What’s good for the goose should be good for the gander.
Media bigots skewered Donald Trump for not swiftly denouncing former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke in a weekend interview — a miscommunication due to a faulty ear piece, he claimed — and continue to hound the Republican presidential frontrunner, who has disavowed the white supremacist since then and on numerous other occasions.
Yet ink fascists wet-nursed President Obama’s indifference to dead Americans when he went golfing minutes after commiserating with the nation over journalist James Foley’s 2014 beheading. They also babied him when he conceded — without apology — that he “should have anticipated the optics.”
Islamic State terrorists released a sickening video that summer showing Foley, 40, kneeling and pleading in his final breaths, “I wish I had more time, I wish I could have the hope for freedom to see my family once again,” before a masked thug sliced off his head with a knife.
Obama responded to the national horror and loss with a hollow press conference before hitting the links to yuk it up with his golfing buddies, while his journalist groupies tried to diminish his nauseating nonchalance:
• “Terrorist Horror, Then Golf: Incongruity Fuels Obama Critics,” reasoned a New York Times headline.
• “Obama: Golfing after condemning James Foley’s execution was a mistake,” mitigated a CNN screamer.
No such luck for Republican Trump:
• “KKK Leader Finds Donald Trump a Great Recruiting Tool,” thundered Time.
• “Donald Trump declines to condemn KKK leader” roared CBS News.
Late Democratic senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a Klansman who voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act, enjoyed an enduring career as the longest-serving member in Congress history until his death in 2010, free of the media vultures now circling Trump.
It’s high time the mainstream communications industry reaffirmed its allegiance to a free press and questioned President Obama’s ties to proud black supremacists like Al Sharpton, who incites racial violence and calls people “crackers,” “homos,” “punk faggots,” and “Chinamen.”
But first it must stop being the commander-in-chief’s personal pooper-scooper.
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