I want to take a moment to commend all the Dopers who are too mature and tasteful to make any juvenile and repulsive jokes about Aggies and “animal husbandry”. It is a quality I can fully admire without any danger of emulating.
This.
The incredible stupidity of thinking “Gee, why are the Republicans only getting 1/20th of the black vote? It must be because black people are ignorant” is topped only by the incredible stupidity of thinking that actually saying this out loud to an African American audience would be a good way to win them over.
2 reporters from 2 pools. If the reporter(s) doesn’t see anything worth reporting, they just going to write a simple piece about Paul’s speech. Wire reporters aren’t trained to editorialize, they’re trained to dictate the facts, get a couple of quotes, and that’s that.
On the other hand, DC is a political city and “Hey! Paul’s going to speak at a black college! Let’s go see what the hell happens” is going to draw more than a couple of staff guys working for the wire agencies and freelancers.
Anyway, if some people in this thread can’t see the difference between the reporting in DC vis-a-vis Louisville, KY and want to believe they’re equivalent… well, more power to them.
Based on the rather unscientific method of looking at Crap People Are Posting On Facebook, Paul fils is making a lot of conservative hearts flutter in the same way Paul Ryan used to before his ignominious defeat, and in the same way that the left are pushing Hillary to run (and, to a much smaller extent, Elizabeth Warren). Hoi polloi are fickle, however; who knows to whom they will flock tomorrow?
I confess, it screamed for a comment but I just did not think I could come up with anything that would be worthy of consideration. It would take a Texan and an alumni of that school to come up with something, and I am neither. This is a burden that falls on you.