Iron fist of bigotry in velvet media glove
Not long ago, blatant expressions of racial and ideological bigotry were, properly, on the far side of the public discourse margins. But no more.
Political passion has led many a mainstream media commentator to freely proclaim foul prejudices. Two examples have recently sprung up.
* On the 9/4 edition of his Fox News program, Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace interviewed Dr. Ben Carson. Carson had accompanied Donald Trump in Detroit. Wallace essentially asserted that he finds it beyond possibility that a black man might reach conclusions independent of an imagined norm.
"Do you worry that you're being used as a prop for black voters and that supporting Donald Trump will end up hurting your credibility in the black community," Wallace asked.
In the host's tilted reckoning, world-renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson is too obtuse to understand some deceitful strategy the wiser Wallace cleverly discerns. Wallace also seems convinced that blacks think as a monolith, ostracizing ideological heretics accordingly.
* Detroit Free Press columnist Rochelle Riley wasted no time on implications or euphemisms. In her 9/3 entry, "Trump got what he came to Detroit for -- now what?," Trump at the black church was sneeringly dismissed as merely an interloping "white boy" -- and one without rhythm, at that.
"He stood along with a mighty choir, and did the white boy sway, occasionally watching Omarosa to see when to clap."
Illustrating both an embrace of the 'thought monolith' theory Wallace enunciates and her apparent conviction that the 2016 election is a matter of racial duty, Riley wags a finger.
"Should black America be asking Trump for anything, or should they be working like hell to make sure he's not elected?"
(Also worth note is the recently reported order by Reuters that its church cameraman shut off filming, lest he capture the presentation of a prayer shawl to Trump.)
By their shame-free doing, Wallace, Riley, and a legion of their biased colleagues (including most everyone featured on processed television news product) imprint unerasably their ideological ugliness. And, despite evidence easily available in their published utterances, they would doubtless reject charges of racial and ideological bias.
They are just that bad. And they have no intention of improving themselves.
Not long ago, blatant expressions of racial and ideological bigotry were, properly, on the far side of the public discourse margins. But no more.
Political passion has led many a mainstream media commentator to freely proclaim foul prejudices. Two examples have recently sprung up.
* On the 9/4 edition of his Fox News program, Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace interviewed Dr. Ben Carson. Carson had accompanied Donald Trump in Detroit. Wallace essentially asserted that he finds it beyond possibility that a black man might reach conclusions independent of an imagined norm.
"Do you worry that you're being used as a prop for black voters and that supporting Donald Trump will end up hurting your credibility in the black community," Wallace asked.
In the host's tilted reckoning, world-renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson is too obtuse to understand some deceitful strategy the wiser Wallace cleverly discerns. Wallace also seems convinced that blacks think as a monolith, ostracizing ideological heretics accordingly.
* Detroit Free Press columnist Rochelle Riley wasted no time on implications or euphemisms. In her 9/3 entry, "Trump got what he came to Detroit for -- now what?," Trump at the black church was sneeringly dismissed as merely an interloping "white boy" -- and one without rhythm, at that.
"He stood along with a mighty choir, and did the white boy sway, occasionally watching Omarosa to see when to clap."
Illustrating both an embrace of the 'thought monolith' theory Wallace enunciates and her apparent conviction that the 2016 election is a matter of racial duty, Riley wags a finger.
"Should black America be asking Trump for anything, or should they be working like hell to make sure he's not elected?"
(Also worth note is the recently reported order by Reuters that its church cameraman shut off filming, lest he capture the presentation of a prayer shawl to Trump.)
By their shame-free doing, Wallace, Riley, and a legion of their biased colleagues (including most everyone featured on processed television news product) imprint unerasably their ideological ugliness. And, despite evidence easily available in their published utterances, they would doubtless reject charges of racial and ideological bias.
They are just that bad. And they have no intention of improving themselves.
posted by DC Larson at
September 05, 2016
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