Holy Facting Shit - Andrea Mitchell just called out Don the Con

[malaise]

for pejoratively using Democrat and not Democratic Party in his latest attack tweet.

I need some smelling salts - that took years. PHEW!!

[getagrip_already]

1. it's simple.....

the dems in the race don't have the initials hrc. Her brain is clearing.

[guillaumeb]

2. She did not receive a Christmas card from Trump this year.

And it hurt, a lot.

[Eyeball_Kid]

11. Andrea's last clear memory of proper political rhetoric was

before the ascendency of Newt Gingrich in the 1980s. Gingrich and Tom DeLay were pioneers in the "Democrat" pejorative smear that's lasted to this day.

She must have been given a whiff of smelling salts this morning, and woke up. After 40 years of the GOPers using the pejorative, she notices right now? What happened? Is Greenspan deteriorating?

[FM123]

3. Wait, what??? Andrea did that? Wow!

[Eyeball_Kid]

12. She doesn't deserve "credit" for this discovery.

She gave the GOPers a pass for 40 years.

[Gothmog]

4. Yeah

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. what have you been drinking?

I've never heard, nor heard of, any talking head on the teevee machinery correct anybody about Democrat -- Democratic.

Y'know, some moonshine will cause delusions and hallucinations. If the seller won't sit and sip a while, don't buy that stuff!

[Bob Loblaw]

6. Almost literally the least she could do

[sarcasmo]

7. Emails!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[irisblue]

8. Got a clip? I got little battery left

[Midnight Writer]

9. Chris Mathews used to call Republicans out on it, to their face, and quite obnoxiously.

When they would laugh it off or deflect, he would ask them again. And again. I never did see him get an answer, though.

[George II]

10. ...

[90-percent]

13. I lower myself to their level

and try to use the terms "republic" and "republic party" as much as possible when posting on the internet.

-90% Jimmy

[Ohiogal]

16. I have tried that before.

It goes right over their heads.

[IggleDuer]

19. I use the term "Repubic"...

... With the emphasis on “Pubic.”

[Skittles]

24. just say REPUKE and be done with it

yes indeed

[TxVietVet]

31. I just call them conservanazis

[California_Republic]

14. Bush was called out once by a Foreign reporter

Bush was called out once by a Foreign reporter

He pretended not to know it was a problem

Hallelujah

[90-percent]

33. Keith OLbermann scolded GWB on his show

"........and it's DEM-O-CRAT-IC. Show some respect!"

I miss Keith. perceptive intelligent, loved humor, spoke with deep convictions and principles. He was a shining beacon of hope during the GWB DARK AGES.

-90% Jimmy

[KewlKat]

15. Democrat Party is an epithet for the Democratic Party in the United States,

used in a disparaging fashion by the party's opponents. While the term has been used in a non-hostile way, it has grown in its negative use since the 1940s, in particular by members of the Republican Party—in party platforms, partisan speeches, and press releases—as well as by conservative commentators.

There's no great mystery about the motives behind this deliberate misnaming. "Democrat Party" is a slur, or intended to be—a handy way to express contempt. Aesthetic judgments are subjective, of course, but "Democrat Party" is jarring verging on ugly. It fairly screams "rat".

[wnylib]

23. The word Democrat also serves to avoid

confusing intellectually challenged Republicans who cannot distinguish between Big D party name and little d adjective. It avoids referring to us as people who support democracy.

I have actually had some Repubicans tell me, as if they were revealing something very profound about their party vs mine, that the US is a republic, not a democracy.

I have explained to them that the Greek term simply means rule by the people in today's general usage vs. the rule of an absolute monarch or dictator, so that we have such contradictory sounding terms as a democratic constitutional monarchy in which the people elect their leaders and representatives despite having a king or queen. A republic is a representational democracy, a government without a dictator or monarchy.

So Republicans fear the impression created by using the word "democratic," as part of our party name.

[louis-t]

29. Falwell used to start almost every interview with that statement.

My aunt tried it on me once and I kindly reminded her that 'republic' is the entity and 'democracy' is the style of government. You have to dumb it down for the criminally insane.

[wnylib]

34. My oldest brother used to make the claim of

republic vs democracy back in the 1950's when he was a teen and I was in grade school. He heard it from his boss at an after school job that he had. He later became the only Republican in my immediate family (not counting a few stray Pubs in the extended family).

A couple of my high school history teachers, plus a civics teacher explained the terms in my classes. My brother apparently tuned out or missed those classes.

I was surprised to hear the claim again years later, in another town and state from various people. I guess it's a Pub talking point that keeps making the rounds among them.

[louis-t]

36. Wow, I didn't know it went back to the McCarthy era.

[wnylib]

38. I did not hear people saying Democrat instead of

Democratic then. But they did push the notion that the US is a republic, not a democracy as a mesns of claiming that the Republican party was the accurate one and that the Democratic party is therefore invalid for our system of government.

The people who initiated this foolishness knew better. Their followers often did not then and do not today see how silly and inaccurate this idea is. They really believe that they are saying something very profound and significant when they claim that we have a republic and not a democracy. They are dumbfounded when I tell them that a republic is a representational democracy.

[VOX]

32. It's a "gang sign" for RWers. Saying "Democrat Party" flashes their "colors."

And they’ve been doing it since at least since Joseph McCarthy’s days in the 1950s.

[wnylib]

35. That explains how my oldest brother picked up

the term and the claim that we are a republic not a democracy. (See my above posts).. He was a teen in the McCarthy years.

[bhcodem]

17. Good for her.

Joy does it al the time, which is much appreciated. I have started to refer to their party as the Republick party whenever I see/hear a Republick use the incorrect form of Democrat/democratic.

[malaise]

18. I call them ReTHUGs

Period - Tweety also calls them out

[Scarsdale]

22. It reflects on their stupidity.

Childish way to pretend that they are SO smart that they get away with this. We should be calling the republicans the Russia party.

[malaise]

27. I wish Dems would correct it every time a ReTHUG or media hack says it

and expose their poor grammar skills at the same time. It pisses me off - ReTHUGs do not get to rename a political party.

[louis-t]

37. I also like 'russiapublicans' when describing the party.

[louis-t]

30. I call them the republics whenever I can.

Usually, when I'm really mad at some asshole who parrots fox news.

[CaptYossarian]

20. My compliments to the surgeons.

That Republican-loving stick up her @$$ has been there for decades. It was inserted by Andrea's Republican husband.

[tavernier]

21. This is so that she can appear non partisan

without too terribly offending her tribe.

She worked her scrawny backside off so that HRC would never see the inside of the Oval office again, and now she is pretending to make amends by correcting Trump’s language?
Please, Mrs. G ... we won’t go up in flames when some republican doesn’t use proper grammar to purposely sound insulting. But we do get pretty hot when a “journalist” (I’m being kind) purposely tries to destroy a presidential candidate with innuendo.

[malaise]

28. I have no plan of forgiving her

but she did shock me when she called out the Con today

[Cerridwen]

25. Check bounced? n/t

[GemDigger]

26. "Holy Facting Shit"

I love it!