The shameful moment
Yesterday at Trump’s “rally” in El Paso:
A BBC cameraman was violently shoved and abused during a Donald Trump rally in El Paso, Texas, on Monday night, in an incident the corporation described as “unacceptable”.
The BBC’s Washington correspondent Gary O’Donoghue said his colleague Ron Skeans was “fine” despite the “incredibly violent attack”.
Footage from Skeans’ camera, tweeted by O’Donoghue, suggested he and his equipment were knocked off balance for around 10 seconds, as he was filming Trump’s speech. Skeans recovered to film a man in a red Make America Great Again cap being restrained and shouting: “Fuck the media.”
As he was led away some in the crowd at the rally could be heard chanting: “Let him go.”
This is the shameful moment when my cameraman Ron Skeans was attacked at an @realDonaldTrump rally in El Paso last night – warning this video contains strong language. Happily Ron is fine. #TrumpElPaso pic.twitter.com/Ay5DYT6gjP
— Gary O'Donoghue (@BBCBlindGazza) February 12, 2019
This is who we are now.
It’s quite a trick, a billionaire of the class (in every sense of the word) that has fucked the rest of us so hard, getting the angry-drunk protofascists to channel their rage at journalists who’ve at best been half-witting collaborators in the cultural fetishisation of wealth and the social-Darwinian decay of the safety net. Especially when it is that selfsame media which unleashed the billionaire upon the world, made him a household name and an object of abject scorn (the transference of which is quite likely key to his appeal amongst the rubeniks).
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
Seth, it might almost sound like it really isn’t about jobs and wealth at all, but maybe about something else, this Trump “phenomenon”. It might be…yes, possibly…about pussy grabbing racism? Wow, what a thought!
The people. The people. Trump loves the power of people. If only they knew he hates them all. He only loves the power they give him.