The media gave a total pass to John Kelly when he became White House Chief of Staff — first, because he was supposed to rein in the malevolent toddler who occupies the Oval Office, and second, because he's a retired four-star general with a son who was killed in Afghanistan.
John Kelly didn't deserve that pass. And we'd like the punditheads to wipe those gape-jawed expressions off their faces, because guess what? John Kelly is an awful person, and always has been.
Here's a quick list of why:
1. As DHS secretary and in his current role, he's proven himself to be no better than your garden-variety racist and hater — a hard-liner on immigration who says vile and untrue things (some just this week) about DREAMers and others who come to America for a better life.
2. He blamed the Civil War on a "lack of the ability to compromise." We can only assume that he means that the North should have compromised with the South on slavery. No, thanks.
3. He insulted a long-serving African-American member of Congress over Donald Trump's botched call to a soldier's widow, and then refused to apologize for it.
4. He helped place a minion in his old job at DHS who, just as vile and racist as Kelly is, recently had to submit to a well-deserved tongue-lashing by Senator Cory Booker.
5. Now, he's passionately defended a wife-beater and is lying about his involvement in keeping said wife-beater's access to classified materials without a security clearance.
Journalists are hot on Kelly's trail now, and we're glad. But that doesn't come anywhere close to making up for their credulous treatment of him before. We're sick of reporters and TV talking heads buying these phony narratives. We cats HISS.
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