Only #WhiteLivesMatter In Donald Trump’s America

Posted by | August 24, 2015 11:30 | Filed under: Contributors News Behaving Badly Opinion Politics Tommy Christopher

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Sometimes, the dumb shit that gets said on cable news is just dumb shit, but sometimes it’s illustrative of a deeper truth. To the latter category, you can add this Grande Derpaccino from Morning Joe regular Mike Barnicle, who held forth, Monday morning, on the Donald Trump phenomenon that has snuck up on everyone in the world but me.

More specifically, Barnicle marveled at the rich diversity of the Trump coalition, literally calling it a “broad demographic.” Several minutes later, the Morning Joe crew revealed all the colors of the Trump rainbow, and they were “eggshell,” “light cream,” and “vanilla sugar”:

“Well, here’s the question with regard to Trump, I think, just from sensing it from the broadness of his demographic that backs him. And it’s not just one particular slice of the electorate. It’s a broad demographic. The question is what does Donald Trump’s success say about the rest of the field?”

That’s right, it turns out that on the most influential political news show in television, a “broad demographic” consists of stingy pissed-off white people, churchy pissed-off white people, and regular pissed-off white people.

Barnicle’s declaration made me laugh out loud, but then it reminded me that inspite of all the attention that’s been paid to non-white issues for the past year or so, every bit of political news gets filtered through the lens of a mainstream media that is still overwhelmingly white, and in the eight-week-old Age of Trump, that political conversation increasingly takes place only on lily-white soil. The Trump Effect has completely shifted the fulcrum of our media’s political coverage, so that even as Trump dominates, no one dares speak the self-evident name of his appeal.

If you doubt this even a little bit, check out the coverage of Donald Trump and Jeb Bush using the term “anchor babies” last week, and see if …READ MORE

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By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

37 responses to Only #WhiteLivesMatter In Donald Trump’s America

  1. Suzanne McFly August 24th, 2015 at 11:45

    I seen a story where the new claim is rumpster is rich and for some reason, his following believes if he becomes President, they magically will become rich themselves. No rational thought is allowed in this group, they are searching for the leprechaun riding a unicorn at the end of a rainbow with a pot of gold.

    • Larry Schmitt August 24th, 2015 at 12:04

      Can you remember where you saw that story? I’d love to read it.

      • Suzanne McFly August 24th, 2015 at 12:39

        That is located in a library I am not allowed in because I am a flaming lib. It only has two books, this one with fairies and unicorns and the other book is some perversion of the Bible. I am not interested in fiction, I am a history buff and I love nonfiction.

        • Larry Schmitt August 24th, 2015 at 12:53

          Wait, I thought the one with fairies and unicorns was the bible.

          • Suzanne McFly August 24th, 2015 at 12:57

            I can see why you would think that, some parts of the Bible do seem unbelievable.

    • Gindy51 August 24th, 2015 at 12:35

      This is exactly why poorer folks vote for rich folks, esp inthe right winger camp. They think that by voting for the rich assholes, they too will be come rich assholes. Doesn’t work that way, they will always be poor assholes.

      • Suzanne McFly August 24th, 2015 at 12:51

        They are self-entitled bigots. They figure they are white and deserve to be rich. Education could fix so much but it is underfunded in red states.

        • whatthe46 August 24th, 2015 at 13:32

          but the mexicans.

          • The Original Just Me August 24th, 2015 at 22:25

            I repeat my reply to Susan. One Word, Idaho

        • The Original Just Me August 24th, 2015 at 22:24

          One word, Idaho

          • Suzanne McFly August 25th, 2015 at 09:43

            Never been there and never had a desire to change that fact.

            • The Original Just Me August 25th, 2015 at 12:39

              Idaho is just like anywhere else. It’s not for everybody. I have traveled quite a bit around the U.S. on the Highways and Byways. I usually study quite a few things about where I am. I keep coming back to Idaho. I guess it’s just my place.

      • CandideThirtythree August 25th, 2015 at 01:46

        The tattooed and toothless, alcoholic, AK-47 totting, confederate flag waving, Hoopty driving, trailer park dwellers where I came from all vote republican.

        They have been voting republican since Nixon’s Southern Strategy and they are worse off now than they were then but like Einstein said, doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity.

    • anothertoothpick August 24th, 2015 at 12:51

      And nobody is more aware of this than Trump. That is why he keeps writing (?) his biographies of how he got rich.

      Donald Trump has 58 books on Goodreads with 29617 ratings. Donald Trump’s most popularbook is Why We Want You To Be Rich: Two Men, One Message.

      Here is the list; https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/676.Donald_Trump

      The amount of Trump-wanna-bees is incredible. And they believe they will get there….someday.

    • The Original Just Me August 24th, 2015 at 22:22

      In Trumps case, they will find out that Pot OF Gold is in reality, a Bucket of Shit.

  2. pinballsdoll August 24th, 2015 at 12:55

    the evangelicals ?

  3. Bunya August 24th, 2015 at 13:30

    This is how the whole GOP thinks, as was stated in Michael Moore’s moving “Capitalism, a love story”. The republicans tell their base that if they work hard, they too can become rich, even though that’s patently false. Most of these rich SOB’s inherited their money.

  4. azeyote August 24th, 2015 at 14:14

    hey man white has all the colors of the rainbow – hows that for diversity – hahahahah haha ha

  5. Red Eye Robot August 24th, 2015 at 18:54

    Diversity! Find the not white people!

    • OldLefty August 24th, 2015 at 19:24

      Obama’s campaign was won on an incredibly local level.
      One of the best things about his campaign was that people felt that their neighbors (tribe ) was voting for him.

    • Chinese Democracy August 24th, 2015 at 21:19

      to late you lose…. twice
      We have had many years to figure out if Obama and liberals believe in diversity

      guess what

  6. OldLefty August 24th, 2015 at 19:43

    Is something wrong with Disqus?
    Or is it just my computer?

    • The Original Just Me August 24th, 2015 at 22:18

      You are reading too many Trump lines and your computer’s Mother Board has gone Blue Screen.

  7. Chinese Democracy August 24th, 2015 at 20:15

    what a trump hole

    • tracey marie August 24th, 2015 at 20:33

      that makes me laugh and cringe at the same time.

      • The Original Just Me August 24th, 2015 at 22:17

        Pucker up Honey Baby, Here comes Daddy Trump.

      • Chinese Democracy August 24th, 2015 at 22:37

        its awful… and yet it makes me laugh too haha

  8. amersham46 August 24th, 2015 at 20:19

    Donald enjoys rocking the boat big time ,,,, and he is the only one with a life jacket

    • The Original Just Me August 24th, 2015 at 22:15

      Does a life jacket do any good when you are floating on a sea of Stupid ?

  9. Tommie August 24th, 2015 at 22:51

    Well,DUH!!

  10. robert August 25th, 2015 at 01:24

    so it IS possible to ride a wave and spin at the same time !

  11. Budda August 25th, 2015 at 08:40

    Morning Joe is a waste of time. People talking over each other and nobody saying anything worth listening to.

  12. Suzanne McFly August 25th, 2015 at 09:42

    Now that makes sense to me

    • The Original Just Me August 25th, 2015 at 12:36

      Cents to you and me But Big Bucks to Trump.

  13. maggie August 25th, 2015 at 22:14

    in other words Trump has the lock on the white supremacist vote ;) we know, every time he opens his mouth…the dems get more votes

  14. cruisersailor August 26th, 2015 at 08:59

    Only Donald Trump matters in Trump’s America. Trump makes egotists look shy.

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