If there’s one certain thing it is that what makes you mad isn’t certain. Take the example of the death of Rep. John Lewis, and the reactions from the left starting the day of and going on into today.
At first, libs were demanding to know why Trump and right-wingers were pointedly not tweeting in memoriam. Here’s some examples from blue check media complainers.
It’s hard to ignore – the president hasn’t said anything about John Lewis on his Twitter feed but had done more than a dozen retweets of campaign aides and others about Biden, China, and so forth.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 18, 2020
Any other president would have said something about John Lewis & probably given him a state funeral—and not just Democrats: George W. Bush was at the 50th anniversary march in Selma.But Trump, as he did with not lowering flags for McCain, has said nothing.He is currently golfing.
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) July 18, 2020
Any other president would have said something about John Lewis & probably given him a state funeral—and not just Democrats: George W. Bush was at the 50th anniversary march in Selma.But Trump, as he did with not lowering flags for McCain, has said nothing.He is currently golfing.
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) July 18, 2020
Is @realDonaldTrump so racist and captive to racism that he can’t acknowledge the death of John Lewis?
— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) July 18, 2020
Then he did say something. But he also acknowledged the death of Regis Philbin, so they had a new attack.
Wow. A lot faster than for John Lewis
— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) July 25, 2020
All respect to Regis but compare this to his response to the passing of John Lewis. https://t.co/yA0OpMplG9
— Jesse Damiani (@JesseDamiani) July 25, 2020
But then there’s CNN. On Sunday, Bakari Sellers was on that fat, dumb, bald guy’s show, and he said he doesn’t want Republicans talking about Lewis anyway.
@Bakari_Sellers with a truth bomb: "Sometimes you need to keep the words John Lewis out of your mouth…" because those invoking the name have done little or none for the legacy this man's life stood for. @CNN #Icon
— toby knapp (@tkradio) July 26, 2020
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“For all of my friends who are more conservative than I, who want to praise John Lewis today and for the next six days,” he said. “Sometimes you just need to keep John Lewis’ name out of your mouth.”
To be fair, a small number of libs were saying that from the start.
Keep John Lewis’s name out of your racist, white supremacist, thin-lipped mouth. https://t.co/9HyRN0uNBx
— Preston Mitchum (@PrestonMitchum) July 18, 2020
But most of them followed the progression. First demand Republicans honor him, then say they didn’t do it right, and finally say “how dare you mention his name!”
Typical.