The Most Disgusting, Obsessive Take on Bob Dole’s Death Goes Forth – Opinion

RedState today reported on the passing of Bob Dole (a renowned WWII veteran who was also a US senator). He was 98 years old and served his country to the end.

For those who can reason, it is not our intention to bring modern political differences into the demise of an incredible war hero and public servant. Clearly, Bob Dole is not a man at all defined by anything that’s happened in Washington over the last half-decade.

But then there’s Mehdi Hasan, who is neither sane nor has the self-control to hide that fact. The far-left MSNBC host and former Qatari mouthpiece just couldn’t help himself. Today, he put out the following tweet, which, as of now at least, is the most disgusting take on Dole’s passing I’ve seen.

Bob Dole has died. He voted twice for Trump and was an endorser. https://t.co/ez5ZsMmXTx

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) December 5, 2021

This amazement at the total obsession with Donald Trump is unending. Literally, everything must be about the former president, to the point where it wouldn’t surprise me if Hasan mumbles about Trump in the shower. There are a million different ways to remember Dole today, but the first thing that comes to this clown’s mind is to chide him for his support of a former president who served while Dole was in his mid-90s.

Besides, the insinuation that there’s something nefarious about Dole supporting Trump is gross. People supported Trump for many reasons, some of which were worth it. After all, the results of Biden’s administration are clear. Dole being smart enough to know what was best for America, at least according to his perspective, doesn’t make him any less noble. Actually, it is the exact opposite. Hasan worked with terrorist sympathizer Al Jazeera and wants to savor his high-horse. Please give us all some space.

He was then called out and Hasan attempted the laziest rhetorical trick of all: pretending that Trump’s tweet meant he was making neutral observations.

Trump supporters & rightwingers seem to think it is somehow a disrespectful attack by me on the late Bob Dole to point out he was a Trump supporter. That’s kind of a revealing self own.
Btw here’s their hero Trump after another Republican war veteran died:https://t.co/Uh1sUq8SzQ

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) December 5, 2021

Yeah, well, except that Hasan has ranted and raved about Trump being the devil for five years now, so it’s clear that any mention of the former president by him is meant to denigrate. He chose to lead with Dole’s support of Trump for one reason — to paint an American hero as some kind of enabler of supposed evil. I can’t think of a more disrespectful way to mark Dole’s death, and Hasan jumped on it like a fat kid on a donut.

This is the type of person who fill our media space. These are the kind of people who have no shame in letting down their guard when someone like Dole dies. Hasan is not one-tenth the man Dole was, and that’s brightly illustrated every single time he opens his mouth.