What the hell just happened with Steven Miller???
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Anonymous
Obtuse responses from Miller that lacked any substance. I guess intellectual dishonesty is common for 30 year old white supremacist virgins. |
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I mean: |
Anonymous
+1 What a stupid comment, but not at all surprising, given the source. |
Anonymous
April Ryan, White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks, a black-owned radio network that creates programming for 300 stations with primarily black audiences? She was doing her job. |
Anonymous
Who was raised on the mean streets of Santa Monica and educated in the hardscrabble halls of Duke University. And who goes around calling kids from Annandale High School "cosmopolitan." |
Anonymous
Richard Spencer, is that you trying to stand up for a member of your clan? |
Anonymous
Acosta asked if the new immigration policy was in keeping with the words on the Statue of Liberty's base. Miller replied by asking him (asking the reporter a question!) how many people had to be let in the country to be acceptable. Acosta clarified that he wasn't talking about the reduced number of green cards in the policy, but the English speaking provision, the requirement to be highly skilled, etc. Miller then started asking him "When we let in 300,000 people in 1970, was that violating or not violating the Statue of Liberty law of the land?" That doesn't make any sense. Acosta had already clarified that he wasn't talking about the numbers, he was comparing the "give me your huddled masses, your poor" to the more selective requirements of the new policy. The poem is certainly not the "law of the land." Miller kept on this for almost 30 seconds. Then he said "You're telling me that a million a year is the Statue of Liberty number. 900,000 violates it." Acosta never said anything like that. Miller said from the podium "you're telling me" but Acosta never said that. Then Miller said "Your statement is also shockingly ahistorical in another regard..." A few seconds later, Miller was talking about how immigration levels ebb and flow (even though Acosta had clarified that he wasn't talking about numbers, just eligibility) and Acosta mentioned the wall as part of Trump's "sweeping changes to the immigration system." Miller said, "Surely, Jim, you don't actually think that a wall affects green card policy? You couldn't possibly believe that, do you?" and then "Do you really at CNN not know the difference between green card policy and illegal immigration?" Miller is only scoring points here with Trumpkins. To everyone else, he looks like an idiot. Acosta was not grandstanding at this moment--Miller was the one transparently trying to make a reporter look bad to score points with his boss. |
Anonymous
Has Miller ever heard of this guy?
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What's funny about the exchange is that Jim Acosta was also kind of being a jerk. Not at the level Miller was, but still. If Miller weren't an a$$, he could have answered the question appropriately and explained why it was good policy. Instead, he made an idiot of himself arguing that the Statue of Liberty doesn't symbolize what every kid was taught it symbolized in fourth grad social studies.
What's that thing about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? Trump may have won the election, but he's going out of his way to lose every winnable battle since. |
Anonymous
| The problem is that in "the heartland" or trump country, wherever there are dumb enough people to vote for trump, there is a belief that Miller won the argument. This country fucking sucks now. |
Anonymous
Meanwhile still waiting for a Hispanic and Asian White House Correspondent to be named. |
Anonymous
Jim Acosta is Cuban. |
Anonymous
Does that make him a White Hispanic like George Zimmerman? |
Anonymous
Not sure; ask Richard Spemcer for a definitive answer. |
Anonymous
It makes him a Cuban-American. How is that hard? |