Posted on 09/11/2016 4:18:24 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Hillary Clinton Was Politically Incorrect, but She Wasn't Wrong About Trump's Supporters
Clinton said half of Donald Trump’s supporters were prejudiced. If anything, her numbers are too low.
Ta-Nehisi Coates Sep 10, 2016
This week Matt Lauer was subject to withering criticism for his ineffectual interrogation of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. In a litany of complaints, one rose above all—Lauer’s failure to challenge Trump’s mendacious claim that he opposed the Iraq War. That Trump was lying is not a matter of opinion, but demonstrable fact.
Lauer’s inability to cite the record was a striking journalistic failure—but one related to the larger failures implicit in political reporting today. Political reporting, as it is now practiced, is a not built for a world where outright lying is one candidate’s distinguishing feature. And the problem is not limited to the lies the candidate tells, but encompasses the lies we tell ourselves about why the candidate exists in the first place.
Yesterday, Hillary Clinton claimed that roughly “half of Trump’s supporters” could be characterized as either “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it.” Clinton hedged by saying she was being “grossly generalistic” but given that no one appreciates being labeled a bigot, that statement still feels harsh––or if you prefer, “politically incorrect.”
One way of reporting on Clinton’s statement is to weigh its political cost, ask what it means for her campaign, or attempt to predict how it might affect her performance among certain groups. This path is in line with the current imperatives of political reporting and, at least for the moment, seems to be the direction of coverage. But there is another line of reporting that could be pursued—Was Hillary Clinton being truthful or not?
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
He IS black.....that does explain it....he is still on the RACIST PLANATION of the Democrat Party!
I wonder if they will next fess up that they know that most of Trumps politically incorrect statements were also spot-on; you know, as a way to show they're being fair.....
No. Mocha.
I doubt it will approach ten percent, but it’s a start. ;)
My hope is that they will Google him and learn about the insidious process of dehumanization. The left eschews moral absolutes, yet it has no qualms about dehumanizing entire classes whom they perceive as threats.
I'm waiting for the "Deplorables" line from the Official Trump Pence Campaign store.
What I don't believe that the writer and liberals can see is that everyone (short of Helen Keller) harbors some prejudice. Not enough prejudice that most people would not hire the most qualified candidate for a job on the basis of race, sex or sexual orientation.
But few (if any) liberals, including the writer, would go for a stroll through a Chicago 'hood at 1 AM on a weekend. Including most who live there.
At least 99% of Trump supporters are prejudiced. So are at least 99% of Clinton supporters, 99% of Johnson supporters and 99% of Jill Stein supporters. And based on the "tell all" books by Clinton's Secret Service detail, Hillary Clinton is one of the worst offenders herself.
Mr. Coates is another in a long line of black racists.
Now it’s a shorter march from the basket to the box cars...
I don’t know, I’m kinda happy to be considered “deplorable” by radical leftists, means I must be doing something right!
The Atlantic is filled with garbage, crabs and sewage.
It’s also the name of an ocean.
Donald Trump is Politically Incorrect, but he isn’t Wrong.
F*uck you, Mr Ta-hitian. Don't like it, Liberia is east.
This magazine is going downhill. It is turning into a publication full of vitriol and rage. WaPo took that road, too. It almost looks as if DU moved into them and took over.
This fellow is one of those Booker T. Washington warned us of...
“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well.”
Hillary has been in the public eye for thirty five years, and only now do we get insight into her soul.
Remarkable!
Sounds to me that they should be suing the Democrat party for all of that, eh?
By the way, my ancestors were northerners who didn’t own slaves and my great-great-uncle was killed at the Battle of Plain Store fighting to free the slaves.
...That means I’m off the hook, right?
Hillary split the country into two groups, deplorable and not deplorable
To which basket do Paula Jones, Kathline Wiley, and all of the women who were raped by Bill Clinton, fall into
She started using that term earlier in the week as this interview on Israel TV proves it. That was going to be her scripted comment for the week for all her surrogates to use
She said on Israel TV Chanel 2 earlier in the week. Watch and listen to the entire 20 minute interview. Very eye evening. Her comment was scripted and it backfired.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/BqUW4ZeJssA
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