(Left photo: Penn State; Right photo: Gage Skidmore)
Great news for those on the right with victim complexes and deep-seated fears of non-white immigrants: Donald Trump is currently polling in first place among GOP presidential contenders.
It's proof that even with lethal doses of self-delusion, you can still count on the support of thousands to embrace your racist, nativist beliefs as brave truths, or at the very least, inelegantly phrased facts. And when the P.C. police and liberal media descend, they'll rally to your defense.
In fact, it's been a great week for perceived victimhood. Bill Cosby can admit to obtaining quaaludes to give to women, news outlets will report that the drugs were "to have sex" (when, in fact, many would argue that the point of the drugs was to not have consensual sex), and still, famous friends like Whoopi Goldberg will stand courageously by your side-innocent until proven guilty, after all.
Here are some quotes that acknowledge these men as being true victims-can you tell whether it is Trump or Cosby who is being defended?
QUIZ
1. "I admire him for at least being honest. … I think for him to own it and to tell the truth at this point is very courageous."
2. "It looks like they're trying to destroy [him]. What did [he] ever do to tick off some producer at CNN? Or some reporter? Or some assignment? What happened here? … Basically, he started demanding that people start accepting responsibility."
3. "I really think he is magnificent. I'm almost stunned at how good he's being especially considering the world he lives in."
4, "He's being punished very severely in the press, he's lost a lot of income, he may lose it all going forward."
5. "I appreciate [his] scrappiness. … When he is attacked by other people, he counterattacks and plunges forward and delivers more facts to support the statement that he's made."
6. "The amount of abuse that [he] has taken, the efforts that have been made to destroy him … it has been serious. It has been an onslaught and he has not buckled. And I'm telling you, whatever you think of [him] and all of this, try to keep that in perspective. Most people would have buckled long ago. Most people would have cried uncle and begged forgiveness … I have an incredible amount of admiration and respect for just this aspect of what [he] has done. Look at what it has cost [him]. Look at the abuse that he has taken and had to take."
7. "[He] is worth $400 million, and yes, it's pertinent. That's four hundred million incentives right there."
8. "For all its crassness, [his] rant on immigration is closer to reality than the gauzy clichés of the immigration romantics unwilling to acknowledge that there might be an issue welcoming large numbers of high school dropouts into a 21st-century economy." (OK, this one is easy, but can you guess who said it?)
9. "I'm slightly anti-anti-[X] because I'm so sick of all the establishment types being so earnest in disdaining him."
Answers:
1. Tourist/local news interviewee, on Cosby
2. Rush Limbaugh, on Cosby
3. Ann Coulter, on Trump
4. Jerry Reisman, entertainment attorney, on Cosby
5. Representative Steve King of Iowa, on Trump
6. Rush Limbaugh, on Trump
7. The website A Voice for Men, on Cosby
8. National Review editor Richard Lowry, on Trump
9. Bill Kristol, on Trump
BONUS ROUND: Who said this?
1. "I've been down to the border and checked across these places, and the number I come back with 75 percent [of children] are sexually abused on the way to the United States. So I'd say in Donald Trump's defense, somebody's doing that to these kids that are being raped and abused and when they're coming across Mexico it's a reasonable assumption to conclude that the people who are doing that are Mexicans."
2. "You want to talk about rape? That's media rape, right there. You said you would not do that. Since when does your 'no' mean 'yes'? Do you know the definition of 'no,' sir? You've just raped Bill Cosby. You said you wouldn't do it. You just did it and then you blamed it on him. My gosh, maybe we should have a lesson on rape."
Answers:
1. Representative King, again
2. Glenn Beck
