CNN contributor and Trump surrogate Jeffrey Lord got a concise lesson in American history and false equivalencies on Thursday after he referred to President Donald Trump as “the Martin Luther King of healthcare.”
“Think of President Trump as the Martin Luther King of healthcare,” CNN contributor and Trump surrogate Jeffrey Lord said in response to a question about Trump’s negotiating tactics. “When I was a kid—”
“Oh, Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Jeffrey,” panelist Symone Sanders interjected.
“When I was a kid, President Kennedy did not want to introduce the civil rights bill because he said it wasn’t popular, he didn’t have the votes for it, etcetera,” Lord continued. “Dr. King kept putting people in the streets in harm’s way to put the pressure on so the bill would be introduced. That’s what finally worked.”
“OK, Jeffrey, you do understand that Dr. King was marching for civil rights because people that looked like me were being beaten, dogs were being sicced on them, basic human rights were being withheld from these people merely because of the color of their skin,” said Sanders, who is black.
“I agree! I agree!” Lord said.
“So let’s not equate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize winner, to the vagina-grabbing President Donald Trump,” she concluded.
“Oh, boy. Jeffrey, you did introduce this,” host Alisyn Camerota said. “You went there.”
“There is no similarity,” Sanders added.
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— Symone D. Sanders (@SymoneDSanders) April 13, 2017
Lord appears to be on a drug that controls human thinking amirite? weird
The only lesson here is that after a long, slow descent into irrelevance before Trump came along, CNN has figured out how to stage a show that people will talk about.
Well played, Ms. Sanders. Smack that Reagan-fellating dimwit apologist DOWN.
No no CNN, sorry Jeffrey. Love you Symone, but frankly you can do much better.
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CNN loves this offensive stuff. Look what they allowed Anderson Cooper to do to Alicia Machado with Lord’s help last September. Lord went on there after the debate and called the woman a porn star after the Trump trolls relabeled a bunch of hard core porn to be hers, it was not.
http://www.snopes.com/tag/alicia-machado/
But they let Lord say it was her and they never corrected the record. They broadcast to the world that Alicia Machado former Miss Universe has doing explicit sex tapes on the internet, when it was false and they never corrected the record. CNN loves this kind of stuff, look at the pas de deux they had Tapper and Conway perform.
Putting forth a health care bill while uncertain of its potential to pass? While people in your own party doubted the wisdom of doing it right off the bat? There is one president in recent years who fits that description, and it sure as hell ain’t Littlefingers. Oh, and his bill actually passed. This sad surrogate’s level of delusion and idiocy is simply astonishing.