That. Did. Not. Go. Over. Well. At. All.
Chris Enloe
CNN correspondent Randi Kaye asked
eight Dallas-area women on Tuesday's "Anderson Cooper 360" if they
thought President Donald Trump's recent tweets attacking four progressive
congresswomen are racist — and it did not go over well for CNN.
"How many of you don't think what
the president said is racist?" Kaye asked the women, all of whom are Trump
supporters.
In unison, all the women raised their
hands.
The women told Kaye:
·
"I'm a brown-skinned woman. I am a legal
immigrant. I agree with [Trump]."
·
"He was saying that if they hate America
so much because what we're seeing out of them and hearing out of them — they
hate America. If it's so bad, there's a lot of places they can go."
·
"Actually, I think it's a demonstration
of how their ideology spills over even though they're American now, so to
speak."
·
"They're not acting American."
·
"We know the president is not racist. He
loves people from Hispanics to black people — all across the board."
One exchange in particular highlighted
the narrative CNN sought to push.
"I'm glad the president said what
he said because all they're doing is — they're inciting hatred and division and
that's not what our country is about. It's not about that at all—," one of
the women told Kaye.
"But isn't that what the
president does with some of his own comments?" Kaye interjected. "His
own racist comments?"
"But he didn't say anything about
color," the woman shot back.
Still, Kaye continued to push the
media narrative that Trump is racist by directly reciting the definition of
racism from Webster's Dictionary.
"He dated a black woman for two
years. Two of his wives are immigrants. He is not a xenophobic racist,"
one woman told Kaye in response.
Then the women turn on Kaye
After Kaye seemingly defended Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and company, one woman called out Kaye and
CNN for asking politically manipulative questions.
"Whoever wrote these questions up
is — it's clear that they're very manipulative to accuse instead of extracting
the truth," the woman said. "Because when you say, you know, 'Don't
you think he's racist?' You're accusing us; you're accusing [Trump]."
"I'm asking; I'm not
accusing," Kaye shot back. "I'm asking you what you think."
"It's not relevant. It has
nothing to do with the real issue," the same woman responded. "Why do
you keep bringing it up?"
When Kaye asked if it is just a
"coincidence" the women that Trump is targeting are not white, one of
the women shut down Kaye
.
"I don't think it matters. It's
idiotic what [the congresswomen] are saying. It doesn't matter whether they're
white, man, woman, brown, yellow, anything," the woman said.
Another woman added, "I'm worried
[the congresswomen] are racist. How come they haven't befriended one of their
white, female congresswoman colleagues and let her join the group."
"I don't think it matters. It's idiotic, what they're saying, so it doesn't matter if they're black or white."— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) 17 de julho de 2019
Female Trump voters in Dallas, TX, deny any element of racism in the President's comments aimed at four Democratic lawmakers, all of whom are women of color. pic.twitter.com/wX3fouhHNy
Chris Enloe, The Blaze, July 17, 2019
Too many people today act as if no one can honestly disagree with them. If you have a difference of opinion with them, you are considered to be not merely in error but in sin. You are a racist, a homophobe or whatever the villain of the day happens to be.
ResponderExcluirThomas Sowell