A CNN host’s insulting remarks about black voters who expressed doubts that Vice President Kamala Harris was as black as she presents herself speaks volumes.
Former President Donald J. Trump sparked outrage with his remarks that the newly crowned Democrat nominee only began to play up her black heritage when it became politically advantageous and that she had previously presented herself as Asian and Indian-American.
On Saturday’s edition of his self-titled CNN show, Michael Smerconish teed up a clip of a Harrisburg Pennsylvania CBS affiliate’s visit to a black barbershop where the customers who were being interviewed agreed with Trump about Harris, describing them as “low information” voters or in layman’s terms: dumb.
(Video: CNN)
“When I played that audio on my SiriusXM radio program on Thursday, many callers who self-identified as African American were quick to tell me that those men were the exception, not the rule,’ he said. “Some describe them as low-information voters no different than you’d find among whites.”
The pomposity of Smerconish’s disrespectful remarks about black voters who he seems to believe aren’t to be trusted to make up their own minds about whether Harris is a phony drew a strong rebuke from X users, one of them Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald.
Among the many hilarious parts of this CNN video is that, after the Black men explain their views on Kamala and race, the White Man of Authority calls them stupid, and says that’s not how the majority of black people think, which he knows because his black friends told him so. https://t.co/TEM2bJIJZu
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 3, 2024
“Among the many hilarious parts of this CNN video is that, after the Black men explain their views on Kamala and race, the White Man of Authority calls them stupid, and says that’s not how the majority of black people think, which he knows because his black friends told him so,” wrote Greenwald who has specialized in calling out the B.S. and hypocrisy of the Democrats and their minions despite his own left-leaning views.
Other reactions to the host’s condescending take.
No one knows the black experience more than woke gated-community white people.
— A Ration Of Rational (@ARatOfRat) August 3, 2024
They so badly want the opinions of a few liberal black women to be the representation of the entire black community
— Tee (@TeePolitics) August 3, 2024
Not even his friends. Paid shills on a radio call in show do not make up a consensus
— Merchant of memes (@MayoXreturns) August 3, 2024
LOL, the barbershop has no chill, they will tell you what tey really think. The CNN host tried to clear that up real quick by calling them low information voters, lol. To me CNN is low information news.
— mista hella (@HellaMista) August 3, 2024
Hahahaha even the CNN reporter sighs and turns away when that dude asks the other guy “is Kamala black?”
He knew it would be all downhill from there
Absolutely hilarious
— Marcus Dellinger (@MDellinger13) August 3, 2024
That’s hilarious. Biggest problem I’ve long had with progressives is they’ve long told everyone else how we’re supposed to be thinking. They never listen to the people first. This feels like that to me.
— ⅃éé (@ssm0use13) August 3, 2024
They are thinking for themselves.
That CNN guy needs to tell them they will be insulted for that . . .
— El Hunter (@UnrealElHunter) August 3, 2024
“I’ve known her a long time indirectly, not directly very much, and she was always of Indian heritage,” Trump told ABC’s Rachel Scott during his appearance at a gathering of black journalists in Chicago. “And she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black. Now she wants to be known as black. So I don’t know — is she Indian or is she black?”
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