Oh, and by the way…
…the Cotton letter signed by the 47 Republican Senators was never “sent” anywhere:
Cotton got 46 other senators to sign this letter in ink. “Because it was an open letter, it was not sent to Tehran but rather posted on Senator Cotton’s website and social-media accounts,” Caroline Rabbitt, Senator Cotton’s communications director, explained to me last week. Cotton & Co. never even dropped an envelope in the mail.
Not that the left will care.
Oh, and the little girl evil mean conservative Ted Cruz supposedly terrified was not frightened, according to the girl’s mother:
Julie’s mother, Michelle Trant, told a Boston radio station on Monday that the headlines about her daughter being frightened to death are simply not true.
“There was no tears,” she said, telling the show she told her daughter that “Ted Cruz is the one that will put this fire out. And then she then looked at him as a hero,” Politico reported.
“I’m telling you: She was quite happy,” Ms. Trant said. “She was like, ”˜oh? you’re going to put that out? We’re good. We’re good here.’”
In a separate interview, Ms. Trant told People magazine: “There was nothing scary that happened. I’m just so upset the way this has gone down.”
“I just feel like Ted Cruz deserves better than people making up a lie that a 3-year-old was terrified of him, because she was not. I just want to have the truth out there,” she said.
Ah, but what does the girl’s mother know? She’s just a—just a—Ted Cruz supporter.
The vapors, hysteria, and general couch fainting that resulted over the Senate letter were so over the top that I’m pretty sure the White House was looking for an excuse to go nuts. I suspect that if Cotton had decided to keep the letter in his file cabinet instead of releasing it to the public on his website, we’d still be hearing about it.
The response has just been absurd.
Not that they need an excuse, being nuts already, but cover, no matter how gauzy, is welcome.
I was wondering about the logistics of sending a letter to the Mullahs of Iran.
The fact that the letter was never sent anywhere emphasizes that the Democrat response is pure farce.
So I googled Tom Cotton, and results showed that the media really “likes” Cotton.
I think we have to use the marketplace more vigorously. Boycott the fishwrap , Time. the Economist, the New Yorker. You know the ones Cancel your subscriptions and get others to do the same.
Breaking habits is hard to do. Don’t watch lovcal or network news on the stations owned by the Minn Trib, Chicago Trib, LA Times etc.
Wean people with cable or satellite off of the MSM channels. show ’em al Arabiya. Organize a boycott like the one against South African Apartheid.
Gannet and the NYT own the local papers in this part of the gulf South. Shut them down. Their employees are leftist…I know from personal contact.
RE: “The Cotton letter signed by the 47 Republican Senators was never “sent” anywhere”
Correct. There are numerous reasons why they cannot be prosecuted under the Logan Act:
1. Senators are “authorized persons”.
2. The second paragraph expressly permits First Amendment privileges to all citizens.
3. They are, in every sense, seeking a “redress of grievances”.
But the simple defense is that an open letter is free speech — not correspondence.
Why would a little matter like what the law actually says ever bother the Lefties?