Bill Maher Smacks Media For Uncritical Coverage of Trump's Racism | CrooksAndLiars

[Fred Sanders]

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/08/bill-maher-smacks-media-uncritical

"Bill Maher took on the uncritical media and their coverage of Donald Trump's unbridled hate speech toward immigrants in this country, after shaming Republicans for not standing up against it.

Dana Rohrabacher (R-Stupid), defended Trump's xenophobia by claiming he's defending middle class Americans who are adversely affected by illegal immigration. That is utter bullshit. Middle class people benefit from immigrants who aren't afraid to do the jobs they don't want to do.

Wendy Davis jumped in and called it what it is: Race-baiting. She went on to say "It's a page right out of the George Wallace playbook."

Michael Weiss nailed it when he said Trump is "a European-style demagogic politician in the American context." That's exactly right, and I'd go one step farther and agree with this article calling Trump a "proto-fascist.""

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"With that said, Maher takes on the whole thing, taking on the media monster that surrounds Trump, mocking them for claiming they have to cover him because he's at the top of the polls.

Maher supposes, "Maybe he's at the top of the polls because you cover him endlessly.""
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[rurallib]

1. sadly, with the media all owned by the corporations

Maher's show is about as far as it will go.

[winstars]

2. I understand that Jon Stewart wanted out but I really really miss that show at the moment.

Bill Maher and John Oliver aren't enough.

Stewart and Colbert gone leave a huge hole. Colbert back on 9/8 will help but Jon helped sooth all this bullshit we are subjected on a daily basis.