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Originally Posted by MissBrattified
The media didn't "latch" onto this because they know they would have to take his statements out of context. He was describing his personal experience as "white trash", being on the same socio-economic level as the black community when he was a young man. He said the black people he worked with in the cotton fields seemed happy and weren't singing the blues; he didn't state, nor did he even imply, that he approves of racism. If anything, those statements imply that he felt like he fit in with the black community at that time, and further serve to illustrate his own "suck it up and don't whine" pragmatic mentality. Even the liberal MSM knew better than to run with that story.  |
This part of the GQ interview has been covered by every MSM outlet I have seen. Haven't checked them all, and I'm not inclined to, but CNN, Huffington Post and MSNBC all have it. The evil-liberal-MSM card is tired of being played, if you ask me.
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