Is Maxine Waters contaegious?
I ask that question because her penchant for looney-tune raving seems to have been caught by Senator Cory Booker as well.
Not content with screaming and fist-pounding at Department of Homland Security Secretary Kirstjen Neilsen, he is now suggesting that she has nazi tendencies.
In case you think I am in any way exaggerating, read this excerpt from David Rutz’s article at freebeacon.com:
Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.) likened Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to Nazi enablers on Thursday, commenting on what he called her complicity with the White House’s bigotry by saying “we know what happened in Europe when people just did their jobs.”
When Nielsen appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Booker lit into her for claiming in earlier testimony that she did not recall President Donald Trump referring to African nations as “s—hole” countries in an Oval Office meeting last week.
Booker said he had “tears of rage” over the comments and called her testimony “unacceptable.” The remarks went viral, although critics on the right suggested Booker was performing for the cameras and the Republican National Committee hit Booker for “mansplaining” to Nielsen.
“People who sit by and do nothing when they hear bigotry are complicit in that bigotry,” Booker said on “The Breakfast Club” radio show, when asked about his tirade.
Booker said he had been “consistent” in his fight against prejudice throughout his career. He has said Nielsen lied under oath during her testimony by saying she couldn’t remember Trump’s comments and also criticized her for not connecting Trump’s rhetoric to right-wing hate crimes.
Let’s start with the obvious: if participants in that meeting disagree on whether President Trump used the term “shithole countries”, and Senator Booker wasn’t there, how would he know the truth one way or another.
And since he could not possibly know the truth, how does he know that Ms. Neilsen is lying about it?
And in the absence of that knowledge, why would he expect Ms. Neilsen to connect Trump’s comment – which she says she did not recall him using – to any groups of any kind, right wing or otherwise?
And then, for Booker to tie her claim – which, one more time, he DOES NOT know is false – to a clear inference that she was acting like a good little nazi? It doesn’t get sicker.
Even if Donald Trump did use the term, crude and offensive as it might be, the premise that Haiti, El Salvador and at least some unspecified African nations are at the bottom of the barrel as countries go, is – sorry Cory – the truth. Saying so doesn’t make Ms. Neilsen, or me, or anyone else who does the same, nazi-like. It makes us honest.
But what does it make someone who both ignores this reality as if it didn’t exist, while name-calling people who dare to say it out loud? Tell us, Cory.
One last thing: as a matter of full disclosure, I voted for Cory Booker – more because I found his opponent unpalatable than anything else.
I’m sorrier by the day that I did.
