Brit Hume: "I wonder if he has any idea how PETULANT this sounds.

[kpete]

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[Ace Rothstein]

1. He doesn't. The man has zero self awareness.

[whathehell]

18. No, he appears to have zero self-awareness. n/t

[Hortensis]

34. Or awareness that Hill and Obama were CLEAN.

No fools bigger than those who believe their own lies.

[whathehell]

49. Could be..

It's really difficult for me to speculate what's in his head...He's so Out There.

[HughBeaumont]

2. Donald Trump and his Trumpkins: The MASTERS of Whatabout-ery.

The red herring subset of "Tu quoque":

Simply put, whataboutism refers to the bringing up of one issue in order to distract from the discussion of another. It does not apply to the comparison and analysis of two similar issues in terms such as why some are given more social prominence than others.

[titaniumsalute]

65. When I learned debate in college

this one probably the biggest argument fallacy you could engage in. It is what many amatures do when they have no real or good argument to make. Deflection. Right now it is "Well look what Obama did/didn't do" or "Well Hillary would have been worse because..."

[liberal N proud]

3. The Butternut Bigot sees himself as a dictator and untouchable

This is a blow to that fragile ego.

[WhiteTara]

47. ...

Thank you! I needed to have that laugh today.

[niyad]

48. ahh, that is a great one to add to my ever-growing list of handles for comrade palpatine.

[neeksgeek]

4. Petulant? Try GUILTY

He (Trumpenflunky) sounds like a bratty little pre-schooler, who got caught scribling on the wall with a magic marker, crying because his older, more mature sister was using markers too (but she was drawing pretty pictures in an artist's pad).

Saw a cartoon of Obama and Trump each doing their artistic best to draw a Presidential Seal. Trump had crayons, Obama had oils and an easel. Can't find it now.

[gratuitous]

5. Et tu, Brit?

If Fox personalities are getting tired at last of President Trump's petulance and whining, we may finally have gotten to the end of the beginning, and can really delve into the corruption that's rotting away our government and country.

[ffr]

38. +1

Except, I believe this is part of the RW strategy to legitimize people like Brit Hume. Hey Brit, fuck you and your stupid righteous comments over the years!

[workinclasszero]

44. Yeah weren't they praising their god emperor

as the savior of the white race just days ago?

Fox is the destroyer of civilization IMO

[WinkyDink]

58. EXcellent!

[dalton99a]

6. He's talking to his cult.

[karynnj]

29. True - but hopefully what Brit Hume's tweet shows is that his support may be converging to the cult

The cult attached to his persona from his asinine scripted reality show, may explain why none of the very real and pervasive criticism of him starting with his speech entering the race, his attack on McCain, his attack on a Hoosier judge with Mexican ancestry etc were not, as every pundit predicted they would be, something that would destroy his campaign. Trump may have been right about one thing - his base would not have left him had he shot someone on Fifth Avenue.

The scary thing is that he will be overseas representing the United States for 9 days starting tomorrow. What is pretty sad is that the current bar that seems to exist is that he will be seen as doing better than expected if he does not create a major faux pas. I will predict right now that the brilliant new President of France, in office about one week, will be far more useful and Presidential. I certainly never worried that Obama or either of his SoS would embarrass the US.

[xor]

46. yeap. They will eat up anything he says without question.

[KingCharlemagne]

7. "What-aboutism" - the surest proof of guilt in any five-year-old - nt

[karynnj]

36. Not to mention, how many parents accept that excuse from the 5 year old - mine didn't nor did I

Not to mention, Comey DID investigate HRC ... and Obama did not fire him. Lynch actually removed herself from that investigation. To my knowledge Obama himself absolutely did not interfere with that investigation or the one of the State Department IG. As to the State Department IG, Secretary Kerry stayed at hands length from the investigation.

Now, Comey COULD HAVE investigated Trump -- he was doing just that - until Trump fired him! Now, it was Trump's DOJ that has appointed a special counsel.

What is extraordinary is that the President put Flynn in the White House as NSA knowing he was an illegally not registered lobbyist for the dictator of Turkey and under FBI investigation for ties with Russia. Not to mention, the President gave intelligence from Israel to Russia, putting their spy in danger and obviously destroying all the work getting him/her undercover with ISIS. It would be extraordinary if there were NO call for an independent investigation.

[Gothmog]

8. When trump loses fox, he in trouble

[Hortensis]

39. Yes, but if only. I don't think it's happening yet, Gothmog.

Fox will support its viewership, and they support Rump.

I'm remembering these sorts gave Nixon and W high approval through two terms each. No matter what they did, the vast majority of conservatives stayed loyal and only fell away in the very last year of each when it was clear they weren't going to have time to pull out some magic winning trick.

In fact, this reminds me of that Russian writer who says what is most sure to turn conservatives against an authoritarian leader is coming to believe they backed a loser. That might just happen enormously sooner with this "winner"!

[Guilded Lilly]

9. The Self-Absorbed Cretinism continues...

The entire process of removing this man from office is not a given nor will anything about it be easy in any way. The men impeached in the past at least had intelligence. They had an awareness of the reality of their actions.
Not this dangerous ogre. He is beyond comprehension of how immature and ignorant he is about everyone and everything.
This man is nothing but deformed ego out of control.

And because of the soulless, power-twisted Republican thugs around him, any take down will be extremely difficult. They enable and support his lunacy to further their own anti-humanity agenda.

[VigilantG]

10. Petulant? Too big of a word for Drumpf to understand.

[TNNurse]

32. That was my thought.

I bet he does not know what petulant means. Pretty sure he cannot spell it either.

[volstork]

11. I doubt he

knows what "petulant" means.

[Cha]

12. Brit Hume?! I can see this coming

from someone like Jake Tapper.. but trump has lost Bret Hume? lol

The answer is No.. I bet he thinks he sounds clever to twist it back on anyone but himself.

Tell us again Donald.. how you had the biggest inauguration of Anybody Ever.. Period.

[MGKrebs]

45. Isn't it scary that at this point him talking about his crowd size

is about the best we can hope for? Everything else he talks about turns into a disaster.

[Wednesdays]

13. Well, Hell is now looking like Antarctica.

[Raster]

14. No Brit, he doesn't... why don't you clue him in?

Add yourself to the clue club while your at it, asshole.

[steve2470]

15. Hey Brit, YOU and your mates at FauxNews enabled the election of this petulant sociopath

If you had been telling the truth all these years, we wouldn't have this manbaby sociopath president.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

16. What illegal acts did Pres. Obama commit?

All this cry baby knows is how to deflect. Keep digging your hole, Donnie! You're going down as are the crew you hired.

President Obama must be having a hearty laugh at the Donald's expense. He has deserved the right to do so.

[cilla4progress]

17. D

uhhhhhh!

[HopeAgain]

19. councel?

I'm sorry, a simple spelling test should be incorporated into the presidential qualifications of the Constitution.

Oh, and he should be required to have a basic grasp of vocabulary and not say things like "I can say with surety"

[mahatmakanejeeves]

25. Merriam-Webster tweeted the last time he did this, when he spelled it "council."

Last edited Fri May 19, 2017, 09:10 AM - Edit history (2)

That sound you hear from the M-W office this morning…

Link to tweet

"Surety" turns out to be an actual word. Probably not used correctly, but I can't say with, um, you know.

Lookups for 'surety' are up more than 14,000%

Link to tweet

[JHan]

62. whoever handles their twitter needs a prize

[mahina]

61. Spacial Cauncil?

That got me, too. Where are the nuns with yardsticks when we need them?

[Adrahil]

23. Enjoy your short stay! NT

[zentrum]

21. DT is not talking to us or

....Hume.

He's talking to his base.

He's giving FOX a narrative that allows them to continue to frame the "we non-elite, white, 'real' Amuricans are being victimized". He's stoking their rage and sense of unfairness. He's teaching them to never kick up against the rich guy who's crushing them.

He's a master manipulator of RW media and memes and we need to start providing phrases that call him "Un-American", "anti-the Founding Fathers", "unfair". Calling him "petulant", while more than true, stokes their resentment. The problem with their resentment is that the GOP controls just about every gear of government right now.

We need to out-maneuver him and quit falling into this trap.

[Skittles]

52. there's nothing masterful about what he does

he simply is able to influence REALLY STUPID PEOPLE

[zentrum]

57. Despite how stupid they are

.....how un-masterful he is---the GOP under Trump is systematically dismantling every aspect of government.

For un-masterful people with a stupid following, they are still managing to eat our lunch. In every area--Regulations, voter protection, the environment, health care, education, immigration, women's rights, fixing our broken justice system, a living wage, progressive taxation.

[Skittles]

59. they get help from Russia, the FBI, and voter suppression

ALL must be addressed and remedied

[zentrum]

66. The FBI had

....nothing to do with the GOP taking over school boards, state houses and local offices two decades ago.

Nor did Russia.

Many of us are hoarse from calling the Democrats to beg them to make redistricting and voter suppression a top priority that they would address in a way that would get MSM coverage. They were would mention it, but only in passing---and essentially did very little to nothing. For decades. And so, across the board, here we are.

There are problems that are not all at the doorstep of Russia or the mess created by Comey. In any event, even if HRC had prevailed, I think both houses of Congress would have been lost.

The "stupid" GOP has managed to out-fox us. We need to change tactics and strategy and get a lot more fierce. My hope is that Perez will do a more adequate job.

[Skittles]

67. I never said they did

but Comey certainly had a hand in helping put Twitler into the White House

it's just another sample of repuke dirty tricks

[Grins]

22. Why should he?

Why should he? You didn't Mr. Hume, for YEARS of his petulant, incoherent, vicious tweets and speeches.

[Fla Dem]

24. When Brit Hume is critical, then Trump is truly losing the RW. nt

[still_one]

30. My exact thought

[JI7]

63. i think Trump Supporters are more idiot Sean Hannity types and Pervert oreilly types

[Orsino]

26. I wonder whether Hume has any idea how petulant Trump IS. n/t

[muntrv]

27. Nope.

[still_one]

28. if hume is saying this, then it looks like hume is distancing himself from trump

[bucolic_frolic]

31. The fact that he doesn't

speaks to the delusions in his warped mind.

This is a dangerous, trapped individual.

[Towlie]

33. This shows how it's wrong to say "Trump embarrasses himself." - He only embarrasses the rest of us.

[3catwoman3]

55. Trumplethinskin does not seem to be able to feel embarrassed.

Pissed off, yes. To be embarrassed, you have to feel uncomfortable about what you've been caught doing. He never thinks he does anything wrong.

[rsdsharp]

35. I wonder if Brit Hume

has any idea that Trump was live tweeting Fox and Friends.

[Motley13]

37. When he accuses someone of anything, you can be sure he did it himself & they probably didn't.

[padfun]

40. But the day before, he welcomed it.

Once again, the mental illness is showing.

[Johnny2X2X]

41. The curious case of FOX News

The Special Prosecutor appointment cannot be ignored. Up until now FOX has been able to successfully pretend to their audience that there was nothing going on with these investigations. They even pretended that the investigations had very little if anything to do with Trump. Mueller's appointment drops a big bomb on that whole narrative. They can no longer ignore the White House that is in crisis. It would be like Godzilla attacking Manhattan and you lead your broadcast with news about a parade for girl scouts followed by 12 hours of riveting coverage of middle school playground improvements.

I'm sure they'll do everything in their power to minimize the story, but it's no longer something they can ignore all together.

[dae]

42. Repubes were playing a new game they called Benghazi.

[workinclasszero]

43. I'm sure Trump doesn't know the meaning of the word petulant

Dumb it down to whiny little bitch so he can understand it Brit.

[Solly Mack]

50. He does not. That requires being self aware.

Trump has spent his life avoiding that.

[Rollo]

51. Oh, Trump thinks he's self-aware...

In that for many years he's had the attitude that he is a superior being, better than everyone else. He thinks he is royalty, with a divine right to lord it over others. It goes right along with the dictator chic he's adopted for his homes, and his claim that only he can fix what's supposedly wrong with America.

For Trump, the problem is that his critics don't realize how great he really is. That makes them Public Enemy #1.

[Solly Mack]

53. Thinking and actually being...a wide berth.

His delusional ego is his problem, yes.

[Rollo]

54. He has all the self-awareness of a two-year old throwing an extended tantrum...

I suppose it makes him feel better.

[Alice11111]

56. DT & Repubs, including B Hume, are getting a taste of what they did to Obama & the Clintons

How do you like trying to govern or run a campaign when you have more investigations going on than you can count?
Kind of another FT job, huh?

That is the only similarity, Mr. B Hume, Fox Liar. Obama was squeaky clean, and anything the Clintons did, was an act of judgment lapse. Your DT has done so many illegal and unethical things that a hundred Special Prosecutors are needed to count them.

We will be sure to mail DT a copy of Obama's birth certificate when DT is in jail. He can contemplate the fun he had with his racist lies for years. Oh yeah, he sent investigators to Hawaii who told him...nothing...another lie.

Biggest Liar in the World! He won at that.

[mahina]

60. Also he can't spel.

l.

[JHB]

64. I wonder how you can wonder about this, Brit...

...every time Con Man Don has gotten in a jam he's sounded like this.

You should probably contact a reporter. They know how to look this stuff up pretty easily