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Right-wing freakout exposes GOP’s insidious contempt for their own voters
What happened
AlterNet reports that Barack Obama mocked Donald Trump’s gold-heavy White House renovations at an Ohio midterm rally, joking that the building looked like “Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory.” Right-wing pundits recast the remark as an insult to the restaurant chain and its customers, while Trump defended his decorating ability at his own rally.
On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough argued that the outrage depended on viewers ignoring the joke’s obvious target: Trump’s gilded aesthetic. Willie Geist described the response as a desperate attempt to manufacture…
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