Posted on 01/04/2024 7:55:18 PM PST by SeekAndFind
On Wednesday, Vivek Ramaswamy absolutely destroyed a Washington Post reporter who thought she was asking a gotcha question by asking him to condemn white supremacy.
"I'm not — I'm not going to recite some catechism for you,” Ramaswamy told her. "I'm against vicious racial discrimination in this country. So I'm not pledging allegiance to your new religion of modern wokeism which absolutely fits the test."
"I'm not going to bend the knee to your religion. I'm sorry, I'm not asking you to bend the knee to mine, and I'm not going to bend the knee to yours. But do I condemn vicious racial discrimination? Yes, I do. Am I going to play your silly game of ‘Gotcha'? No, I'm not. And frankly, this is why people have lost trust [in the media]."
Ramaswamy continued, "And I know you’re going to go print the headline tomorrow. I already know this; we already know how your game works. 'Vivek Ramaswamy Refuses to Condemn Racism,' because you asked a stupid question. The reality is, I condemn vicious racial discrimination in this country, but the kind of vicious and systematic racism we see today is discrimination on the basis of race in a very different direction."
Lo and behold, the reporter, Meryl Kornfield, pretty much did exactly what he told her she would. While it doesn’t appear that she ever wrote an article on the exchange, she did claim, as Ramaswamy said she would, that he "refused to condemn white supremacy” in a post on X/Twitter.
"I asked Vivek if he condemned white supremacy. Vivek said to 'stop picking on this farce of some figment that exists at some infinitesimally small fringe.' He said he condemns 'vicious racial discrimination' but would not 'bend the knee' and condemn white supremacy,’” she wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
I really like the cut of his jib!
Propaganda IS a science, and it begins by deceiving as to its intent. There is a reason why 97% of ‘journalists’ (i.e., ‘propagandists’) are demoncrat.
Corrected: “Journalism BS”
Meryl Kornfield gives new meaning to BS in Journalism.
White guilt.
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