Jerry Springer in all his glory.
Posted on 11/08/2019 5:21:04 AM PST by MarvinStinson
On Friday, Jerry Springer — who made millions capitalizing on fights between family members on his decades-long NBC show after a scandal-plagued political career — blamed President Donald Trump for America's declining civility.
"We can’t function as a society unless we have norms of how to behave," Springer told MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle.
He insisted that when political leaders "misbehave, when they say the norms don’t matter, when they say, 'You can use whatever language you want, anything you can get away with, get away with it. If you don’t pay taxes, you’re smart.' ... When they have this behavior, it tells society that we really don’t have any norms anymore. There’s no appropriate way to behave. We can’t have that in the leadership of our country."
Ruhle rightly pressed Springer on the disconnect between the incivility celebrated on his show and this newfound love for civility.
"Jerry, are you saying it’s our leaders that need to set the example?" Ruhle asked. "Because, again, the success of your show in some part was predicated on America’s love of the battle. When people were chanting 'Jer-ry! Jer-ry!' it wasn’t when the people on your stage were hugging it out."
Springer argued that his show "was about dysfunctional behavior, so obviously everyone who’s going to appear on the show is acting dysfunctionally. That was the point of the show. But no one ever suggested, never did I do a final thought, and say, 'This is the way you ought to behave.'"
"When you have the president of the United States using language that even on our crazy show we’d bleep out, then society’s in trouble," Springer quipped.
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“We can’t function as a society unless we have norms of how to behave,”
And when homos and commies set the norms, what then, Jerry?
Jerry Springer in all his glory.
Springer was elected to the Cincinnati City Council in 1971. He resigned in 1974 after admitting to soliciting a prostitute.
The episode was uncovered when a police raid on a Fort Wright, Ky., massage parlor found a bad check from Springer that the parlor had pinned to an office wall with “for services rendered” written in the memo.
The stupid is strong in this one.
Pot calling the kettle black...
These people are fine with corruption in Washington.
These people are fine with corruption in Ukraine.
These people are fine with using Intelligence agencies to spy on citizens.
These people are fine with using Intelligence agencies to spy on the media.
These people are fine with using Intelligence agencies to spy on Congress.
These people are fine with having Vince Foster killed.
These people are fine with having Seth Rich killed.
These people are fine with having Jeffrey Epstein killed.
This list could be much longer.
The only REAL problem in the world today is the tone of the President’s tweets. That is unforgiveable. That endangers our democracy. That must be stopped at all costs.
Liberal Projection™ rears its ugly head again...
Libs have no sense of irony.
And this comes out of the mouth of the most uncivil jerk in the USA. HE IS THE ONE WHO IS COMPLETELY, POSTIVELY, ABSOLUTELY 100% UNCIVIL A-HOLE
No “Self-Awareness” Jerry; you couldn’t pass a “mark” test unlike a dolphin or some species of birds (not to mention primates) ...
He needs his hook nose to be bent over like Flakes.
The reason most of us aren’t civil anymore, Jerry, is that we got tired of turning the other cheek every time lefties slapped us.
Yeah Jerry, you profited from people’s dysfunction.
Take a walk.
SPJNK.
Since the Liberals have banned comedy in this PC world Trump’s tweets are gold.
That would have qualified him for the presidential primaries today.
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