Rep. Rashida Tlabi. (YouTube)

It’s only January and we already have a candidate for the dumbest story of the year. That is the media outrage over Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s comments about President Donald Trump. At a recent event, Tlaib said that she intended to “impeach the MF.”

Tlaib has a particular animosity towards Trump. She’s a Palestinian American who has directly been affected by Trump’s policies such as the Muslim ban. She said Trump’s policies had made her sons’ question if they were Americans. She was also arrested for protesting at a Trump campaign event.

The controversy over Tlaib’s comment is typical right-wing hypocrisy. They claim to be upset about her use of the term, while they say nothing about Trump who is a walking obscenity.

Here are a few of the comments Trump has made over the years.

He called Haiti, and African and Latin American countries “sh*thole countries.” This comment was verified by two senators.

He called African American NFL players, who knelt in protest of police violence, “sons of bitches.”

He called porn star Stormy Daniels, who he slept with while his wife was nursing his newborn son, “horseface.”

He cursed up a storm in recent shutdown discussions with Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He also used the f-bomb several times.

He also bragged about “grabbing women by the pussy” in the leaked “Access Hollywood” tape.

He’s publicly mused about having sex with his daughter and commented about her breasts.

And recently it was revealed Trump also used the word “MF” when talking about the Chinese in 2011.

And now Republicans want us to be mad because Tlaib used the same phrase. The argument is almost not worth wasting digital ink on. It’s a fake issue, much like the GOP branding itself the party of family values. Even before Trump, former Sen. John McCain was on his second marriage when he ran for president, former Speaker of the House and staunch conservative Newt Gingrich is on his third marriage, to the woman he cheated on with his second wife, and right-wing gasbag Rush Limbaugh is on his fourth marriage.

Republicans are brazen when it comes to seizing the narrative and trying to gaslight you into feeling guilty about something they regularly do. Case in point, Democrat in Name Only Sen. Joe Manchin called Tlaib’s comments “disgusting” and “horrible.” I don’t believe he has ever criticized Trump for his ugly rhetoric.

And interim White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney tried to erase the last five years by claiming Trump was not responsible for the coarsening of public discourse.

After CNN’s Jake Tapper confronted him with a montage of Trump’s greatest insults, Mulvaney responded by saying, “But no, I don’t think anybody blames the president for the coarsening of the language.”

However, some Democrats have supported Tlaib’s comments. Pelosi deflected the question when questioned by MSNBC’s Joy Reid. She said it was a sexist question, and no one would have raised the issue if Tlaib was a man.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (OAC) defended Tlaib and called out the GOP’s hypocrisy.

“Republican hypocrisy at its finest: saying that Trump admitting to sexual assault on tape is just ‘locker room talk,’ but scandalizing themselves into faux-outrage when my sis says a curse word in a bar,” said Ocasio-Cortez in a Twitter post. “GOP lost entitlement to policing women’s behavior a long time ago. Next.”

Tlaib’s comments are a non-issue. Modern-day women use profanity, and plus Trump has already plumbed the depths when it comes to crude comments in politics. I’m concerned about more pressing issues, such as the Trump administration’s deep ties to the Russian government and the fact the president is repeating Russian propaganda.

Both OAC and Tlaib might as well give up winning over the FOX News crowd. Both of them are brown, liberal and educated — everything FOX News viewers hate. FOX News has already waged an unsuccessful war against OAC, criticizing her clothing and her dancing skills. And Tlaib is a Muslim, so that already makes her an enemy of the state in the eyes of many Republicans. A few hours after she was sworn in on her Koran, some Twitter users rained abuse on Tlaib claiming that it was impossible to be a Muslim and American. (I guess they never read the U.S. Constitution. But we know reading, and critical thinking, aren’t their things.)

Tlaib’s comments are a non-issue. Modern-day women use profanity, and plus Trump has already plumbed the depths when it comes to crude comments in politics. I’m concerned about more pressing issues, such as the Trump administration’s deep ties to the Russian government and the fact the president is repeating Russian propaganda. I’m also concerned by the fact the president has threatened to impose a state of emergency over the government shutdown and toilets at national parks are overflowing with human waste.

Those issues are more important than an off-the-cuff comment from a freshman congresswoman. Let’s get some perspective, people.