\u201cI went to work early one morning, I mean really early. The sun wasn\u2019t up yet. I stared at the rows of (newsroom) computer screens, the empty desks. It looked surreal in a way, and right then and there, I realized that almost overnight management had turned the place I loved into this digital Disneyland, catering to kids with bouncy houses inside their heads, smart phones in their hands and with the attention span of Rhesus monkeys.”<\/em> \u00a0\u2014 Stepping on the Devil’s Tail<\/strong>, novel<\/p>\n Huffington Post Columnist Takes on Trump<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Finally, a\u00a0columnist\u00a0with the balls to challenge Trump and the other GOP candidates for spewing or not denouncing racism and fear.<\/span><\/p>\n Huffington Post’s Howard Fineman wrote in his column titled: \u00a0“Will America Succumb To Trumpism? The World Is Watching,” the following:<\/span><\/p>\n “The depth of accumulated unreality and even insanity represented by these stands have propelled Trump into the lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.”<\/span><\/p>\n Adding, “Two other GOP candidates are rising to challenge him, primarily by parroting Trump and Trumpism to the extent that they can. Indeed, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida appear to be, at least at this moment, the only two challengers capable of stopping Trump —\u00a0and they are, in many ways, as hair-raising as he is.”<\/span><\/p>\n This American home-grown and Trump-fueled bigotry is now being endorsed by White Supremacist groups says TV host Chris Hayes<\/a>. The campaign also parallels arguments and some of the words of then racist Gov. George Wallace’s political campaign, according to MSNBC.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n The problem is also CNN and MSNBC and most of the media that are so desperate for ratings and readers. So they allow Trump and the GOP Circus to go unabated and Trump’s full-blown bigotry to go unchallenged.<\/span><\/p>\n It’s all about the TV ratings’ wars that translate into profits, and it’s obvious.<\/span><\/p>\n The most recent example of this irresponsible reporting for profits is the incident involving the capture of Americans on Iranian waters. CNN and MSNBC Drama Queens have milked this incident for viewers by generously sprinkling on this story words like “urgent,” “Breaking News” and “this tenuous situation” “dangerous.” etc..<\/span><\/p>\n While the incident was still unresolved, the networks’ Merchants of Fear prop up the GOP candidates and other War Hawks at the stations to comment about how the Iranian Nuke deal (signed off by other countries like Britain, France, Germany) emboldened Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n CNN and MSNBC then allow John McCain and company to go on the air live and read from the Republican talking points and take turns bashing Obama’s “weak foreign” policy without being asked tough questions: Like, what would your party do in this situation? Do you believe that flexing American muscle right now will endanger U.S. servicemen who are still on Iranian soil? Why would Germany, Britain and France also sign off on this Iranian nuke deal if it is so bad for the free world?<\/span><\/p>\n But the networks continued to slowly and methodically bang the drums of war, of fear and aid and abett Trump’s bigotry that is now at a grand scale.<\/span><\/p>\n Wolf Blitzer and Chuck Todd are among the worst examples of this kind of journalism. Journalists who want to be loved by people they cover and so they never ask any tough questions, never challenge many of the people that they interview.<\/span><\/p>\n Doing so would inevitably result in these politicians not making repeat appearances on Wolf’s or Chuck’s programs resulting in cancellations of these “news shows.”<\/span><\/p>\n Also there is fear that the rest of the GOP candidates will ignore CNN and MSNBC because they will be asked tough questions and decided to permanently park the GOP Circus tent at Trump Central, a.k.a. FOX.<\/span><\/p>\n Tavis Smiley and Donald Trump<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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