Viral video of Trump supporters screaming at a reporter is a Rorschach test of America right now

[highplainsdem]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/16/politics/donald-trump-media-reporters/index.html

For Trump -- and those who support him, the video is a testament to the fact that "real" Americans have woken up to the fact that the media isn't playing it straight. That the gig is up. And that, in this specific instance of the coronavirus, the media is somehow complicit with those who want to keep the economy closed indefinitely.

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For me -- and I hope a lot of you -- the Vesey video (and Trump's framing of it) said something very different.

At the most basic level, Vesey was simply doing his job. He's a local TV reporter. When there's a protest -- particularly one related to the coronavirus pandemic -- he goes and covers it. That includes shooting video of the protesters as they assemble.

What he captured was people villainizing him for doing his job. Literally for documenting their decision to protest -- and for ensuring that their voices on the subject were heard. And for that he was screamed at, cursed at and condemned.

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What's even worse, Cillizza points out, is " the way in which the President and his side have seized on the video as some sort of totem of their righteousness -- proof that what they've been saying all along about the media is justified" in "an America where common decency is ignored in favor of rank, blind partisanship."

[Wounded Bear]

1. Just doing what Trump does all the time, attack the media...

the very media they need to publicize their event. We're living in bizarro world.

[Liberal In Texas]

8. Can't really understand what they're so angry about. They hate the media for just being the media.

Some of the strange comments like "...airing Cuomo briefing, go home..." Er yeah...he's the Governor and I guess that makes it fake news.

Apparently they think the news media is no good unless they're fawning all over His Orangeness.

[Wounded Bear]

9. They do what Trump and Faux sNooze tell them to do...

[maxrandb]

2. We should be screaming at every local radio station

That has fed our communities nothing but racism and hatred for 40 years.

[maxrandb]

3. I'm sorry, but if we don't start getting down in the mud with these fucksticks

and kicking the shit out of them, this won't stop until they are hunting us in the streets with DOJ approval.

I never thought it would come to this. I never thought I could be driven to this, but this very vocal minority needs to have their vocal cords ripped out by the majority that knows them for the pissant cowardly bullies they are.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. What you said sums it up pretty nicely and fits exactly what I was going to say...ditto!

And you're absolutely right, a minority of loudmouths who are cowardly bullies. The silent majority will vote these ridiculous thugs out in Nov. 2020...I can't wait.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

4. 100% of those clowns will vote!!!

[donkeypoofed]

6. How about no cameras anymore pointed at these people?!

It's like road rage - as soon as you look over and make eye contact, it's on !

It would also be interesting if someone could learn and publish the list of all those small business owners at these rallies, swearing at and intimidating the media. I'd like to never shop there ever again, even by accident.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. Just like streakers in the '70s -- deny them the attention they seek and they fade away.