Posted on 10/11/2018 1:44:21 PM PDT by jazusamo
Full title: Sen. Hirono Condemns McConnell Calling Leftist Protestors a 'Mob', Says It 'Dangerously Underestimates' Them
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Thursday for using the word “mob” in reference to left-wing protestors that have been targeting GOP lawmakers over the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
“It is the richest of ironies that the majority leader has taken to calling those opposed to the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh a mob when several nights a month the president whips his supporters into a frenzy to attack his target of choice,” she said in a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting.
Hirono then issued a somewhat ominous message to McConnell, warning him that he was “dangerously underestimating" what Kavanaugh's confirmation had "awakened."
“To characterize the women who identified with Dr. Ford, who demonstrated and marched here to Washington from around the country to demand the Senate not confirm a man credibly accused of sexual assault as a ‘mob’ dangerously underestimates what this confirmation process awakened,” she said.
“Women are tired of being dismissed and disbelieved and if you want to be responsive to the American people we would all be wise to listen to them with respect,” Hirono concluded.
In his floor speech on Tuesday, McConnell referred to the “unhinged tactics” of leftist protestors which included chasing GOP senators out of restaurants and in airports , screaming at them in the halls and floor of the Senate, and even banging and clawing at the doors of the Supreme Court.
“The far-left mob is not letting up,” he said Tuesday. “Earlier today former Secretary of State Clinton sent this signal as clear as today. This is Secretary Clinton. She told CNN exactly how she views millions of Americans who hold different political views from her own.”
“Here’s what she said: ‘You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for. If we’re fortunate enough to win back the House and/or the Senate, that’s when civility can start again,’” he continued, simply quoting Clinton’s remarks .
While she would like McConnell to condemn the word “mob,” Sen. Hirono has refused to condemn protestors targeting the GOP in restaurants and at their homes.
"It is one thing to protest at the Supreme Court,” CNN’s Dana Bash told Hirono, “it's another thing to run senators out of restaurants, go to their homes. Is that going too far?"
"I think that it just means that there are a lot of people who are very, very much motivated by what is going on,” Hirono replied, “because what happened with Judge Kavanaugh is from the very beginning, this was not a fair process."
"Well, this is what happens, you know, because when you look at white supremacists and all of that, this is what is coming forth in our country," she added. "There is a tremendous divisiveness in our country, but this is the kind of activism that occurs, and people make their own decisions. If they violate the law, then they have to account for that."
Sen. Hirono is not the only one who has developed sudden scruples over the use of the word "mob" to describe the extreme leftist protestors. CNN hosts Brooke Baldwin and Don Lemon have both chastised CNN panelists for using the term, claiming that it is being weaponized by the right.
Free Beacon's Andrew Kugle compiled clips of the behavior of leftist protestors with clips of the CNN hosts condemning the term mob:
SUPERcut of reporters telling people to not use the "mob" word cut with video of the mob.
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She’s definitely giving Patty Murray a run for her money
Hawaii speak: Mazie, shut your Poi hole!
Yep, don’t stop your bad behavior..stop the use of the word that discribes the behavior..?
Didn’t they want to put the Tea Party on the “Terrorist” list? I think they are not just a mob, but a mob of terrorists. They are threatening people, shooting at people and causing or hinting at terror and more. Also, it is offensive for her to speak for “women” - she does not. Women do not have a spokesperson. Women are individuals with individual thoughts and opinions, so she can shut up about what women think and want.
Respect ? Is that before or after they scream like banshees kicking and flailing? After they've smeared blood or paint on their crotch screaming? After they rip off their shirt strutting topless in front of the Supreme Court? After they scream, wail and try to claw open doors? Respect? I don't think so.
That miserable volcanic island chain seems to breed a lot of trash.
Where’s your and colleagues’ condemnations of these verbal and physical personal attacks, Hirono?
Your silence is assent. You are a pathetic excuse for a representative of civil people.
That you would respond shows exactly the truth of McConnell’s statements. Your people are NUTS, BS CRAZY
And that includes YOU at the TOP of the list
I've got something, she was completely silent when nine women accused her mentor, the late Senator Daniel Inouye of sexual harassment.
Somebody needs to tell this angry biatch to take the skin off the pineapple before eating it. Maybe she wouldn’t be so damned pissed off all of the time.
“Here’s what she said: ‘You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for”
“What you stand for”...gun control, higher taxes, global warming, regulating everything to death, etc. Goddamn right we want to destroy it!
“Sen. Hirono Condemns McConnell Calling Leftist Protestors a ‘Mob’..”
Democrats sure have a deep bench of filth...I never heard of this skag until the Kavanagh atrocity.
Rooting for her stage 4 kidney cancer.
She’s turning into a female Juan McLame, cancer and all!
‘Hirono then issued a somewhat ominous message to McConnell, warning him that he was “dangerously underestimating” what Kavanaugh’s confirmation had “awakened.”
oh no, did we wake up the Balrog...?
Crazy Mazie is no more moonbat leftwing than politics in Hawaii generally. This is the only state where the national flag is not flown at the state house; only the flag of the Hawaiian monarchy is displayed.
Right on, in short they stand for socialism.
I’ve read that her father was accused of committing atrocities against allied soldiers during WWII.
Last night or this morning, a Fox show played a montage of MSM talking heads referring to the Tea Party as a “mob” several times.
Somebody please show that to Crazy Mazie.
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