I am no fan of first-term congresperson Dan Goldman (D-NY). To me, he comes across as a “yes boss, I’ll say and vote the way you want me to” political hack.
But when someone is unfairly accused it is wrong, no matter who the unfairly accused party is. And what is being made of Rep. Goldman’s poor choice of words regarding Donald Trump is a case in point.
Not surprisingly, Goldman is against Donald Trump. And he does not want him to become President again. In fact, he wants him out of politics altogether.
Here is how he expressed that position during a Sunday morning interview on MSNBC:
“It is just unquestionable at this point that that man cannot see public office again. He is not only unfit, he is destructive to our democracy, and he has to be, he has to be eliminated.”
Is Goldman being fair to Trump? That’s for each of us to decide individually.
But did he suggest, as some anti-Goldman people immediately claimed, that Trump be attacked violently? Done away with? Maybe even killed?
C’mon, guys. The context of that quote is that he should be eliminated from public office, nothing else.
Despite this, I would think, self-evident reality, the feigned outcry over his quote was sufficient for Goldman to offer the following apology:
“Yesterday on TV, I mistakenly used the wrong word to express the importance for America that Donald Trump doesn’t become President again. While he must be defeated, I certainly wish no harm to him and do not condone political violence. I apologize for the poor choice of words.”
Despite that apology, the pro-Trump and/or anti-Goldman people will, no doubt bring it up again and again in the future. And they will be full of crap every time they do.
In a sense, I can’t blame them. Intentionally misrepresenting words/meanings is an ongoing game of the Democrat Party – especially its large-and-still-growing hard left contingent. Claiming that Trump said nazis were “very fine people” – a blatant lie – is just one of many examples.
But that doesn’t make it acceptable. Not for them and not for anyone else.
So I’ll finish by saying, again, that let’s cut the crap and stick to reality. OK?
