Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 09:47 pm
Incoming White House adviser Kellyanne Conway is busy trying to silence Meryl Streep by accusing her of inciting people’s “worst instincts” in her Golden Globe speech, during which Streep asked people to join the Committee to Protect Journalists and never actually spoke President-elect Donald Trump’s name.
On Fox And Friends Monday morning, Conway spun wild, “I’m concerned that someone with a platform like Meryl Streep’s is inciting people’s worst instincts.”
.@KellyannePolls: I'm concerned that somebody with a platform like Meryl Streep's is inciting people's worst instincts pic.twitter.com/QjITaedKnV
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) January 9, 2017
What is inciting people’s worst instincts you ask? Is Conway referring to suggesting the winner be shot, perhaps, like Donald Trump did, because that truly would be horrible. Shame on Meryl Streep!
Oh, wait, Meryl Streep didn’t even say Trump’s name and she sure as heck didn’t incite violence or even suggest anything remotely like a “worst instinct” (what is worse than suggesting someone be murdered?), unlike Donald Trump. Left out of all of this is the reason Streep suggested people join the Committee to Protect Journalists, which is more important than Donald Trump’s feelings.
Meryl Streep is guilty, according to Conway, of not supporting Donald Trump even though she doesn’t like that he won. “She sounds like 2014. The election is over. She lost. Everybody in that audience, with very few exceptions, was of a single, myopic mind as to how they wanted the election to go and how they expected the election to go. They lost and I really wish she would have stood up last night and said ‘Look, I didn’t like the election results, but he’s our president and we’re going to support him.’”
Thus, if you don’t fall into line, you’re guilty of inciting people’s “worst instincts.” (Please do not apply this standard to Birther Donald Trump.)
That’s quite a charge to level against a citizen from a soon-to-be White House adviser.
But not unexpected, as Conway took to CNN’s New Day to shame the press for taking Donald Trump at his word, “Do you always want to go by what’s come out of (Trump’s) mouth rather than look at what’s in his heart?”
In other words, Donald Trump isn’t accountable for what he says. He is accountable for what Conway claims is in his heart, even when that is in direct opposition to how he acts and what he says.
However, standards are higher for Meryl Streep. She isn’t allowed to disagree with Donald Trump or call for people to do dangerous things like join the Committee to Protect Journalists, because this is seen as inciting “worst instincts” by Conway. Although I’m sure plenty of people will not agree with Conway that not approving of Donald Trump mocking a disabled reporter is a “worst instinct”. Hint: The worst instinct is mocking the reporter, from a position of privilege and power.
Basically, Donald Trump is such a baby that he can’t be held accountable for what he says from the biggest platform in the world, and he’s so thin-skinned that Americans aren’t allowed to even disagree with him without being charged with inciting “worst instincts”. Because to Trump, disagreeing with him is so painful that it FEELS like worst instincts to him.
Trump is a very special snowflake, people. Only positive comments, thanks!
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