{"id":17738,"date":"2015-11-24T15:06:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T23:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=17738"},"modified":"2015-11-24T15:06:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T23:06:41","slug":"cnn-bigotry-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/24\/cnn-bigotry-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Bigotry Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">For some time I have been complaining that television media are helping the Republican Party and their allies, the Daesh, sow fear in Americans\u2019 hearts for political gain.&nbsp; However, I have seldom seen such blatant bigotry as I did from CNN\u2019s Carol Costello, as she tried to put words in a mayor\u2019s mouth.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1124Costello\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1124Costello\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1124Costello.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"203\">Is everyone as tired as I am of the media&#8217;s pants-wetting about Muslims? You&#8217;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 &#8212; shiver &#8212; Commies.  <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, media ignores the brownshirt behavior of our Republican candidates, pretending they&#8217;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&#8217;s political beginnings.  <\/p>\n<p>CNN&#8217;s Carol Costello just came right out with it during this segment with Hamtramck mayor Karen Majewski\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2015\/11\/cnn-anchor-asks-michigan-mayor-if-shes\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>&gt;  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"video-embed\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/207035\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I felt sorry for Costello over the pronunciation of the mayor\u2019s name, but I was appalled at her many attempts to coax Majewski into admitting fear for the <em>evil Muslims<\/em> in her city.&nbsp; On the other hand, Mayor Majewski was a superb example of how Americans should be acting.&nbsp; Major kudos to her.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some time I have been complaining that television media are helping the Republican Party and their allies, the Daesh, sow fear in Americans\u2019 hearts for political gain.&nbsp; However, I have seldom seen such blatant bigotry as I did from CNN\u2019s Carol Costello, as she tried to put words in a mayor\u2019s mouth. Is everyone <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/24\/cnn-bigotry-shows\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}