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Actually the gorilla reference is worse because it is stereotype of racism.

This guy is the gift that just keeps giving and giving.

Every developed country in the world except the US has some version of single-payer government-run health care.

Our recollections are quite different.

All examples of deplorable behavior, and if I was in an audience when such comments were made, I certainly would not have laughed and cheered, and more than likely would have left.
Now what do you think of Colbert's comments?

On Trump’s 100th day in office, you tweeted a series of comments exploring how the press’s use of conventional everyday language misrepresents the abnormal reality of Trump’s presidency. I’d like to start by asking you about two specific examples you cited in your thread, and what they reveal about the press’s assumptions that drive coverage of Trump’s behavior. The first was calling the page of bullet points his “plan,” his “tax plan.” What’s wrong with that?

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A plan requires planning, deliberation, thought, a certain amount of commitment. There’s nothing in Trump’s behavior in office so far, or in any of the reporting around how that document was produced, that supports that term. It was something that was rushed; it had nothing to do with the process of deliberation. It reflected his desire to claim some flurry of action as the 100-day marker approached. And even after this so-called plan was announced, crucial aspects of what he thinks is going to be his tax proposal were talked about later. So on the [following] weekend, for example, [White House chief of staff] Reince Priebus talked about including something about carried interest — I don’t know if you know what that is, but it’s a huge deal. That wasn’t even in there. So that is not a plan. It’s just an improvised sketch responding to an impulsive demand from an overgrown child who happens to be president of the United States.

What about the second example you gave, “PBS NewsHour” announcing a look back at Trump’s “foreign policy accomplishments and setbacks”?

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I think that’s a very routine phrase — “foreign policy” — but it contains an assumption, which is that he has a policy. I think we have a lot of evidence that there are no policies, because the ease and rapidity with which he overturns what he said was his policy, and the light and transient causes of the reversals — like a 10-minute discussion with the Chinese president, or something he saw on television — shows you that they weren’t really policies in the first place. So to say he has policies is misleading. He has reactions to things, and when new things happen he’ll have different reactions. There’s almost nothing — especially in the international sphere — that isn’t instantly revisable. To me, a policy reflects a certain amount of knowledge, it reflects deliberation and some kind of conviction. Even though people change their policies, when they’re really policies they change them reluctantly. That doesn’t fit the facts. That’s not how he operates.

Blatham compiled a bunch of comments made about the Obamas (post # 6,418,838) and I don't remember that there was any "extreme MORAL OUTRAGE immediately streaming from the left, with charges of racism, homophobia, and moral degeneracy."

Got one in there where some prominent media figure called him a brain-damaged gorilla who sucks cocks on national TV, eh?

"Why indict words? They're no shoddier than the ideas they peddle."