POTUS VS MIKA AND JOE: FORMER FRIENDS

MUCH ADO OVER NOTHING

 THE GOLDEN RULE "DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD LIKE OTHERS TO DO UNTO YOU"

 Joe Scarborough and Mika Bresinski are the co-hosts of the MSNBC cable morning offering "Morning Joe" and 'on again off again' "friends" of the President. They make their living in the mud and mire of the Washington swamp where friendships are fleeting, confidences are never honored, and back stabbing is an art. They both have long experience in this area and finding themselves as kindred spirits have recently announced their plan to wed.

 Not so long ago as guests of the President at Mar A Lago on New Year's Eve, just after the election, the President (and his son in law) offered to officiate at their wedding. But ratings wars beat out "friendships" in the river -flooded, saturated soil, and estuarine low lands we call "DC" where the "golden rule" is forgotten.

 Over the last months--ignoring their past friendly personal relationship with the POTUS--and eager to build up their ratings, they have attacked and berated the President without let up. On this program he has been called a "schmuck", a liar, a buffoon and more. His hands, his family and his hair style has been attacked. His mental well being and honesty and integrity have been impugned by these former "friends". Like the street fighter he is--our POTUS responded in kind after a vicious attack in which Mika claimed the President posted "'fake'Time magazine covers with his face on the walls of his golf club house, was lying everyday and destroying the country.". That was not nice. Mika ignored the Golden Rule there.

 His Time magazine front pages were real, (he has been on Time covers often) the charge of lying every day (intentionally deceiving) does not hold water, and a good majority of the nation would not agree that his policies are "destroying" the country. These comments, coming from an unknown media attacker--there are many--may not have inflicted any deep pain on Trump.  But when the source was a woman you actually befriended and even offered to officiate at her wedding, the thrust was too deep, and too  much for the "street fighter" now in the /White House to silently accept.

In response Trump tweeted his now infamous charge that Mica is "low IQ", "crazy" and was bleeding from a "face lift". The first two charges are simply his opinion. But the last one--made much of by the feminist, Democrat-base, regarding a face lift is fact. . She did have a "procedure" and his admitted to it.  Trump's response does not rise to the level of calling the President a "schmuck".

 All of this is a great "tempest in a tea pot". It is a public display of intemperance, anger, pique, bad taste, bad TV, and a text-example of non-journalism. But it. Is mostly the failure to heed the golden rule of treating others the way you would like others to treat you. To my mind the blame accrues more to the initial attacker than the attacked. It seems here that the President only responed in kind. The President is a counter puncher, left alone he has not initiated any quarrels.  So perhaps for the betterment of the nation, and its needy and impatient  citizenry it is time for the media, the talking heads, the "press", the Washington chattering classes to just STOP and think before they spout off unnecessary personal, senseless--ad hominem-- attacks.  Stick to the issues.  Think about the GOLDEN RULE.

 Media, press, TV commentators and others please ask youselves when you are about to call the President ..a "liar", a "buffoon", a "schmuck", an "illegitimate " president, etcetera.,"How would I like that?" This meaningless vituperation, is a waste of time, ink, paper and electricity. It is time to end it. And for the nation and its servants and leaders in Washington to return to the business of running a large complex country.

 IT IS TIME TO STOP.