When a liberal politician like Rep. Maxine Waters can draw condemnation from the liberal media, like, whoa, you know she stepped in it. Not only is Waters a progressive, she’s a BLACK, FEMALE progressive, which puts her on such hallowed ground that we’re shocked that anyone at the Washington Post dared to take a swipe at her. Not only is she a BLACK, FEMALE Democrat, but she’s someone who has never had one good thing to say about Donald Trump. That doesn’t just put her above criticism in liberal circles, it makes her a kind of living deity.
This is a woman that is so cherished by the leftist media that when Trump had the audacity to question her IQ (a fair and reasonable question for anyone who has listened to this woman speak), the left said it was a racist attack.
But the Washington Post’s Aaron Blake couldn’t hold his tongue when Waters went on MSNBC this week and made a fool of herself. Perhaps cognizant of her low IQ, host Chris Hayes kindly asked Waters to explain how it was that she could say former FBI Director James Comey had no credibility when he was in charge of Hillary Clinton’s email investigation, but now rush to his defense as he gallops around on his anti-Trump book tour.
Her answer was one for the ages.
“I’ve tried to clarify that and to say, yes, coming out of that classified briefing, I said that, and I certainly meant it,” she said. “However, I think it is quite different when you take a look at Comey and his relationship to the president, what he said, what he’s done. I believe him. So then was then and now is now.”
Uh-huh.
Blake writes:
Part of being a politician is showing that you have some consistent moral compass — that you don’t just promote things and people because they say things you like and denounce them when it’s inconvenient. Saying Comey has “no credibility” means he lacks character and can’t be trusted to tell the truth. That doesn’t really change with circumstances and with the passage of 15 months.
What’s more, Waters said she “certainly meant it” when she said Comey had no credibility. So either she’s acknowledging that she is a bad judge of credibility (and probably shouldn’t be trusted to judge it today), or she’s admitting to a thoroughly convenient political evolution.
Politicians aren’t viewed as the most consistent and trustworthy people; in fact, Gallup polling shows that members of Congress are basically tied with lobbyists as the least-trusted of 21 professions tested. And sometimes they show us why.
To be fair, though, she may not be smart enough to see the hypocrisy in her answer. Why attribute to malice what we could just as easily attribute to idiocy?
Oh, but that’s racist. We forgot.
Poster Comment:
Maxine Waters is a perfect, shining example of exactly why the Democrat policy of promoting identity over merit is a terrible, laughable failure. She's dumb as a box of rocks, had enormous power and influence just handed to her for no other reason than who she is, a negro female democrat willing to parrot the party line word for word in exchange for an obscene amount of wealth and prestige she didn't earn and doesn't deserve and used it pretty much the way you would expect someone to with a double digit IQ.
The worst part being every time anyone tries to point out these undeniable realities they get accused of racism and screeched our of public existence by the liberal reality police. Although race has nothing to do with it at all. There are just as many white democrats cashing in on fake victim identity politics who are just as absurdly unqualified. Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren, and of course the recently unseated criminal queen. What democrats have made themselves too dense to realize is that this is an important one of the many, many, many reasons they're losing their power. Let's hope they stay that way.
