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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2016
BARROW NEWS-JOURNAL
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The left and its anxieties
It used to be that nights in Geor
gia were soothing and relaxing.
At evening we could step out
side and hear the night sounds
of the the Great Horned Owl,
the Whippoorwill and the Chuck-
wills widow.
Since November, all we have
heard are the great banshee wail
ings of the left, the liberals who
feel betrayed and who are sure
they were cheated out of the pres
idential election.
Frankly, I’ve been surprised
that they haven’t protested the rising
of the sun every morning.
The social media platform would
collect cobwebs if the liberals didn’t
have it to sound off on by the hour.
What’s really interesting is the
fact that these are the same people
who demonstrated their anxieties
and concerns about Republican pres
idential candidate Donald Trump.
If you recall early on the left
were concerned as to whether or not
Trump would accept the results of
the 2016 election. Remember their
questions and outrage? Now who is
yelling foul?
There just doesn’t seem to be fair
play rules any more.
The liberal left has one set of
rules in their playbook and they only
apply to them.
It all began with Barack Obama
eight years ago when he reminded
members of Congress that the Dem
ocrats had won and they were creat
ing the new standard of rule.
If you don’t believe it, ask Sen.
John McCain.
McCain can quote the day, time
and verse of the occurrence. It didn’t
stop there with McCain, but now the
shoe is shifting to the other foot.
The only thing different and “offi
cial” at this time is that Trump won
the 2016 presidential election.
On the first Thursday of Novem
ber, the left’s flagship went into a tail
spin, crashing toward Earth.
Liberals have a tendency to whine
when things don’t go their way, and
the presidential loss really moved
them onto center stage. December
hasn’t been any dif
ferent.
Former Arkansas
Gov. Mike Huckabee
describes the left as
being, “ugly, rude
and intolerant” and
now they are upside-
down, like a turtle
trapped on his back.
Town Hall, a media
source, reported a
quote in New York
Magazine from a 45
year-old Atlanta woman who said,
that she “...cried for three days...”
(after the election) and that it was
the worst thing that ever happened
in her life.
Kevin Allred, a lecturer at Rutgers
University, was sent to a hospital
for a mental evaluation after Hillary
Clinton’s defeat because of tweets
he sent out threatening to “kill white
people.” (See editor’s note at the end
of this column.)
A day after the election, a Muslim
student at the University of Lou
isiana reported that she had been
robbed and her burka ripped off by
two white men wearing Trump caps.
She later admitted to police that
she had lied about the incident and
fabricated the story.
A black woman in Smyrna, Del.
posted on social media that she was
accosted and threatened by Trump
supporters while pumping gas at a
service station.
She later posted that she reported
the incident to police and that the
subjects had been detained and iden
tified.
News sources trying to follow up
on the incident were unable to find
any police reports or arrests on file
in or around Smyrna.
No such incident was ever found to
be on record.
Remember how the liberals and
the media made fun of Trump during
the campaign when he argued that
he was concerned about a “rigged
election?”
Trump was crucified by the media,
cartoonists and the Democrats for
even suggesting such a thing could
happen.
Now, that’s all we have heard since
the election in November.
The Democrats are yelling Trump
won in a rigged election even though
only days before they were laughing
at such a possibility and categorical
ly stating it couldn’t happen.
Then, after the popular vote was
in, the liberal left turned its attention
to the Electoral College, praying that
it would override the states votes.
When it became obvious Trump
would win through the Electoral
College, the left began to attack
the college and our forefathers for
designing such a thing.
After the left campaigned against
the Electoral College they, and the
national media, have now taken up
a charge that the Republicans won
because of fake news.
Maybe Trump’s supporters did use
some fake news on social media
prior to the election, but the real
fake news appears to have been pro
duced by the national media who
kept reporting poll after poll with
Clinton leading, sometimes by more
than average percentage points.
In addition to the polls, the media
bashed the Trump campaign from
day one while putting the Clinton
campaign on a winner’s platform
that hid all of the reports on the Clin
ton Foundation and the failures of
Clinton in everything she had done
over the years.
Today the media is now whin
ing about being mistreated by the
president-elect. Tomorrow it will be
something else.
Mother always said, “Be patient.
What goes around, comes around!”
Hallelujah!
Jimmy Terrell is a retired law
enforcement official. He can be
reached at ejterrell@gmail.com.
Editor’s note'. The tweet in ques
tion by Allred said, “Will the (Sec
ond)i Amendment be as cool when
I buy a gun and start shooting at
random white people or no?”
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