The Media’s Staggering Hypocrisy on the Trump Questioner

RedState ^ | September 21, 2015 | Leon H. Wolf

[2ndDivisionVet]

The media is right now freaking out that Donald Trump did not correct a questioner who suggested that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Obviously, I am not a fan of Donald Trump but this is completely asinine, and not only that, it is ridiculously hypocritical. Whether Barack Obama is a Muslim or not is of absolutely no importance at this point – he’s never running for election again.

Whether Barack Obama is a Muslim or not is, I would think, of far less import than whether 9/11 conspiracy theories are true or not. And yet, observe here when former Democratic Presidential candidate (and former Vice Presidential nominee) John Edwards was confronted with an insane question about whether the government was responsible for causing World Trade Center tower 7 to fall:

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Not only did Edwards fail to correct this obvious nutjob, but he publicly egged him on – promising that he would look into it and telling the guy to get his campaign staffer’s info and stay in touch.

Now here is the point – unless you are/were an everyday listener to conservative talk radio, you would have no memory or awareness that this interaction had ever occurred. I myself had nearly forgotten that it happened – because the media put this interaction into an absolute black hole and treated it like it never existed. In fact, it was extremely hard for me to find any record of this interaction having occurred using Google and checking news reports. If it weren’t for the habit 9/11 truthers have of obsessively saving YouTube clips of every major truther interaction that occurs, I wouldn’t have even been able to prove that this happened.

On the other hand, Trump not correcting a guy who thinks Barack Obama is a Muslim has been a national news story for four days now.

Grow up, media. There’s plenty of things to criticize Donald Trump for, but this isn’t one of those things.

[TheCipher]

I remember back in the last campaign, someone in Obamas audience yelled out something about the Republicans ( it may have been Romney specifically ). Someone in the press asked the press secretary if they condoned the statement. He said that they are not responsible for what someone yells out in a crowd. So the reporter came back and asked if that was the standard from now on - that candidates are not responsible for what their supporters may shout out in a crowd. The press secretary said of course that is the standard.

So, what happened to "the standard" ?

[Original Lurker]

Public schools have destroyed the intellect of your typical American.

Many, many years ago I spent an extended vacation in a small Swiss village with family via marriage. It was then I realized how dumb too many people in America honestly are..

[JohnnyP]

Dumb people, with smart phones.

Ever seen the Smart Car? It’s for dumb people, too.

[Bobby_Taxpayer]

Although the media like to dump on Trump, they do so even more because he is beating the Dems, not so much because he leads the Repubs.

[rhoda_penmark]

I see “Smart Water” at the grocery store in plastic bottles. I don’t think it’s working.

[BobL]

Nice to see people at Red State coming around and deciding that they prefer a candidate that might actually be able to win, for once.