Last week,was really something. The media and various politicians made it clear that GET OUT wasn't just a film, it was their actual attitude.

If you missed it -- how could you, it had wall to wall coverage drowning everything else -- a right-wing demagogue was shot dead and every outlet tried to act as though the target was a combination of MLK, Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi . . . In fact, one insane fool, a preacher in another country, actually said TD (The Demagogue, which is how we'll refer to the deceased throughout the rest of this article) was Jesus Christ, put it up on YOUTUBE on September 11th, the day after the man died. We've searched this morning's news outlets and not one word that TD rose from the dead yesterday so, hate to break it freaks who distort the Gospel of Jesus, but three days is the number required. Three days after his death, Jesus rose. We searched and searched but found no witnesses to a miracle on Saturday.
TD was just a hate merchant who offered nothing but hatred aimed at Black people, aimed at women who believed they had rights, aimed at the LGBTQ+ community, aimed at Muslims, aimed at Jews, aimed at everyone who wasn't Anglo White and straight and either dominating a woman or a woman allowing herself to be dominated.
But somehow this didn't matter.
And those of us who aren't Anglo White weren't supposed to notice.
And we certainly weren't supposed to notice when Matthew Dowd tried to provide perspective early on, MSNBC fired him. He told no lie. Everything he said was accurate.
Ted Johnson (DEADLINE) explains:
Around 3 p.m. ET, as networks were scrambling for more details of what happened, MSNBC’s Katy Tur spoke about Utah’s gun laws before asking Dowd to talk about the “environment in which a shooting like this happens.” He told her, “We don’t know if this was a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration. So we have no idea about this.”
He added about [TD], “He’s been one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures in this, who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech or sort of aimed at certain groups. And I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions. And I think that is the environment we are in. You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place. And that’s the unfortunate environment we are in.”
Two things on that, first, it wasn't ourageous, it was perspective. Meanwhile at the same time FOX NEWS" had a host calling for the homeless to be executed:
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade suggested the best way to deal with violent homeless people, if they refuse government help or are not sent to prison, could be to execute them.
Kilmeade shared his suggestion on the Sept. 10 episode of Fox & Friends.
“Involuntary lethal injection or something,” Kilmeade said. “Just kill ’em.”
Four days later, today, he shows up to deliver this note of 'contrition:'
Now during that discussion, I wrongly said they should get lethal injections. I apologize for that extremely callous remark. I am obviously aware that not all mentally ill, homeless people act as the perpetrator did in North Carolina and that so many homeless people deserve our empathy and compassion.
Scapegoat an entire group of people -- you know, the way TD did his entire adult life -- and someone who points that reality out is fired but call for the homeless to be executed and offer a three sentence "apology"
Second, it wasn't just that MSNBC fired him. It was the silence from all the anchors on air. Joy Reid gets fired -- we thought that was wrong -- and there's a really around her after the fact. A useless rally as some -- including Reid -- felt. No effort to keep her on but the firing of a Black woman from solo hosting a show is disturbing -- especially for those of us on the left. So to a lot of us, some of the MSNBC on airs 'protesting' Joy's firing after the fact appeared to just be attempting to look like they cared about diversity.
We saw no concern over diversity on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday from MSNBC -- and CBS and NBC and ABC.
The very Whiteness of their coverage, in fact, made clear that a line existed -- had always existed -- even on the left. The line where White people are friends with one another at the end regardless of politics or racism or anything else. To watch even MSNBC was, for those of us who are not Anglo White, to grasp that TD was their friend due to skin color and that, also due to skin color, we were not. Or as Barbra Streisand's character tells the epitome of Whiteness Robert Redford in THE WAY WE WERE, "Your friends make me feel like I'm invited for drinks and everyone else is staying for supper."
The rest of us got in on a guest pass and that pass is now being revoked.
That does explain how what happened with the media.
If we dared to point out reality -- and this was true even for White people who tried to point out reality -- we were attacked.
It never should have happened.
That response never should have happened. It especially shouldn't have been the response of Cowardly Democrats. The Democratic Party's base -- their most loyal voters -- are Blacks, women and LGBTQIA+ people. And those groups got shoved to the ground as various elected Dems rushes to reassure the country that White is right. Always.
The party didn't just tick off voters, they also begged for attacks from the Republicans.
Someone was shot and they died That event happens multiple times a day. And multiple times a day, Nancy Pelosi, Bernie Sanders and so many other elected Dems do not feel the need to go before microphones or release statements saying "That's bad. That's wrong."
But there they were showing up in public, wearing hairshirts, self-flagellating as though it was a sexual turn on.
It's murder. We've made it a crime as a nation because we believe it's wrong.
TD was not well known before his death.
Most Americans had no idea who he was. Sorry to break it to the political types -- whether you provide commentary, serve in Congress or work on campaigns, most Americans don't know who you are and don't care. The last true political celebrities emerged in 1992 and their names are Mary Matalin and James Carville. Their couple hood inspired a film (SPEECHLESS with Geena Davis and Michael Keaton). She worked on George HW Bush's campaign while he worked on Bill Clinton's campaign and they fell in love and married (and are still married today). It gave a human interest quality and it made them famous. No one knows who David Axelrod is married to -- not even the limited number of Americans who know the name David Axelrod is.
But damned if the panty-pissing, flood the zone that MSNBC led on and others followed didn't canonize TD. Especially when they wouldn't allow reality to be presented. Only hagiography. And as hour after hour was wasted on TD, the message became: Here is someone wonderful.
Why else would you be talking about them constantly? Especially when you weren't broadcasting the truth about them.
Chump saw the reaction, Chump saw it and used it. He and others calling for leftists to be arrested for remarks. The left's being demonized and it's a direct result of the coverage supposedly left MSNBC provided. There were real issues if you were going to cover the death of TD but MSNBC made clear with the firing of Matthew Dodd that real issues would not be allowed on air.
So the message they sent to those uninformed was: A very wonderful and important person has died.
And the message they sent to those of us who were the targets of TD's hate speech -- women, LGBTQ+ people, Black people, immigrants, Muslims and Jews -- was that we don't matter and we're not part of their group. They're not going to stand up for us but they will canonize a hate merchant provided he's White.
Again, Jordan Peele's GET OUT made it very clear that was a bonding feature but MSNBC and the rest of the media made even clearer last week.