Kudos to The New York Times on its substantive coverage of Hillary Clinton's speech Thursday, warning of the dangerous direction in which Donald Trump has taken the Republican Party.
In a 31-minute address, building to a controlled simmer, Mrs. Clinton did everything but call Mr. Trump a racist outright — saying he had promoted “racist lie” after “racist lie,” pushed conspiracy theories with “racist undertones” and heartened racists across the country by submitting to an “emerging racist ideology known as the alt-right.”
“He is taking hate groups mainstream,” Mrs. Clinton told supporters at a community college here, “and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party.”
The story recounts, almost point-for-point, the detailed history Clinton provided in her speech of Trump's actions and words over decades, then gives Trump a few paragraphs to respond, quoting his remarks to a crowd in Manchester, N.H. in which he called her speech "smears and her lies about decent people." Then reporter Matt Flegenheimer comes right back with Clinton's warning: "Trump is trying to rebrand himself. […] Don’t be fooled." That's pretty much where the "good" ends.
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Let’s turn to the Washington Post, with the headline "Clinton, Trump exchange racially charged accusations."
RENO, Nev. — A series of racially charged accusations dominated the presidential campaign Thursday, with Democrat Hillary Clinton accusing Donald Trump of “taking hate groups mainstream,” while the Republican nominee repeatedly claimed that Clinton is a “bigot” toward African Americans.
And that's what you pretty much get for the whole of the story from John Wagner and Jenna Johnson. Clinton said, Trump said, with a sniffing "the exchanges hinted at just how nasty the verbal battle between Clinton and Trump could become in the roughly 10 weeks until the general election." Wagner and Johnson write that Clinton called Trump "a man with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the far dark reaches of the Internet," without pointing out that Clinton provided plenty of facts to back that up. Then they give four paragraphs to Trump's (remarkably fact-free) case for Clinton's alleged bigotry.
More of the same from The Wall Street Journal, which wants you to know that "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Ramp Up Intensity of Attacks."
Presidential contenders Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump delivered searing indictments of one another Thursday, trading charges of racism and corruption, and setting the tone for a bitter fight until the November election.
Yep. Both sides. They give the last word to Trump: “Every policy Hillary Clinton supports is a policy that has failed and betrayed communities of color in this country,” he said. “But she doesn’t care. She’s too busy raking in cash from people and rigging the system.”
As for Politico, well the first Clinton headline in their "Morning Report Section" is "Clinton: 'I am sure' that there are no damaging emails." That's followed by the headline "Trump: Clintons are 'the real predators.'" Apparently the only response Politico has, at least the only one linked from their front page, to Clinton's speech is their weekly podcast, Nerdcast, about the "rise of the alt-right." And get a load of the image of Clinton they doctored up to run with the story.
Which leads us, of course, to Breitbarb.com. Their headline screams (literally, it's in all-caps) "Exclusive — Trumpocrats Say Clinton ‘Alt-Right’ Speech Backfires, Turns Democrats Toward Donald Trump: ‘Hillary Is Simply Unhinged.’" Trumpocrats.
There you have it folks. Both sides.
