Letter: Doesn’t freedom of speech apply to everyone?

To the editor:

The liberal media is ready to jump on anything President Trump says or does and has declared his recent “s*** hole” comment a major insult to the world. If you have ever been in Haiti, and I have, that is not a bad description.

This language of course is certainly not the language in the balcony of the opera house. The elite liberals of course have never heard such and are in complete shock. Surely their delicate feelings will never survive. If you are one of those, you probably have forgotten the movie “The Christmas Story” where the little boy drops the lug nuts into the snow while helping his father fix a flat tire and says “Oh ****” and for doing so gets to suck on a bar of Lifebuoy soap.

What is worse, Trump’s language, or Maxine Waters’ despicable behavior. That a representative of this country would encourage people attending her rallies to go after anyone in Trump’s cabinet, etc., when out in public, to surround them, harass them, tell them they are not wanted and for them to leave. Since when is it wrong to have a different point of view in this country? I guess only when it conflicts with the views of Maxine Waters?

This kind of rhetoric from her will eventually cause some serious altercation. Someone is going to get hurt! I have listened to some of her remarks and think members of her own party should be restraining her.

And Omarosa, who took a cellphone into at least one of the White House security meetings and recorded it, which is prohibited. What does this say about her? As the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote in their article, “If Omarosa carried for example a cellphone into the Situation Room, tweeted David Frum, senior editor of the Atlantic, then not only did she record conversations there, but so potentially has any country or criminal organization that thought to hack her phone”.

I will take President Trump’s remarks any day if he’s getting all the things accomplished that he promised he would do if elected even with no cooperation from most of the Democrat party, some in his own party, and much of the press.

Is freedom of speech for everyone else but not the President?

James Toney

Franklin