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In reply to the discussion: Senator Fetterman slaps down Congresswoman Tlaib [View all]bigtree
(93,032 posts)...who hasn't done or said anything wrong in this conflict.
Aside from the misogynistic imagery of a man slapping this congresswoman, this is really just about attacking Tlaib (and the 'Squad') which is a political sport enjoyed by both republicans and 'moderate' Dems.
Really transparent, despite the correctness of the rebuke of Tlaib for agreeing with many reports on the ground which had nothing to do with what Hamas was saying.
Fetterman looks to be talking about someone else, because I don't see where the congresswoman took the word of Hamas in making that claim, unless the reporters on MSNBC that night were Hamas.
This is a dishonest theme to the pushback against BBC and others who initially blamed Israel - the reports on the ground I saw that night reasoned that the size of the blast and the number of injured and killed was inconsistent with any firepower Hamas has in its arsenal.
No reporter cited Hamas, so I'm not seeing evidence of that, certainly not from the congresswoman.
Where is the evidence that she formed that opinion from what Hamas was saying? Where is it?
Where does Fetterman say Tlaib's name? Where does he say he was 'slapping' anyone, much less a sitting congresswoman?
How hard is it to say her name if what he intended was to 'slap' her? Evidently, literary imagery about slapping this congresswoman has some appeal to you. That's just disgusting.
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