Liberal logic: Just because they raped, killed, and molested kids doesn’t mean they’re bad people.
Via Newsbusters:
On Friday’s All In show on MSNBC, host Chris Hayes recounted the recent activities of several Republican political figures which he regarded as examples of GOP members “being jackasses,” and coined the Hayes-ism “jackassery” as he used some variation of the word “jackass” 11 times during the segment. […]
As Hayes included Texas Representative Louie Gohmert, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, Louisiana Senator David Vitter, and Tea Party Senators Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and Marco Rubio on his list of Republican “jackasses,” when he got to attacking Senator Vitter for proposing that violent felons be barred from receiving welfare benefits for life, the MSNBC host neglected to inform his viewers that the ex-criminals targeted had to be violent felons, as he merely referred to them as “people convicted of certain crimes,” and suggested that it was hypocritical for the Louisiana Republican, who was once caught in a prostitution scandal, to be unforgiving toward criminals. Hayes:
“That same David Vitter who should know a thing or two about redemption and forgiveness and fresh starts, introduced a measure this week as an amendment to the farm bill that said to people convicted of certain crimes, once you’ve paid your debt to society and you’re done serving time, I want to punish you some more by making you ineligible for food stamps for life. So David Vitter gets to receive forgiveness from God and his wife and put his transgressions behind him, but that doesn’t mean he wants to offer other people the same chance. There’s a word for people like that, but it seems to have slipped my mind.”