Ana Navarro, political commentator and View cohost,
taking Slovenian hooker Melanie to task about the "performative
hypocrisy" of the letter she wrote to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin:
"You all, this falls under the category of stuff that's
so hypocritical you almost can't believe it. I don't know if you all heard
this, but in the [Felon]-Putin meeting, [The Felon] delivered a letter to Putin
written by his wife [Melanie] and I'm going to read some of it to you because I
think we should think about this, okay? So she writes in this letter, part of
it:
'As leaders, the responsibility to sustain our children
extends beyond the comfort of a few. Undeniably, we must strive to paint a
dignity filled world for all so that every soul may wake to peace and so that
the future itself is perfectly guarded. A simple yet profound concept Mr. Putin
as I am sure you agree, is that each generation's descendants begin their lives
with a purity and innocence which stands above geography, government, and
ideology.’
Ignoring the painfully inept prose of ]Melanie]'s letter and
the clumsy fumbling for poetic sounding phrases, it has to be pointed out
deeply naive this letter was. Putin is a brutal, murderous dictator who has
been waging a bloody war of territorial expansion for years now. The idea that
he might be swayed by a poorly written letter by a First Lady with no
diplomatic experience and no meaningful accomplishments is laughable. This was
clearly an attempt by [Melanie] to nab headlines and make herself feel important.
[But] … let's think about those words: a right to innocence and purity that
stands about government, geography and ideology. And think about what her
husband, what [The Felon] is doing to the children of immigrants in America and
to U.S. citizen children of immigrants. How many of those children are living
with the fear of their parents being dragged through the streets of America,
their car windows smashed in, their parents beaten by masked men, and
disappeared? How about the children in the LA school system that have been
grabbed by ICE? How about the boy, the Brazilian boy in Massachusetts who was
going to soccer practice when he was grabbed by ICE? How about the little girl
with cancer, U.S. citizen little girl with cancer, whose parents were deported
and she had to leave, putting in jeopardy her cancer treatment? How about all
of the children in America—forget the children of immigrants even though that
in itself sticks in my craw—but the children in America who are being denied
SNAP benefits? How about the children all over the world who are not receiving
U.S. aid because her husband's government decided that we shouldn't be feeding
starving children all over the world? How about all of those kids? So, yeah, it
strikes me as ridiculously hypocritical that [Melanie] is telling Putin to
preserve the innocence and purity of Ukrainian children. Yay for her! That's a
good thing. But you know maybe she should turn around and say the exact same
thing to her husband because there are children in America crying, suffering,
going to bed in fear, returning to homes that are abandoned and empty, not
knowing where their next meal is coming from because of what her husband is
doing. I say to [Melanie], start a little closer to home girl."
Ana, as usual, nails the ignorance and hypocrisy of Melanie …
though we all know she never wrote that letter; it was clearly AI, and not
Slovenian Hooker angling for a bigger chunk of cash in the prenup.
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