{"id":27356,"date":"2018-01-12T20:13:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T20:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27356"},"modified":"2018-01-12T20:13:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T20:13:58","slug":"memo-carlson-potus-mustnt-talk-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27356","title":{"rendered":"Memo to Carlson: POTUS mustn’t talk like that"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I certainly expected right-wing TV host Tucker Carlson <\/a>to give Donald Trump a pass on his “s***hole” comment about Haiti and nations in Africa.<\/p>\n

The Fox News host\/commentator said the president “something almost every person in America agrees with.” Trump, as you know by now, griped out loud during a White House meeting on immigration about the nation accepting so many immigrants from “s***hole” countries; he mentioned Haiti and those in the continent of Africa. He then lamented whether the United States should encourage more immigration from “countries like Norway.”<\/p>\n

I will not argue the point about the quality of life in the nations Trump disparaged in such a reprehensible manner, except to say that the people who live there deserve a level of respect that Donald Trump is incapable of giving them.<\/p>\n

However, I want to make a point about what Carlson said in response to the president’s hideous remarks.<\/p>\n

Whether “almost every person in American agrees” with what Trump said totally misses a critical point.<\/p>\n

I am one American who believes that presidents of the United States shouldn’t make such statements in public. I cannot prevent presidents from thinking<\/em> such things. However, for crying out loud, the current president needs to exercise some semblance of discretion when discussing issues of keen importance to the United States of America.<\/p>\n

That he would make such a ghastly statement reveals what many of us have believed all along about the president: Donald Trump is an ignorant racist.<\/em><\/p>\n

So, to Tucker Carlson, I will say: Read my lips, young man. I don’t give a damn<\/em> what you<\/em> might think of some portions of the rest of the world … but I certainly do<\/em> care when the leader of my beloved country pops off like a tinhorn thug.<\/p>\n\n

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I certainly expected right-wing TV host Tucker Carlson to give Donald Trump a pass on his “s***hole” comment about Haiti and nations in Africa. The Fox News host\/commentator said the president “something almost every person in America agrees with.” Trump, as you know by now, griped out loud during a White House meeting on immigration … Continue reading Memo to Carlson: POTUS mustn’t talk like that<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1424,1788,2245,7524],"class_list":["post-27356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-immigration","tag-tucker-carlson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27358,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27356\/revisions\/27358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}