CBC vs. Applied Auster
October 31, 2015
ED HUNTER writes:
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation wanted to do a video on the Trump movement. They are a Leftie organization, but they treated us more or less fairly. I am in the video and they tried to trip me up with the usual racist stuff, but I think I deflected it, Auster-style. I refused to toe the PC line, which shocked them.
— Comments —
Eric writes:
That was a hit piece on Trump – it was all about tarring him with the ‘R’ word …
B.E. writes:
Was this CBC article funded by the SPLC? I suppose it’s even better for Morris Dees if it isn’t, because he could claim “objectivity” were he to shake down his donor base with this video.
Notice the title: “How Donald Trump Appeals to Angry Republicans.” Angry is liberalspeak for
“irrational,” and irrational means that neither the people nor their arguments need to be taken
seriously. (The epithet is never used when people’s anger―for example, at injustice; at the invasion of their country; at their marginalization; at the covert war being waged against them―might be justified.) Notice also the bias: there was no discussion of Trump’s appeal among “regular” folks; very few “normal” people who support Trump were in the article; and the inclusion of the wannabe blackshirts was gratuitously inflammatory.
Finally, kudos to Ed Hunter. Keep fighting the good fight!
Paul C. writes:
Ed got it right, and you got it right for posting it. Here is the link one can use to control the dialogue and see exactly what was said.
Immediately after the network inappropriately focused on an irrelevant, misnamed The White Traditionalist Party, a tony neo-Nazi group—the reason for the poster’s “more or less”—and getting the expected rejection of such groups by the Trump organization, Ed is challenged. And Ed shines:
Interviewer: People who are looking at people supportive of Donald Trump and like to be critical of it longs for the past . . . that it is mostly white people afraid of losing.
Hunter: Aw you should be.
Interviewer: They are afraid of losing the power they once had.
Hunter: [Exasperated.] Well, I don’t think it’s that simple. I don’t think people . . . I don’t think white people think of themselves as supremacists who want to control another group. I have never heard anybody say I want to dominate over this group. You know what they want . . . they want more than anything? They want to be left alone. They don’t want to have to be fighting hordes and hordes of people from foreign cultures that are utterly changing their country to the core. You go into any airport, any public building, any public school, and you look at what it is now compared to the way it was thirty, thirty years ago . . . the level of constant security, the constant surveillance, the constant police presence. Okay? It is not the America we grew up in. We didn’t need that. What changed? Who did they bring in that makes everybody afraid? Now is that racial? Or is it cultural? I don’t know. I don’t think it is racial. I think it is basically just self-preservation, of anybody anywhere. [Emphasis added.]
