Tim Scott

[Horace]

Great stuff.

[Mik]

Possibly our next black president. He's a wonderful speaker.

[Improviso]

@Mik said in Tim Scott:

Possibly our next black president.

Black people won't vote for him. He's conservative and not woke enough.

[Mik]

I think they will.

[Jolly]

Ax, what's your opinion?

[Copper]

He ain't black

[Jolly]

But he is the opposition.

[George K]

@Jolly said in Tim Scott:

But he is the opposition.

@Jolly isn't it great when ideology crosses racial lines?

[89th]

@Mik said in Tim Scott:

Possibly our next black president. He's a wonderful speaker.

Agreed, good speaker. Although, he'd be our first fully black president. Don't forget Obama is half-white. Now, the fact that you probably just cringed at that (accurate) fact is a good reflection of the inability for many in our society to have discussions based in objective fact.

[George K]

https://althouse.blogspot.com/2020/06/here-is-newsflash-for-cnn-i-have-name.html

"Here is a newsflash for CNN — I have a name and it's Tim Scott... News outlets like CNN time and time again refuse to use my name when referring to me in article headlines."
"The double standard with CNN is stunning. In fact, check out these headlines for Democrat Senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker. Why is it that when I give a floor speech on the same topic, I am simply referred to as a black senator?"

Writes Senator Tim Scott in in fundraising email I received at 7:54 this morning (full text below, after the jump).

He quotes 2 CNN headlines — "Sen. Booker: This nation is greater than this" and "See Sen. Harris speech on anti-lynching legislation" — and and then the CNN headline about him: “See black senator’s emotional response to senator’s ‘token’ remark."

I had to use the Wayback Machine to get a look at that headline...

... because the relevant URL now takes you to a CNN page that has the headline Scott says he wants:

Using the Wayback Machine, I was able to figure out that the original headline went up on June 18th, and the new headline appeared on June 20th. So for 2 days, he was "a black senator" having an "emotional response." Notice that the photo changed too. In the emotional-black-senator picture, he's crying and covering his face with his hands. In the replacement picture, he's standing tall and speaking forthrightly and using his hands with speech-augmenting expressiveness.

I don't know exactly why the changes were made, but they do hide the evidence of what CNN did when the story was fresh. Presumably, CNN heard the criticism and reacted. It didn't stop Scott from using this in a fund-raising letter 7 days later.

Read the full text of the email (at the link above).

[Rainman]

I just sent him an email, thanking him.
I've started to do that. Not sure if it matters, but makes me think I'm doing something even marginally worthwhile.