NABJ tried to have a dialogue with Trump. Instead, it gave him a microphone
NABJ tried to have a dialogue with Trump. Instead, it gave him a microphone
Why would a reputable association for Black journalists decide to platform a candidate with a history of disdain for the media?
It gave him a microphone that helped hang himself. It was nothing but a PR disaster for him. NABJ is a journalist organization. Journalists should talk to opposition candidates, as well as friendly candidates.
he was probably hoping they would push back more, so he could say "see!? [insert racist stereotype] just like you thought they would!!!"
Journalists should talk to opposition candidates...
Only if they're willing to call them out on their shit. Most of the time, "journalists" allow contemptuous liars and fascists to spout their nonsense unchallenged. This was a rare case where the journalists asked good questions and held Trump's feet to the fire.
Good on the people at the NABJ for not holding back.
True. But not sociopathic narcissists who try to overthrow the government and have been convicted of massive fraud and lying about their rapes.
It worked out, yes, but not so for CNN or a bunch of other groups that pretended this person was close to normal.
That’s the difference. They held him to account in front of a camera in a way CNN hasn’t before. They didn’t treat him like a normal person.
Another way to look at it: They gave him some rope, and what he chose to do with it was up to him. He went there to appeal to black voters but instead made a racist fool of himself.
I can't speak for "why" they chose to platform him, but on the bright side, it did seem to backfire spectacularly.
This like the 3rd time I've used this article quote, but it's just so illustrative of the whole debacle that it's worth repeating:
Facing three Black women, he insulted the first Black woman on the top of a major-party ticket and seemed perfectly comfortable disparaging his hosts, even as he tried to appeal to Black voters as their best choice for safeguarding Black well-being.
-- Trump Questions Harris’s Racial Identity, Saying She Only ‘Became Black’ Recently
At this point in the game, he's already got the racist vote locked up. Anyone still on the fence should look at that and ask themselves if that's really who they want.
So Kamala was also invited to speak, but she had to be at a funeral and couldn’t come. She offered to do it on Zoom, but the NABJ declined. To me this is more an indictment of them. I heard an interview with Jamele Hill, who is a member of NABJ since 1992, and she’s says that most members are angry that they chose not to let Kamala attend via Zoom, and there’s a good chance that the entire NABJ leadership will be voted out at the next election over this.
They did give Trump a microphone, but he probably just used it to crap all over himself with black voters. The affluent black voters will vote for him because they’re convinced that he’ll lower their taxes, and that’s all they care about, but I can’t see this helping him and only hurting with the average black voter.
So Kamala was also invited to speak, but she had to be at a funeral and couldn’t come. She offered to do it on Zoom, but the NABJ declined. To me this is more an indictment of them
I'm willing to give them a pass on this because Trump complained that he had wanted to do the interview remotely and they had also declined for him.
It sounds like the ground rules for both included "it has to be in person" and the NABJ stuck to their guns on that.
That’s a pretty disingenuous interpretation of this event.
That’s because it is intentional subterfuge to try and diffuse the PR disaster.
gave him a microphone to bury himself. the interview wasn't very good for his campaign
What kind of tie would you like, Mr. tRump?
Give me the longest, cheapest tie you got.
We have this tie here, but it's meant to be a novelty tie for depressed clowns to hang themselves with.
Give me a dozen.
Some goober on Twitter
So? We don't need a running stream of random 200% zoom bad Twitter comments. It's a bad place, you'll find an ideal idiot for any story. That idiots exist is neither enlightening nor important.
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