{"id":19094,"date":"2017-01-09T14:35:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T14:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19094"},"modified":"2017-01-09T14:35:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T14:35:38","slug":"yes-donald-you-mocked-the-ny-times-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19094","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Donald, you ‘mocked’ the NY Times reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I awoke this morning to news that the great actor Meryl Streep tore Donald J. Trump a new one at the Golden Globes awards ceremony.<\/p>\n

She called him a bully and some other fitting epithets. I don’t want to comment specifically on the totality of her comments, but I do want to offer a brief critique of part of the president-elect’s tweet-storm response.<\/p>\n

He said “for the 100th time” he didn’t mock a New York Times reporter’s physical disability while delivering a campaign-rally speech en route to his election as president.<\/p>\n

Actually, Mr. President-elect, you did mock Serge Kovaleski, who suffers from a debilitating muscular disease that inhibits his arm movements. It was a disgusting and disgraceful exhibition of childish petulance the likes of which many of us never have seen coming from a major-party presidential nominee.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/09\/movies\/trump-meryl-streep-golden-globes-speech.html?partner=msft_msn&_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n

For Trump to suggest — as if we’re all a bunch of rubes — that he merely was showing how the reporter was ” … ‘groveling’ when he totally changed a 16 year old story that he had written in order to make me look bad. Just more very dishonest media!”<\/p>\n

Trump said he “would never do that,” meaning mock someone in such a hideous manner.<\/p>\n

Actually, I believe he would. And I also believe he did!<\/p>\n