Female reporter's question to WH spokeswoman gives pause. Christ-like behavior questioned? & More
Several stories these last few days lent to several emotions, from Christianity to female reproductive agendas, to #DefundThePolice, to Critical Race Theory.
In this Issue:
Jen Psaki disregards a reporter’s question on when Biden believes life begins with a slick answer.
She scolds those who blame violence on the defund moniker with an inconvenient truth.
Democratic Op calls out GOP Op on Critical Race Theory: ‘Not grassroots.’ ‘Organized & paid for.’
MSNBC host admonishes Christians’ lack of Christ-like behavior to the new Southern Baptist Convention President.
Jen Psaki disregards a reporter’s question on when Biden believes life begins with a slick answer.
This is likely one of the shortest answers ever given by Jen Psaki. But, most importantly, it effectively avoided the reporter’s desired wormhole.
See full episodes here.
One wonders why the hypocritical powers send women to ask questions that one can only see as harmful to women. The reporter should be ashamed of herself.
“Does the president believe that a 15-week-old unborn baby,” the reporter asked? “Is a human being?”
Notice that the construct of the reporter’s sentence shows her position. She calls a 15-month-old fetus an unborn.
“Are you asking me if the President supports a woman’s right to choose?” Jen Psaki answers the question with the pertinent question.
Without waiting for a reply from the reporter, Psaki affirmed her question to the reporter.
“He does,” Psaki replied and immediately called on another reporter. “Go ahead.”
While not the same issue, a recent post on my Politics Done Right page is germane, and I would love some comments on the reporter, Psaki, and the post.
[EGBERTO] This is not a joke. I want answers and discussion. I am watching Fareed Zakaria. As you know the Taliban discriminates against women. They are now claiming women will have all rights of education etc. But wearing a hijab under their rule will be required. I immediately frowned. Women should have all rights as men IMHO. In America, a woman is not allowed to go out topless while men can. We even have a sect that wants to tell women what to do with their bodies. I have realized for some time that one of our major problems is men/patriarchy. And I am not sure how different it is in most countries of the world including ours. Ours is just more familiar to us. I have a lot more to say but want to be guided by your comments.
[COMMENTER] Egberto, I'm not clear on what you are asking. Do we think the Taliban is telling the truth? Do we think all rights should be equal?
[EGBERTO] It has less to do with Taliban proper and more with perspective and human behavior. I am not trying to figure out subjective discernment of bad. Let me give an example. We believe many Muslim governments oppress their population and women in particular. Many of these countries do not have a voting Democracy. But still, we do not see any sort of mass exodus. There is a sort of indoctrination. They believe that is just how things are. We purport to have a voting Democracy where all and specifically women have the right to vote for those who would provide all and particularly women full rights, and yet a substantial number vote for Republicans who oppress them. I want to see where the discussion goes because the similarities when viewed from the outside are astounding but we are trained not to see it based on whatever type of indoctrination we allowed ourselves to absorb. All these things so tie together and it makes massive changes that more effortful. Too many, IMHO, are too comfortable in the belief that the way things are, are the way they should be as if divine and not something effectively forced on those who had the ability to do so.
[COMMENTER] When it comes to the rights and treatment of women I believe it is much more than just going along because that's the way things are. We see revolution and change throughout civilizations. I can't think of a single time when there has been a cultural revolution to specifically address real equality for women. I'm not a trained historian so perhaps it's happened but it's not in any history book I've read. I have long wondered at how the world can sit back and watch the treatment of women in many of the middle eastern countries. it's baffling to me. Perhaps even more amazing is how in a democracy where (of course) half the electorate are women there is no demand that the U.S. stop supporting those governments. I can't begin to explain American women who vote for people who do not support them. Sure there are lots of answers from talkers on cable news shows. They say they are voting as their husbands or call them "security moms" or say they are directed to by their religion, etc. But none of those so called answers really explain it. Women are not a priority here or anywhere in the world. And the world is worse for it.
Food for thought? I would love to hear your impressions; especially women’s.
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She scolds those who blame violence on the defund moniker with an inconvenient truth.
Activist Brittany Packnett-Cunningham scolds those who blame violence on the #DefundThePolice movement with an inconvenient truth.
See full episodes here.
Activist responded to Stephanie Ruhle with the following prescient statement. It says it all.
"So Stephanie, I think it's important. To begin with, the simple fact that all of us, and I do mean all of us, want safer communities," Packnett-Cunningham said. "Everyone wants and deserves to be able to walk out of their home, walk freely on the street, play with their child, and ensure that everyone is safe while doing so. But what we also know to be true is that defunding the police is not just about taking money out of an institution that continues to prove ineffective. It's also about refunding the people. It's about ensuring that the services that people need to ensure safe communities from the ground up are actually being funded and resourced to their full capacity."
But Packnett-Cunningham was not done.
"I think that there are a lot of police unions and GOP operatives that would like for us to believe that this recent crime wave has everything to do with this idea of defunding the police," Brittany continued. "But guess what, Stephanie? The police haven't been defunded. You actually look at the 50 largest cities; law enforcement spending as a share of the general expenditure in each of those cities actually rose slightly from 13.6% to 13.7%. And many of the cities that have talked about removing that money, like Minneapolis and Seattle, they've actually paused or slowed how they were thinking about moving that money. So this rising crime is not the fault of the movement. It's actually the fault of the police, and this has been our point all along. Why should we keep funding systems and institutions that keep rendering themselves ineffective? We should be talking about gun control, livable wages, fair housing, education. That's where we should be moving the money to ensure truly safe streets."
So yes. It is the current police structure responsible for ineffectively controlling crime. Their incompetence is evidenced by the results and outcomes.
Democratic Op calls out GOP Op on Critical Race Theory: ‘Not grassroots.’ ‘Organized & paid for.’
Republican political strategist Brad Todd tried to validate the Critical Race Theory faux-issue. Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher & Chuck Todd checked him.
See full episodes here.
The Republican Party is great a messaging, even as they generally use it to mislead. They do it on every platform and, like what Republican political strategist Brad Todd did here, creates an opportunity to parrot the GOP lies.
Brad used a slight opening to make the case that there was the real reason for Americans to revolt against Critical Race Theory (CRT) on school boards etc. Chuck Todd attempted to point out that the CRT hoopla was manufactured, but Brad discounted his statement.
To be clear, CRT is not taught in Elementary, Middle, or High School. American History is. Unfortunately, what the GOP is objecting to is an honest version of American History, and it is good and bad.
Republicans should heed the president's recent comments when he signed the Juneteenth Holiday bill.
I said a few weeks ago, marking the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, great nations don’t ignore their most painful moments. Great nations don’t ignore the most painful moments. They don’t ignore those moments in the past. They embrace them. Great nations don’t walk away. We come to terms with the mistakes we made. In remembering those moments, we begin to heal and grow stronger. The truth is, it’s simply not enough just to commemorate Juneteenth, after all the emancipation of slave black Americans didn’t mark the end of America’s work to deliver on the promise of equality; it only marked the beginning. To honor the true meaning of Juneteenth, we have to continue toward that promise because we’ve not gotten there yet. The vice president and I and our entire administration and all of you in this room are committed to doing just that.
Democratic political pollsters Cornell Belcher did not allow Brad to get away with his misinformation about Critical Race Theory. He pointed out there was nothing grassroots about it. It was paid for by controlling powers.
MSNBC host admonishes Christians’ lack of Christ-like behavior to new Southern Baptist Convention President
MSNBC Host Joshua Johnson did not mince his words admonishing Christian's un-Christ-like behavior to the new president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Instead, Ed Litton agreed and took responsibility to foment change.
See full episodes here.
"In terms of understanding what the Bible says," Joshua Johnson said. "There's been research including from the Pew Research Center in terms of who has the best general knowledge about the Abrahamic Faiths, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and it found that the people with the most knowledge tend to be either Jewish or Atheists and Agnostics than people who are actually practitioners of Christianity tend not to have the strongest general knowledge."
Johnson then quoted a representative Bible verse that defines what the behavior of Christians should be like.
"There is a bible verse that keeps standing out to me," Johnson continued. "It's from first Peter that says that believers should always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have but to do this with gentleness and respect keeping a clear conscience. Pastor Litton, before I let you go, I have encountered way too many Christians who express zero gentlenesses and zero respect when talking to people who don't share their views, whether it's Atheists, Agnostics, gay people like myself, or just people who don't share their politics. And that is not biblical. That is not scriptural. That is not what the Bible teaches believers to do. … What do you plan to do as the president of the Southern Baptist Convention to make people of faith more palatable, less contemptible, and maybe a little more Christ-like in the way they deal with the rest of the world?"
The pastor agreed with Johnson and then made the case on what he intends to do. One hopes he is successful in changing his sect.
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