THE TRUTH – AT 11:21 A.M. ET: I don't think I've ever quoted Michael Moore, the filmmaker, at Urgent Agenda. But in recent months he's actually become very helpful in understanding the millions of working-class people who voted for Donald Trump. As Moore points out, they're not "racists." Many of them voted for Barack Obama. From Daily Caller:
Michael Moore disputed the notion that all the people who voted for President-elect Donald Trump are racist Friday, reiterating the fact that millions of them voted for President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.
“They’re not racist,” Moore said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “They twice voted for a man whose middle name is Hussein. That’s the America you live in.”
Moore was pushing back against another panelist who said “deep racial animus” at the heart of the country was behind Trump’s win. “What I’m trying to get at, is at the heart of this country is some deep racial animus that animates the very communities we’re trying to lift up,” Eddie Glaude Jr., chair of the African American department at Princeton University told the panel.
“Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough replied: “I have to repeat it again because it’s maddening. People who live by data should die by data, and the data according to Nate Cohn of the New York Times says this, and let those who have ears to hear, hear: The very people who helped elect Barack Obama president of the United States twice just elected in Wisconsin, in Michigan, in Ohio and Pennsylvania, Donald J. Trump. It’s the data.”
COMMENT: The hypocrisy of the left is overwhelming. They claim to be interested in the "people," but they actually despise the "people." Indeed, they call them the "flyover people," not the kind they would talk to or have to dinner.
The left is made up of people, many affluent, who believe the iPhone is made possible by Apple Computer. No, the device is supplied by Apple Computer. The iPhone runs on signals provided by the Communications Workers of America. Many on the left have never met a member, nor would they want to. Why would one talk to anyone who hasn't majored in art history?
November 12, 2016