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Trump’s attack on Tavis Smiley backfires when PBS host skewers him for pandering to racists
Source: Raw Story
Trump’s attack on Tavis Smiley backfires when PBS host skewers him for pandering to racists
BETHANIA PALMA MARKUS
12 JAN 2016 AT 11:12 ET
Tavis Smiley, author and public television talk show host, hit back at Donald Trump for calling him a racist, noting that the GOP presidential candidate had failed to condemn the white supremacists who support his 2016 campaign.
The host of Tavis Talks on PBS went on the ABC talk show This Week and said Trump is an “unrepentant, irascible religious and racial arsonist” for his comments calling undocumented immigrants criminals and calling for a ban on Muslims entering the country. In response, Trump tweeted that Smiley is a “hater & racist.”
When asked about his comment by CNN host Don Lemon on Monday night, Smiley repeated it and also said the news media is asking the wrong questions when it comes to Trump’s prominence among American voters.
“What troubles me quite frankly is that we keep talking about… Trump rising in the polls as if somehow this is happening miraculously,” Smiley said.” It’s happening in part because, as your lead-in shows with these now white supremacists supporting him — it’s happening because he’s appealing to a certain base voter in this country. He’s appealing to the dark side, the night side of America and that’s why he’s rising in the polls. And we ought not cover him without condemning him for doing that.”
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BETHANIA PALMA MARKUS
12 JAN 2016 AT 11:12 ET
Tavis Smiley, author and public television talk show host, hit back at Donald Trump for calling him a racist, noting that the GOP presidential candidate had failed to condemn the white supremacists who support his 2016 campaign.
The host of Tavis Talks on PBS went on the ABC talk show This Week and said Trump is an “unrepentant, irascible religious and racial arsonist” for his comments calling undocumented immigrants criminals and calling for a ban on Muslims entering the country. In response, Trump tweeted that Smiley is a “hater & racist.”
When asked about his comment by CNN host Don Lemon on Monday night, Smiley repeated it and also said the news media is asking the wrong questions when it comes to Trump’s prominence among American voters.
“What troubles me quite frankly is that we keep talking about… Trump rising in the polls as if somehow this is happening miraculously,” Smiley said.” It’s happening in part because, as your lead-in shows with these now white supremacists supporting him — it’s happening because he’s appealing to a certain base voter in this country. He’s appealing to the dark side, the night side of America and that’s why he’s rising in the polls. And we ought not cover him without condemning him for doing that.”
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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/trumps-attack-on-tavis-smiley-backfires-when-pbs-host-skewers-him-for-pandering-to-racists/
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his racist minions take these kind of criticisms as a badge of honor.
Every time we start thinking it can't get worse, it does.
It was as if Lemon didn't hear a fucking thing Smiley said. He failed to acknowledge almost every point Tavis made. He was like ... uuuuuuuhhhhhhh duuuuuhhhhh huuuuuhhhhh.... 
Such a fucking tool.