let me respond to that in part. we don t go to the president s level in responding in the news media. we cover the news. that is entirely appropriate. peter fonda, who cares. i mean, it s so ridiculous, some has been celebrity no some has been celebrity sends a tweet, and we treat it as its news. we cover the trump administration like journalists, that s entirely appropriate. if some people aren t happy about that, that s too bad, i don t think we should worry that they feel sympathy for the president because we re doing our jobs as journalists. there s perception in the there s a perception in the country that it has gone too far. i m not defending it, jeffrey, i m telling you that it s real and it s out there, and i hear it from telephone callers on my radio program, on a day to day business. they don t defend what he does. but they don t like the way in
it s true, but the level of discourse that surrounds us. look at the trump phenomena and what it plays to. i see shades of morton downey jr. where a member of congress shouted out to the president of the united states, you lie, to a joint session of congress. it was not like this predowney. he was the transformation of talk radio on a local basis. ideology didn t used to matter. what mattered was your ability to interact with telephone callers. this was the beginning of everybody reading from the same talking point. trump and downey were good friends at the time. there were images we can show. downey lived in the trump tower when it first opened. do you see influence in trump s presidential campaign? the trump appeal is likely to
people aren t investing in their lives. so what else is there to do but to pick up a rock? i understand the violence. i m not saying, you know we should go burn down our communities and be and be violent. but i definitely understand. you think there s more acceptance by the way, we lost congressman bobby rush. i just don t want folks to think i m being disrespectful by not includeing him. when i take telephone callers to my program i sense there s more acceptance in the african-american community of corporal punishment than there is suburban whites. i saw this from the adrian peterson case when he said he used a switch on his son. i don t think there s a racial divide. statistics show 90% of americans, you know agree with some form of corporal punishment or they ve used it. i think there is a racially inflicted tone to how we talk about it. it seems that african-americans are prompted prompted up as the emblems of people who are, you know brutalizing their
but i definitely understand. do you think there s more acceptance by the way, we lost congressman bobby rush. i just don t want folks to think i m being disrespectful by not including him. do you think there s a racial divide on this issue? when i take telephone callers to my program i sense that there s more acceptance in the african-american community of corporal punishment than there is say, among suburban whites. i saw this from the adrian peterson case when he famously said that he utzed a switch on his son. i don t think there s a racial divide. statistics show 90% of americans, you know, agree with some form of corporal punishment or they ve used it. i think there is a racially inflected tone to how we talk about it. it seems that african-americans are sort of prompted up as the emblems of people who are you know, brutalizing their children. here s where there is also a racial divide, in terms of, you know the disproportionate prosecutions for child abuse. african-american
some of the racial dynamics to this case. and this was the prosecution trying to remove the playing surface of those concerns. yeah, neither side has wanted to talk about race inside the courtroom. i look at this situation here, and it s almost as if we have two trials. one is happening in the public discourse outside the courtroom. that trial is all about race. inside the courtroom, neither side wants to talk about it. joy, i conquer with what manuel just said. anecdotally i know from my own telephone callers and people who converse with me about this case, they largely unfortunately break along demographic racial lines. absolutely. and when you see african-americans at the agree owe, that is the primary audience at the agree owe, they have this tremendous emotional investment in this outcome of this case. and unfortunately, this case has tended to break down not just along racial lines, along ideological lines, even political lines. there is a red-blue factor to