It’s a pretty sad commentary on the way our mainstream media cover Donald Trump that if you really want to know what Trump said at a given rally, you would be wasting your time going to The New York Times or The Washington Post and you really need to read Aaron Rupar.
Who is Rupar? He’s a liberal Substacker and prolific tweeter who prints all the news The New York Times doesn’t deem fit to print. The latest case in point is Trump’s weekend rally at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin—an appropriately named venue for a speech in which Trump was barking out hatred and bile like a mad dog.
If you’re the sort of person really steeped in campaign coverage, you may have read about what went down; if you missed it, spoiler alert: Trump said something at this rally so insane and offensive that even the Times finally roused itself to cover it. Trump called Kamala Harris “mentally disabled” and added: “Joe Biden became mentally impaired; Kamala was born that way.”
That statement, whatever else we might call it, was obviously news, so the Times couldn’t help leading with it. Ditto the Post, which decided to produce a story that emphasized Trump’s violation of politically correct manners. The Post piece quoted a mental health advocate scolding Trump for his insensitive language—as if what he said was offensive only to people struggling with mental illness!
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Meanwhile, here are some other things Trump said at the rally, which you had to read Rupar’s X feed to know about.
dallasdude on September 30th, 2024 at 15:53 UTC »
Trump went in front of a cheering crowd and said immigrants are animals and murderers who will slit your throat in your kitchen, and that if we don't get them out we will lose our culture. Not a paraphrase, just straight fascist hate speech that would have made Josef Goebbels proud.
Here's how the media reported it.
Axios: "Trump pounds immigration message after Harris' border visit."
Politico: "Trump ratcheted up his hardline rhetoric on immigration"
Bloomberg: "Trump sharpened his criticism on border security in a swing-state visit, playing up a political vulnerability for Kamala Harris."
Credit to Tim Miller/The Bulwark for the quotes
StrixWitch on September 30th, 2024 at 15:15 UTC »
I will never forget, as long as I live, and I will teach my children how complicit major media outlets were in supporting the blatant face of fascism in this country.
Eatthehamsters69 on September 30th, 2024 at 15:14 UTC »
More like dehuamizing or borderline genocidal rhetoric, the guy stands on stage and calls immigrants terms like 'animals' 'murderers' etc. And then he loves to bring up anecdotes and go into detail of grotesque crimes and use those single incidents to a paint the picture on everyone.
Its just so completely unhinged and the most toxic and depraved shit imaginable, and how is the crowd even able to sit there and listen to that crap without getting exhausted after like 5 minutes. Its like some form of massochism.
Honestly, maybe the "mainstream medias" should actually broadcast these events in full again, so more people can see just how fucking off the rails it is