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Most, if not all, of the fake outrage over Michelle Wolfe's WHCD performance is directed at Trump supporters who did not watch the event. This is about making those people believe the falsehood that Donald Trump, elected Trump supporters, and non-elected Trump supporters are persecuted. Most of the criticisms that I have hearing about Ms. Wolfe's performance seem to be false. It is not just that she did not attack Sarah Sanders' appearance, it is that just about everything else that has been said about the performance is false.
I did not find the performance vulgar/filthy. Someone is going to have to tell me what was so vulgar/filthy about her performance. I may have missed a few things, but the only things that I can think of that can be described as vulgar are her pussy jokes and her joke about Ivanka being full of shit. I did not really see those jokes as vulgar.
I did not find the performance one sided. Throughout the performance she took some of her harshest shots at Democrats. She joked about Hillary Clinton not going to Wisconsin. She joked about Ted Kennedy killing a woman. She joked about Rachel Maddow not getting to the point. She even bashed CNN a little.
Finally, I did not find that the performance crossed any line. On the contrary, I think she hit the right note. She did what she was supposed to do; she spoke truth to power. As I watched her performance I thought she was funny throughout most of the performance while also throwing barbs at people in power.
So, the fake outrage from the right is just people trying to rile up Trump's base. The point is to get a group of people, who did not watch the performance, angry about something. The fake outrage from the news media is about trying to maintain access to Trump. It is also about certain people in the news media being angry that Wolfe also through some pointed barbs at the media for not doing its job.
BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)that it would take a nanosecond to convince them of seeing and hearing something that never occurred, like a "fat" joke which was actually a joke about "facts".
Salviati
(6,008 posts)... ever assembled since the egress of a P.T. Barnum exhibit.
catrose
(5,071 posts)that since Trump, there is no more line.
Initech
(100,097 posts)He just watched Fox and Friends and regurgitated whatever they thought of it on Twitter. That's what infuriates me.