Sen. Cotton Smears McAuliffe And Teachers With Homophobic Dogwhistle

Sen. Tom Cotton took a disgusting swipe at teachers’ union president Randi Weingarten today – but the gay woman was little more than collateral damage for Cotton’s attack on Terry McAuliffe.

“Objective” anchor Bill Hemmer teed up the attack for Cotton by noting that Weingarten had appeared at Virginia gubernatorial candidate McAuliffe’s final rally the night before. “What’s that tell ya?” Hemmer “asked.”

Cotton’s reply was shocking, even by Fox standards: “Randi Weingarten is a joke. Randi Weingarten does not even have children of her own. What in the hell does she know about raising and teaching kids?” he said.

Fortunately, Twitter had some great clap backs.

Read the rest in my post at Crooks and Liars!

Meanwhile, if anyone wants to discuss the election results, feel free to drop your thoughts in our comments section, below. I’ve got quite a bit to say, myself.:)

(Cotton image via screen grab)

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commented 2021-11-04 00:37:58 -0400 · Flag

Karen Barton,

My next post, scheduled for 10 AM ET on Thursday, is about the urgent need for Dems to deal with right-wing propaganda.

commented 2021-11-03 22:03:23 -0400 · Flag

Ellen, if Fox/GOP become worse than ever, it will remind voters how truly awful they are. But Democrats have to respond quickly and not get caught flat-footed.

commented 2021-11-03 08:58:51 -0400 · Flag

Oops. JFK had only one son. Confused him with Robert for an instant.

commented 2021-11-03 05:45:19 -0400 · Flag

I’m devastated at the VA results: how on earth …..?

But, then, I read on C&L that a few hundred folks recently gathered at the place where JFK was shot in Dallas … were waiting eagerly for what can only be called the resurrection of JFK and his eldest son in order to place Trump back in the White House. Have they actually elevated JFK to the side of Jesus? Wouldn’t that be blasphemy? Seems like it, to me.

Do these ignoramuses realise what a serious blow they are giving to the respect that the USA once enjoyed in the world? Of course not. And they don’t actually care. They’re the product of a failed education system. JFK’s administration was the last one to want to improve the country’s IQ. It’s been downhill since then.

commented 2021-11-02 22:51:24 -0400 · Flag

As I told the C&L gang, what bothers me most about the VA election is not that McAuliffe lost, per se, but that the GOP/Fox/Trumpers will be emboldened to be worse and more dangerous than ever.

commented 2021-11-02 22:49:31 -0400 · Flag

I was texting for the Dems in VA several days over the past ten days or two weeks. I also did some texting to NJ Dems during that time. Last year, I did a fair amount of texting for Biden. I also did texting for Doug Jones in 2017. In other words, three winning campaigns plus McAuliffe.

Putting aside my criticisms of the texting set up for McAuliffe, which I won’t go into here, I had a bad feeling about his campaign two weekends ago when I got a lot of angry or trollish or unenthusiastic responses. It was such a contrast with NJ, e.g., where almost everyone said they had voted or would vote and the only real problems were people who had issues with their ballots.

I also got quite a few complaints about McAuliffe, himself, even from people who voted for him. I know the media will be talking about the Build Back Better bill and Joe Biden’s sinking poll numbers but not one of the approximately 5,000 voters I texted mentioned that. A few attacked the Dems as communist indoctrinators but most of the criticism was about McAuliffe, himself.

FWIW.