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aaaaaa5a

(4,667 posts)
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 01:43 AM Mar 2016

MSNBC reporter Katy Tur happily poses for a picture with known white racist at Trump Rally



This is a picture of MSNBC's Katy Tur posing for a picture with James Edwards. Edwards is a white supremacists who touts Nazism and domestic terrorism on his blog and radio show. He is closely affiliated with Stormfront and other related hate sites.

James Edwards has an internet radio show called "The Political Cesspool." This white supremacists was given an all access media pass to a recent Donald Trump campaign event. He was even granted a radio interview with the Trump Campaign. An interview the Trump campaign later denied took place, although James Edwards claims the interview will be broadcast this Saturday.

For those of us who keep even a minimal interest in terroristic, right wing, conservative political activism, James Edwards is very well known. In my view, given the undercurrent of this issue with the Trump campaign, Katy Tur should know who he is. She is the primary Donald Trump beat reporter for MSNBC.



Right Wing Nazi James Edwards proudly displays his media badge at a recent Trump event.


MSNBC's Katy Tur sits down for an interview with Donald Trump during her campaign coverage


http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/jamesedwards/

I think for an MSNBC reporter to be posing for pictures with a person like this is just awful.
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951-Riverside

(7,234 posts)
6. In her defense how was she to know who that bald pasty pig in a suit was?
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 04:16 AM
Mar 2016

Sometimes really creepy people want to have their picture taken with famous people to stroke their own ego.

 

Chan790

(20,176 posts)
7. Who is that woman having her picture taken with John Wayne Gacy?
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 05:56 AM
Mar 2016

Also, why is he wearing a suit and not his prison fatigues? I'm surprised they let him have those lapel pins or tie-tack in prison.

aaaaaa5a

(4,667 posts)
10. She is the "Trump beat reporter."
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 08:39 AM
Mar 2016

The issue of Nazi's and white supremacists supporting Trump has been relevant for months.

James Edwards is unknown to the general population but is VERY WELL KNOWN to anyone with even a basic understanding of National hate leaders.

She should know who he is. She is either completely ignorant when it comes to a very important aspect of her job, is careless, or has no trouble posing for pictures with people who sponsor racist domestic terrorism.

She is the beat reporter for a major TV news network. If she can't spot a a white supremacist at a Trump rally that would be known to even a novice, how can she do her job?

Vinca

(50,255 posts)
11. I think we have to cut her some slack.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 08:47 AM
Mar 2016

If you had been covering Donald Trump for months on end, wouldn't you have crossed the great insanity bridge? After watching her do a segment from his bus I told my husband if I were in a similar position I'd ask them to stop the bus, get off and kill myself.

dembotoz

(16,797 posts)
12. what better way to document the presence of white nazis than to have your photo taken with them
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 09:09 AM
Mar 2016

it could be brilliance

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