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If something is too bad to be true, it usually isn’t. The other day, Fox news had an item, GOP gets ‘Georgia’ Dem to accept gift basket at ‘real home’ in Tennessee. First term representative Lucy McBath represents GA06. While representing Cobb county, there appears to be some sort of Tennessee connection. Politics being what it is, the concept of living in one area, while representing another, is something to make noise about.
“To point out McBath’s deep Tennessean roots, the National Republican Congressional Committee sent a goody bag containing coffee infused with Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey, Memphis-style BBQ sauce and a hat of the Tennessee Volunteers to her Rockford, Tenn., home. The lawmaker accepted the gift on Friday at 10:45 a.m. and signed for it as “LMCBATH”. Fox News obtained a copy of the signature. … McBath’s office did not respond to Fox News’ repeated requests for comment.”
There is a problem. “But actually, the signature tells a different story: Clearly, the recipient wrote “M McBath.” Lucy McBath was in New York, we’re told. The package was signed for by Margaret McBath, the congresswoman’s mother-in-law …”
Political nuisance Karen Handel is running against Rep. McBath in next year’s election. The fund raising emails for Mrs. Handel are going out, in all their purple prose glory. “Since I announced my 2020 campaign on Monday, the radical elite have been busy courting their billionaire and Hollywood buddies to stop us from taking back our district. … Friends, the Democrats have only been in the majority for a few months, and they’re already trying to force their liberal agenda of open-borders, extreme pro-abortion, and high taxes on our district.” “Extreme pro-abortion” will not use the services of Dr. Kermit Gosnel. The spell check suggestion for Gosnel is Gospel.

There was another gift basket story yesterday. Bret Easton Ellis has a book, White, coming out April 16. Part of the promotional stampede is an interview with New Yorker, Bret Easton Ellis Thinks You’re Overreacting to Donald Trump. The story spelled the author’s name correctly.
On his podcast, BEE rants about, among other things, the insane behavior of the left. BEE denounces petty tit-for-tat-ism, logical fallacies, and the blinding obsession with Donald J. Trump. PG agrees with BEE a great deal. Read the questions from Isaac Chotiner, and you see many BEE talking points illustrated. The spell check suggestion for Chotiner is Christine.
IC O.K., but Trump says lots of racist things. We can all agree on that, right?
BEE [Pauses.] Sure.
IC So he says lots of racist things. … Why does people being upset about it, or people being upset about the fact that we have a President who regularly says bigoted things, bother you?
BEE No, no, no, no, no. That just twisted up what I meant.
IC Tell me what you meant.
BEE You think I am defending a racist.
IC No, I asked why liberals repeating Trump’s remark about Mexican immigrants being rapists bothers you so much. …
IC I am not arguing that people don’t support him. You aren’t denying Trump says racist things regularly. I am just trying to understand why liberal opposition to Trump bothers you so much.
BEE I don’t know if he does think racist things so regularly. I am not sure if I do. …
IC When I think of when people have freaked out during the past couple of years, I think of the Muslim ban, child separation, and the President saying that there were good people on both sides in Charlottesville. … It seems like you want to give Roseanne Barr the benefit of the doubt, but not people who think Trump is a racist.
Racism Racism holds a place of backhanded honor in America. Racist is the worst thing you can say about someone. The r-slur is tossed about on the flimsiest of pretenses, to the recreational outrage of the howling mob. The Trump-is-racist trope is accepted as gospel truth. Racism is considered worse than President Trump’s crookedness, mental instability, and all around foolishness. Racism is the best distraction DJT, and the Democrats, could ask for.
Mexico is a nation, not a race. What is happening at the border is cruel. It does not make immigration policies any worse, or any better, to call them racist. What crying racist does do is fire up the Trump-demented mob. Maybe this manipulation-of-the-masses is what BEE is offended by.
A recent episode of the podcast had David Shields, author of Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention. Towards the end of the show, Mr. Shields said that DJT was a racist, and that DJT exaggerates racism for political expediency. (This is not an exact quote.) Racism is promoted to troll the libs, and fire up the DJT base. The libs take the bait. Both sides are being played for fools. While the national debt grows at a trillion dollars a year, America is busy arguing about who is a racist. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.