Posted on 08/16/2017 6:34:06 PM PDT by Kaslin
After Tuesday’s heated press conference over Charlottesville, the media has been in a renewed frenzy over Trump’s comments. Over at CNN, the outrage seemed to be at its worst, with hosts sounding just like their radically left-wing guests. On the 7am hour of CNN’s New Day, fill-in host Poppy Harlow actually asked liberal reporter and CNN analyst April Ryan if Trump's slogan “Make America Great Again” was referring to the days when the KKK terrorized the South.
The panel discussion started between the Daily Beast’s John Avlon, CNN political analysts David Gregory and April Ryan, and hosts Chris Cuomo and Poppy Harlow. The panel started off “fact-checking” Trump’s claims that the white supremacist group had a permit to protest, before quickly moving on to attacking Trump. Gregory lamented Trump “reverting to form” deciding to “whip up social disruption and deepen the social disruptions in our society as opposed to trying to tamp it down the hatred that an event like this represents.”
Avlon then blasted the press conference as “a new low” of historic press conferences.
JOHN AVLON: After the president’s disastrous press conference -- in the pantheon of historic press conferences this was a new low by Donald Trump standards or any historic standards. The only people who came out to support him, there were a couple of paid shilts doing happy talk on Twitter, but were David Duke and white nationalist leaders, white supremacist leaders. If that doesn't cause a gut check, a reality check on the part of people working in the white house, what will? This president seems to have completely abdicated the moral authority that should go with the office of the president and the responsibility to at least try to unite the nation.
Host Poppy Harlow then lamented that this press conference showed “what was in” Trump’s “heart.” She asked CNN analyst April Ryan if standing up for white supremacy was what Trump “meant by make America great again.”
CNN: Is White Supremacy What Trump 'Meant' by 'Make America Great Again?'
POPPY HARLOW: People standing next to him, Gary Cohn, Steve Mnuchin. Also Jewish, as well as his daughter. His grandchildren. April Ryan, as someone who has covered the White House for a long time and questioned the president in the briefing room. This is what was in his heart, what is in his heart. He made that clear in the press conference yesterday. Is this what he meant by make America great again?
“I believe so,” April Ryan said soberly. Ryan then began to rehash the liberal conspiracy theories about Trump’s “code words” signaling to white supremacists that he was on their side. Her primary example? A fictionalized story from the media that the bust of MLK was removed by Trump from the Oval Office.
RYAN: While he was candidate Trump, many people said there were code words he was using. Make America great. And the question was, one of my questions was, at what point in our history is he talking about America being great, and we want to go back to. Supporting this yesterday shows us. It's very interesting, in listening to the conversation all morning and last night, I'm heartsick, but I have several questions this morning. What does Benjamin Netanyahu have to say about this? Because I remember just a few months ago Benjamin Netanyahu came to the United States and said Israel has no greater friend than Donald Trump. This is bigger than just everyone talking about the heart and moral authority. And then you know I also think about at the beginning of this president's entrance into the Oval Office, the big story -- I remember Zeke Miller made a mistake talking about the king bust wasn't there. The reason why it was such a big deal is because so many people were concerned about the president's heart and his mind when it came to issues of inclusion and race. That statue is still in the Oval Office, well at least, last we checked. So those are two things they need to question this morning.
The myth of multicultural America is just that, a myth.
Until 1965 the vast majority of the people came only from Europe (not all continents, not ‘all colors’).
“The Melting Pot” was a play written by a British writer not policy. The ‘pot’ was full of White European peoples, not the world.
As Stephen Miller so clearly explained to a dumbfounded press the poem connected to the statue of liberty (well after it was built) is just that, a poem. It was not, nor meant to be policy (which had clear racial restrictions and quotas).
As Bannon stated in an interview earlier today he hopes the Democrats keep talking about race and keep pushing identity politics, because it’s not a winning stragedy... he’s right.
Oh yeah, they’re down for the struggle.
Idiots!
Have you ever been to San Fran? I’ve never seen such a Chinese city, but it they are Chinese-AMERICANS - their families have been here since the Gold Rush and construction of the transcontinental railroad. I’d never seen Chinese policemen before, and they worked just about every job you’d see Anglos work anywhere else. Not a trace of an accent, no traditional garb - completely assimilated.
Where did the interned Japanese-Americans come from, or the Mexicans targeted by Eisenhower’s “Operation Wetback”? The Cubans fleeing Castro arrived here in NJ prior to 1965.
Maybe not all continents and colors, but certainly not limited to Europe - and those groups weren’t the public burden today’s immigrants often become.
No, dumb@$$3$, he meant MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. What else could it mean? He meant for all those jobs to be for everyone so they can get back on their feet after the Obama years. He meant that we would respect the military again and take care of our veterans.
CNN is the devil’s mouthpiece.
I think most people who voted for Trump will do so again; they are watching the media and politicians basically ignore the will of the voters. Hopefully he’ll add more people than they do...
-PJ
Only degenerates, perverts, social parasites, thugs, criminals, and liberals (but I repeat myself) have the right to be "proud."
I think one of his MAGA goals is an end to identity politics
I voted for Trump.
Last week I was a Russian.
This week I am a Nazi.
Next week I will be an Alien Space Invader.
He’s driving the Very Fake jounalists crazy to the extent that they can no longer hide their Marxist/ Communist roots!
CNN has completely lost its marbles. There is no walking back the stupidity anymore. Even if Trump were to lose in 2020, no amends can be made by CNN anymore if they decided to make some token gesture. No Republican will ever give them a chance again.
Their business model relies on outrageous lies mischaracterization and contrived headlines to sell eyeballs in ears and brains
To them it’s just business there is no morality to it
Bump
What you said is factual. All of it.
FUCNN
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