For the coveted 2023 Profiles in Courage Award, I hereby nominate Congressman-elect George Santos, R-NY.
The wording for the distinguished honor ought to learn one thing like this:
“Despite his GOP affiliation, Santos bravely reached across the aisle to embrace a proven Democrat campaign strategy – concocting a resume that was a total tissue of lies and fabrications, and then when he was busted, merely shrugging and thumbing his nose at all critics, pointing out that he asked for no special dispensation, only to be treated like all the (Democrat) statesmen who had gone before him, among others, Dementia Joe Biden, the fake Indian, Da Nang Dick Blumenthal….”
And so on, advert infinitum.
Hey, Santos simply “self-identifies” as a Jew, as a property-owner, as a preppie, as a school graduate, as a millionaire businessman, as a former worker of Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, and so forth.
Since when is “self-identifying” as somebody you weren’t born as against the law? I assumed Democrats celebrated it. Just ask Sam Brinton or Rachel Levine.
Of course Santos is a sociopath, a sleazebag, a serial liar. But so what? I don’t care. For too lengthy, we now have had one set of moral requirements for Republicans, and a unique set altogether – or extra exactly, no commonplace in any way – for Democrats.
This is what occurs when you could have totally different units of guidelines or legal guidelines for various lessons. Invariably, those that belong to the caste being oppressed by the extra onerous requirements (on this case, Republicans), will finally insist on the identical guidelines as their betters – which is to say, no guidelines.
This is the place we discover ourselves, after a half-century or so of Kennedys, Clintons, Obamas, Bidens and a number of different duplicitous Democrats, perpetrating one scandal after one other, all of which they blithely dismiss with the hypocritical excuse:
“Everybody does it.”
Well guess what? George Santos is now all people.
At least Santos has admitted he’s a con artist. The solely biographical element that he’s nonetheless sticking to is that he’s homosexual, though it seems that he had a spouse for years.
The lesson right here is, a contemporary American politician can survive nearly any scandal, apart from being outed as… a straight white male. No one can admit to that unspeakable aberration and hope to outlive in well mannered society.
Let’s examine a couple of of Santos’ whoppers to Biden’s. There isn’t room sufficient to record all of Brandon’s lies once more, however keep in mind, Santos is accused of creating up his “Jew-ish” heritage.
Biden after all stated he used to go to the synagogue after Mass – on Sundays. Just final week in truth he lied that he was half Italian, and that his spouse’s father was named Domenic Giacoppo. (Fact test: his identify was Donald Jacobs.)
Speaking of lies about Jewish background, think about Hillary Clinton. Yes, the identical Hillary who got here below enemy hearth at Tusla and who tried to hitch the Marines again within the 1970’s – didn’t she additionally falsely assert that she had a Jewish grandparent?
In reality, I can keep in mind throughout the 1992 marketing campaign in Brooklyn when she claimed that she would honor her Jewish heritage by maintaining a kosher kitchen within the White House, a lie that has most likely been scrubbed from the Internet as a result of… Democrats.
Hillary was additionally the primary one to advertise the “birther” story about Barack Obama, again in 2008. And the rationale that story gained traction was that on the sell-sheet despatched out to publishers when the previous Barry Soetoro was peddling his first set of “memoirs” it was falsely claimed that he had in truth been born in Kenya.
But I digress. You see the issue right here? When you begin digging into lies by Democrats, you threat taking place a rabbit gap. One Democrat lie results in one other to a different.
Democrats all communicate with forked tongues, as Sen. Warren’s ancestors would possibly say. But now, relating to George Santos, I’m certain she’s on the warpath.
Even a couple of Republicans are railing in opposition to Santos. The Republican DA of Nassau County, in Santos’ district, thundered this week:
“No one is above the law.”
Really? Hunter Biden couldn’t be reached for remark.
Then there’s state-run media. The New York Times is being criticized for not uncovering the holes in Santos’ resume earlier than the election.
But critically, who might the Times assign to report that anyone else was making stuff up – actually not one of the “investigative” reporters who obtained the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for concocting the Russian collusion hoax out of entire fabric.
The Times nonetheless refuses to confess that its 4 years of Very Fake News about Donald Trump had been no much less phony than George Santos’ curriculum vitae.
How concerning the Boston Globe? They too are outraged by the sins of this Santos fellow. Imagine, the identical failing newspaper that employed, amongst others, Mike Barnicle, Kevin Cullen, Patricia Smith and Jayson Blair (earlier than he graduated to the Times) is now shocked, shocked at public figures making bleep up out of skinny air.
Just to quote one instance, how concerning the time the Globe ran a photograph on its metro entrance that it claimed was an image of a US soldier in entrance of a tank in Iraq raping a local girl. You might even see the non-public elements of the “soldier.”
Turned out it was a nonetheless shot from a porn film, packaged by one of many Globe’s pet politicians, who would shortly thereafter be lugged and packed off to federal jail for accepting bribes.
But hey, the photograph made George Bush look dangerous, so it labored, proper? Just like working all these lies in 2012 about how Mitt Romney wasn’t paying any earnings taxes.
You know, some tales are simply too good to take a look at, at the very least in the event that they’re helpful for sliming Republicans. When it involves true scandals involving Democrats, you possibly can simply make up one other lie and declare it’s all “Russian disinformation” and refuse to print something.
This similar double commonplace applies to simply about the whole lot in politics. Look at New York state’s disastrous response to the most recent blizzard in Buffalo. If a Republican had been governor, it could be a nationwide scandal. But it’s a Democrat in Albany, so the snow was simply an act of God.
Hang in there, George Santos. You can trip this one out. And if does worsen, you even have the final word gap card.
You can change events and turn into a Democrat. And then each phony-baloney Democrat who now calls for your scalp (sorry, pretend Indian) would instantly don’t only a 180, however would loudly denounce anybody who questioned your credentials as a homophobe.
Being a Democrat means by no means having to say you’re sorry.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”