Posted on 10/11/2018 10:20:26 AM PDT by rktman
During an exclusive live interview with Michelle Obama on Thursday’s Today show, co-host Savannah Guthrie touted the former First Lady’s “famous” motto of “When they go low, we go high.” However, the NBC anchor then highlighted other prominent Democrats recently calling for the party to abandon any pretense of civility when attacking Republicans and wondered if Obama’s saying “still stands.”
“You know, and these are tough times politically, that we are living in,” Guthrie lamented. After reminding viewers of the then-First Lady warning supporters at the 2016 Democratic National Convention not to “go low” like Republicans, the morning show host noted:
And just this week the former Attorney General Eric Holder, who worked for your husband, said the Democrats should have a new motto, “When they go low, we should kick them.” Hillary Clinton said, “How can we be civil when our opponents are trying to, you know, take away everything we stand for?”
Guthrie followed: “And I just thought, what would you say now about your motto? Do you think it still stands, ‘When they go low, we go high’?”
To her credit, Obama seemed to scold her fellow liberals:
Absolutely. Fear is not a – it’s not a proper motivator. Hope wins out. And if you think about how you want your kids to be raised, how you want them to think about life and their opportunities, do you want them afraid of their neighbors? Do you want them angry? Do you want them vengeful?
The calls from Holder and Clinton for left-wing activists to continue to threaten and intimidate Republicans had not been covered by any of the broadcasts networks until Guthrie’s question, which wasn’t even critical of the remarks.
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Yes, and Rosie O'Donnell should turn down the sexy just a notch.
I approve of the “XXX” censorship
Should Dems Just Abandon Civility?
It looks like they are ready to take it to the next level.
My Gawd, November is going to be “interesting”. Keep your powder dry.
Savannah Guthrie is a Partisan Media Shill, not a journalist.
He was a fake First Husband, of a fake president.
Do these people NOT get that they haven’t experienced incivility from us yet?
Yeah, I’ve been doing that for a while now. Why waste perfectly good letters on those assclowns.
Expected from the biased corrupt fake news media.
yes you should. Show US Voters the real face of the Democrat party instead of the shamelessly lying one you been presenting since 1992.
How can they abandon something they never had?
Should Dems Just Abandon Civility?
Sure-It worked for the Hitler Youth
How can they abandon something they never had?
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They can’t.
To liberals, disagreeing with them is uncivil. They don’t seem to get that they have trying to push their agenda, lifestyles, philosophies, etc on conservatives for many years. To them, since they (obviously) are so much more enlightened, they know better how to run our lives and our country as a result. Anyone who tries to stop them is, by their definition, uncivil and deserves to be treated with incivility.
Should Dems abandon civilty? When did they have any?
He had the rules on elections changed so he could be president.
His "supporters" aka thugs would physically assault and destroy the property of people who were not sufficiently supportive of Ol Crook.
Once in power he preceded to wipe his bum with the Constitution, break his word, destroy the economy, steal privately owned property, unilaterally break treaties and engage in ethnic cleansing. They have not changed since.
I realize that few here believe me, but the underlying plan here is to trot out Michelle Obama for the Democrat Presidential nomination at the last minute as a “calming moderate voice”.
Does anyone think these “interviews” are anything but fully scripted? Two things are being accomplished at the same time here - crazed millennial loons are being given marching orders to reek havoc, and Michelle Obama is being positioned as the great peace-maker we’ll all need after this happens.
It’s all B.S.
We think they already have
Name a civil democrat
Well... I think they mean “OPEN CIVILITY”
They have been very uncivil in the background while keeping up virtue signalling “civility” as a front.
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