Schumer Condemns 'Shocking Double Standard' After Warren Silenced

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo


By MATT SHUHAM Published FEBRUARY 8, 2017, 12:27 PM EDT

The senate minority leader accused Republicans on Wednesday of applying a “shocking double standard” when they silenced Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for reading a letter from the late Coretta Scott King about attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL).

“In my view, it was totally, totally uncalled for,” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s invocation of Rule XIX to silence Warren. “Sen. Warren wasn't hurling wild accusations. She was reading a thoughtful and considered letter from a leading civil rights figure. Mr. President, anyone who watches the Senate floor on a daily basis could tell you that what happened last night was the most selective enforcement of Rule XIX.” Schumer compared the incident to when one Republican senator called then-Majority Leader Harry Reid’s leadership “cancerous” and said Reid “doesn’t care about the safety of our troops.” Schumer also emphasized that he did not “run to the floor to involve Rule XIX” when Republicans accused him of crying “fake tears” during a press conference after the issuance of President Donald Trump’s immigration executive order.

“Mr. President, there is a shocking double standard here when it comes to speech,” Schumer said. “And unfortunately it is not constrained by the four walls of this chamber.”

“While the senator from Massachusetts has my Republican colleagues up in arms by simply reciting the words of a civil rights leader, my Republican colleagues can hardly summon a note of disapproval for an administration that insults a federal judge, tells the news media to shut up, off-handedly threatens a legislator's career and seems to invent new dimensions of falsehood each and every day,” he continued. “I certainly hope that this anti-free speech attitude is not traveling down Pennsylvania Avenue to our great chamber.”

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[Ray Bruns]

1. I have questioned headlines such as "Shocking Double Standards" before -

Because is it really shocking?
Is it really shocking that women are subjected to a double standard? Especially from old white republican men.
It would be more accurate to have the headline say something like
"Same crap, different day standard subjected to woman who calls out old white men on their BS".

[tenorly]

5. I guess those are what airbags are to Democrats and independents.

Whenever Republicans' tactics crash, they deploy their own SDS:

Shocking Double Standards.

[grantcart]

12. Welcome to DU

Good point, should be filed in the "I am shocked the gambling is going on in here"

[Amaryllis]

20. Did you happen to see the sign from one of the women's marches that was being

held by women in suffragette uniforms that said "Different century, same shit".

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

24. The first meaning of "shocking" has nothing to do with surprise.

shock·ing
adjective
-causing indignation or disgust; offensive.
"shocking behavior"

The double standards are quite shocking in that sense.

[lark]

2. Good for Schumer.

R's are beyond contempt, especially McTurtle, and glad he got called on it.

[nuxvomica]

3. I would've said "slithering" instead of "traveling"

But it was a fine statement by Sen. Schumer nonetheless.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

25. Lol!

Thanks for the laugh. I need all of them I can get.

[question everything]

4. I am confused also about Cory Booker

I know that he talked against Sessions early on. I think it was in a form of testimony, and I don't remember him being censured..

So what did he do right and Warren wrong? If at all?

[MyOwnPeace]

8. Booker......

was not born with a vagina. Republicans hate those...............

[question everything]

18. Indeed. Seems that today many of the ones carrying a kickstand did read

the same letters with no molestation..

[Rhiannon12866]

19. Yes, apparently Trump's most serious objection to Melissa McCarthy's impersonation of Spicer

Wasn't anything she said or did, but that he was impersonated by a woman...

[tavernier]

27. Well then, we should find a woman to play trump.

Fortunately I know of no women that butt faced ugly.

[Rhiannon12866]

28. Agreed. He goes ballistic enough over the very talented Alec Baldwin.

If his nemesis Rosie O'Donnell starts impersonating Steve Bannon, his head just may explode...

[Hekate]

14. As I said of Hillary's "lack of a presidential look"--what she lacks is that certain je ne sais quoi

Which is, a penis.

[wordpix]

6. today, D male senators read same letter & weren't told to sit down, shut up

double standard for men and women, too

[heaven05]

7. we do have a voice,

thank the fates....

[zentrum]

9. "Totally uncalled for"?

Sorry--but he sounds like a shocked librarian.

Please lead all Dems to read this letter immediately.

[Plucketeer]

10. Shocking dubble standard

Thanks Chuck. Now, If I could address McConnell, I'd say: "Mitch, I'd call you a low-life, but lower life forms don't deserve to be compared to you. Even maggots and tapeworms and the Ebola virus have more self-respect than your sorry existence."
Of course, I can only write that on a postcard and cross my fingers that he might see it.

[yallerdawg]

11. This morning, "AM Joe" tried to spin this as an attempt...

by McConnell and the Corrupt One to elevate Senator Warren as the Democratic presidential adversary in 2020.

I don't know what kind of game Joe and Mika are playing, but they have ruined MSNBC for me.

Sorry, Rachel. Now I have to cast a wary eye on you - "the company you keep."

[LuckyLib]

13. She was uppity. Can't have that!

[Ilsa]

15. McConnell couldn't be more afraid of Warren if she was from Somalia

or Yemen or Iran, or ...

[bdamomma]

16. K&R

[rdking647]

17. we dont have a a legitimate government

[nini]

21. They've always been like this

They just care to hide it anymore.

[Rhiannon12866]

22. I'm very proud of my senator, he's really been stepping up to the plate

I was just looking forward to his becoming majority leader.

[meadowlander]

23. So Joe Wilson can heckle the President and call him a liar in the middle of a speech,

and not a peep out of anyone on the right for impugning a sitting president, but a Senator can't read a letter that had already been read before the Senate without being told to sit down and shut up.

[ck4829]

26. K&R