Media ignore racial attack on Larry Elder because he’s a black Republican

The New York Post ^ | September 9, 2021 | Kyle Smith

[TBP]

Do a search for “Larry Elder” and gorilla on the CNN website and nothing comes up. Washington Post? Zilch. Nothing comes up on The New York Times site either, although if you make it to the 15th paragraph of a story titled “The Vice President pushed back against the effort to recall Newsom in the Bay Area,” you will find a bland passing reference to Wednesday’s disgusting incident.

According to our nation’s media leaders, it’s not a story that a white person wearing a gorilla mask attacked Larry Elder, a black man seeking to become the first non-white governor of California, by hurling an egg that touched his head.

If Elder were a Democrat, the attack would have been instantly and with good reason dubbed racist. It would not only be front-page news, it would be just about the only news you were hearing about today on CNN and MSNBC. Charles Blow, Perry Bacon and Jamelle Bouie would each be writing the first in a series of angry columns about it. So would Gail Collins, Jonathan Capehart, Jennifer Rubin, Michelle Goldberg, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, Dana Milbank and Ezra Klein.

We would be treated to multiple news analyses about the history of the usage of gorilla tropes against blacks. Joy-Ann Reid, Rachel Maddow and Don Lemon would be doing hour-long broadcasts on the attack, convening panels discussing just how the attack pulls the scab off racism in America, and proves we have so much work left to do in dealing with the problem. Vox would commission a series about California’s grim history of racism dating back to the Chinese Exclusion Act, and Asian-American and Latino writers would hasten to explain that California’s historic hostility to all sorts of persons of color is as traditional as its Tournament of Roses parade.

[TBP]

"Uppity black man who deigns to think for himself, to do for himself..."

[GOP Poet]

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[BenLurkin]

[Lurkinanloomin]

And they made such a big deal about macaca........

[conservative98]

Has this Democrat White Supremacist woman been caught yet?

[DIRTYSECRET]

Elder’s fault. His people should take no prisoners. They’re girlie-men.

[jcon40]

So they don’t have to do a follower up story on the attackers.

Who were probably paid.

From what I saw these street idiots definitely wouldn’t interview well.
Can’t juxtapose them against Larry ... articulate black man vs ignorant leftists .
Wouldn’t play well with any Dems still having common sense.
But that may be an oxymoron.

[livius]

This was scandalous. And the leftist media’s non-response was even more scandalous.

[TigersEye]

Media ignore racial attack on Larry Elder because he’s a black Republican they are the real racists. Democrats!

[frank ballenger]

This was scandalous. And the leftist media’s non-response was even more scandalous.

You're right.

[TBP]

Eggs? Were they out of Oreos? When Michael Steele ran for Senator from Maryland, the unions paid people to throw Oreo cookies at him in a debate.

[TBP]

[bray]

Blackface is only offensive if Repubs do it to Dems.

[Lurkinanloomin]

I can think of better things to throw at Michael Steele, rotten tomatoes, maybe.

[enumerated]

Leftists are disgusting hypocrites.

They pretend to care about various popular causes - like racial equality or women’s suffrage or the environment or gun violence - but they DON’T CARE!

They just want to divide and conquer - and empower themselves.

They are lying pieces of shit.

[SunkenCiv]

Partisan Media Shills alert.

[Tares]

Recall Governor Frenchy Newsom

[NetAddicted]

Yes, I was wondering why nobody was mentioning that African-Americans used to be compared to gorillas. I’m astounded that Democrats aren’t attacking her for her racist act.

[TBP]

I’m astounded that Democrats aren’t attacking her for her racist act.

I'd be astounded if they did.

[Sgt_Schultze]

White Republican women should pelt every elected black democrat with eggs, now that it is a valided dissent.