Rep. Trent Franks is one of the dimmest and most dangerous perckerheads taking up space in the U.S. Congress. Arizona managed to rid itself of Sheriff Joe Arpaio this election, but Franks’ district is so gerrymandered into a cesspool of dumb and cruel, that he wins easily every two years. He entered Arizona politics as a state legislator in 1984 with one mission: to ban abortion. When Mr. Franks went to Washington, he took with him that same single-minded purpose (to which he added immigrant bashing and denying LGBT rights).
Have a conversation with Rep. Franks, and it won’t take long until the talk swings around to the babies killed by abortionists. It doesn’t matter if you’re there to meet with him about mass transit or education—eventually he’ll connect it to abortion. Don’t forget, he’s the official who said:
Half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery.
Yep, worse than slavery. For some reason Franks still gets asked to share his wit on actual cable news shows. Today on MSNBC host Hallie Jackson asked him about the Russian hack of our election. Like a good GOP toady, Rep. Franks repeated the lie that we don’t really know if it was Russia that interfered. And even if they did, he continued, it was “in their best interest,” so what’s the big deal? Then it got weird, even for Trent Franks:
"But the bottom line," he continued, "if Russia succeeded in giving the American people information that was accurate, then they merely did what the media should have done."
Unpack that quick before your head explodes. Russia, it appears, was merely giving U.S. voters “information that was accurate” so they could make a more informed decision. After all, that’s what the American “media should have done.” Our reporters were busy fact-checking Trump’s lie-a-thon, when they should have been hacking into the DNC and private emails, so voters would have “accurate” information, like PizzaGate.
Thanks, Russia, for performing that public service! I guess Rep. Franks will be first in line to welcome Edward Snowden back to America—another provider of accurate information.