and his administration plus whatever pops up on our radar so allusion McCarthy and T sun
on the show here today.
I would like to begin by
addressing a tweet.
Published by congresswoman
ilhan Omar, a Democrat of
Minnesota and I do so with some
read reticence and trepidation
because. We have to
make decisions as host on shows
like this. What to respond to
and what to use our valuable on
air time dealing with.
And if we were to chase down
every single thing that is said
that’s false misleading or just
a lie.
Just the members of the squad
for example. We
would do virtually nothing
else. In our 3 hour program
every day. Because it’s just a
torrent of misinformation from
that crew.
Ilhan Omar and rashida tlaib
are especially egregious
violators.
And often we ignore what they
have to say. Just as often we
ignore what some of the
more radical or call of
colorful backbenchers on the
Republican side might have to
say it’s good fodder for
outrage, but it’s not really.
But in this case I think it is worth our time because this is a tweet that has gone very
viral. I’m looking down at my
screen here I see it’s got more
than 12,000 retweets nearly
60,000 likes.
This is getting shared
widely and it reflects a number
of beliefs.
Pieces of quasi religious
dogma. Held on much of the
left. And in the wake of the
Dobbs decision and the
overturning of Roe versus Wade.
You have once again a very loud
vociferous
intensive effort to demand.
Quote UNQUOTE reforms. To
our system and particularly at
the Supreme Court because the
left tells us our norms and
institutions must be protected
unless they result in political
outcomes that they dislike in
which case bring the
institutions to the ground.
That is a recurring theme with
many so-called progressives
and the squad sort of the tip
of the spear but this is not
really unfortunately
frighteningly that fringe of of
you anymore on the left.
We talked about yesterday the
poll that shows only about one
3rd of Americans in favor of
court packing for example.
It’s a very extreme
institution.
Raising idea. It’s
institutional arson.
That number hasn’t really
changed over the last couple of
years in polling. Thank
goodness. But the people who
are most committed to it most
supportive of it.
People within the Democratic
base.
And they have huge megaphones
and amplification on social
media they generally don’t get
fact checked your warning
labels or suspended for their
misinformation because I think
according to a lot of these big
tech companies lying for the
cause is acceptable.
So I think when they put out
this stuff to a certain extent
we have to pick our battles but
it is worth responding.
So Nomar is saying that you
need to kill the filibuster in
the Senate and pass radical
abortion legislation. You need
to add other reforms
to the Supreme Court like term
limits and she’s also calling
for adding seats expanding the
court I eat court packing.
And here’s the way she’s
justifying it in this tweet
today. She says as is actually
a few days ago.
5 justices, I’m quoting now
these are the claims by ilhan
Omar. 5 justices confirmed by
a POTUS who lost the popular
vote. 4 lied under oath,
2 credibly accused of
sexual assault. One seat
literally stolen, one’s spouse.
Implicated in a coup attempt.
She writes it is not enough to
tell people to vote. We need a
comprehensive plan to fix.
This court. And then come all
the ideas like court packing
and busting up the Senate as
well.
So I would like to just quickly
go through.
And debunk or at least address.
All of her points which are
factually wrong in nearly every
count.
She says 5 justices were
confirmed by a president.
Who lost the popular vote.
First of all presidents don’t
confirm justices that’s the
Senate just
civics one o one congresswoman,
but whatever I know what you
mean. She met nominated by
a president who lost the
popular vote. Well, here’s the
issue with that.
She is lumping into
that category. Justices Roberts
and alito who are nominated by
President George W Bush.
The thing is they were both
nominated. After President Bush
won the popular vote. In 2004.
Of course,
the 6th conservative on this
list. Clarence Thomas. He was
nominated by George H W Bush
who won a landslide election.
In 1988.
But what she’s kind of doing
here. Omar is suggesting that
George W Bush is kind of an
illegitimate president Casey
didn’t win the popular vote.
The first time but
then he was reelected by the
American people with a majority
of the popular vote.
And then he put these 2
justices on the court but they
I guess don’t count
because she’s sticking with the
2000 result, not the 2004.
More relevant result. Also I’m
pretty sure
I’ve been told many times that
questioning the legitimacy.
Election wins is a very bad
thing. I guess except when they
do it. That’s that’s
the difference. When they do
it’s fine. I would also
just remind
the congresswoman that we don’t
elect presidents with the
popular vote in this country
that’s not how we do it that’s
not the system it’s not how
campaigns are designed.
The rules are the electoral
college if you want to get rid
of it. Go about that
constitutional work. It’s going
to be hard very heavy lift to
go for it. Otherwise you’re
basically just questioning
legitimacy based on a made up
construct.
A metric that is irrelevant.
To the presidency and the
winning they’re off. And if you
want to just sort of
cherry pick certain facts I
will just point out Nomar.
That too recently of the most
popular justices on the left
justice briar who’s just about
to retire later this week in
fact I believe it’s tomorrow
he’s going to retire. He and
Ruth Bader Ginsburg who passed
away a few years ago.
A lion of the left they made
movies about her they tattoos
of her.
They were both appointed by
President Bill Clinton. Who won
a lower share of the popular
vote and Donald Trump ever
done. A lower share of the
popular vote.
Does that make them and their
jurisprudence.
Less binding of
course not and if they want to
play stupid games. They can win
their own stupid prizes with
made up. Standards like this.
All right number number 2 on
the list she says 4 of these
justices lied under oath.
We dealt with this claim at
some length here on the show
this week.
The left
is saying well because
Kavanaugh and gorsuch and bear
it for example, all said that
Roe versus Wade was settled law
and precedent they were lying
because then they came in and
reversed it.
And as we slowly explain for
the people in the back.
What those 3 justices were
doing in their confirmation
hearings was just sticking to
the standard known as the
Ginsburg rule pioneered by Ruth
Bader Ginsburg in her
confirmation hearings during
the Clinton administration
where you get asked about a
case. An area of precedent you
recap what the president is you
call it precedent you often can
say things like yes, it’s
settled law. And then you
refused to hypothetically weigh
in on what you might decide if
you are on the high court.
If the issue came before the
court that is what they did.
That is not a lie, it’s not
even close to a lie, but if
Nomar thinks it’s a lie.
She should start by demanding
the impeachment of justices
Kagan and Sotomayor who did the
exact same thing on gay
marriage on guns. And then did
what the left wanted them to
do. If the
standard is these conservatives
lied than the liberals lied to.
Ilhan Omar doesn’t believe that because she’s not an honest person and or she’s an ignorant
person. Probably a little bit
above in this case. All right 2
of them. She says are quote
credibly accused of sexual
assault.
None of the justices are
credibly accused of sexual
assault unless I’m unaware of
certain credible allegations
against Elena Kagan or
something.
She’s making reference to
Clarence Thomas and Brett
Kavanaugh obviously. And this
is a smear that is
not based in evidence or
reality.
Clarence Thomas was attacked by
Anita Hill who made a
bunch of lurid claims about
him. It was
brought to the forefront during
his very contentious hearings.
Joe
Biden himself said in an
interview in 1998 that he
believed on that committee that
Anita Hill was not telling the
truth. Women
in the office who worked with
Hill and Clarence Thomas back
in Thomas’s previous role, the
women in the office. None of
them supported Anita Hill.
All of them came out in support
of Clarence Thomas at the
hearing. FBI
agents who were involved in the
investigation. Promptly
came out and called out what
they said was Anita Hill lying
about what she had told them.
And at the time by roughly a 2
to one margin after the
American people watch that
circus. That character
assassination attempt against
justice Thomas by a 2 to one
margin with no gender gap by
the way the American people
believe him not her.
She did not have evidence she
was not credible people did not
believe her and the FBI called
her a liar.
And of course there is now
justice Kavanaugh we don’t even
have evidence that his accuser.
All the allegations against him
have been either debunked or
have no evidence at all.
Ultimately there
was one serious allegation by
doctor Ford. And there’s not
even evidence that Kavanaugh
and Ford ever met let alone her
story being true
and the FBI did look into it
and the only thing that they
found is that her. Dear friend
who was her star witness.
Said that she was pressured to
lie about Brett Kavanaugh.
And that best friend or that
dear friend of doctor Ford
ultimately concluded that her
friend was lying and that she
did not believe the story same
with doctor Ford’s own father.
Not one shred of actual
evidence.
A slander and a smear against
those 2.
Omar says that another seat was
literally stolen.
I think she’s talking about
Merrick Garland going into then
justice gorsuch and the
Republicans holding that seat
open in 2016. She can take that
up with Chuck Schumer and
Joe Biden that was their
standard. Back in 1992 2007 the
Republicans are playing by
johanns party’s rules on that’s
not stolen. That’s a D
legitimize ation tactic.
It’s not true.
And if he thinks that what the
Republicans did was
unforgivable again go back and
talk to Biden Schumer this was
their standard that they are to
cure late. And the
rules were followed she might
not like the rules, but they
were followed and finally she
says one of the spouses ginni
Thomas implicated in the coup
attempt. I’ll just say this
ilhan Omar of all people
might not want to get into a
guilt by association game and
she really might not want to
talk about spouses.
A congresswoman ilhan Omar