Where Were All of These 'Decent' Liberals When Rob Reiner Said These Horrible Things About Rush Limbaugh After Cancer Diagnosis, Death?
President Donald Trump’s tasteless comments following the apparent murder of Hollywood legend Rob Reiner on Sunday showed that the president, at least on that occasion, had a speck in his eye.
Before criticizing Trump, however, liberals should make sure to remove the logs from their own eyes. (Matthew 7:3)
Recall, for instance, that a swarm of liberals, including Reiner himself, once greeted news of the late conservative media icon Rush Limbaugh’s cancer diagnosis — and later Limbaugh’s death — with politically-motivated heartlessness.
“Only one thing to say about Rush Limbaugh getting a Presidential Medal if Freedom at The State of the Union: I loathe this f***ing man,” Reiner wrote Feb. 5, 2020, on the social media platform X, then known as Twitter, according to The Federalist.
Then, when Limbaugh died in February 2021, Reiner showed no mercy. The longtime actor and director blasted Limbaugh as a liar, Breitbart reported. Other prominent liberals joined in the chorus of attacks on the conservative radio legend.
Nearly five years later, those same liberals apparently have short memories.
On Sunday, the 78-year-old Reiner and his wife, 68-year-old Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead of knife wounds allegedly inflicted by their son, Nick Reiner.
Initially, nearly all who responded to the murders on social media expressed shock and horror. Conservative actor James Woods even paid tribute to Reiner, saying they had been “good friends.”
Then, Trump chimed in on his social media platform Truth Social.
The president wrote that Reiner had died “reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS.”
Even many Trump supporters balked at following the president down that road. Most, in fact, struck a very different tone on social media.
Never mind that Trump appeared to use Reiner’s alleged murder as a reason to focus on himself. No evidence exists to suggest that the Hollywood legend’s death had anything to do with TDS.
Thus, for no apparent purpose besides the posthumous settling of a political score, Trump wrote something untrue about Reiner.
If we are to castigate the president for that transgression, however, shouldn’t we apply the standard equally?
Conservative Christian icon Charlie Kirk’s Sept. 10 assassination called forth demonic celebrations from liberals on social media. Those people, of course, have no moral high ground from which to criticize Trump.
But what about Democrat leaders who slandered Kirk following his murder? That list includes former President Barack Obama, Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, and Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas, to name a few. Did they not commit the same offense Trump did?
In short, many conservatives seem to agree that Trump’s comments about Reiner, at least in the abstract, qualified as tasteless.
But we also should not forget that the president did not make those comments in the abstract. He made them in the context of an increasingly dangerous political environment for conservatives who, simply by appearing in public, risk violence at the hands of a deranged leftist.
Trump-haters must open their eyes to the fact that they and others like them created that toxic environment, which means that while the president’s allies may express regret over his Reiner comments, dishonest and violence-mongering leftist hypocrites have no right to chastise anyone besides the person in the mirror.
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