Democrats demonize those they accuse of being “uncivil,”
i.e. those with whom they disagree. Then they proceed to virulently attack the
positions, attributes, character and integrity of those they oppose in their
Uncivil War, slurring them with epithets such as racist, bigoted, heartless and
homophobic.
And
that’s just at funerals.
Paul
Wellstone. Aretha Franklin. John McCain. The sad list goes on.
Establishment Republicans, R.I.N.O.s from the
Deep Swamp, frequently take part in the frenzied orgy of hate.
John McCain was a war hero who
suffered unspeakably at the hands of the North Koreans. I believe he loved his
country and tried to serve it well. He should have been honored for this. His
funeral should have been a sober, but uplifting tribute to the human spirit.
Instead, it was one vast political statement.
McCain planned every last detail of
his own funeral. President Trump was asked not to attend. Sarah Palin was also
not invited. Yet, inexplicably, Trump has been criticized by some for not attending,
for abiding by the McCain family’s wishes, even after tweeting out a very
respectful tribute to McCain. Sarah Palin was McCain’s vice-presidential
running-mate in 2008, and was never anything but respectful to him, working
diligently to help him win. Why the snub?
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner did attend McCain’s funeral. It must
have been difficult for them to sit and listen to Megan McCain, Barack Obama
and George W. Bush, among others take subtle and not-so-subtle jabs at the
current president of the United States. What was Trump supposed to do had he
attended this long, ironic lecture on “civility?”
As if that wasn’t bad enough, we had the filibuster funeral for
Aretha Franklin, a nine-hour saga that was alternately a paean to puffery and a
dismissal of decency. Speaker after speaker took the opportunity of a gifted
singer’s funeral to deliver “eulogies” that devolved into demented rants
against the president of the United States. Eric Dyson and Al Sharpton,
continuing the tradition of Democrats using memorial services as political
rallies, whipped the crowd into a fanatical frenzy by savaging Trump……while
(inadvertently?) trivializing Franklin’s memory.
At one point Dyson eructated: "Then this orange apparition
had the nerve to
say she worked for him! You lugubrious leech! You dopey doppelganger of deceit
and deviancy! You lethal liar, you dimwitted dictator! You foolish
fascist!!!" (Mr. Dyson, can you please return my copy of “Alliteration for
Dummies” soon?).
Did calling the president of the United States of America an
“apparition,” a “leech,” deviant, dimwitted, a “dictator,” and a “foolish
fascist” celebrate and burnish the memory of The Queen of Soul? Did it bring
people together, make the country more united? No. It was an act of attempted
moral exhibitionism, virtue-signaling gone tragicomically bad.
The farewell extravaganza at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit
was continuously marred by the bad behavior of those supposedly there to mourn
her passing. Greater grace was nowhere to be found. Pop-singer Ariana Grande
performed Franklin’s iconic song, “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman”
while wearing a mini dress, to the obvious delight of the Reverend Jesse
Jackson and former President Bill (Hound Dog) Clinton, each of whom stole
glances at the singer’s rear end. Bishop Charles Ellis, Emcee of the service,
told the more than 4,000 in attendance: “When I saw Ariana Grande on the
program, I thought that was a new something at Taco Bell.” After which he
apologized to “the whole Hispanic community.” For some reason.
He also managed to grope Grande, cupping the singer’s right breast
with the edge of his right hand when giving her a hug after her performance. He
subsequently apologized to her for being “too friendly,” stating, “maybe I
crossed the border.” Apparently, he was thinking about Taco Bell again. At
least he, unlike Jesse and Bill, was “Thinking outside (Grande’s) buns.” Maybe
he was just trying to make her feel like a natural woman.
It is surpassingly sad that the great performer, who had long
asked for R-E-S-P-E-C-T, ultimately got none from the very souls chosen to
memorialize her.
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