Conservatives are getting the last laugh
Giancarlo Sopo
Surely, when "CNN Tonight" host Don Lemon invited anti-Trump
Republican Rick Wilson and New York Times writer Wajahat Ali on his program,
the last thing that crossed his mind was that their appearance would boost
Republicans' 2020 prospects. Yet, that's exactly what may have happened after
the trio mocked supporters of the president as uneducated hillbillies.
On Tuesday evening, the Republican National Committee launched a new ad in response to Lemon, Wilson, and Ali ridiculing
the 63 million voters who backed President Trump in 2016.
What happened?
Wilson began belittling Trump
voters after he was
asked by Lemon about reports that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo challenged an NPR reporter to
point to Ukraine on a map.
"Look ... [Pompeo] knows deep in his heart that Donald Trump
couldn't find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter U and a picture of an
actual physical crane next to it," Wilson said as Lemon and Ali began
laughing uncontrollably.
"He knows that this is, you know, an administration defined by
ignorance of the world, and so that's partly him playing to their base and
playing to their audience," Wilson continued, describing the president's
supporters as "the credulous boomer rube demo that backs Donald Trump,
that wants to think that 'Donald Trump's the smart one, and y'all — y'all
elitists are dumb.'"
Ali then joined in on the mockery with a fake southern accent: "You
elitists with your geography and your maps and your spelling ... your reading
... knowing other countries ... sipping your latte."
'They Think You're a Joke'
The segment was heavily criticized by political observers, especially
conservatives who said the trio's remarks exposed what elite Democrats truly
think of rural Americans and could even bolster the president's re-election
efforts. Even liberal commentator Soledad O'Brien blasted it as "not being worthy of being on a
newscast."
Wilson and Ali's mockery of small-town conservatives as ignorant may have
brought out tears of laughter in Don Lemon, but it seems like Republicans will
have the last laugh at CNN's expense with the RNC turning the segment into a
commercial.
The one-minute ad features clips of the three men laughing at conservatives, along with Hillary Clinton's infamous "basket of deplorables" comment and remarks from other prominent Democrats—namely Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden—disparaging supporters of President Trump.
The CNN segment then begins to fade as the words "They think you're
a joke" appear on the screen in large white letters, concluding with
"Prove them wrong in November."
Giancarlo Sopo, The Blaze, January 29,
2020
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