On Monday, at his “Ingraham Angle,” host Laura Ingraham noted that President Joe Biden made no public statements on Saturday, 20 years after al-Qaeda terrorists attacked the United States on September 11, 2011. 2001.
He also noted how experts and public observers had varied predictions about why Biden was silent: whether he would be booed on stage in such a solemn act, or whether he would abandon the script or get lost.
But, the host said the most plausible reason is that former President George W. Bush spoke basically as a representative of him during statements in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
“Why should Biden speak at all when George W. Bush did it for him?” he said, pointing to what he said was a political comment in the middle of his statements.
“We have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our country can occur not only across borders, but because of the violence that gathers at home. There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad. and violent extremists at home. But there is a contemptuous pluralism in their disregard for human life, in their determination to contaminate national symbols. They are children of the same evil spirit and it is our duty to continue to confront them. ” Bush said Saturday.
Ingraham said the 43rd president was not talking about real extremists like Antifa or Black Lives Matter, “the riots and riots that caused death and destruction side by side.” He added that Bush never spoke out during the mass violence and classified criminal activity in places like Portland, Philadelphia, Washington and New York last year.
“Remember seeing him talk about something like this? When they called America” intrinsically racist, “he raised an objection? When they tried to burn down St. John’s Church in front of the White House, President Bush denied the desecration of “national symbols”? No and no “
These remarks, she said, would have been just as good as coming out of Biden’s mouth, as the president rarely misses an opportunity to hit his predecessor or his predecessor’s supporters on one account or another.
“Of course, the elites who despised Bush during the eight years he was in office left her powerless,” Ingraham added, noting the applause of CNN’s Dana Bash and John Berman, and MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt.
“Bush and Obama have coordinated before to beat Trump. One day in October 2017, both men in separate speeches beat Trump without mentioning him by name, of course,” Ingraham added.
“When Benghazi fell and four Americans were killed, Bush did not speak. When Obamacare was attacked without a single Republican vote, Bush did not speak. When Biden created a humanitarian, national security and economic nightmare on the border , Bush did not comment. “
“But when Donald Trump started shouting slowly but surely and dismantling Bush’s globalist legacy, he couldn’t stop. It was personal.”
She reproduced another clip from Bush’s speech, in which he stated that “fanaticism seems emboldened. Our politics seem more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and direct fabrication … We have seen nationalism become distorted into nativism. .. “pointing out that any” prominent Democrat “could be imagined. saying the same about Donald Trump.
In turn, he added, Democrats and their allies in the media have ideologically separated Bush and Cheneys from the Republican Party and argued that “it should be labeled essentially as a terrorist organization. This idea is being openly discussed. between the left “.
“Let’s not fool ourselves, the Bushes helped raise $ 150 million for Jeb’s 2016 race, and in the end, Jeb quit his job before reaching his own state primary. origin. I do not get it. They are not angry with the people who called him a war criminal or Hitler or who ridiculed him every week on Saturday Night Live. They are angry with Republicans who rejected their policies. “
“Everyone claimed that Trump was the devil incarnate to demand loyalty from the people who worked for him, but the truth is that the Bushmen were the ones who demanded personal loyalty regardless of how their policies affected the country.”
“All of this is hard for me to say tonight, because I’ve always personally liked the Bush.”
Ingraham said she herself has seen the Bush in action this way, when she publicly questioned President Bush’s 2005 election of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Harriet Miers to replace Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day. O’Connor. Bush finally settled with Judge Sam Alito Jr.
“When I questioned and finally helped torpedo her supremely unqualified Harriet Miers appointment to the Supreme Court, Bush’s White House made it clear that they would never deal with me again,” he said. “You can never go against the family.”
“So the Old Bush Guard has declared a war that cannot be won again and this time it is against the more than 74 million Republicans who voted for Trump in 2020 and who did not vote for Jeb in 2016.”
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He noted that while Bush tried to love the media by calling him all sorts of names and demonizing him for eight years, Trump was in the same city meeting with New York firefighters and officers to mark the solemnity. occasion.
“The fact is that most conservatives long ago missed the appeal of the Bush. We found new leaders, including passionate young governors, who will fight for us instead of us, and we will not be fooled again,” he said. ‘host. dit.