Kathianne
02-29-2016, 12:39 PM
Wasn't he just loving on The Donald a week or so ago?
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/02/29/scarborough-trumps-comments-on-duke-are-disqualifying/
Scarborough: Trump’s comments on Duke are disqualifyingPOSTED AT 10:41 AM ON FEBRUARY 29, 2016 BY ED MORRISSEY
Critics of the Donald Trump phenomenon have blasted the media for giving him a free ride, and some have singled out figures like Joe Scarborough in particular, fairly or not. Today, though, Scarborough torches Trump for his failure to condemn David Duke and white supremacists in yesterday’s interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on State of the Union, calling the dodge “disqualifying”:
In a Washington Post essay (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/02/29/trumps-feigned-ignorance-about-the-kkk-raises-disturbing-questions/?postshare=4761456722403414&tid=ss_tw), Scarborough said either Trump was being deliberately evasive or astoundingly ignorant:
The first question is why would Trump pretend to be so ignorant of American history that he refused to pass judgment on the Ku Klux Klan before receiving additional information? What kind of facts could possibly mitigate a century of sins committed by a violent hate group whose racist crimes terrorized Americans and placed a shameful blot on this nation’s history?
Why would the same man who claims to have “the world’s greatest memory” (http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/amid-latest-controversy-trump-claims-worlds-greatest-memory-n468621)say “I don’t know anything about David Duke” just two days after he condemned the former Klansman (http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/02/28/donald-trump-declines-to-disavow-david-duke/) in a nationally televised press conference? And with that amazing memory, how could Donald Trump have forgotten that he himself refused to run for president as a Reform Party nominee in 2000 because “Klansman” David Duke was a member of that same party (http://partners.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/021400wh-ref-trump.html)?
These are questions that have no good answers for a Republican Party on the verge of nominating a man who sounds more like a Dixiecrat from the 1950s than the kind of nominee the GOP needs four years after losing Hispanics by 44 percent, Asian-Americans by 47 percent, and black Americans by 87 percent (http://ropercenter.cornell.edu/polls/us-elections/how-groups-voted/how-groups-voted-2012/).
This morning, Trump blamed a “lousy earpiece” for his answer (http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/02/donald-trump-interview-kkk-219953), claiming that he didn’t understand (http://www.today.com/news/donald-trump-kkk-non-answer-very-bad-earpiece-made-it-t76661) the question Tapper asked:
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http://hotair.com/archives/2016/02/29/scarborough-trumps-comments-on-duke-are-disqualifying/
Scarborough: Trump’s comments on Duke are disqualifyingPOSTED AT 10:41 AM ON FEBRUARY 29, 2016 BY ED MORRISSEY
Critics of the Donald Trump phenomenon have blasted the media for giving him a free ride, and some have singled out figures like Joe Scarborough in particular, fairly or not. Today, though, Scarborough torches Trump for his failure to condemn David Duke and white supremacists in yesterday’s interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on State of the Union, calling the dodge “disqualifying”:
In a Washington Post essay (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/02/29/trumps-feigned-ignorance-about-the-kkk-raises-disturbing-questions/?postshare=4761456722403414&tid=ss_tw), Scarborough said either Trump was being deliberately evasive or astoundingly ignorant:
The first question is why would Trump pretend to be so ignorant of American history that he refused to pass judgment on the Ku Klux Klan before receiving additional information? What kind of facts could possibly mitigate a century of sins committed by a violent hate group whose racist crimes terrorized Americans and placed a shameful blot on this nation’s history?
Why would the same man who claims to have “the world’s greatest memory” (http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/amid-latest-controversy-trump-claims-worlds-greatest-memory-n468621)say “I don’t know anything about David Duke” just two days after he condemned the former Klansman (http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/02/28/donald-trump-declines-to-disavow-david-duke/) in a nationally televised press conference? And with that amazing memory, how could Donald Trump have forgotten that he himself refused to run for president as a Reform Party nominee in 2000 because “Klansman” David Duke was a member of that same party (http://partners.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/021400wh-ref-trump.html)?
These are questions that have no good answers for a Republican Party on the verge of nominating a man who sounds more like a Dixiecrat from the 1950s than the kind of nominee the GOP needs four years after losing Hispanics by 44 percent, Asian-Americans by 47 percent, and black Americans by 87 percent (http://ropercenter.cornell.edu/polls/us-elections/how-groups-voted/how-groups-voted-2012/).
This morning, Trump blamed a “lousy earpiece” for his answer (http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/02/donald-trump-interview-kkk-219953), claiming that he didn’t understand (http://www.today.com/news/donald-trump-kkk-non-answer-very-bad-earpiece-made-it-t76661) the question Tapper asked:
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