Posted on 11/03/2022 9:20:52 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The mother of the Capitol Police officer who died the day after the January 6 riot is featured in a political ad where she blames “people like” Arizona’s Republican gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake for her son’s death, but in response, Lake offered her empathy.
In the ad, funded by the Republican Accountability Project, Gladys Sicknick calls Lake “very dangerous for our country” and directly blamed “people like” Lake for her son Brian’s death. Sicknick died a day after the riot, and his death was ultimately determined to be from natural causes as he suffered a series of strokes.
A CBS reporter just asked me about the latest desperate attack ad accusing ME of causing the death of a Capitol Police Officer.
As a mother, here was my response: pic.twitter.com/dol7OEFQaw
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) November 2, 2022
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
But the media has been hounding his mom for a “reaction,” and when she expressed sadness they pounced on it, amplified it and encouraged her to repeat it.
This is beyond the pale. Remember Cindy Sheehan and the public grief over the loss of her son, the wall to wall media coverage? (Of course, as soon as Obama was elected, the press was no longer interested in her.)
I can sympathize with that grief. My uncle was killed serving his country, and I never heard my grandmother talk about it, although my father carried a lot of anger just below the surface over it.
Once, when the hyenas here were mindlessly excoriating Sheehan, I reflectively commented that I could imagine, and I would be sympathetic if my grandmother who has lost her son serving, expressed that anger over that grief. She would be entitled to it.
Anyway, immediately after that remark, one of the cretins at FR that you can always could on at FR to post a stupid, thoughtless, moronic comment said that my grandmother must have been a commie like Cindy Sheehan.
I responded to that cretin rather pointedly, and as a result received a one week suspension from FR. Meanwhile that piece of sh!t received no sanction for his stupid comment about my beloved suffering family member. I'll shamefully confess I've carried resentment for that for a long time.
Our humanity can disappear in a second. Regardless of political persuasion, we can turn into vicious hyenas in a heartbeat.
My life has provided me with plenty of very difficult things to deal with. I've worked and reached out to people suffering from grief from some of the hardest times you can imagine.
More than anything, I value compassion.
Kari Lake's response was perfect. I understand it at a dozen different levels. It was a thoughtful, compassionate response, while giving no ground on her part. I suspect she'd planned for that response, or perhaps it was off the cuff, but it was one of those moments that truly reflects her intelligence, character and understanding of the situation.
There are very few people in politics as honest and brilliant as she is. I've really liked her, but based on that response, I'll be a fan forever.
Next time include what lake said
AMEN one thing I find odd about this website is that they expect you to leave this site, go to another site, go through the cookies and ads and then come back here if you want to make a comment. Very curious.
this unfortunate woman
Is a bald face reprobate liar.
A stroke killed him , and not on 1\6
She’s liarcrat scum.
She’s a young Soros in a concentration camp,
aiding murderous Natzis like another josef,,,Dr.Mengele
I bet she even got payed for her performance.
I'm sorry this mother lost her son.
We care about her loss... we're sorry she doesn't care about our losses.
And I guess Ashley Babbitt’s mom was just fine after her daughter was gunned down by a Capitol policeman…on video…
"Despite what you guys say"
I would not have been so generous and gracious as Lake with this angry woman using her dead son for political invective
“Sicknick died a day after the riot, and his death was ultimately determined to be from natural causes as he suffered a series of strokes. “
VAXXED? BOOSTED?
Being in Arizona and hearing Kari speak every day I am totally unsurprised by her charitable, cogent, and intelligent answer. She is the whole package and me and my house can’t wait to vote for her next Tuesday.
Great response. BTW, the Sicknick family is doing ads across the country, being used politically but apparently they are willing accomplices, Leftists themselves. They are running them in NY against Zeldin too.
Agreed
Kari Lake wasn’t even on the radar screen in ‘20
It may have been that sixth celebratory donut that done him in😉😄
Kari Lake caused that fellow’s stoke? Trump is responsible for Paul Pelosi’s homosexual tryst unraveling? The lib/commies are utter smear artists. Why don’t they say that Herschel Walkeer paid for my abortion, too?
He did have pre-existing conditions. The medical officers report said so, and also said nothing on January 6th had anything to do with his death.
These are the same people that are absolutely rabid about the right to butcher babies in the womb, up to the point of birth; these are the same people that are currently allowing minor children, babies really, to be mutilated in the name of 'gender'; these are the same people that actually wish death on people that do not agree with them. So there should be no shock when they use corpses as props.
I stopped going there completely the first time I had to hit next to continue reading...
She is really good.
She stands her ground, is never flustered, always in control of her emotions, but able to turn the question towards the points she wants to make, and not what the baiting questioners wants her to discuss.
Yup, very impressive.
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