Oct 19th, George W Bush gave a speech at the "Spirit of Liberty, At home in the World" event in NY. If you didn't hear the speech, but only what the major media has to say bout it, you would be lead to believe he came out and gave a point by point rebuttal of Donald Trump's tenure as president. That's what I heard, and then I read the speech.
I read a transcript of the whole thing and my take is a little different. The speech, in many respects applied equally to the far left activists like ANTIFA and BLM, as it did to Trump and the far right. The media has taken the approach that because Bush did not mention anyone by name that they can take license to apply ALL of Bush's criticism to Trump. The take away clip I heard most was "Bigotry seems emboldened. Our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication..." with the implication that only the far right (ie Trump) has conspiracy theories and offer open arms to bigotry. Certainly that is the narrative of the left, but there is ample evidence of those same illnesses on the left.
Can you not apply bigotry to ANTIFA and BLM that rail agains anything and everything "White." Can you not look at the totally unproven notion of Russian intervention affecting the election of Trump as a conspiracy theory?
The incidents at University of Virginia this year are pretty much universally attributed to the white nationalists. Yet the violence was entirely started by the ANTIFA and other far left groups that showed up. They showed up with the intent to creating a confrontation. I often wonder if the off the charts racists had their little demonstration and no one showed up, what would the effect have been on their cause? Yet the far left groups brought a magnifying glass and international focus to the event. The president was roundly criticized for including the left along with his criticism of the racists. The media used that to highlight the notion that Trump aligns himself with the racists or others in what they deem the alt-right.
I don't know how many white supremacists there are in the country, but I rather doubt it is more than a handful. I don't think I have ever met or seen one in person. Whomever they are, I’m pretty sure they are not sufficient in numbers to direct the tone of the national discourse that Bush spoke about. So who is? How many of Spencer's racist group were at Univ of Florida this week? Perhaps a handful. Yet it makes national news as though an entire city was out trying to tear the fabric of society apart. That is what our main stream media does. It has abdicated it's role of factual reporting. Almost all reporting is framed in a left leaning political agenda.
The Bush speech was benignly hard hitting. I say benignly because he did not name names. I can attribute almost everything he said as easily to the left as the media attributes it to the right.
The sad fact is that most people don't recognize when agenda infused media are feeding them tainted red meat. And yes, it happens on both sides. But finally, just so we are clear, the those I see on TV who claim to be white supremicists, are, as a group, pretty much all the proof you need to know there is no such thing.
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