Charlie Daniels Calls Out Leftist Hypocrisy over All-White Wardrobe: Believe All Women, Except Fairfax Accuser
Country music legend Charlie Daniels slammed Democratic women for wearing white to Tuesday night’s State of the Union address to show support for women while their party is noticeably silent about a high-profile sexual assault accusation against Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax.
And he didn’t mince words.
“Democrat women are wearing white to the State of the Union address to signify support for ALL women (Except for the one who is accusing Lt Governor Fairfax of sexual harassment),” Daniels tweeted Tuesday night.
Democrat women are wearing white to the State of the Union address to signify support for ALL women
(Except for the one who is accusing Lt Governor Fairfax of sexual harassment)— Charlie Daniels (@CharlieDaniels) February 6, 2019
Many female Democratic members of Congress, including far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, wore white as a way to show solidarity on “women’s issues,” according to CNN.
And while white was the color of the suffragette movement that won the right to vote for women in 1920, Democrats made it clear that the white on Tuesday applied went much further than gaining women the franchise a century ago.
Democratic women send political message by wearing white to President Trump’s #SOTU address. https://t.co/7blOuxNc1m pic.twitter.com/LPdBVkhZm4
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 6, 2019
“I’m looking forward to wearing suffragette white to #SOTU next week with all @HouseDemWomen!” Florida Rep. Lois Frankel wrote in a Twitter post last week. “We’ll honor all those who came before us and send a message of solidarity that we’re not going back on our hard-earned rights.”
But as Daniels pointed out, the bold statement of “solidarity” from the white attire contrasted sharply with the same women’s deafening silence regarding the allegation against Fairfax.
Virginia is currently in the midst of a political crisis as Democrats try to distance themselves from Gov. Ralph Northam, who found himself embroiled in two controversies last week.
In a radio interview on Jan. 30, Northam hinted at supporting post-birth abortion, a position that disgusted and infuriated members of the pro-life movement.
But Democrats are more angry about a racist photo from Northam’s medical schoool yearbook from 1984.
With Northam’s relationship with Democrats in tatters, the party seemed poised to throw its support behind Fairfax if Northam eventually steps down.
Unfortunately for Democrats, the lieutenant governor is currently facing an accusation from a woman who claims he sexually assaulted her at the Democratic National Convention in 2004.
Fairfax, however, maintains the encounter was consensual.
Virginia Democrats have been cautious at best about the accusation.
“The facts here are still being determined. Every individual deserves the opportunity to be heard, and we respect anyone who comes forward to share their story,” the state’s Democratic lawmakers said in a brief statement Tuesday.
NEW: Joint statement from Virginia House and Senate Dems on Fairfax allegations: “The facts here are still being determined. Every individual deserves the opportunity to be heard, and we respect anyone who comes forward to share their story.” pic.twitter.com/LWwr4HwK45
— Johnny Verhovek (@JTHVerhovek) February 5, 2019
In a statement Saturday, the Virginia Democratic Party outright endorsed Fairfax.
“Governor Northam must end this chapter immediately, step down, and let Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax heal Virginia’s wounds and move us forward.”
We still haven’t heard the kind of widespread condemnation Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh received when he faced allegations that were undoubtedly less credible.
Quentin Kidd, director of the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University, told The Washington Post that the silence from Democrats is “deafening.”
“They may be thinking, ‘We don’t want to throw our lieutenant governor under the bus while we’re also trying to throw our governor out of office,’” he said. “Republicans are probably eating all the popcorn they can find right now. It’s quite a show.”
To be clear, Fairfax deserves due process, but that’s not a principle that Democrats care about when Republicans are accused.
Democrats are supposed to “believe all women,” but it’s not a good look when they selectively believe women based on politics.
Daniels had a point.
For a party that supposedly supports women, Democrats are awfully silent about Fairfax’s troubling accusation.
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