The media is bashing Donald Trump by implying he's going to "destroy" the Republican brand with his shoot-from-the-lip swagger, according to Tim Graham, director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor at media watchdog Newsbusters.org.
"The fact that it's on the front page of The Washington Post tells you Democrats are delighted. And then on [page] A4 there's a whole story about how Chelsea Clinton charges $65,000 to speak at a college for 10 minutes. That's not a front-page story," Graham said Tuesday on the "Steve Malzberg Show" on
Newsmax TV.
"They're clearly trying to suggest that Trump is going to just basically destroy the entire Republican brand. They use words like 'toxic' to describe it."
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Trump has been under fire for his incendiary comments about Mexican immigrants. As he kicked off his campaign for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination last month, the billionaire developer, who is strong on border security, said:
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best.... They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems to us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people! But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we're getting. And it only makes common sense. They're sending us not the right people."
Those words have caused Univision, NBC, Macy's and other businesses to cut ties with Trump and prompted conservative pundit George Will to comment on Fox News Sunday, "At the end of the day he is a one-man Todd Akin. He’s Todd Akin with 10 different facets."
Akin, a Republican congressman from Missouri, saw his political career go up in flames when he stated that women who are victims of what he called "legitimate rape" rarely get pregnant.
"That's what I would call piling one layer of liberal media bias on top of another. They made this enormous gaffe out of a Todd Akin statement in 2012 that [saw] more than 100 stories. Now they're going to say Trump's this guy now."
He pointed to the lackluster coverage of controversial statements made by Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Independent who is challenging Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination. Sanders once questioned whether
cervical cancer was caused by a lack of orgasms. And in 1972, he wrote an essay which mentions women fantasizing about rape.
"I want to know why Bernie Sanders isn't the new Todd Akin with all of his bizarre statements about rape," Graham said.
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