Liberal Media Scream: Roland Martin calls 74M Americans unpatriotic

Exhibit One is Roland Martin, the left-wing radio and online talk show host who used to be on CNN. On Sunday’s This Week on ABC, he seized on former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s recent comments that the election is over and that it’s time to drop the conspiracy talk and get ready for the next presidential election.

That should have satisfied liberals. But not Martin, who, in full sanctimony, turned on Christie for his efforts to help Trump win. “Too many Republicans chose power and riding with Donald Trump as opposed to patriotism and America,” said Martin. “Any Republican who stood with him has to own it and accept the role that they played.”

Christie urged that Martin get over himself. “I’ll sleep fine tonight with you judging my morals.”

From the roundtable on the Sunday This Week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC:

ROLAND MARTIN: I appreciate the speech, governor, but the reality is this. You have to admit, Sarah, you have to admit the role that you played in putting the person in leadership who is driving conspiracy theories. It’s one thing to condemn them after the fact, but you have to own up to the role that you played in putting the person in power. The time—

SARAH ISGUR, THE DISPATCH: We both ran campaigns against him.

MARTIN: No, no, no, no, no.

CHRISTIE: First off, I don’t have to admit anything to you.

MARTIN: Can I finish? Can I finish? Can I finish?

CHRISTIE: First off, I don’t have to admit anything to you. And, second, I ran against Donald Trump in 2016.

YVETTE SIMPSON, DEMOCRACY FOR AMERICA: You also coached him for the debate, sir.

MARTIN: Here’s the deal. You ran against him. But when a person has principles, morals, and values, they do not support them even if you lose. And what they say is, ‘I choose patriotism and the country over party and power.’ And the problem was, too many Republicans chose power and riding with Donald Trump as opposed to patriotism and America.

CHRISTIE: I’ll sleep fine tonight with you judging my morals.

MARTIN: Well, guess what? As a voter who has 13 nieces and nephews, what I also want to see in America are Republicans and Democrats who have the guts to stand up to narcissists, to folks who lie, to folks who sit here and led a country in the wrong direction. And what that man has unleashed on this country. Any Republican who stood with him has to own it and accept the role that they played.

CHRISTIE: Well, that’s fine. I’ll accept the role that I played in the 2016 election running against him. And I’ll accept the role—

MARTIN: But you helped him prepare for the debates.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Let him finish his point now. Let him finish his point.

CHRISTIE: Excuse me. And I’ll accept the role that I played in my belief that Hillary Clinton was not the right person to be president. We all get to make choices, Roland, in this democracy. I made my choice. I’m on record of my choice. And I’m not walking away from my choice. But it does not preclude me from being able to be critical when the person that I did support does things that I am against. And so this false choice that you’re trying to set up—

MARTIN: It’s not false.

CHRISTIE: It’s a false choice, and one that the American people are not going to buy either.

Brent Baker, vice president of research and publications for the Media Research Center, explains our weekly pick: “It must be nice to live in Martin’s world, where it’s so easy to dismiss political opponents as illegitimate. If he wonders why so many Trump supporters are sticking with Trump, he should look in a mirror. Maybe they are disgusted by being called unpatriotic and un-American for not seeing the world in the same good vs. evil way as does Martin, with them on the evil side.”

Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.