It was only a few hours ago that Twitchy compiled some of the most unhinged responses to the Today Show’s Savannah Guthrie announcing she was airing an interview with Covington Catholic High School’s Nicholas Sandmann. Then the Today Show posted an excerpt of the interview and people became unhinged all over again.
Like we said, it’s only been a few hours, but the hate for Savannah Guthrie and Nicholas Sandmann keeps pouring in.
If you want to see how insane the left has become, click that tweet and scroll down. I don't like Donald Trump, and I don't see how he loses in 2020 if this is his opposition. https://t.co/jFE4yQyiOC
— … (@jtLOL) January 22, 2019
Here’s Sleeping Giants, the liberal collective that attempts to boycott companies into submission to its progressive principles:
In any other time, this young man would likely be suspended from school for disrespect.
You people put him on TV.
— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) January 22, 2019
Suspended for what? Having a drum beat inches from his face?
— KM (@SpeedteefAS) January 23, 2019
Better boycott NBC, and MSNBC while you’re at it for good measure.
Here’s Jeff Jarvis, a journalism professor:
Guthrie's voice drips with white-on-white empathy. His with white smugness still. https://t.co/Ht7trdOJeW
— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) January 22, 2019
“Guthrie’s voice drips with white-on-white empathy.”
In case you're wondering why journalism is in the shitter these are the people teaching at J schools. pic.twitter.com/5eynSVgW2r
— BT (@back_ttys) January 23, 2019
When liberal media ain't liberal enough.
— Jesse Vance (@JesseVance12) January 23, 2019
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And here’s NPR’s Swole Porter, who’s the guy you write to at NPR to tackle your trickiest questions about how to navigate the world of race relations. (We’ve cut some of his tweets because he does go on a bit.)
one of the wildest things abt white supremacy is how white people's feelings abt racism are always the terrain being contested and always presented as The Stakes.https://t.co/CdmC0pNaA8
— Swole Porter. (@GeeDee215) January 22, 2019
there's almost no asymmetry stark enough to upend this framing. No Black/Brown body count high enough or brutality sufficiently shocking.
it's always: is the white subject/consumer *really* racist? did the white subject/consumer learn a lesson?
— Swole Porter. (@GeeDee215) January 22, 2019
How many times in the past half-decade have we actually *seen* a police officer gun down a Black person?
How many times has the entire defense of the officer been that they were good people and not mean old racists — and that argument been enough?
— Swole Porter. (@GeeDee215) January 22, 2019
There were actual Native/Indigenous people on the Mall that day, yet this is somehow now about white people helping exonerate other white people from charges of racism.
Amazing.
— Swole Porter. (@GeeDee215) January 22, 2019
Yes, amazing.
It's interesting that this broader exculpatory project only extends in one direction, isn't it?
"Those boys were just being jackasses. Who among us?"
White boys enjoy a presumption of innocence. Black boys, meanwhile, have been gerrymandered out of the very notion of boyhood.
— Swole Porter. (@GeeDee215) January 22, 2019
Great job, media. https://t.co/rZ0wh6s2iW
— JWF (@JammieWF) January 23, 2019
If Porter is concerned with boys being jackasses at the March for Life, here’s a good video that shows some really unacceptable behavior. (Language warning.)
Wow. Watch this video now. This is the hate and racism the Covington Catholic kids were subjected to and yet the media ran with a narrative that demonized the KIDS and put them in danger. So many rushed to judgement and they all owe these kids an apology. pic.twitter.com/Hp9uzygIl4
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) January 21, 2019
Here’s CNN contributor Symone D. Sanders critiquing Sandmann’s first TV appearance.
When you’re trying to remember the lines the PR team gave you ?? https://t.co/xbYwfgfnFp
— Symone D. Sanders (@SymoneDSanders) January 22, 2019
CNN contributor mocks a *high school junior* for not being good on camera pic.twitter.com/tojnllVtQL
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) January 23, 2019
HE IS A KID! LEAVE HIM ALONE! https://t.co/GVDTdliqpk
— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) January 23, 2019
I’m just speaking the facts. Facts don’t discriminate on age. Be mad. https://t.co/qbWVj18yBY
— Symone D. Sanders (@SymoneDSanders) January 23, 2019
And just for fun, here’s New York Magazine writer Rebecca Traister. No, she’s not responding to the Savannah Guthrie video, but she shares the same concern about young white men.
It’s the easily extracted concern for these grinning boys—amidst the deportations & family separations, the harassment & assaults, the low wages, poverty & incarceration, the shootings & police brutality, the lack of access to medical/repro care—that’s going to finally do me in.
— Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) January 22, 2019
I just want to know how, I mean truly, HOW, do we get people to imagine the vulnerability and worry for the futures and families of human beings who are NOT young white men? How can others come to be understood as fully human?
— Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) January 22, 2019
So, let me get this straight. You lambaste a set of young people as racists based on an edited viral clip. We all then find out that the "guilty" party and instigators of the incident are the group of older bullies. Your response is to double down on the bullying of the boys?
— Mike Smith (@PvPMike) January 22, 2019
If equality means we have to destroy the lives of a few white kids who wore the wrong hats, it's worth it https://t.co/hGgQUnv7bX
— … (@jtLOL) January 22, 2019
It's weird, I don't remember any libs complaining about David Hogg's white privilege.
— … (@jtLOL) January 22, 2019
Ugh, and the interview hasn’t even aired yet … this ridiculous story will never die.
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Update:
This guy is verified, and he calls himself a comedian, but we can’t verify that he’s a comedian.
Sounds awesome! Will you be digging up Hitler’s corpse for a fun dialogue on Thursday as well Savannah?
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) January 22, 2019
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UNHINGED: Lefties absolutely lose it after Savannah Guthrie teases interview with Covington student https://t.co/l91kpkxtcC
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 22, 2019
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