Mediaite 'Racer' Tommy Christopher Manufactures Some Racism

Rabid leftist and Mediate goofball Tommy Christopher certainly isn’t above race baiting, but unlike some halfhearted MSM “racers,” he isn’t content with merely maligning someone as a racist through innuendo. No, he’s going to make up some facts as well. Way to put your back into, Tommy. Whatever helps you manufacture a racial incident for political gain.

First Christopher asserted that Trump’s reference to Obama’s penchant for playing highly public basketball games was actually coded racism (in Tommy Christopher’s world, only one race of people play basketball, and nobody is allowed to note what Obama does with his spare time if it also fits into Christopher’s stereotypes). Trump sure “blew hard on the [racist] dogwhistle [sic].” Here’s what Trump said:

“… you look at what’s happening with gasoline prices, where – he said he has no control over prices, which he does if he gets on the phone or gets off his basketball court, or whatever he’s doing at the time, I mean he should be focused on OPEC and getting those prices down.”

If Christopher merely settled for that kind of baseless, contrived inference, he would only barely be keeping up with the MSM pack.

Here’s where Christopher goes for distinction:

“What makes it impossible to dismiss, though, is Trump’s accompanying praise for Confederate “rebels” as ‘Wonderful,’ ‘beautiful,’ ‘romantic,’ and ‘great.’ Trump is either more Clueless than an Alicia Silverstone/Amy Heckerling film retrospective, or he’s blowing harder on that dogwhistle [sic] than the Buffalo Bills blow in the Super Bowl.”

Really Tommy? Donald Trump just endorsed the Confederacy? First of all, if Trump really praised the Confederacy in that manner, that wouldn’t be a dog whistle. That would be an air horn, and somebody a lot better than Tommy Christopher would have reported on it first. But if it seemed implausible, that’s because Christopher made it up. Here’s what Trump actually said:

“I would have handled Libya much differently. First of all I don’t know who the rebels are, and I’ve said it many times: the rebels, I hear, are controlled by Iran and Al Qaida. So, you know, we make them sound like they’re out of Gone with the Wind: ‘it’s wonderful, the beautiful rebels, it’s so romantic isn’t it great.’ You could end up with worse than Qaddafi.”

So pretty clearly Trump is describing “Gone with the Wind’s” portrayal of confederate rebels, not his own views on the Confederacy, and he is mocking the popular meme vis-à-vis the Libyan rebellion.

I still have no idea what Trump had hoped to accomplish or believes he did accomplish with the birth certificate business, but Trump most certainly did not suddenly endorse the Confederacy after a long life in New York City. To suggest he did is unarguably dishonest, but Tommy Christopher has racial controversies to manufacture and racial tensions to elevate, so forget the facts. And of course, don’t forget the deliciously clever sexual innuendo coupled with a pro football reference. How droll!

See Trump’s Confederate pandering for yourself:

Whoa, slow down there Jefferson Davis! The war’s over. Have a mint julep.