The media obsession with vulgar words is selective

NY Times:

Trump ‘Tough’ Talk Dominates Hearing on His Wall Plan

The secretary of homeland security was quizzed repeatedly about the vulgar word, or words, said to have been uttered by President Trump describing African countries.
I don't know if Trump said a vulgar word when presented with a deeply flawed immigration plan by the "gang of six" and really don't think it should be important in a discussion of the issue if he did.  Dick Durbin has a credibility problem and no other witnesses have backed him up on what was said.  The real problem is their plan kept the worse features of the current system and did not meet the key objectives of the President and his supporters.

What is needed is a system that reflects Martin Luther King's objective that people be considered for immigration based on the content of their character and not the color of their skin.  The caterwauling of the Democrats suggests they want a system based on skin color so that they can increase their shrinking voter base with more people dependent on the government rather than a merit-based system that will attract the best and brightest from other countries regardless of their color or national origin.  A colorblind merit system is what is needed and if you object to that you can be said to be a racist.

The media raised no issue about Obama's use of similar scatological language in describing the situation in Libya after he and Clinton created a disaster that is still reverberating to this day.  Not only did his policies lead to disaster for Libya and Europe as well as Africans caught up in the mess, but it also made doing a disarmament deal with North Korea impossible because Kim saw what happened to Quadaffi after he gave up his nukes.  I have yet to see the kind of media hysteria over that screw up that we see over Trump's alleged use of a word in describing failed states.

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