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> I'll tell you why. Nobody who isn't an ISIS member has ever been called an ISIS member. I do seem to recall a certain presidential candidate calling Hillary
by thraxil 9y ago
> I'll tell you why. Nobody who isn't an ISIS member has ever been called an ISIS member.
I do seem to recall a certain presidential candidate calling Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama founders of ISIS...
Painting all Muslim or even brown people as ISIS or terrorists is a pretty common rhetorical tactic of the right.
- breakingcups 9y agoI still can't fathom the gravity of your first sentence. What it seems to imply about the majority of voting Americans and humanity in general. What a mess.
- slededit 9y ago> I do seem to recall a certain presidential candidate calling Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama founders of ISIS... The clear and obvious intent of that sentence was to imply their policies allowed ISIS to exist, and that they would not exist had the power vacuum not been created. This new literal reading of everything is just another part of the decline of our political discourse.
- thraxil 9y agoWhen Hugh Hewitt suggested that Trump only meant it that way, Trump objected: "No, I meant he's the founder of ISIS," Trump said. "I do. He was the most valuable player. I give him the most valuable player award. I give her, too, by the way, Hillary Clinton." Trump then explicitly disagreed with that "clear and obvious intent" re a power vacuum: HH: I don’t. I think I would say they created, they lost the peace. They created the Libyan vacuum, they created the vacuum into which ISIS came, but they didn’t create ISIS. That’s what I would say. DT: Well, I disagree. http://www.hughhewitt.com/donald-trump-makes-return-visit/#more-31501 http://www.hughhewitt.com/donald-trump-makes-return-visit/#m...