What kind of man could lie about a US Congresswoman in a White House controversy concerning a dead soldier?
We already know the answer to that.
We now know Kelly is deeply dishonest, but almost everyone is ignoring what he said about women, and ignoring it with the Harvey Weinstein mess still on the front pages of every newspaper in the country. Why did he feel he could treat Congresswoman Wilson like garbage? Was it her race. Her sex? Both? There’s some evidence for both, but the latter sounds fairly certain:
He also talked wistfully about how women were sacred in his youth and he seemed to long for those times. Kelly was born in 1950, so his youth wasn't particularly the best time for women or people of color in the US. Also, women have never been treated like we were sacred. Not when Kelly was a child and not in 2017.
Some context: October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. It was not created because once upon a time women were sacred but now we need a month dedicated to domestic violence awareness because somehow we lost our way. Marital rape was not even a crime
until 1979 -- and at the time was still not a crime in every state.
If women were sacred, Kelly would not have referred to an elected member of Congress, a black woman, as an "empty barrel" -- an insult to Frederica Wilson's intelligence... Neither would he have lied about
what Wilson said at a dedication ceremony of an FBI building in 2015...
He took a tragic situation and made it worse. He owes his boss and the country an apology.
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John Kelly’s casual and delusional sexism fits perfectly with the fake nostalgia of MAGA. And the fact that he could spout it in the month of Weinstein while degrading a black woman is truly truly shocking.
Just how do Trump’s people’s brains actually work? It’s frightening the things they just don’t “get.”
And it again reveals how deeply flawed Kelly is as a human being in the America of 2017. This is an important lesson about Kelly, and we shouldn’t just let it slide simply because he surrounded this gross and ridiculous reworking of women’s history with similarly revolting lies.