Pretend Republican Rick Wilson, a Never Trump elitist who loves to sanctimoniously lecture others about their supposed lack of morals and principles, provided a perfect demonstration Wednesday of what it means for the tiny pot to call the big kettle black.
He accomplished this feat by twisting the slogan of first lady Melania Trump’s anti-bullying campaign, “Be Best,” into the horrifying words “Be Infected.”
Look:
#BeInfected https://t.co/TZD35uaEvq
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 19, 2020
He posted the tweet late Wednesday in response to a CNN report that the first lady will soon begin to “appear in public service announcements on coronavirus set to be broadcast nationally.”
“The PSAs will address the ‘important ways Americans can protect themselves and those most at risk’ from contracting and spreading the coronavirus, according to the release,” the outlet reported.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether Wilson was just trying to be funny with his tweet, whether he was saying he wishes the first lady would contract the virus or whether he was suggesting to the American people that they should go and contract the virus for the hell of it.
What was clear is that as of Thursday morning, the dangerously vague tweet remained active, and there predictably were zero instances of left-wing establishment “journalists” complaining about the tweet and demanding that Twitter immediately remove it.
Renowned former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke faced the exact opposite response when he posted a tweet over the weekend calling for the American people to violate the authoritarian lockdown edicts of left-wing governors and go live their lives.
“It is now evident that this is an orchestrated attempt to destroy CAPITALISM,” he’d tweeted on Sunday. “First sports, then schools and finally commercial businesses. Time to RISE UP and push back. Bars and restaurants should defy the order. Let people decide if they want to go out.”
The tweet provoked so much mass backlash from the left-wing establishment media that Twitter removed it, though traces still remain courtesy screenshots.
— Christine Jones (@cjones) March 16, 2020
But while urging people to protect their constitutionally guaranteed rights earned Clarke a suspension, seemingly promoting infection by coronavirus has earned Wilson nothing save for scorn from purely non-establishment voices.
Look:
This is the most insidious & hateful rhetoric of anyone who exists in political punditry. Rick Wilson is wishing Coronavirus on Melania Trump. It doesn’t matter if the wish is aimed at a First Lady, or a doctor, a teacher, a policewoman. It is despicable. He deserves no platform. https://t.co/uTr5RVZSTX
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) March 19, 2020
Delete this, Americans are dying.
— Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS (@RepGosar) March 19, 2020
@TwitterSafety is it okay to promote killing/hurting the first lady?
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) March 19, 2020
You’re an absolute disgrace
— John Davis (@JohnDavis_65) March 19, 2020
This tweet is sad but not surprising considering the source.
I hope he is not saying that he wants the @FLOTUS to be infected by the #Coronavirus because that is what his tweet seems to imply.
The @SecretService should monitor this.#BeBest #BeSafe https://t.co/mkv1K2Yy5a
— PARIS (@PARISDENNARD) March 19, 2020
You need psychiatric help. https://t.co/9UHVkxOLH7
— David Vance (@DVATW) March 19, 2020
One of the more prissy complaints of the Never-Trumpers is that he’s too vulgar.
But on his worst days, Trump’s got nothing on this gross, gross man. https://t.co/ac8FMPsQML
— Ezra Levant 🇨🇳🦠(@ezralevant) March 19, 2020
This man is addicted to the outrage he conjures. Don’t be angry at him… pity him… it’s a sickness. He needs an intervention. @MSNBC and @CNN should stop enabling him and get him some help. https://t.co/GqFjBOFNg0
— Larry O’Connor (@LarryOConnor) March 19, 2020
It appears not a single establishment voice has sought to condemn Wilson. Instead, members of the establishment have taken to praising him for his “witty” comebacks.
Responding to Wilson accusing one of his critics of plagiarism, for instance, Kevin M. Kruse — a historian whose work has appeared in The New York Times — tweeted the following:
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 19, 2020
Kruse and Wilson are both among a contingent of pompous, sanctimonious moral preeners who, as renowned conservative commentator Michelle Malkin noted, “cast themselves as our moral superiors,” even as their behavior routinely betrays them:
This @projectlincoln is the group that @TheRickWilson , who publicly wished for First Lady Melania Trump to #BeInfected w/Chinese Corona virus, helps spearhead. Where are disavowal demands? See the handy list of Wilson’s group leaders who cast themselves as our moral superiors==> https://t.co/9ciZk3Pueg
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) March 19, 2020
In the case of Wilson, he’s a “moral superior” who’s repeatedly joined other “moral superiors” — including George Conway, Steve Schmidt, Bill Kristol, Max Boot, etc. — in accusing the president of lacking a “moral compass.”
It’s not clear on what planet of what solar system in what galaxy of what universe tweeting “#BeInfected,” mocking the poor and disparaging millions of Americans as “dumb, illiterate rubes” count as acts of morality.
Regardless, Wilson argued in follow-up tweets late Wednesday evening and early Thursday morning that his tweets were being taken out of context and that coverage of his original tweet “isn’t journalism.”
Look (*Language warning):
ANYONE who thought I was wishing COVID on Melania is fuckwit.
You know full well it was a riff on “BeBest” and it’s utter failure in the face of her husband’s continued role as Global Troll in Chief and National Bully.
That said, fap to your fake-ass outrage all you like.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 19, 2020
The human centipede of the Trump Outrage Machine is going to make my TL a wasteland of garbage takes, fake outrage, threats, and deliberately obtuse misinterpretations.
So, basically a day that ends in “y”
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 19, 2020
Part of the outrage machine will be breathless stories on all the usual suspect sites saying “Wilson wished Melania would get COVID” off a one-word tweet.
I PROMISE you, not ONE will ask for comment. Not one. It isn’t journalism; it’s an agitprop machine.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 19, 2020
In fairness to the itty-bitty tiny black pot, as a frequent CNN contributor, Wilson is extremely familiar with what “isn’t journalism” …
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