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.
That's his legacy
Two more perspectives if you care to watch. One is an HBO production called ‘Vice’. The other is a well spoken young woman explaining what happened in her opinion. She was there as well.
https://www.facebook.com/newlypress/videos/vb.1859948660936173/1870300736567632/?type=2&theater
https://news.vice.com/story/vice-news-tonight-full-episode-charlottesville-race-and-terror
I’ll be 79 in 2020 and God willing I plan to vote for President Trump again in 2020. In the TN primary and on 3rd November the day of the general election
True, but immigration was strongly focused on Europe. Until the 1965 Hart-Cellar Act America was effectively a White European country (around 88% White; 10% Black; 2% those others you mention).
The Chinese assimilated because there were so few of them and because the existing population defended its culture and didn’t celebrate diversity.
The myth we are been sold is that America was always the multicultural flophouse it is today. That is untrue.
Time-Lies, boycott Time-Warner. Defund the Left. Starve the Beast
Yes, it was a put on. His whole candidacy and administration was based on fraud
And the media played along with it. Never once did they ask about that “unity” after Jan 2009. It was 8 years of racial hatred and bigotry from Obama and his minions
How in the world can it be racist for a citizen to protest the removal of a monument that was constructed by a government committee ? These people are seriously deranged.
The Chinese assimilated because they were here for so long; there weren’t few of them, but masses of them brought over to work on the railroads. You’re right that the Americans did defend their culture - because they were allowed to define a culture back then.
The communist agitators at CNN just never stop lying. Every word is a lie, even "and" and "the".
It’s easy to tear down ... have those three worthless idiots ever actually built anything? Do they have the intellectual or moral capacity to do so?
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