Donald Trump’s stint as Republican presidential nominee has shown what happens when you throw out the usual crop of Republican pundits because they have a little too much self-respect to defend Trump, and turn to the people willing to go to the mat for anything Trump says. The latest case in point: former New York Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey defending Trump’s bragging about his sexual assault habits by pointing out that Hillary Clinton likes Beyonce. How do you get from Point A to Point B, you ask?
“I wanted to point something out, which is that Hillary Clinton expresses that she finds the language on that bus horrific, but in fact she likes language like this: quote, I came to slay, bitch, when he eff me good I take his ass to Red Lobster.”
“Did she say that?”
“That happens to be a line from Beyonce, her favorite performer, whom she says she idolizes and would like to imitate.”
Case closed! Donald Trump may have talked about sexually assaulting women, but Hillary Clinton is, like millions of other people, a fan of a musician whose lyrics can be cherry-picked to find a couple lines that will shock the most staid three percent of CNN’s viewership. Never mind that even if Clinton herself had said those lines as a thing she personally had done, it would not compare to the problem with what Trump said, because those lines are about consensual sex and Trump was talking about committing sexual assault. It’s not the language that’s the (main) problem, it’s the action the language describes. And grabbing women’s genitals without consent is worse than going to Red Lobster after—to put it in language McCaughey might find more tolerable—mutually satisfying sex.
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