Fox host on Trump s---hole remark: 'This is how the forgotten men and women talk'

[fountainofyouth]

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Source: The Hill

Fox News host Jesse Watters defended President Trump's reported remark calling Haiti and some African nations "shithole" countries on Thursday, arguing that the "forgotten men and women" who make up the president's base would approve of the remark.

On Fox News's "The Five," Watters fought back against criticism from Democrats and some Republicans over Trump's remark, which some have deemed racist and offensive to immigrants from those nations.

"This is how the forgotten men and women of America talk at the bar," Watters told his co-hosts. "If you're at a bar, and you're in Wisconsin, and you think they're bringing in a bunch of Haiti people, or El Salvadorans, or people from Niger, this is how some people talk."

"Is it graceful? No," he added. "Is it polite, or delicate? Absolutely not. Is it a little offensive? Of course it is. But you know what? This doesn't move the needle at all."

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/368631-fox-host-on-trump-s-hole-remark-this-is-how-the-forgotten-men

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The hottest circle of hell is for the people who enable this atrocity.

[Lint Head]

1. That's how people you need to forget talk.

[Corgigal]

2. Yeah, keep waiting

White forgotten people to save you.

Youre not qualified, in Trumps mind to wash his car. Only the wealthy matter.

[Dawson Leery]

3. The "forgotten" do not want to be saved.

They want wallow in their own shit and blame the world.

[underpants]

6. Yep. You nailed it.

Something I posted on Monday
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016199540

"..to vote for me...privilege" - a theory I've developed about Obama


Trump's comments today about the audience having the privilege to vote for him reminded me of something I've been thinking about recently.

Stepping back a few steps - Why were people so willing to accept negatives about Obama?
Party affiliation? Sure. Racism? Of course. Brainwashing? To some degree.

People love to gripe and moan
This cuts across race or location -urban or rural.
From "the man keeping me down" to "take this job and shove it" there's a constant energy of anger at outside forces. The Army runs on it (trust me). Talk radio was created to give the White guy stuck in traffic or in their car unhappy with their boss/wife/lot in life a target for their rage.


Familiarty
People are familiar with being angry. Their used to it and they don't like it being messed with but they want it how they are used to it.

I used to work with social workers. The smoking area at any work is a World of wisdom and rumor. I used to talk several times a day with social workers who'd seen it all. From counseling Post Office employees (Vietnam Vets) to crisis management (jumpers) to mental health to substance abuse in every setting imaginable between them. There was something I learned that is a truism in the industry especially in substance abuse - its hard to beat the community. This is how things are. People like the familiarity even if it's bad.

One said it straight to me: "Sure they can get out but the people around them give them every chance to fail. Wanna know why? If this person gets out it means that they could have too and they don't want to face that. If no one gets out then they are right and comfortable"

WE WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK!
The racial element of that has been well covered. What did they want back? Basically everyone just got ripped off. Here's come this middle class guy following the bluest of Brahman elite. Unlike Bill "The Boy from Hope" Clinton played up his past against the Elder Bush, Obama didn't (this could have been a measured move by the campaign) instead focusing on the future and avoiding the juxtaposition (though implied) to W. What they wanted back was their familiar place.

Their familiar place was that they couldn't really see ever attaining what Obama had. It was too in their face, the face in the mirror.

[Dawson Leery]

11. ...at the same time,

the Deplorables want to hate the world around them and receive the benefits of it.

They hate the "others"/immigration/trade/First Amendment,etc.

But they love their cheap goods, their Smartphones/Ipods/labtops/cheap deals at Wal-Mart.

They love the Constitutional protections for themselves, but no one else.

They want it both ways.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. Yup. And they over-rely on their Democratic leaning buddies to help them out of a jam.

Many of them are lousy business people and don't know more than to sock their money away, while they borrow and break appliances from anyone who is foolish enough to lend it to them.

[MFM008]

4. screw them to

they are his 'loyal' base.

[still_one]

5. no, that is how f**king racists talk, and fox pseudo news is loaded up to its neck with em

[yallerdawg]

7. I caught that.

Can't wait for 'Fox and Friends' in the morning 6-5CT.

In the morning - relax, take a Rohrer 714 (NYC 70's reference), and watch who triggers the Dotard tweets on this subject.

You'll know what his response will be before HE does!

[tanyev]

8. Except DOTUS wasnt in a bar grousing to his buddies.

I bet a lot of the ‘forgotten men and women’ can clean it up when they are at meetings at work.

[gopiscrap]

9. the reason these people might be forgotten is because they talk like that

and the underlying xenophobia and racism it represents!!!

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Remember - DUers want Democrats to "embrace" these people because

"white working class" and "economics".

[TomCADem]

21. Sanders defends Trump voters: I don't think they're racists, sexists or homophobes

Are you suggesting that Trump's voters did not support his policies like the yuge tax cut that is Trump's sole accomplishment to date or making sick people on Medicaid work?

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/326820-sanders-defends-trump-voters-i-dont-think-theyre-racists

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) on Friday defended voters of President Trump, saying that the election was Democrats' to lose and that the party needs to better represent the working-class voters who supported Trump and other GOP lawmakers

"Some people think that the people who voted for Trump are racists and sexists and homophobes and deplorable folks. I don't agree, because I've been there. Let me tell you something else some of you might not agree with, it wasn't that Donald Trump won the election, it was that the Democratic Party lost the election," Sanders said while speaking at an Our Revolution rally in Boston with fellow Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

Sanders went on to say that a "fundamental restructuring of the Democratic party" was needed to win future elections and that problems with party's current setup is why many were quick to support Trump in the election, not because of some of the rhetoric on the campaign trail.

"We need a Democratic Party that is not a party of the liberal elite but of the working class of this country, we need a party that is a grassroots party, where candidates are talking to working people not spending their time raising money for the wealthy and the powerful," Sanders said. "And when we do that, when we transform the Democratic Party, we transform America."

[bucolic_frolic]

13. lowest common denominator

[truthisfreedom]

14. No, this is how ignorant people speak.

How idiots speak. How uneducated, unenlightened, crude, coarse and thoughtless people speak, and 45 never moves the needle. He’s not even on the meter. He’s in the gutter.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. And they want us to feel sorry for them?

They should remain forgotten.

[llmart]

41. Exactly!

The press has given them way too much attention. They are a minority. They need to be marginalized and not catered to. The Democratic party should NEVER want these sorts of people in their party unless they are willing to change and see the light.

Let them live in the past where they belong.

[bhikkhu]

16. Which is like saying - "yeah, we're assholes, so what?"

I suppose this is a different kind of "big tent" philosophy, where you have to cater to assholes and treat them like special snowflakes, lest they think they should ever have a moment of self-examination.

[Freethinker65]

17. So Fox thinks Trumps base all hangs out at bars to talk Immigration?

And they all use vulgar racist terminology because they do not know any better. And they are proud of their lack of education and ignorance. And the GOP is proud to exploit their lack of education and ignorance. And Fox wishes all Americans were just like Trump’s base.

Is that about right?

[sinkingfeeling]

18. Maybe that's why they're forgotten. They choose to be full of hate and fear of

"Others".

[dalton99a]

19. Fuck Trump's "forgotten"

[tclambert]

20. They mean "the forgotten racists" who make up Trump's base.

[SWBTATTReg]

22. and these people were upset that HRC called them deplorables...

some of these people truly are...period...

[trueblue2007]

23. that is how EVIL people talk. Racist bigot pigs

shame shame on donald trump

[RussBLib]

24. No doubt now we have a straight-up racist in the White House

And the American racists are out and proud. While immigrants pick their vegetables, clean their hotel rooms, and buss their tables, these pigs still spit on them.

Wow.

[totodeinhere]

25. You only now figured that out?

We knew that on the day he announced his candidacy. And the sad thing is he rode his racism right into the White House.

[RussBLib]

26. Uh, no

It's now plain for all to see. No denying it.

[GusBob]

27. Ok I know from Wisconsin and shitholes.....

Oh I better be quiet, but geez, I grew up in a town that literally smelled like shit depending on which way the wind was blowing. Manure from the east, smegma from the Pulliam plant, moldy crotch like smell from the paper mills.

And yeah the state is chock full of bitter, bitter people sitting at bars.

They know from shitholes

[Midnight Writer]

31. Damn me if that doesn't make me think of home.

[GusBob]

39. Yeah puts the sick in homesick

der hey

[Saviolo]

28. They're not forgotten

We've been intentionally trying to leave them in the past where they belong, but they keep popping up. Burning crosses, nazi flags, racist chants, and radical white nationalists just won't stay in the past where they belong. Forgotten? Racist shitbags have killed people in the USA in the past year!

Forgotten? We only wish.

[Duppers]

29. ...

[Beacool]

30. No, that's how the racists POS who voted for Trump talk.

Decent people do NOT talk like he does or how his supporters do. They are trash and the bottom of the American barrel. May they all rot in hell!!!!!

[chelsea0011]

32. Oh, I have sat at a bar with the "forgotten" racists. So what is Watters point?

This was the Oval Office with the Pretender-in-Chief. A whole different thing. The only common connection is that they are all racists.

[samnsara]

33. every remark of his peels off one or 2 deplorables who have had too much.

[otchmoson]

34. Focusing the blame

I continue to be amazed that these "forgotten" cannot learn where to focus the blame. It is always "the other" . . . the brown person, the black person, the poorer person . . . who "took his job." This "forgotten" never asks himself how "the other" TOOK the job. "The other" is as powerless as he is; "the other" can merely take a job if it is offered. The truth is, his job was taken by a boss who found someone even further down the economic ladder whose exploitation put a little bit more money in the pocket of the boss.

[jpak]

35. That is why they are forgatten

dickheads

[NickB79]

36. That's why they've been forgotten

They're pieces of shit, best left in the last century, with no place in this one.

[oberliner]

37. Many of the white folks who voted for Trump do think and talk that way

And he is right in saying this won't change their opinion of him at all - if anything, it will improve his standing with those folks.

[Mr. Ected]

38. The irony is that no one has "forgotten" these men and women

As much as the Republican Party.

They've been duped, propagandized, distracted, deflected and mocked behind closed doors by the very party that purports to support and protect them.

As long as the right wing propaganda machine continues to thrive, they'll never realize that they are the butt of the joke.

[hatrack]

40. As in "Oh, yeah, I forgot what an asshole you are!"

[llmart]

42. Faux News and the Rush Limbaughs of this country...

created the "Deplorable Class" and continue to rile them up, so they own them and Trump and the hatred they spew.

[lagomorph777]

43. Shameful. Shameful.

Every day, just when you think they couldn't get more evil, Faux "News" gets even worse.

[Paladin]

44. People who talk like that deserve to stay forgotten.

And the racist douchebag they put in the White House needs to be removed from office, just as soon as possible.

[Initech]

45. This is how racists talk when they're not on camera.

[RobinA]

46. How The Forgotten People

talk is completely irrelevant. This guy is the President of the United States. He’s supposed to at least be able to pretend in public to be a decent human being with a few social graces.

[Solly Mack]

47. They must mean ignorant when they say forgotten.

Among other things.

[DonViejo]

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