{"id":1941,"date":"2018-10-24T16:58:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T20:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/?p=1941"},"modified":"2018-10-24T16:58:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T20:58:30","slug":"hypocrites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/2018\/10\/hypocrites.html","title":{"rendered":"Hypocrites!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a bunch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/oct\/24\/jeff-zucker-cnn-president-slams-white-house-rhetor\/\">hypocritical narcissists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>CNN\u2019s President Jeff Zucker blamed President Trump and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders for the series of bomb threats that surfaced on Wednesday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cThere is a total and complete lack of understanding at the White House about the seriousness of their continued attacks on the media,\u201d Mr. Zucker said in a statement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cThe President, and especially the White House Press Secretary, should understand their words matter. Thus far, they have shown no comprehension of that,\u201d he continued.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Both the president and Mrs. Sanders condemned the attempted attacks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cWe\u2019re extremely angry, upset, unhappy about what we witnessed this morning,\u201d Mr. Trump said\u00a0Wednesday afternoon. \u201cWe will get to the bottom of it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>CNN\u2019s headquarters in the Time Warner building was evacuated in the middle of live coverage Wednesday morning when NYPD discovered what appeared to be a \u201clive device.\u201d An envelope with white powder was also found at the scene.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Over the last couple of years, hundreds of Trump supporters have been pummeled by leftist thugs for no other reason but that the victims are Trump supporters.\u00a0 In at least one case, the case of the Republican softball team that a zealot Bernie Sanders supporter shot up last year, this rage led to attempted mass murder. There can be no question that the Trump-hating media not only fueled this vitriol, but ignited it, for if not for the Fake News regarding the 45<sup>th<\/sup> President that it tirelessly peddles, none of this virulent animosity would likely have ever existed.<\/p>\n<p>For years, these same media figures who are now whining and crying over <em>allegedly <\/em>being targeted spared no occasion to convince black Americans that they were forever being victimized by their white counterparts, a strategy designed to advance the interests of the party to which most of the media belong, but which had the effect of inspiring racially-based violence against whites that is shocking for both its frequency and brutality.<\/p>\n<p>In the era of Trump, the drama queens and divas of the left continually overplay their hand. Their readiness to exploit these so-called bomb threats for the sake of attacking the President makes it all but certain that the threats are false flags.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that like the Brett Kavanaugh debacle and the \u201ccaravan\u201d of invaders coming from south of the border, this too will\u2014no pun intended\u2014blow up in their collective face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a bunch of hypocritical narcissists. CNN\u2019s President Jeff Zucker blamed President Trump and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders for the series of bomb threats that surfaced on Wednesday. \u00a0\u201cThere is a total and complete lack of understanding at the White House about the seriousness of their continued attacks on the media,\u201d Mr.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hypocrites!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/2018\/10\/hypocrites.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hypocrites!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What a bunch of hypocritical narcissists. 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