From Daily Kos: Shredding was too good for a hateful speech filled with lies
By MARK SUMNER
If any other public figure regularly stumbled onto the stage clearly drugged to the gills, it would be a major scandal. But somehow Donald Trump can appear over and over, sniffling at the end of each sentence and slurring his words as if he’s downed a fifth of Wild Turkey, and not one news network will mention not only that Trump’s speech was full of white supremacist rhetoric and an endless stream of lies, but that he was having such trouble simply reading that his words often had to be interpreted from context.
Not that it rally mattered. A Republican Congress, still nervous that it hadn’t licked his boots sufficiently, stood to applaud with even more frequency than Trump snorted. Game show stunts. Huzzah! Failing government schools. Huzzah! Medal of freedom sullied forever. Double huzzah!
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rippling up the pages was far more courtesy than this toilet stain of a speech deserved.