Matt Gaetz shuts down liberal reporter with 2 words; Conservatives should take note

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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that despite testing positive for COVID-19, President Joe Biden was “still putting in 8+ hours of work a day.” Aside from the pretension that Biden puts in “8+ hours of work” on a typical day, Yale Medical School professor Dr. Kimberly Sue had a different issue with Jean-Pierre’s comment.

In a now deleted tweet, the professor wrote, “POTUS working while having COVID infection epitomizes white supremacy urgency in the workplace. Sets a bad example for everyone that he cannot rest. COVID infection is serious, symptoms debilitating for many, and ppl should take time off without working through it.”

Fox News political analyst Brit Hume responded to the insane tweet with the following: “This is what happens to the brains of people who view the world and all that is in it through the prism of race.”

Hume’s reply was appropriate, but it was more respectful than the professor deserved. It gave legitimacy to a possible relationship between two completely disconnected variables. In other words, only in Dr. Kimberly Sue’s warped, hyperpartisan imagination could one be correlated with the other. Her tweet merited neither respect nor legitimacy. And it’s time conservatives stop worrying about offending far-left idiots like her. They should be offended.

We might learn a thing or two from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) who shut down a reporter earlier this week with two words while cutting off all future debate.

Speaking at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida, last weekend, Gaetz insulted women who show up at pro-abortion rallies. “Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions. Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb,” he said, drawing laughter from the crowd.

Then, the Florida firebrand went even further, telling the audience, “These people are odious! They’re like 5’2″, 350 pounds and they’re like ‘give me my abortion.’”

No, it wasn’t the most diplomatic comment for a public figure to make. Maybe Gaetz shouldn’t have joked about the appearance of pro-abortion activists. But given the way the left often characterizes Trump supporters, it was fair game.

A reporter later challenged the congressman, asking, “Is it safe to say that, based off your comments, you’re suggesting that these women at these abortion rallies are ugly and overweight?”

He replied, “Yes.”

“What do you say to people who think those comments are offensive?”

“Be offended,” Gaetz said.

The congressman’s response shut down the conversation. Rather than apologizing for his remarks, he acknowledged them and refused to cave to political correctness. He may have appeared brash, but he didn’t leave himself vulnerable.

Political mea culpas in general rarely end well. But admissions of wrongdoing from conservatives, particularly for a perceived racial or gender related slight, never end well. Politicians rarely recover from an apology.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s resignation earlier this month comes to mind. He has endured many scandals throughout his political career. In a recent op-ed published by The New York Times, journalist Martha Gill, who follows British politics extensively, attributes Johnson’s stunning decision to an apology he’d made days earlier.

Already weakened by his January apology for violating pandemic restrictions, it was proven in early July that the Prime Minister had been aware of allegations of sexual misconduct against lawmaker Chris Pincher beforeappointing him to an oversight position in the Conservative Party. It was Johnson’s apology for hiring Pincher, Gill claims, that led directly to his resignation several days later.

In a discussion with The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles last year, conservative Candace Owens explained why we should never apologize to the woke mob. “Once you start saying sorry to the left, you will never stop saying sorry to the left. … They want pure capitulation.”

Conservatives must stop bowing to the whims of the woke. We don’t have to pretend men can get pregnant or that changing one’s gender is courageous and something to be celebrated. And we should call out radical professors at Ivy League universities who declare that a link exists between working for eight hours after a COVID diagnosis and white supremacy.

Matt Gaetz showed us how it’s done and we’d be wise to take note. If the left finds our remarks to be offensive, so what.

It’s far better to offend the woke than it is for conservatives to be weakened.

 

A previous version of this article was published on The Washington Examiner.
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2 thoughts on “Matt Gaetz shuts down liberal reporter with 2 words; Conservatives should take note”

  1. They couldn’t care less about abortion “rights”… They are paid Communist agitators who want to ‘fundamentally transform America” into a Marxist Communist country.

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