This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features TV One’s Roland Martin on Sunday’s “This Week” on ABC charging that the Republican Party, in wooing the Tea Party and now Donald Trump, “invited evil in and not evil is taking over.”
He said: “This is their problem. They invited evil in and now evil is taking over, okay. 2009, the night of Obama’s inauguration, ‘we will stop him at every turn.’ They loved the Tea Party anger. They took advantage of it in ’10 and ’12 and ’14. They always said, ‘we can control it. We can harness it.’ Now, all of a sudden, Trump is taking advantage of it. He led the whole birther deal. The Republican establishment at some point has to say, ‘you know what, we played with fire and now it’s about to consume us.'”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our scream of the week pick: “There’s lots of evil in the world, but Martin, who in 2013 was named ‘Journalist of the Year’ by the National Association of Black Journalists, sees it so easily in conservatives who want constitutional government. If socialists take over the Democratic Party, will he see them as evil or just compassionate people who want to help others?”
Rating: Four out of five screams.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
