Rushing to accuse Sen. Jeff Sessions of racism, liberals have stumbled and revealed their own bigotry instead. That hypocrisy reached a crescendo when MTV writer Ira Madison accused the Alabama senator of kidnapping a three-year-old Asian girl from Toys “R” Us.
The kid in question, bouncing on Sessions’ knee before the Senate Judiciary Committee came to order, was the senator’s biological granddaughter. She’s not, as Madison suggested, a political prop trotted out as a “model minority.”
Madison is so blinded by his hatred of Sessions, it’s not possible for him to see Sessions as anything other than a monster. Before he blocked me for defending the girl, he even offered a justification for his own racism: Because Sessions has shown “horrendous anti-black behavior,” it’s okay to attack the little girl.
That’s the equivalent of schoolyard politics. Point the finger at someone else, accuse them of starting it, and Madison thinks you can get away with anything. Attacking children is pathetic and it’s also embarrassingly prevalent. Back in 2012, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry did the same thing.
Mitt Romney’s adopted black grandson was good for a laugh, Harris-Perry explained, because Republicans weren’t diverse enough. Forget that the Romneys wanted to bring a little one into a loving home. It’s cool to attack kids who aren’t white because, you know, the Party of Lincoln’s racist.
Harris-Perry later apologized.
Madison, buddy. Stop being a bully and grow up. Next time try forming a coherent thought about Sessions actual record. Literally attacking minority children does nothing to persuade anyone that Sessions would make a poor attorney general.
It just shows that you’re a racist jerk, and worse, a fool who can’t make a real argument.
Philip Wegmann is a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner.
