Rashida Tlaib swears! Fire her!

In case it isn't evident, I am joking. I don't think she should be fired and I wish the news stations would stop with the manufactured outrage. It is not shocking that a polititcain would say mean things. It is, however, ridiculous that the news stations sit back and judge her because she swore.

In case you don't know what I am talking about, a woman named Rashida Tlaib, who made history by being the first Palestinian woman to be elected to the House of Representatives, in a speech just hours after being sworn in as a Representative. Had a party with her own supporters in attendance and she said "We are going to impeach that motherfucker!"

Of course the news stations, particularly the few conservative ones, jumped all over this for days. Some were even calling for her removal from office. I was like, who cares?

It really irks me the way that news is reported and I say this not caring at all what the political leanings of the news station happens to be. The amount of sensationalizing and blowing things out of proportion has reached a level of lunacy that i had hoped we would never accomplish as a people.

So someone swears and you think they should be removed from office because of this? Are we seriously going to sit up on our moral high-horse and try to pretend that we don't ever swear?

Was it in bad taste for her to say that publicly, especially with the press present? Absolutely, but I actually applaud her for doing it and not because I care about the subject matter. I think that when a person swears they tend to be more honest. Whenever a politician has really rehearsed and polished words for the public I can guarantee you that they did not write those words and are probably lying with every breath they can muster. I don't know anything about Rashida Tlaib and I am not going to try to find anything about about her either.

However, the media is such a joke and this is just one more example of why it is estimated that less than 20% of the US population believes the media. The other 80% are either "undecided" or believe the news stations are intentionally misleading. I tend to be in the latter category. Maybe if you guys did some actual reporting, these numbers could grow a bit.