Protesters were noble in the 60’s, but now that protestors no longer wear love beads or bell bottoms, they’re unintelligent and unprincipled all of a sudden. In this case, it sounds like “unintelligent and unprincipled” just equals, “hey, don’t say that stuff about my guy!”
Well, back then it was the Hippy’s political gatherings that were interrupted and shut down by the mainstream powers that be, and mobs of people convinced by the media that the hippies were a menace.
Apparently the National Black Republican Associationendorsed Trump back in January. This sure didn’t get much exposure. The media must have been too busy trying to make sure everyone knew that Trump founded the KKK to give it much play.
Well, I haven’t, but I have been intimately or casually acquainted with various hard-lefty types over the years, and practically all of them were intelligent, rational, tolerant of dissent, hardworking and well-groomed. Even the Marxists – heck, even the anarchists.
Somehow I don’t read an endorsement by the National Black Republican Association as any kind of credentials for non-racism. Neither is Ben Carson’s presence on the debate-stage.
And yet there it is, on CNN’s web site, in front of God and everybody.
Seriously, though, I always enjoy the argument “Media are biased because they don’t sufficiently trumpet whatever I personally think is important”. Feel free to explain exactly how much and how long this story should have dominated the news cycle, and why.
Enough that I would have heard of it would have been nice. That would have merely taken CNN replacing one of the thousand or so times I saw them mentioning David Duke’s endorsement with news of this endorsement. Why? Because they are an actual mainstream Republican organization, not a fringe race huckster and provocateur like Duke.
Why should it? Judging from their official website (a page on blogspot.com), the NBRA represents exactly one person, Lieutenant Colonel Frances Rice, United States Army, Retired. No other principals are listed, and no membership is claimed. The Wikipedia page has nothing either, and all the references on Google point to a one-woman operation, Frances Rice, who looks to be an empty skirt. The Sarasota Herald Tribune published a lengthy profile of the NBRA in 2008 and Right Wing Watch noted that it has been all downhill since then:
Ah yes, black people are less black when they disagree with you. Maybe if your plan to get control over who can run the printing presses works out, you can straighten them up for us. Everybody will be in your debt.
Even if that is the case, her opinion is eminently more worthy of being considered than the opinion of a loser like David Duke. The media gave Duke massive exposure, in order to vilify Trump by associating the two together, with no reasonable basis for doing so.
Carson says the reason he endorsed Trump is because he sees him as the only possible Republican candidate who can win the general election. However, he also claims that Trump may or may not have offered him a government position, which is a violation of federal law.
So, if I take your point, news organizations should allot equal headline space to every endorsement by any organization with the ability to create a web site and a press release?
I don’t buy this argument either. If CNN and other media organizations are so determined to bring down Mr. Trump, why are they giving him so much free media exposure? I mean every news station has been pretty much the Trump Channel since the beginning of the year.
I’m pretty sure I know a perfectly reasonable answer to that question. I wonder if you do.
