Has anyone checked if Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., keeps a bottle of hot sauce in her purse?
Gillibrand used Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, to address a crowd at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network in New York. This is apparently what we can expect from her for the next year or more in her bid for the 2020 Democratic nomination: a cringe-inducing, condescending appeal to minorities that makes Hillary Clinton’s own embarrassing overtures look like she kept it real.
Sharpton, perhaps in a back-handed attempt to undermine her candidacy, later posted a video on Twitter of Gillibrand … uh … “preaching.”
She’s seen in the video, speaking to her mostly black audience, in a way that any normal person would find borderline racially offensive if they weren’t already wailing in uncontrollable laughter.
“We will wear the belt of truth, because we know he truth,” she yells while shuffling her feet around. “We speak truth to power. We will put on the bright breast plate of righteousness because we know right from wrong. And we will not forget it. We will hold that shield of faith, as Dr. King said, faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase. So hold on to that faith tightly.”
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand started preaching this morning during her remarks at NAN’s King Day Public Policy Forum. #NANMLK19 pic.twitter.com/Zp756P4uwD
— Reverend Al Sharpton (@TheRevAl) January 21, 2019
The delivery is poor, to put it charitably. And Gillibrand doesn’t usually talk like this. But the audience in front of her explains why she did, seemingly unaware that they might just possibly detect a fraud in their midst.
But hey, preach, Sister Gillibrand!
