DISRESPECT IS TRUMP’S, GOP’S ‘GAME’

TUCKER PUT ON A PUCKER

Did you folks see Tinker Carlson on his prime-time Fox News show Tuesday when he deliberately dismissed the importance of correctly pronouncing the name of a Democratic Vice President nominee Kamala Harris?

Yes, we did say Tinker Carlson. Or maybe it’s Tanker Carlson. Or Tacky Carlson.

But we digress. Not only did TicTac mispronounce Harris’ name, but when his guest — Richard Goodstein, an adviser to Democratic campaigns — politely corrected him, Pucker got all incensed.

“Tucker, can I just say one thing?” said Goodstein interjected. Tinsley: “Of course.”

Goodstein: “Because this will serve you and your fellow hosts on Fox. Her name is pronounced ‘comma’ — like the punctuation mark — ‘la.’ Comma-la. Seriously, I’ve heard every sort of b——-dization of her — …”

Teeter: “OK, so what?”

Goodstein: “Out of respect, for somebody who’s going to be on the national ticket, pronouncing her name right is actually kind of a bare minimum …”

Toeboy loosed a mocking laugh and a couple more mispronunciations, face reddening as he cast about to save face before finally pivoting the conversation to something it wasn’t: “I love the idea that she’s immune from criticism. Nobody in power is immune from criticism. That’s our job … ”

Huh?

Tooter — you who in July called double-amputee combat veteran Tammy Duckworth a “coward,” “fraud” and “moron” and grouped her with people you say hate America — you’re getting right now from us all the respect you deserve.

Zero.

TRUMP WAS LEFT SPEECHLESS

There was another priceless moment in television last week when President Donald Trump was struck speechless by a reporter’s question during one of his so-called news conferences that he now uses as mini-campaign rallies.

The Huffington Post reporter asked our president if he regrets “all the lying you have done to Americans” all these years.

Trump couldn’t even find his usual nasty words for “nasty” queries he doesn’t like. This time he just blinked and turned to call on another reporter.

In reporting this, even the conservative leaning publication”The Hill” noted: “Trump has throughout his presidency made false or misleading statements and did so again Thursday during the first half of his briefing when he made exaggerated or inaccurate claims about presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.”

BUT WHOSE COUNTING?

Speaking of lies, it was a big week for the president.

He topped it off by putting a new spin on his original birther lie about Barack Obama, but this time he targeted Kamala Harris, promoting a false claim that she might not be a natural-born U.S. citizen.

“I heard it today that she doesn’t meet the requirements,” Trump told reporters. “I have no idea if that’s right,” he said of the newest conspiracy theory making the rounds. “I would have thought, I would have assumed, that the Democrats would have checked that out before she gets chosen to run for vice president.”

Wait. Did California join a different country in September of 1850 — 114 years before Harris was born there in 1964 to immigrant parents from Jamaica and India?

The Constitution requires the president and vice president to be natural-born citizens and at least 35 years old. Trump’s newest four-Pinocchio whopper is just stock-and-trade lies, racism, “otherism” and shiny-object distraction.

The Washington Post in mid-July reported that Trump had made 20,000 false or misleading claims during his presidency. We’re in worsening pandemic, an economic free-fall, and a time of social unrest, yet lying and distracting is all Trump has to offer the American people.

POST OFFICE VS. VOTES, VIRUS RELIEF

Then there’s the United States Postal Service which Trump is using as a political football to hold a coronavirus relief bill hostage in Washington.

Trump says he wants an accurate vote count in November, but he told reporters last week he would not direct the postmaster general to reverse some of the policy changes at the U.S. Postal Service that could hinder that count. Trump cited the “too much” money it would take to facilitate mail-in voting.

We actually heard this first back in March. Referring to then-provisions in the Democrats’ coronavirus stimulus bill to vastly increase funding for voting by mail, he said on Fox News that the bill had “levels of voting that, if you ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”

Thursday morning in a call to Fox Business, Trump acknowledged again that he is blocking post office funding because he wants to restrict how many Americans can vote by mail.

“Now they need that money in order to make the post office work, so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots,” he told Maria Bartiromo. “But if they don’t get those two items, that means you can’t have universal mail-in voting, because they’re not equipped to have it. … If we don’t make a deal, that means they don’t get the money.”

If you need any clarity on this, consider White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow’s comments shortly after: ““So much of the Democratic asks are really liberal left wishlists we don’t want to have — voting rights, and aid to aliens, and so forth,” Kudlow said. “That’s not our game.”

Voting is a game? Coronavirus relief is a game? Hurry, November.