Talking about immigration makes you JUST like this guy.
CNN likes to brand itself as "The Most Trusted Name in News." Usually that boils down to extreme blandness, but occasionally CNN tries to get in on the Fox News crazy game. If that's the intent in hiring political commentator Jeffrey Lord, well played, CNN. Because Lord has gone full Fox over Jorge Ramos since the Mexican-American journalist
challenged Donald Trump,
as Media Matters details.
In an American Spectator column, the extremely white Lord attacked Ramos as "blue-eyed, light-skinned Ramos — let’s be candid he is a European Mexican" and because Ramos wants the U.S. to recognize that it is "multiethnic, multi-racial, and multicultural." How dare a light-skinned Latino want to talk about race! But Lord didn't keep his race-baiting to the pages of a conservative magazine, he took them straight to CNN, somehow dragging Ramos into a discussion of Wednesday's murder of two journalists in Virginia by way of Charleston white supremacist killer Dylann Roof:
... [the Virginia shooter is] not valuing life. He didn't value the lives of the people that he killed. And aside from that, he was into a race war. A reaction, which he mentioned, of the Charleston shooting. And that guy was motivated by race. So I'm suggesting here that instead of dividing the country by race, which is what we seem to do, which is what, for instance, Jorge Ramos was all about in that press conference. It's all about the race of people. We shouldn't be going down that path. This is a color blind country, that was Dr. King's goal, that's where we should be headed, and I think that is something that we should be discussing as well as mental illness and guns.
That is like the triple pirouette double back flip of messed-up race-baiting logic. Jorge Ramos is opposed to policies that hurt Latino people therefore he is dividing us by race therefore he is like a mass murderer attempting to start a race war. And of course there's Lord's ending maneuver of mischaracterizing Martin Luther King, Jr.'s politics, but that's a standard part of the Republican repertoire these days, so no extra points for that.
CNN, y'all. The mainstream, apolitical, "most trusted name in news." Paying a commentator to compare the most prominent Latino journalist in the country to a white supremacist killer because he dared commit an act of journalism by asking Donald Trump a question about immigration.