This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features Georgetown University professor and media regular Michael Eric Dyson hitting the “unsagacity” of Donald Trump’s foreign policy editorial board interview with the Washington Post and referring to Hillary Clinton’s “keen intelligence.”
Dyson on ABC’s This Week Sunday: “Look at the Washington Post interview, the vast reaches of unsagacity that are revealed there, versus Hillary Clinton, whose keen intelligence…”
Dyson added: “Let’s talk about the record in this sense. The things that you named there – what Hillary Clinton has done as the Secretary of State is understood her role as an arbiter of an American will that is not artificially or arbitrarily imposed, but creates a kind of dialogue. What people find problematic about President Obama is that he will not carry a big stick. He will not have the bluster of a Donald Trump. It is intelligent diplomacy in the service of American ideals. And, ultimately, at the end of the day, what you didn’t mention was the police brutality issues that are here in America–”
Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal: “That’s a different story–”
Dyson: “What you didn’t mention – and this is what’s at stake, too – what you didn’t mention was the ability of Barack Obama to at least speak intelligently to the issues of domestic division that Donald Trump has now exploited to no end. And the Republican Party has to pay the tab for that.”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains the pick: “What an incoherent jumble of left-wing angst over the impending end of the Obama era and the possibility he’ll be succeeded, not by Hillary Clinton, but by Donald Trump. Who else but Dyson would, in defending Clinton, go in one sentence from praising Obama’s foreign policy to touting Obama’s skill at addressing supposed policy brutality?”
Rating: Three out of five screams.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
