Leftist Robert Reich: Dems should have given Sinema the 'backs of their hands'

[SugarDaddy1]

UPDATE, 3:11 p.m. EST: Robert Reich on Thursday afternoon said on Twitter he deleted his "backs of their hands" tweet the night before "because it was widely misinterpreted and distorted by conservative media. 'Back of the hand' is an idiom for rebuke. I wholeheartedly condemn violence against women."

But not everyone appears to be buying Reich's explanation:

"Hate to tell you this, tough guy, but the comments I read before you deleted the tweet weren't coming from 'conservative media.' It was women, many of them progressives, who didn't appreciate your 'idiom' with its origins squarely tied to physical violence," editor JD Rucker wrote. "Delete your account."

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[Rightguide]

His biggest problem is he'd have to stand on a chair to do so himself.

 

[ll74]

She'll be primaried and likely lose her seat.

 

[pecksniff]

"Leftist Robert Reich"?

Robert Bernard Reich (/raɪʃ/;[2] born June 24, 1946) is an American economist, professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator.[3] He served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, as well as serving as the United States Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997 in the cabinet of President Bill Clinton.[4][5] He was a member of President Barack Obama's economic transition advisory board.[6]

Reich has been the Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley since January 2006.[7] He was formerly a professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government[8] and professor of social and economic policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management of Brandeis University. He has also been a contributing editor of The New Republic, The American Prospect (also chairman and founding editor), Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Reich is a political commentator on programs including Erin Burnett OutFront, CNN Tonight, Anderson Cooper's AC360, Hardball with Chris Matthews, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, CNBC's Kudlow & Company, and APM's Marketplace. In 2008, Time magazine named him one of the Ten Best Cabinet Members of the century,[9] and in the same year The Wall Street Journal placed him sixth on its list of Most Influential Business Thinkers.[10]

He has published 18 books which have been translated into 22 languages,[11] including the best-sellers The Work of Nations, Reason, Saving Capitalism, Supercapitalism, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, and a best-selling e-book, Beyond Outrage. He is also chairman of Common Cause and writes his own blog about the political economy at Robertreich.org.[12] The Robert Reich–Jacob Kornbluth film Saving Capitalism was selected to be a Netflix Original, and debuted in November 2017, and their film Inequality for All won a U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Achievement in Filmmaking at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Utah.[13][14]

In 2015 Reich and Kornbluth founded Inequality Media, a nonprofit digital media company.[15] Inequality Media's videos feature Reich discussing topics relating to inequality and power primarily in the United States, including universal basic income, labor rights protection, the racial wealth gap, affordable housing, and gerrymandering.[16]

Not exactly a Commie.

 

[YDB95]

"Leftist Robert Reich"?



Not exactly a Commie.

Anyone to the left of John McCain or so is a commie to these folks. (How telling that I don't even have a living conservative-but-not-super-right-wing Republican to point to anymore.)

And let's be fair: his choice of words was a bad one. The term "back of the hand" does have a violent connotation. Good for him for deleting the tweet, though, and don't anyone expect me to take complaints about it seriously when they come from people who call the vice president "Kameltoe Harriest" or worse.

 

[Chernosoth]

She'll be primaried and likely lose her seat.

Or she gains recognition as a non-batshit Dem and moves toward whatever she wants to do: senate leadership, potus candidate, etc.

 

[pecksniff]

Or she gains recognition as a non-batshit Dem and moves toward whatever she wants to do: senate leadership, potus candidate, etc.

Sinema will never be Senate leader and certainly will never be POTUS.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Good thing he deleted the tweet. It's like it never even happened.


Old people are funny.

 

[Rightguide]

Take note the diminutive coward has deleted his post.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Take note the diminutive coward has deleted his post.

And gone back to his work with the Lollipop Guild.

 

[YDB95]

Take note the diminutive coward has deleted his post.

What should he have done? Left it there like there was nothing wrong with it?