At FoxNews.com, our old MRC colleague Alexander Hall reported a double standard in the use of political metaphors this week. After all of the leftist media hyperventilating over Donald Trump using the word “bloodbath” to describe the economy in a second Biden term, CNN brought on “Ragin’ Cajun” James Carville to describe how Team Biden needs to do the “wet work” on Donald Trump.
That’s slang for an assassination. But Carville apparently has rhetorical immunity. He gets to use violent metaphors, and that’s fine.
Cooper played a clip of Joe Biden exaggerating what Trump said about the “Latino community,” as if illegal immigrants and the “Latino community” were the same. It was Trump’s opening campaign speech in 2015 about Mexico not “sending their best,” and some immigrants are criminals and rapists. Cooper offered the floor to Carville: “You are a proponent…
