"Trump's Remarks: The Latest Left-Wing Hysteria"

[TBoneTX 45,570]

What are our thoughts about the reasoning herein?

TRUMP'S REMARKS: THE LATEST LEFT-WING HYSTERIA

Dennis Prager: 'We must cease this moral idiocy of judging people by stray private comments'

Regarding Donald Trump's private sexual comments: We are living through a national hysteria.

To understand how and why, it is necessary to understand the indispensable role hysteria plays on the left. The left is always in major crisis mode. And, in nearly every case, the crisis is either wildly exaggerated or simply false.

For example:

Few people deny that the earth is warming. To assert that is not hysteria. What is hysteria is the left's position that carbon emissions will destroy life on Earth.

No one denies that there are racist cops. What is hysteria is the left's claim that innocent blacks are routinely shot to death by racist cops.

The widespread protests against the name Washington "Redskins" were pure left-wing hysteria -- ended only by the revelation through polling that the vast majority of American Indians couldn't care less about the name.

The examples are endless: from the alleged epidemic of heterosexual AIDS in America and preschool molestation scares in the '80s to the wildly exaggerated dangers of secondhand smoke and the baseless fears about electronic cigarettes.

We are regularly forced to endure a new left-wing manufactured, media-supercharged hysteria.

The latest is the tsunami of horror in reaction to Donald Trump's gross and juvenile comments made in private 11 years ago.

The tsunami of condemnation of his remarks is quintessential left-wing hysteria. That more than a few Republicans and conservatives have joined in is a testament to the power of mass media and hysteria to influence normally sensible people.

This is hysteria first and foremost because the comments were made in private. I would say the same thing if crass comments made by Hillary Clinton in private conversation had been recorded. In fact, I did.

Piece continues at: http://www.wnd.com/2016/10/trumps-remarks-the-latest-left-wing-hysteria/

[smilesammich 10,727]

can't really talk about it properly tbone. what with all the comments removed for not being family friendly. don't wanna get clipped by that ban hammer yaknow?

[Rob L 3,811]

"Regarding Donald Trump's private sexual comments: We are living through a national hysteria."

The hysteria is not about Trumps private sexual comments. They were sexual comments about privates. The comments were in a professional setting, that happened to be caught by a live mike.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Painting your foes as "hysterics" is not reasoned at all; it is ad-hominem en masse. Just another attempt at obfuscation and misdirection.

[Rob L 3,811]

Painting your foes as "hysterics" is not reasoned at all; it is ad-hominem en masse. Just another attempt at obfuscation and misdirection.

I love a gal who drops Latin omni tempore

[Teddy B 17,252]

Painting your foes as "hysterics" is not reasoned at all; it is ad-hominem en masse. Just another attempt at obfuscation and misdirection.

"Obfuscation' sounds dirty. It must be against VJ TOS.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Dunno, I saw it was from World Net Daily and didn't bother to read.

[yuna628 9,686]

The WND thing put me right off too.. I gave it a good try but when it started ranting about AIDS, smoking etc in alleged terms.. I thought perhaps the article writer didn't have full function of their faculties.

As for further thoughts TB, it's hard to quantify it in language that's family friendly. Sexual assault really isn't a friendly topic by nature.

Maybe Trump will fix that. Make sexual assault family friendly again.

Edited October 11, 2016 by yuna628

[millefleur 5,047]

Dennis Prager....he's one of the preach-to-the-choir Republican pundit types. Not going to find much actual debate or reasoning from that kind of source. He just writes stuff so people who already hold a similar opinion to him can say "Yeah! Exactly!" and just get even angrier about whatever it is they were already angry about. He just does it in a more academic manner than Trump or Rush Limbaugh.

But in general, I agree that there is hysteria, on both sides of the political spectrum. There is a lot of hysterics and not much reasoning going on at all. I see a lot of blaming, anger, name calling, self-righteous "Well, at least I didn't so what HE/SHE did!" speeches, fear mongering..... and very little reasoning in between. RIP Bernie Sanders I guess? Not really a fan of his policies as a whole, but I respect that he was so honest and (therefore) boring.

[B_J 2,752]

Just some history on me. I try to stay consistent.

When the whole Bill Clinton fiasco was happening, I was all in for the impeachment. I actually recorded all of the congressional hearings. At the end, I had a row of about 13 VHS tapes full of that boring stuff. And I feel that he definitely deserved to be impeached. I don't really want to get into a discussion on all of that, I just mention it to point out that I am far from what is considered left wing. I was, and still am, thoroughly disgusted by Clinton's behavior with women.

And I would need to borrow a dictionary to find the word to adequately express how disgusted I am with Donald Trump and what he said. It is simply not acceptable to claim that you can sexually assault a woman simply because you are famous. And the fact that this was a private conversation, in my opinion, makes it worse. Character is what you do when no one is watching. We see now who Trump is - not that there was any doubt. He showed his true character, his true feelings about women, by what he said when he thought no one would hear.

I am beyond disappointed by those who continue to defend him.

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

I am not defending him by any means what so ever. I just think that it is funny how the MSM is promoting this hysteria all the while aghast that Trump brought up the issue that Killary and her husband has done far worse than he has. I laughed my ### off on that because it was funny to me that people want to act like his comments(which were bad and I am not defending at all) but do not say anything about how Hillary treated and demeaned the women that accused Bill of sexual assualt.

[B_J 2,752]

I am not defending him by any means what so ever. I just think that it is funny how the MSM is promoting this hysteria all the while aghast that Trump brought up the issue that Killary and her husband has done far worse than he has. I laughed my ### off on that because it was funny to me that people want to act like his comments(which were bad and I am not defending at all) but do not say anything about how Hillary treated and demeaned the women that accused Bill of sexual assualt.

I do not, have not, and will never defend Bill Clinton's behavior with women.

I believe his behavior with women is disgusting and he may be guilty of rape.

I also believe Trump's behavior with women is disgusting and he may be guilty of rape.

So, that pretty much leaves me with Hillary, who I don't like but is still far better than the alternative.

eta: I really hope you understand how much I dislike Bill Clinton. I agree with you on the media's treatment of him. But that's not enough to get me to support Donald. He's just as bad.

Edited October 12, 2016 by B_J