In an article titled “Two Evils” posted on their blatantly left-wing website, Fusion’s Charles Pulliam-Moore lets it be known that he firmly believes Donald Trump is a “racist Nazi” and he wants you to think the same.
What does Pulliam-Moore underscore as his evidence for his assertion? That “white supremacists have no qualms about expressing how Trump embodies all of the disgusting things that they believe in.”
That’s it, really.
Even though it’s been reported that Trump has repeatedly disavowed Duke over and over and over again.
When the Communist Party endorsed President Obama in 2012, did Pulliam-Moore cast him as a communist? Of course not.
When Iran’s top officials endorsed President Obama’s campaign for re-election in 2012 did the bloody history of terrorism sponsored by the radical regime automatically defile him? No, and it would have been absurd to make that case.
The main problem here is that Fusion does nothing to rein in the outlandish assertions of its writers, no matter how inflammatory. And Pulliam-Moore is clearly obsessed with Trump, in a rather unusual way, given his Fusion reporting beat of “comics, culture and general geekery.”
It is one thing to highlight unwelcome endorsements being received by a candidate. It is entirely another to unfairly tie the candidate to the offenses and transgressions of the rejected endorser. It is journalistic malpractice of the highest order, done with a deliberate intent to tarnish the character of those they do not agree with on policy.
Below are excerpts from the March 18, 2016 Fusion article “Two Evils: David Duke thinks Donald Trump is actually ‘rehabilitating’ Hitler’s image.”
Donald Trump is a racist billionaire that an awful lot of Republicans would like to be our next president.
While Trump will deny that he’s a racist Nazi until he’s blue in the face, actual white supremacists have no qualms about expressing how Trump embodies all of the disgusting things that they believe in.
Earlier this year, former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke emphatically encouraged the listeners of his radio program to support Trump, arguing that voting for anyone else was “treason to your heritage.” And during a recent broadcast, Duke reasoned that Trump is actually doing Hitler, one of the most universally reviled people in history, a favor by “rehabilitating” his public image.
Duke claims the manifold similarities between Trump and Hitler’s respective rhetoric, ideology, and campaign tactics, is actually casting Hitler in a better light. This is incorrect. Comparing a historically awful person to a newer, xenophobic person that incites violence and happens to be the Republican frontrunner for the highest office in the nation, just leaves you with two terrible things trying to make life difficult for people.
