{"id":41523,"date":"2019-05-16T15:39:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T22:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41523"},"modified":"2019-05-16T15:58:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T22:58:12","slug":"hypocritical-gop-rep-says-insults-are-intellectually-void-but-ignores-trump-and-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41523","title":{"rendered":"Hypocritical GOP Rep Says Insults are ‘Intellectually Void’ – But Ignores Trump and Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The competition for rank hypocrisy in American politics has rarely been as one-sided as it has been since the advent of Donald Trump. He and his Republican Nationalist Party have dominated the field with brazenly dishonest rhetoric that stretches the outward boundaries of Olympic-grade duplicity and deceit.<\/p>\n

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Trump is the most shameless purveyor of pretense this country has ever seen. He says that he supports access to health care for every American while he’s cutting services and sabotaging the Affordable Care Act. He says that he’s for the environment while slashing regulations and dismantling the EPA. He ways that no one is a stronger advocate for women while he nominates judges who have sworn to decimate their civil and human rights. There are many more examples of Trump’s perfidy and that of the party that has devolved into little more than his blindly devoted pep squad.<\/p>\n

One of the worst offenders is Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas. He recently sought to criticize Sen. Elizabeth Warren for her honorable decision to shun a Fox News invitation<\/a><\/strong> to do a town hall. She correctly called the network a “hate-for-profit racket,”<\/em> which is an apt description for an alleged “news”<\/em> enterprise that exists only to malign Democrats and liberals. Crenshaw was obviously upset with Warren’s brave and well -articulated position, so he tweeted smugly:<\/p>\n

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Why do you have such contempt for half of America?<\/p>\n

Labeling and insulting the other side as full of \u201cracism and hate\u201d is a cheap attempt to undermine ideas so that you don\u2019t have to actually confront them. It is an intellectually void strategy. https:\/\/t.co\/3Lubg4dEH4<\/a><\/p>\n

— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) May 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n