Posted on 01/25/2019 9:24:20 AM PST by Heartlander
To be forgiven, he has to not only show his support for Trump and his supporters, without any Rino weasel words, plus go after the Democrat-communists and his former buddies the Republican Rinos. With extreme malice or disappear into history. Come on -Show us! Go after Romney and Kristol to start, Erick.
Republican-Rhinos = socialists! (forgot to add that)
Even in his apologie, he had to take one last whack at Trump, about his military service. I gave up on this turd a long time ago.
BTTT.
The fact that Erickson ever, ever, sided against his own ‘side’ and with the enemies of The People, tells us all we need to know. Anyone who had to think about it, behaved RINO, acted against our interests, at all - isn’t worth having as an ally.
He is a never-Trumper and that means a never-ever.
I have not heard of this man before today. But if he has managed to decline in the same hot tub with savage media critters for this long, his core values have quite a bit of squish in them.
I can almost forgive him being a never Trumper.
But look at this article as an example of how much of a presstiture he still is. He’s an apologist for the media.
And that will not do. Not acceptable. The media is a Domestic Enemy and should be regarded as such.
I know exactly the type of person who enrolls in journalism in college. They start weekend partying Thursday afternoon and think a 4-page double-spaced paper they must complete over the weekend is “really hard work”.
There are a few good shows on Salem, but many rinos as well
No, they judged him by his skin color.They cannot admit they judged a boy by his hat.
Neither is true. If the boy had been black and wearing a MAGA hat, he would have been as much a target, and more so. Ditto if it had been a woman.So it is more true that they judged him by his hat. OTOH the real misjudgment, the real prejudice, lies in the judgment they made prior to that. Their prejudice is that they are the ones to decide - for all of us - the meaning of the hat.
The basis of that prejudice is their membership in a mutual admiration society. The club of objective journalists.
The ancient greek philosophers figured out that claiming to be wise was a slippery way of evading facts and logic. It was the propaganda of the sophists against whom the philosophers contended.
Journalists are modern-day sophists, but they evade the odor of sophistry of claiming wisdom by claiming “objectivity” instead. Pretty much the same difference. And, if you pay attention you will notice that they don’t claim objectivity for themselves personally - they claim objectivity for the group first, and then for whoever else among them has been attacked for being ideological.
- sophist
- 1542, earlier sophister (c.1380), from L. sophista, sophistes, from Gk. sophistes, from sophizesthai "to become wise or learned," from sophos "wise, clever," of unknown origin. Gk. sophistes came to mean "one who gives intellectual instruction for pay," and, contrasted with "philosopher," it became a term of contempt. Ancient sophists were famous for their clever, specious arguments.
- philosopher
- O.E. philosophe, from L. philosophus, from Gk. philosophos "philosopher," lit. "lover of wisdom," from philos "loving" + sophos "wise, a sage."
"Pythagoras was the first who called himself philosophos, instead of sophos, 'wise man,' since this latter term was suggestive of immodesty." [Klein]
“Wisdom” and “objectivity” are aspirations, not states of being. It is arrogant to claim otherwise about yourself. Or to join a mutual admiration society which you know will claim either for you.
Trotskyists (Neoconservatives).
What, no apology for being one of the first to call Trump a racist?
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