After Former KKK Leader Shoots Up Jewish Centers, CNN Asks: ‘Can The Klan Rebrand?’
Are you fucking serious?
One week after a Ku Klux Klan member shot three people dead at Jewish institutions in Kansas, CNN is speculating, “Can the Klan rebrand?”
“Imperial Ancona, who lives in Missouri, insists there’s a new Klan for modern times — a Klan that’s “about educating people to our ideas and getting people to see our point of view to…help change things,” CNN’s Ashley Fantz writes. “He said he and those like him can spread that message without violence — a sort of rebranding of the Klan.”
To learn if this is possible, Fantz asked marketing and PR experts if America’s most infamous white supremacist group could shed its violent past. According to one quoted ad agency president, lynchings are not too different from products, like a car that kills people because of an exploding gas tank. In his words, “if you have a car that is killing people because the gas tank is exploding, it doesn’t matter how fantastic the ad campaign is for that car.” CNN should have also taken note that this is not the first time the KKK has declared it is “rebranding.”
The 2,000 word story has provoked backlash and derision on Twitter and in the media. Gawker described it as “a landmark expression of idiocy.”
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2014/04/20/3428825/cnn-kkk-rebrand/
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Candy Crowley for the defense:
"Oh, that poor, poor man is just so misunderstood! Think how this is going to affect his career! What about his future?"
CNN: Proof FNN can clone itself.
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