Is Implying That Only Straight Conservative White Men Can Be Impartial Judges Racist? Views Differ!
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You may remember Jeffrey Lord from such classics as “3 police officers beating a handcuffed African-American to death with a 2-pound blackjack in Jim Crow Florida did not constitute a “lynching” and Shirley Sherrod was lying when she made this characterization” and “but voting against a conservative Supreme Court nominee in 1991 is totally a lynching.” By all rights, you would think he would be a footnote in the history of the wingnutosphere. But because of the felt needs for “balance” and Donald Trump’s tendency to say do whistles with an air raid siren next to a megaphone, Lord has found a niche as a CNN election commentator. This has gone as you might have expected, with assertions that Gonzalo Curiel is the REAL RACIST:
During a CNN panel discussion on Tuesday, former Reagan aide Jeffrey Lord argued that Donald Trump’s widely condemned comments about Judge Gonzalo Curiel were not, in fact, racist and were instead pointing out racism.
“Will you denounce what Trump said as racist?” asked fellow panel member Van Jones.
“It wasn’t racist,” replied Lord. “He’s calling attention to racism.”
Both sides only one side does it, and it’s the Democrat Party!
The Trump campaign is going to be a test of the media’s attempts to apply “balance” to even the most dishonest and repellent arguments. It will be interesting to see who tries to normalize Trump’s racism and who doesn’t.