The Washington Post (WaPo) editorial board’s final plea to America not to vote for Donald Trump is so drenched in hypocrisy that even the writers must be embarrassed.
The headline reads:
Donald Trump’s closing argument: Vulgarity
Trump has made politics coarser, and somehow he’s managed to become even cruder in recent days.
The board introduces its risible thesis in the first paragraph:
Democracy depends on many things: institutions, traditions, public legitimacy and, yes, a culture of civility. … former president Donald Trump showed, in his closing argument at a raucous rally at Madison Square Garden, that whether he wins or loses on Nov. 5, he has already done severe damage to American politics by coarsening and corroding public discourse.
Ah yes, the supreme qualification for president: civility. A qualification perfectly embodied by Dems who call conservatives “deplorable,” “garbage,” “haters,” “bigots,” “Nazis,” and “fascists”; who call all whites “racists” and “oppressors”; and who call men “toxic.”
Leftists who desperately want little children to read obscene porn in publicly funded schools are suddenly on their fainting couches about “vulgarity.”
Leftists who want drag queens to read stories to toddlers fret about “vulgarity.”
Leftists want Americans to vote for Harris—part of the administration that polluted the White House Easter egg roll by inviting drag queens—because, ya know, unity, dignity, civility, non-vulgarity.
As evidence for its claim that Trump is uniquely uncivil and, therefore, undeserving of the presidency, the board cites comments from four people who appeared at the Madison Square Garden rally and who are unknown to most Americans: Grant Cardone, David Rem, Sid Rosenberg, and Tony Hinchcliffe.
These four unknown and uninfluential people used epithets with naughty words, and one of them—comedian Tony Hinchcliffe—made some “tasteless ethnic jokes.”
Rudy Giuliani was also cited because he said Harris “’is on the side of terrorists’ in the Israel-Gaza conflict”—a claim that many Americans find both accurate and civil.
And the board cited Trump’s now-infamous and indecorous comment about a famous golfer’s genitalia.
That about sums up WaPo’s argument for voting against Trump.
It’s worth noting that for the first time in decades, WaPo is not endorsing a candidate. In other words, the paper is refusing to endorse Harris over “Hitler.” This editorial looks suspiciously like a weaselly end-run by the board around Jeff Bezos’s diktat that WaPo would not endorse a candidate.
Fully aware that Harris uncivilly and vulgarly “swore up a storm in a Rolling Stone interview,” WaPo attempted to mitigate her offense by acknowledging,
the culture is more permissive about such things than it once was. This may explain why Ms. Harris has also occasionally been using four-letter words on the stump.
According to WaPo, Harris’ swearing up a storm doesn’t disqualify her from office because the culture is more permissive about such things, but when Trump or a Trump supporter like Sid Rosenberg does, hoo boy, is that a deal-breaker.
And while the incivility and vulgarity of Trump supporter Sid Rosenberg renders Trump unfit for office, the words of Eminem and Megan thee Stallion—both of whom appeared at Harris rallies—signify nothing relevant about Harris’ fitness for office.
While Eminem didn’t perform and thee Stallion cleaned up her act for the Harris rally, they are wildly famous and equally wildly uncivil and vulgar. Megan thee Stallion is notorious for her song WAP (Wet A** P*ssy), the lyrics of which interested readers can find online. And Eminem is notorious for both his vulgarity and “incivility”:
B*tch getter, hid in the bush like Margot Kidder
Jumped out, killed the b*tch and did her
Used to let the babysitter s*ck my d*ck when I was littler
Smoke a blunt while I’m t*tty-f*cking Bette Midler …Slap dips, support domestic violence
Beat your bitch’s ass while your kids stare in silence
Eminem and Megan thee Stallion have done more to degrade, corrupt, and coarsen American culture than all of Donald Trump’s invited guests collectively. What in WaPo’s view does their invitation by Harris say about Harris’ judgment?
In the Rolling Stone interview, Harris admits, while cackling, that “cursing” is “not a new language to me, and I think when one speaks the language, one should get the pronunciation down. My pronunciation is very good, thank you very much!” And Harris has called Trump a fascist, a threat to democracy, unstable, cruel, and dangerous.
It’s well-established, therefore, that both candidates use obscene language and hurl epithets. Only one candidate, however, lied to the American people for four years about Biden’s mental acuity. Only one candidate has destroyed the economy, weakened our role as international peacekeeper, opened wide the southern border, supports the chemical castration and bodily mutilation of children, and is incapable of answering directly and without memorized scripts any press questions.
No rational person could swallow the tripe the desperate Washington Post is serving because its cupboard is bereft of substantive reasons not to vote for Trump.