Posted on 08/18/2017 7:48:51 AM PDT by rktman
The upcoming cover of The New Yorker depicts President Trump in a boat with sails that resemble the hood of a Ku Klux Klansmen.
The cover art, titled "Blowhard" by artist David Plunkert, focuses on Trump's statements Tuesday in which he blamed "both sides" for violence caused by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend that left one dead and dozens injured.
Trump said there were "very fine people on both sides" of the protest that included neo-Nazis.
“President Trump’s weak pushback to hate groups — as if he was trying not to alienate them as voters — compelled me to take up my pen,” Plunkert said in a press release.
“A picture does a better job showing my thoughts than words do; it can have a light touch on a subject that’s extremely scary.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
At Byrd’s funeral, Bill Clinton gave a eulogy in which he justified Byrd’s membership in the Klan. It’s funny how the left didn’t have a problem with that.
Maybe someone should dig that speech of Slick’s up, make a graphic, spread it all over the inter webs/social media.
Here’s the youtube of Bill Clinton justifying Sheets Byrd’s KKK membership....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fg3XNTMzNo
Maybe we need to send this to the New Yorker...as a friendly reminder :-)
> Remember that time they did same cover with Sen. Byrd, an actual KKK member? <
Well, to be fair, Sen. Byrd only had a marginal involvement with the Klan. All he did was join the Klan, then organize a new Klan chapter. He was later elected to a high Klan position, that of Exalted Cyclops.
Oh, wait a minute. That doesn’t sound like a marginal involvement at all.
Agreed, they outrun their blockers and then run into a brick wall.
Were the Nazi flag wavers in any sense more committed to the tactics of thuggery than the "Antifa" thugs who appear to have initiated the rumble?
Please explain. To me, the better organized "neo-Nazis" were the "Antifa" examples. As for the media interpretation? I believe that the pro-Nazi media in the then Socialist Germany reported that the "Kristol Nacht" thuggery was provoked. Was it? Was the "Antifa" thuggery in anyway better juetified?
The President's comments last Tuesday were spot on. Any equivocation will not show him more offended by Nazi tactics; rather exactly the opposite.
I am sure that The New Yorker is very pleased with itself.
They can congratulate themselves on a magazine cover that very few Americans will ever see.
New Yorker, CNN, WaPo et al imbibe each others lies while their shrinking influence dies. They talked themselves into believing Clinton would win and ignored the obvious: that she could not reliably draw a crowd of a few hundred while Trump drew 10-20 thousand people twice a day. They knew their polls oversampled Democrats but ignored that fact. They were so intent on shaping rather than reporting that they became blind to reality. They are victims of their own lies.
And they’re still doing it.
They’ve learned nothing.
They’re damaged goods.
I don't know the makeup of the crowd in Charlottesville, but I assume that the pro-statue group was not all extremists and neo-Nazis but included people there out of curiosity or because they don't like the Left's attack on Southern heritage.
The Nazis in WWII (and before) were horrible. Some of my relatives were killed in WWII fighting the Germans, but I am sure there were lots of decent men in the German army who were not Nazis, just citizens who had to serve because their country was at war.
You argue very well. That’s a skill most of the Left sorely lacks. I just think it would be better if Trump specifically and clearly denounce both sides. His opposition to the Antifa thuggery can be clarified. The danger here is for Trump to be misunderstood. A President’s stances have to be clear. He doesn’t have to be a puppet of the press in doing so. He needs to illuminate the path forward in the minds of Americans.
Again, it is all in how it is nuanced!
Agreed
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