Last week’s election truly brought out the absolute worst among many in the mainstream media, far worse than what most viewers and readers would have ever thought was humanly possible.
The “objective” masks have been ripped off for many, while others are putting on the peace, love, and harmony facade and preaching about how now is the time we must “move into the light” and beyond the division allegedly brought to Washington, D.C. by President Trump.
But independent journalist Megyn Kelly made it clear over the weekend that she believed such calls demonstrated willful ignorance considering the last four years of how Trump and his supporters have been treated. After Joe Biden tweeted a call for “unity”, Kelly’s response proved she understood why the over 70 million (and counting) people who voted for President Trump had no interest in grabbing a hold of the olive branch that was being offered to them by the left:
Written like a man who’s been in his basement for a year. https://t.co/bnP5pwprDj
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) November 8, 2020
Kelly’s simple yet on-point tweet triggered Democrats and media figures alike, including CNN’s Chris Cuomo – who she dunked, and a couple of the predictably whiny Obama Bros, who proceeded to chastise Kelly for having the audacity to not toe the left’s/media’s line about how Trump voters must move on from the past 4 years in the interest of “healing” and “repairing our nation’s soul”, yada yada.
First up was former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau, who rose to infamy on the right for his infamous groping of the Hillary Clinton cardboard cutout:
You are truly pathetic
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) November 8, 2020
You have zero understanding of the mood of 70 million Americans who have been unfairly attacked relentlessly for the past four years as awful ppl just for supporting their president.
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) November 8, 2020
Then the mansplaining began:
And you sound like Donald Trump spreading conspiracies about a basement. I thought you were supposed to be above that, having been on the receiving end of them yourself.
Guess not.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) November 8, 2020
I’m call them like I see them, same as u. He is out of touch if he thinks his election means unity/healing in a nation in which his supporters have dismissed (& continue to) half the nation as evil for 4 yrs. Top Ds are right now threatening anyone who “enabled” him. Go fix that.
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) November 8, 2020
Then Favreau proceeded to laughably claim that the charge that Biden was hidden in his basement for a year was a baseless “conspiracy theory”, even though Democrats this week are basically confirming that was his campaign strategy the entire time:
Joe Biden doesn’t believe half the country is evil. I certainly don’t. I do believe that right-wing media figures like you rile up a lot of people by spreading conspiracies like you did with that basement tweet, so I’d definitely love for that to stop.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) November 8, 2020
I agree w/you that Biden doesn’t think that. But a large faction of his supporters & media (but I repeat myself) do & have been peddling that vitriol for 4 yrs. I know ur happy he won, but to pretend this is now the “unity” era is to be willfully blind to reality.
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) November 8, 2020
Because Favreau was failing miserably at trying to throw Kelly off her game, former Obama NSC spokesman Tommy Vietor jumped in with the attempted rescue by way of a personal attack, because that’s what losers do when they have nothing of substance to add to the discussion:
Must have missed all of Megyn's takes expressing empathy for the majority of Americans who voted against Trump in 2016 and 2020. Maybe it was buried in one of her specials about how Santa is white?
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) November 8, 2020
He then fell flat shortly thereafter:
Pathetic and once again more proof that you only know how to sling mud & debase yourself.
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) November 8, 2020
If there’s one thing we’re learning (or reaffirming) post-Election Day, it’s that Democrats and the media have no interest whatsoever in learning from their mistakes over the last four years, including their abhorrent and dismissive treatment of Trump supporters as second-class citizens, and their relentless painting of Trump as an illegitimate president.
Basically what the Vietor and Favreau tagteam did there was to confirm exactly what Kelly and many on the right have said for the last several days about Democrats and the left-wing media about how their calls for “unity” are about as sincere as a rattlesnake’s vow not to bite.
(Hat tip: Twitchy)
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