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He didn't like her driving. Afterward, Yoho's first comment was "No comment." Last week, it took center stage in the House of Representatives, via a speech from Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. All rights reserved. She called him rude and walked away.
He's just "passionate" on the issue of poverty, he said. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I find Leonard Pitts's extreme left-wing opinion pieces hyperbolic and reactionary. Suddenly, “Contagion” is back. Subscribe for unlimited digital access to the news that matters to your community. Ocasio-Cortez rightly rejected this self-justifying swill. He had been her friend for seven years, but he didn't like when she was put in charge of the percussion section in their marching band. “I am someone’s daughter, too. He said, "Having been married for 45 years with two daughters, I'm very cognizant of my language. That was the tagline of “Contagion,” a 2011 movie in which the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fishburne, Matt Damon and Kate Winslet contend with a mysterious virus that soon decimates the globe.
It’s a childish conceit.The activist Martin Luther King said, “All life is interrelated.”The composers Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie said, “We are the world.”Yet periodically America indulges the idea that we can somehow disengage from the rest of the planet. “I am two years younger than Mr. Yoho’s youngest daughter,” the 30-year-old legislator said. Take it as proof that Disney was right.President Trump said he was befuddled that people look up to Dr. Anthony Fauci but that “nobody likes me.” He said it’s his personality. And of Trump abusing allies and immigrants under the rubric “America First.”Subscribe for unlimited digital access to the news that matters to your community. When yours truly put out a Twitter call for their stories, the responses flowed like water. What came next was a reflection of male entitlement: our weakness, our brittle egos, our refusal to hold ourselves to account. However, his column on the unfortunate death … Leonard Pitts Jr. won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2004.He is the author of the novels, Grant Park, Freeman, and Before I Forget.His column runs every Sunday and Wednesday. So he called her something, a vulgar noun modified by a vulgar adjective, neither of which is printable here, both of which you know all too well, because they are a woman-hating insult routine in the lexicon of men whose primacy has been challenged, whose egos have been bruised, who have been denied something they want. "You are out of your freaking mind," he said. (House Television via AP) In this image from video, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks on the House floor, July 23. As these two pontificate nonsense, it’s worth noting the disease has already turned up in Massachusetts, Illinois, Wisconsin, Texas, Arizona, Washington and California — and that Trump is calling for drastic cuts in funding of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Sign up for one of our many newsletters to be the first to know when big news breaksYet, for as much as this outbreak exposes the routine foolishness of what now passes for conservatism, it also serves as a reminder — and rebuke — of a strain of American thought bound to no ideology. Florida Rep. Ted Yoho is the latest. Actually, it’s about all of damage he’s done that he wants to distract us from.On Sept. 11, 2001, he wrote a column on the terrorist attacks that received a huge response from readers who deluged him with more than 26,000 e-mails. “A few steps down,” reported Mike Lillis of the Hill newspaper, who witnessed the exchange, “Yoho offered a parting thought to no one in particular. As reported by NPR, it briefly pierced the Top 10 list of iTunes downloads earlier this month and the number of Google searches for the film recently spiked. Indeed, in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and the question of when and how the nation’s economy should … Leonard Pitts Published 11:01 a.m. That’s surely because the lethality rate of the real disease is so much less than that of the fictional one, which killed roughly one out of every five people who got it. The offensive name-calling words attributed to me by the press were never spoken to my colleagues and if they were construed that way, I apologize for the misunderstanding." Maybe you forget to be shocked. For some reason, she is the hornet's nest Republicans cannot stop themselves from poking, even though they end up stung to pieces every time. He didn't like her T-shirt. "...In using that language in front of the press, he gave permission to use that language against his wife, his daughters, women in his community. He accosted Ocasio-Cortez on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and told her she was "disgusting" for having linked a spike in crime to poverty and unemployment. Follow his views on breaking national news, US politics, racism issues, sexism and other current events. As well it should have. Oh, and Trump himself, that renowned scientist, says the sunshine of April will kill it, a prediction with which none of his fellow epidemiologists seems to concur. It earned good reviews, high marks for accuracy and $136 million in worldwide box office. Think of George Washington warning against foreign “attachments.” And of the the isolationism that delayed U.S. entry into two world wars. Then it was more or less forgotten.Until now. Still, there is a queasy, palpable unease in watching this thing spread, as cruise ships are quarantined, Americans are airlifted and Apple takes a hit to its bottom line. But last week, it happened on America's front porch.sltrib.com © 1996-2020 The Salt Lake Tribune. He later offered an apology that wasn't, expressing contrition for his "abrupt manner."
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