The Washington Post is demonstrating its usual Democratic Party tactics by highlighting this “news” on Wednesday: “KKK’s official newspaper supports Donald Trump for president.”
Post reporter Peter Holley wrote a 1650-word article lovingly recounting all of the white supremacist support for Trump in this election cycle, underlining “Since the earliest days of his presidential bid, Trump has attracted the support of prominent white nationalists across the country, setting off fears that a dormant fringe faction of the GOP base — one steeped in xenophobic and white supremacist rhetoric — would be folded back into mainstream politics.”
The Trump campaign disavowed the support, but the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center made an appearance to underline Holley's point:
"I wouldn’t want to tar and feather every Trump supporter with the anti-Semitic comments of one person, but it is the case that the Trump campaign has been embraced by the radical right in an unprecedented way this season," said Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
This was not the way the Post treated Obama when Rev. Louis Farrakhan of the hateful Nation of Islam endorsed him for president on February 26, 2008, saying “'We are witnessing the phenomenal rise of a man of color in a country that has persecuted us because of our color. If you look at Barack Obama's [diverse] audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed from what they were....This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better."
That endorsement didn’t get its own headline in the Post. It was dismissed without any quotation of Farrakhan’s endorsement in paragraph 10 of a February 27 story on the Democratic campaign in Ohio (co-written by future Obama and Biden aide Shailagh Murray):
Obama did not respond to that swipe, but he missed few other opportunities to parry Clinton's charges. Toward the end of the debate he used humor to counter Clinton, who had interjected herself into a question about whether Obama had been strong enough in stating his objections to Louis Farrakhan, the controversial leader of the Nation of Islam.
Asked to respond to an endorsement of his candidacy by Farrakhan, Obama described the Chicago figure's anti-Semitic comments as "reprehensible." Adding that "I obviously cannot censor him," Obama said he had not sought the support and would do nothing to make use of it.
"I have been very clear in my denunciation" of Farrakhan's past anti-Semitic remarks, Obama said.
Clinton jumped in to note that, in her 2000 Senate campaign, she had gone to greater lengths to distance herself from people who had made anti-Semitic remarks. "There's a difference between denouncing and rejecting," Clinton said, implying that Obama had not gone far enough. "I just think we've got to be even stronger."
Obama laughed. "I don't see a difference between denouncing and rejecting," he said, adding that he would both reject and denounce Farrakhan if it would satisfy Clinton, a remark that drew laughter and applause.
On the next day, Post reporter Jonathan Weisman rushed to get Jewish leftists to make Obama look good:
To some Jewish leaders, even ones who have remained neutral in the presidential campaign, Obama's struggles are exasperating. Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said yesterday from Jerusalem that Obama has gone much further than other black leaders in his denunciation of Farrakhan and has recently expressed stalwartly pro-Israel views.
"As far as I'm concerned, this issue is behind us," said Foxman, who has not endorsed a candidate. "But with the Internet, as all Jews should know, these things have a half-life. They just keep going."
Obama’s objectionable black racist and anti-Semitic supporters are perpetually “behind” Obama, but throwing this line at Trump never ends.
PS: In case anyone was in doubt where Peter Holley was leaning in this election or who loves his “news” judgment, he’s retweeting his support from Donna Brazile and ESPN leftist Jemele Hill:
Since Holley has repeatedly celebrated the naked-Trump statues made by anarchists (here and recently here), Holley’s also promoting on Twitter the naked-Trump souvenir that now sits on his desk and haunts him, har har har:
