David Gregory is walking back an analogous term he used during a Today Show interview, in which he said there is no “grand wizard” at the GOP calling the shots on the Herman Cain scandal. Gregory later tweeted, “”Wizard” remark this morning was a very poor choice of words. Did not mean to make that connection at all. Was not thinking. I apologize”.
In fact, Gregory’s comment was perfect. While he might have been visualizing the wizard in Oz, the term “grand wizard” is normally associated with the Ku Klux Klan.
Considering the Republican and tea party embrace of the Koch Brothers-funded ALEC legislative goals of drug testing welfare recipients; making it harder for the poor and young people to vote, in violation the 1965 Voting Rights Act; and imprisoning people who came here illegally and denying an education to their children who are native-born Americans, it’s not a real reach to wonder if there aren’t Klan sympathizers in the Grand Old Party.
Another example of how low the news media has sunk. The National Enquirer is now on a par with the New York Times or vice versa. Journalism is dead. I once read three newspapers every day. Now I read none. The moderators of the Republican debates have tried to outdo each other in pitting the candidates against each other rather than asking questions about how they would govern as president. Newspapers print salacious headlines on stories that have little resemblance to the headlines. The so-called news people are less believable than the politicians.