For some time I have been complaining that television media are helping the Republican Party and their allies, the Daesh, sow fear in Americans’ hearts for political gain. However, I have seldom seen such blatant bigotry as I did from CNN’s Carol Costello, as she tried to put words in a mayor’s mouth.
Is everyone as tired as I am of the media’s pants-wetting about Muslims? You’d think we were living back in the McCarthy era when the Commies were all coming to get us and our best friends might have been — shiver — Commies.
Meanwhile, media ignores the brownshirt behavior of our Republican candidates, pretending they’re just engaging in the normal rhetoric of the day. Because Muslims can be scary to them. Scarier than Donald Trump doing his impression of Hitler’s political beginnings.
CNN’s Carol Costello just came right out with it during this segment with Hamtramck mayor Karen Majewski….
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I felt sorry for Costello over the pronunciation of the mayor’s name, but I was appalled at her many attempts to coax Majewski into admitting fear for the evil Muslims in her city. On the other hand, Mayor Majewski was a superb example of how Americans should be acting. Major kudos to her.
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If Hamtramck's citizens are scared of Muslims, why would they elect a majority Muslim city council? Did Carol Costello ever graduate from Kindergarten? Kudos to Mayor Majewski for not calling Costello an idiot on national television.
Oh, and P.S. – You are kinder than I am. I could not feel sorry for someone who had not done her basic homework.
The mayor explains city politics in a nutshell, for any who do not understand cities any better than they understand religion or other demographics.
I watched this yesterday and almost included this in today's Open Thread. I was aghast at Costello's temerity. That is fair and balanced reporting? I thought that reporters were supposed to report the news, not be active in the news.
Mayor Karen Majewski was excellent at deflecting this hate mongering.
No doubt it's just the fact that I don't have cable TV – but it appears your screen grabs have cropped out the …
Sign I'm sure CNN included WRT helping with the fear- mongering by Rethuglicans.
CNN USED to be a half-way decent sourse of news. Now it's just a "Faux News" wannabe.
I was so glad to hear the mayor correct the heavy-handed way that talking head!! She was so bigoted in the way she asked her if her town was scared of the people that were elected to serve her city! What a CROCK OF B.S.!
CNN is faux light and I can't stand to watch them anymore. I am familiar with Hamtramck from living in the Detroit area in the seventies. It has always been a middle to lower middle class city. It has also had problems with keeping its streets paved, etc, due to the low tax base. Deaborn, Mi, has a higher population of Muslims percentage wise, but these are people associated mostly with the hospitals and auto industry. The mayor held her ground well, and stood up to the Muslim trashing that CNN does so well. Kudos to her. As I have said before, our little town has a mosque, and we don't expect to see terrorists leaving it, just people we know. Fear mongering may be the way Republicans expect to be elected, but they are certainly not helping the country with it.
I agree with you all. CNN is becoming Faux Lite.
Well I've heard CNN be called Faux News light here more than once and it seems to be very fitting. If a (small) cities demographics are about 40% Muslim and its citizens elect a Muslim majority to its city council and the (elected?) mayor of that city is a white woman it doesn't take too much brain power to conclude that the general population doesn't fear Muslims but either trust them and thinks they are well adapted or isn't bothered enough to go vote against them. But if you're bigoted at CNN you do your homework badly and then invite that mayor, who clearly isn't bigoted, and try to put the word FEAR into her mouth. Good for her – and the city she serves – she didn't have any of it.
Indeed as the Mayor said, most of us are concerned about the day to day issues when we walk out the door. Will I have a job tomorrow, will my child pass her test at school, can we repair the swings in the park…you know day to day stuff. The Media talks about everything except what it needs to talk about.