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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN Host Kate Bolduan Defends Stephen Miller From Guest Calling Him a 'White Nationalist'
I don't know if you want to call Stephen Miller a white nationalist, the CNN host said in the name of civility.
Bolduan was speaking with prominent immigration attorney David Leopold, when he said, I have no doubt that this administration, Donald Trump, who advised by a white nationalist, Stephen Miller in the White House. At that moment, she cut him off.
I dont know if you want to go as far asI mean, lets notI just did an entire segment about civility here, Bolduan told him. I dont know if you want to call Stephen Miller a white nationalist.
Leopold responded, Its not an uncivil thing, I would argue that its a fact.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-host-kate-bolduan-defends-stephen-miller-after-guest-calls-him-white-nationalist?ref=home
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,514 posts).
RandySF
(59,813 posts)Time to call progressives just as bad.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Which is completely insane (although Ive heard that allegation made here on DU multiple times).
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)get the red out
(13,468 posts)Definition - Liberals shut up and take it.
PubliusEnigma
(1,583 posts)kysrsoze
(6,025 posts)If anyone has a closet full of SS uniforms, its him.
jrthin
(4,842 posts)slater71
(1,153 posts)Leopold called it right.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)So I guess I agree with Kate; the guest was way too polite.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)That really makes her point, doesn't it.
Calling him a white nationalist seems more accurate.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)peggysue2
(10,853 posts)There's a desperate attempt by some in the media to ameliorate the grossness, the lack of competency and sheer cruelty of the Trumpster and his odious acolytes.
But that's a fool's errand in light of the current scandal turned to tragedy du jour. Precisely:
Where are the Babies? Where are the Girls?
Sorry but this is not normal.
When you have the Trumpster threatening to discard due process--throw 'em out, forget due process--or falsely claim that immigrants are invading and/or infesting our borders, that is the mindset and language of a blatant racist, the love song of White Nationalists.
And Stephan Miller is the architect of this policy, convincing the Trumpster and his cohorts it will be the winning policy in November.
This is not about using the right fork at the dinner table. It's about a mindset that is inherently immoral, inhumane--using children as bargaining chips and separating families on the false claim and fear of an invading army.
Sometimes you have to call an action out for what it is and label people for what they are.
More importantly, what we need to do as Dems is change the narrative argument, the direction it's meandering into and that the Trumpster is now repeating. I heard it again today. It's either his way--deport 'em, forget due process--or open borders. Which he claims is what the Dems truly want.
That is absolutely not the choice in front of us.
We need to clarify the argument and the narrative going forward. But the media needs to stop twisting itself into pretzel shapes.
Because this is not normal. And politeness will never set it right.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Given Trump's history in the sex trade, this is a serious concern.
uponit7771
(90,371 posts)c-rational
(2,602 posts)and his cohorts are immoral. The Rethugs do not deserve civility, and the MSM is our problem too.
Efilroft Sul
(3,586 posts)It doesn't take too much to imagine him posting on 4chan about how women owe him sex.
LiberalFighter
(51,389 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Carlyle Groups Settles in "Pay to Play" Scandal Probe
https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/WallStreet/story?id=7586756&page=1
Carlyle Accused of Fraud by Ex-Employee
https://www.ai-cio.com/news/carlyle-accused-of-fraud-by-ex-employee/
They own scandal-plagued Booz-Allen
and of course their PNAC/Bush/Iraq War history is well known.
Iggo
(47,599 posts)Oh, I want to.
Vinca
(50,334 posts)pwb
(11,318 posts)So white nationalist fits.