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| Our Overlord-In-Waiting clearly disapproved of Cokie Roberts' impertinent questions / YouTube Screenshot |
This discussion between Cokie Roberts and The Donald on MSNBC news-talk program Morning Joe made Donnie plenty mad. When asked whether he’s concerned that his rhetoric has inspired white kids and youth to engage in hate speech in at least a handful of widely-reported incidents, he ducked the question. Instead, he angrily dismissed her question as “nasty.”
Sometime after this incident, a syndicated
op-ed column Cokie and her husband had published about a week earlier,
urging the GOP to do what they can to stop Trump – now, “was brought to NPR’s
attention.”
Which caused yours truly to do this:
WTH, NPR?!? Taking positions on matters of public import is what Commentators DO. It's THEIR JOB. It was once my job (albeit at my college newspaper’s lofty wage of $0.75 per column inch.) Why on Earth should a COMMENTATOR have to justify her commentary?
These BS maneuvers by NPR reek of "#Trump threatened to sue the HELL out of us so we're scrambling to limit liability [even though he has NO EFFING CASE]." Why the hell are they going to such lengths to, well, kinda humiliate Cokie-freaking-Roberts over no apparent wrong-doing on her part? Don’t they realize that caving only encourages a bully?!?
But then I settled down some and
decided to tackle the issue with a calmer, more well-reasoned approach. So let’s examine the story’s more troubling
elements one at a time.
