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- Feb 18, 2013
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The PART that Trump got wrong was in his little triplet. When he said "they're rapists" he FAILED in that one instance to modify the phrase.
Let's parse it a bit:
When Mexico (meaning the Mexican Government) sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you (pointing to the audience). They’re not sending you (pointing again). They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems to us. They’re bringing drugs.They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people! * * * *
Donald Trump s epic statement on Mexico - Business Insider
I assume that Trump simply fucked up. It SHOULD probably have been said this way: 'They’re bringing drugs.They’re bringing crime. They’re bringing (or sending) rapists.'
Does anyone REALLY imagine that Trump actually believed (or does even now believe) that all Mexican immigrants sent here by the government of Mexico are rapists?
Stop it.
That's stupid and it has no basis in reality.
That's the way it goes though. They pick the inadvertent omitted or qualifying word or phrase as the intent of the person rather than allowing him to inadvertently misspeak in any way. Anybody with any intellectual honesty could have listened to that speech and would have agreed that it was pretty extemporaneous, disorganized, extremely impromptu, and fairly poorly expressed. But they also would have put it into its full context and allowed what was the obvious point Trump was making.
But there is little intellectual honesty or willingness for fair play among the statist PC crowd. They pluck the one phrase out of the whole that, standing alone, looks really ugly and racist and they present that again and again and again as what he intended. And what he actually intended will never be presented honestly or give much, if any, public attention whatsoever. They absolutely are not going to allow an honest discussion re whether he was right if they can help it.
What they do is wrong. It is dishonest. It is unfair. It is petty and very destructive to the national conversation. But that is what we deal with.
Fox, I'm sure that you are too young to remember the Howdy Doody Show back in the 1950's. One of the characters was Clarabell the clown. He could not talk, but only blew his horn. His job was to bring humor fit for the first graders who enjoyed the show. The first Clarabell was Bob Keenan, as I recall, who went on to success as Captain Kangaroo, on his own show. Trump would have made an excellent Clarabell, if he could have figured out how to put a twist on it to appeal to older bigots, instead of first graders, which is really not much of a stretch..
^ about as incoherent a post as I have seen in a while.