RUTHFULLY YOURS

Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s time for another round of America’s hottest game show, “Poor Obama”.

Poor Obama. Why is everyone being so mean to him? No seriously, Obama would like to know.

“We’ve had a sitting senator call John Kerry ‘Pontius Pilate.’ We’ve had a sitting senator who also happens to be running for president suggest that I’m the leading state sponsor of terrorism,” Obama said, referring to Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Ted Cruz of Texas, respectively. “These are leaders in the Republican Party.”

Republican leaders are “shocked,” Obama said, when tycoon Donald Trump, who’s leading the GOP field in polls, questions the heroism of Republican Sen. John McCain, a prisoner of war in Vietnam. “Yet that arises out of a culture where those kinds of outrageous attacks have become far too commonplace and get circulated nonstop through the Internet and talk radio and news outlets,” the president said.

But, the president said, when he is attacked, the people who were outraged on McCain’s behalf “are pretty quiet.”

Attacks circulated non-stop through the internet?

Like the time Obama’s allies circulated the trending hashtag #47Traitors directed at Senate Republicans opposed to the Iran sellout?

That hashtag was promoted by obscure online outlets like the New York Times.

And how did Obama respond to it? By charging them with treason and accusing them of “wanting to make common cause with the hard-liners in Iran”

Obama can hypocritically whine about talk radio all he wants, but this is the guy with a history of telling his supporters things like “argue with [people], get in their faces” and “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun”.

You can’t accuse Republicans of treason and then whine when you get called a state sponsor of terrorism for feeding $140 billion to a state sponsor of terrorism. The former is a disgusting lie. The latter is a fact.