memes, retweet posts calling Hillary Clinton that very same word is hypocritically amusing," posted Ricky Davila.
(What about this T-Shirt? Where is the outrage by the right for a shirt they approved?) ---->
"The right isn’t outraged over Samantha Bee’s comment...They just want to be able to justify defending Roseanne’s racist comment," he said.
@realDonaldTrump @DonaldJTrumpJr Selective Outrage by Trump. It is OK for Nugent to call Hillary the C' word. But Samantha B cannot call Ivanka One. Hypocrisy.
<---- (What about this, I guess it is OK, too?)
It is always OK by the Right the "Do as I say, not as I do" crowd. As long as Hillary is the "cunt" they are referring too. But the POS complained about Ivanka being called a "cunt", the pussy grabber in Cheif himself whines about it. Maybe he is jealous he didn't grab Ivanka's cunt first.
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