This week’s Liberal Media Scream features the soft-spoken Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson calling out ABC’s George Stephanopoulos and others who are whipped up with Trump Derangement Syndrome and are trying to find any reason to attack the president.
On Sunday’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Carson scolded host Stephanopoulos after he tied Trump to the KKK because Trump’s scheduled convention acceptance speech falls on the same date as a horrible race crime called “Ax Handle Saturday.”
Brushing off the host, Carson said, “We’ve reached a point in our society where we dissect everything and try to ascribe some nefarious notion to it. We really need to move away from that.” He added, “It really gets to a point of being ridiculous after a while, and we’re going to have to grow up as a society.”
From Sunday’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos:
Stephanopoulos: “Finally sir, the president’s convention acceptance speech is now scheduled for Jacksonville on Aug. 27, which is the 60th anniversary of ‘Ax Handle Saturday,’ when a KKK mob attacked mostly black civil rights protesters. Is it appropriate to be having a convention speech on that anniversary in that city?”
Carson: “You know, we’ve reached a point in our society where we dissect everything and try to ascribe some nefarious notion to it. We really need to move away from that. We need to move away from being offended by everything, of going through history and looking at everything, you know, of renaming everything. I mean, think about the fact that some of our universities, some of our prestigious universities, have a relationship with the slave trade. Should we go and rename those universities? It really gets to a point of being ridiculous after a while, and, you know, we’re going to have to grow up as a society.”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our weekly pick: “Stephanopoulos illustrated the desperation too many journalists have to vilify President Trump by trying to hold him culpable for a coincidence of dates, desperately digging through Google to find something to connect to him. But like a disappointed dad scolds his wayward son taken in by silly concerns, Carson firmly put Stephanopoulos in his place for trying to elevate such a petty attack.”
Rating: Three out of five screams.
