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Tuesday, August 15, 2017

The Smoking Gun

After all the media attention to the death in Charlottesville when a crazy neo-Nazi drove his car into a crowd, this was a message tweeted on Twitter:

"Meanwhile: 39 shootings in Chicago this weekend, 9 deaths. No national media outrage. Why is that? http://abc7chicago.com/9-dead-30-wounded-in-weekend-shootings-across-chicago/2305976/ "

How does that tweet strike you?  Is it racist?  Clearly not since the majority of those 39 shootings in Chicago were of African Americans and the tweet asks why the media doesn't seem to care about those victims.  Is it white supremacist?  No, I don't see how you could twist it into that.

Nevertheless, the media says that this is a smoking gun when it comes to showing that President Trump does not really denounce Nazis and the KKK or any white supremacist group.  Seriously, that is the spin they put on the tweet.  Why, you may ask.  The answer is that the tweet came from a guy associated with the group they call the alt-right and the President (gasp) retweeted it.  For those who do not know, retweeting just means sending something you see on Twitter to the people who follow you on that medium.  It's important to note that retweeting is not either an endorsement or a denunciation of what gets sent.  Trump saw the tweet (which was all over the place) and sent it off to his followers.  For some in the media, that's unforgiveable.

The truth is that this whole mess has just gone too far.  It's getting ridiculous.  Retweeting a tweet that says something we should all agree upon is hardly racism.  Indeed, attacking the President for doing just that is delusional.  But the delusions don't stop there.  I just read that the Democrat congressmen who lead the congressional Black, Hispanic and Asian caucuses asked the President to fire his adviser Stephen Miller and others to show that there are no neo-Nazis in the White House.  Miller is Jewish.  The idea that these congressional morons would indicate that Miller is a Nazi is one of the worst things I've ever heard.  But it's one of those days when the media and the Democrats are in full feeding frenzy mode.  They want to smear anyone and everything associated with the President.

There's no smoking gun. (and that's not the result of gun control.)  There are no neo-Nazis in the White House.  There's only the constant hatred and over-reaction from the Democrat/media complex towards Trump.  At some point, that group is going to have to realize that they lost the election.  America is not going to change its mind next time on the basis of non-stop hate.  They are marching to oblivion and they don't even realize it.

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