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NBC’s Katy Tur has been the frequent target of Trump’s personal attacks, being told by the candidate at one point to “be quiet,” and “little Katy†and a “third-rate reporter.â€
Singled out again the other day by Trump for allegedly not showing the size of his crowds, “There’s something happening. They’re not reporting it. Katy — you’re not reporting it, Katy,†Tur seems to have had enough.
Her response to this latest incidence was to explain that “This is a shtick that he does to rile up his base — it’s to give him an excuse to berate somebody other than Donald Trump.â€
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Tur is not about to take the blame, however. She tweeted from a rally last night,
Trump does his totally false they-don't-show-the-crowds riff again as — you guessed it — the cameras are showing his crowds.
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) November 4, 2016
As you can see from this photo tweeted by NBC’s Ali Vitali, the cameras are on the crowds even while Trump is saying the cameras don’t show the crowds:
And Tur followed that up with this remarkable tweet which leaves you wondering where the thought processes of the Trump crowds might be:
Women yell "turn the cameras" at my camera which is pointing directly at them and in the opposite direction of Trump.
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) November 4, 2016
This is rather like the image of a child shouting at his mother “Why aren’t you buying me ice cream” as she buys him ice cream. Reality has completely left the building. Here is just one of the crowd images she has tweeted:
Selma, NC scene pic.twitter.com/9mStj9yBc5
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) November 3, 2016
Trump is trying to rile up the base, Tur said, and he does, as a tweet from YahooNews’ Holly Bailey demonstrates, at Tur’s expense:
Trump calls out @KatyTurNBC from the stage in the middle of a riff bashing media and now this guy behind me is just endlessly taunting her
— Holly Bailey (@hollybdc) November 2, 2016
Trump is a dangerous misogynist and his personal attacks on journalists are dangerous. The media has always shown his crowds, and in truth, they have paid far more attention to Donald Trump than he deserves, and far less than they should to his scandals and legal problems.
Sadly, people who can’t tell when the camera is pointed at them rather than at Trump, are a lost cause and will learn nothing from tweets like those above. They say pictures are worth a thousand words, but that’s true only if you actually bother to look, and not only look but see.
Photo: Twitter
Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.
