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highplainsdem

(48,727 posts)
Sun Aug 13, 2017, 11:00 PM Aug 2017

Editorial from Murdoch's NY Post tonight: Trump badly missed the mark on Charlottesville

http://nypost.com/2017/08/13/trump-badly-missed-the-mark-on-charlottesville/

‘We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. On many sides.” Such was President Trump’s statement Saturday on the violence in Charlottesville, Va.

Really: That was it.

Yet “many sides” didn’t drive a car into a crowd, an evident act of terrorism that killed Heather Heyer, 32, and hospitalized many more, with some still in critical condition.

It shouldn’t be that hard to summon up a few Trumpian terms like “losers” and “really, really bad people” to describe the hundreds of neo-Nazis, Klansmen, white supremacists and the like who descended on the college town — not after one of them has killed an innocent.

No doubt the thousands of counterprotesters included a fringe of hard-left losers, such as the “antifa” thugs who seem to relish armed conflict. But the vast bulk of them had nothing to do with “hatred, bigotry and violence”: You don’t have to be any kind of radical to be anti-Nazi.

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Editorial from Murdoch's NY Post tonight: Trump badly missed the mark on Charlottesville (Original Post) highplainsdem Aug 2017 OP
NYT's Maggie Haberman points out this is the paper Trump reads most often: highplainsdem Aug 2017 #1
If he's lost Murdoch... Ken Burch Aug 2017 #2
He hasn't lost murdoch, just read tge last paragraph above. pangaia Aug 2017 #3
He ran a Bigot campaign so he can't disown his fellow haters Cicada Aug 2017 #4
Mucdoch is just covering his butt. Wellstone ruled Aug 2017 #5

Cicada

(4,533 posts)
4. He ran a Bigot campaign so he can't disown his fellow haters
Sun Aug 13, 2017, 11:38 PM
Aug 2017

He attacked Mexicans as thieves and racists, promised to wall them off. Promised to go after muslims. He ran as an authoritarian bigot, his voters are therefore bigots. So obviously he can't blast a bigot who drives his car into a crowd.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
5. Mucdoch is just covering his butt.
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 12:56 AM
Aug 2017

Has Fox Entertainment changed their stories,doubt that will ever happen.

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