On MSNBC, WashPost's Rubin: 'Special Place in Hell' for Kellyanne Conway

Newsbusters.org ^ | November 25, 2017 | Brad Wilmouth

[Kaslin]

On Saturday's AM Joy, Washington Post columnist and frequent MSNBC guest Jennifer Rubin was near breaking her own record for aiming vitriol at Republicans as she declared that "there is a special place in hell" for Kellyanne Conway because the White House advisor recently advocated voting for Roy Moore in spite of sexual molestation accusations against the Alabama Republican.

On MSNBC, WashPost's Rubin: 'Special Place in Hell' for Kellyanne Conway

After playing a clip of Conway from FNC's Fox and Friends suggesting that voters should vote for Moore, host Joy Reid turned to Rubin and posed: "So, yes, vote Roy Moore. I mean, and, Jennifer, and the idea that the guy who prosecuted two of the Klansmen who blew up the 16th Street Baptist Church and killed four little kids in the 1960s is weak on crime, is pretty breath-taking."

Rubin attacked Conway as she began:

Well, to quote Ivanka Trump -- who I never quote -- there's a special place in hell for mothers who defend accused child molesters, and that would be Kellyanne Conway. I have no words to describe how, really, atrocious, how despicable this is.

Then, without acknowledging that many Republicans have attacked Moore, Rubin took further aim at the Republican party as she added:

I do want to differ with Kurt (Bardella) in that he sees this noxious branch of the Republican party as a segment. Unfortunately, I think that is the Republican party. You can't kind of pass them off as some fringe group when it's the President of the United States, everybody in the White House, the head of the RNC, the Vice President of the United States. We can go down the line.

And let's face it. The party has already embraced someone who has been serially accused of sexual assault, that's the President. That's Paul Ryan. That's Mitch McConnell. That's everybody. So, listen, to make this distinction that somehow there are good Republicans on this issue and bad Republicans. This is the horror of Donald Trump which he has infested and deformed an entire national political party. And I think they're rotten to the core now, the whole lot of them.

There was no acknowledgement by Rubin of the Democratic party's own history of defending high-level political figures like former Senator Ted Kennedy and former President Bill Clinton in spite of sexual assault accusations. In fact, just a week ago, Rubin hit Democrats from the left to complain about some of them condemning Clinton sex scandals.

Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the Saturday, November 25, AM Joy on MSNBC:

KELLYANNE CONWAY, WHITE HOUSE ADVISOR: Doug Jones in Alabama? Folks, don't be fooled. He'll be a vote against tax cuts. He's weak on crime, weak on borders. He's strong on raising your taxes -- he's terrible for property owners. And Doug Jones is a doctrinaire liberal, which is why he's not saying anything, and why the media are trying to boost him.

BRIAN KILMEADE, FNC HOST: So vote Roy Moore?

CONWAY: I'm telling you, we want the votes in the Senate to get this tax bill through.

JOY REID: So, yes, vote Roy Moore. I mean, and, Jennifer, and the idea that the guy who prosecuted two of the Klansmen who blew up the 16th Street Baptist Church and killed four little kids in the 1960s is weak on crime, is pretty breath-taking.

JENNIFER RUBIN, WASHINGTON POST: Well, to quote Ivanka Trump -- who I never quote -- there's a special place in hell for mothers who defend accused child molesters, and that would be Kellyanne Conway. I have no words to describe how, really, atrocious, how despicable this is. I do want to differ with Kurt (Bardella) in that he sees this noxious branch of the Republican party as a segment. Unfortunately, I think that is the Republican party. You can't kind of pass them off as some fringe group when it's the President of the United States, everybody in the White House, the head of the RNC, the Vice President of the United States. We can go down the line.

And let's face it. The party has already embraced someone who has been serially accused of sexual assault, that's the President. That's Paul Ryan. That's Mitch McConnell. That's everybody. So, listen, to make this distinction that somehow there are good Republicans on this issue and bad Republicans. This is the horror of Donald Trump which he has infested and deformed an entire national political party. And I think they're rotten to the core now, the whole lot of them.

REID: Yeah, Kurt, isn't that the case? I mean, the Bannon wing owns the party now. They've taken over. Ideologically, Paul Ryan runs behind the President, you know, like a fan. They're all in lockstep. How can you make a distinction?

KURT BARDELLA, ENDEAVOR STRATEGIES: Well, in any event, I don't disagree with that, Jennifer, at all. I mean, no one has been more vocal about the rotting core that Steve Bannon and Donald Trump have perpetrated on this Republican party than I have. It's why I barely consider myself a Republican at this point, and spend almost every day speaking out against them --

RUBIN: Come on out, Kurt, you'll like the weather out here.

[Olog-hai]

Another “guilty until proven innocent” CINO.

[Ann Archy]

Sadly, Rubin has her Hatred for Kellyanne UNDISGUISED....it’s JEALOUSY!

[GnuThere]

“Special place in hell,” the buzzy, go-to phrase for Dims and Ivanka, but that’s redundant.

[Spok]

How far can the left be from openly advocating for the arrest and public execution of its political opponents?

[profit_guy]

Rubin supports proven molesters as long as they are Democrat, and passes judgement on accusations that are easily proven fraudulent when it involves a Republican. Rubin belongs in Hell right now.

[Brilliant]

But Democrat rapists get a pass.

[PIF]

“How far can the left be from openly advocating for the arrest and public execution of its political opponents?”

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Just a couple of election cycles, why?

[Okeydoker]

Another in a long line of fake conservatives. Vile and loathsome dirtbag!

[Gay State Conservative]

Special place in hell? That's a curious comment coming from a Marxist atheist.

[OldSmaj]

Wow, the applause from all 6 MSNBC viewers is deafening.

And the 4 people that still read the Washington ComPost are surely giggling over such journalistic insights that Rubin provides.

[profit_guy]

" “How far can the left be from openly advocating for the arrest and public execution of its political opponents?”

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Just a couple of election cycles, why? "

And that's EXACTLY why they are against guns. No other reason.

[Sarah Barracuda]

I look at these loons and I just can’t fathom why they are such hateful idiots. They live in a world I will never be a part of thank God

[Sarah Barracuda]

I think after the attempted assassination of Steve Scalise and the glee from the media(And disappointment that he didnt die) we already know the answer to that question

[Ann Archy]

She;s Jewish...I doubt that she’s an atheist.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Sorry Jennifer. Since y’all gave Clinton a pass as well as Teddy Kennedy, your vitriol about something that may or may not have happened 40 years ago carries no weight.

[PlateOfShrimp]

Good golly how I loathe this woman. Even more than Peggy Noonan and Kathleen Parker put together.

This Moore thing is very frustrating - everyone, not just the GOPe or libs, seems to imply that we support him in spite of his actions. No, we support him because we believe the accusations are false. Even the good guys like Schlichter don’t seem to get this.

[clintonh8r]

I guess Rubin knows who’s going to Hell and who isn’t because, well.....

[theBuckwheat]

Since secular progressives do not believe in God, then by what theology of secularism is there still a hell to which they can wish their enemies must spend an eternity of suffering?

It is time for secular progressives to stop appropriating hell, especially a hell that cannot exist in their materialistic universe.

[blackdog]

Journalists with opinions. How rare? /s At least Trump makes them all pull off their masks and drool out those cancerous notions from their elitist pie holes.