Trump Speaks, Media Translates - Larry Elder

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Trump Speaks, Media Translates

 By Town Hall, Aug 25, 2016

"Do you ever get tired of defending Donald Trump?" a critic asked.

It isn't that Donald Trump does not say things that are cringe-worthy. It's that his opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton, says and does things even more cringe-worthy. So forgive those who feel that Trump's supposedly "outrageous" statements are nothing more than selective outrage, double standards, and the typical "Republicans are racist" meme. Democrats routinely say vulgar, bigoted, divisive, outrageous things while getting a toll-free pass.

It wasn't Donald Trump, but Donna Brazile, then Al Gore's campaign manager, who said Republicans have a "white-boy attitude."

It wasn't Donald Trump, but Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, who said, after Hurricane Katrina, "George (W.) Bush let people die on rooftops in New Orleans because they were poor and because they were black."

It wasn't Donald Trump, but Vice President Joe Biden, who, before a mostly black audience, criticized then-Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Republican resistance to Wall Street regulation, saying: "He's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules -- unchain Wall Street! They're going to put y'all back in chains!"

It wasn't Trump, but then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, who told a black church audience, "When you look at the way the (Republican-majority) House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation -- and you know what I'm talking about!"

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