Juan Williams is thoughtful and articulate. And when he appears on Fox news and commentary shows he usually provides a reasoned view of what Democrats are thinking at that moment.
Sometimes there isn't a reasoned view from Democrats. And instead of blasting Williams for being dumb, as J. Marsolo did in Juan Williams's comparison to Chappaquiddick could not have been dumber, it's more instructive to learn from him.
Marsolo says this in regard to a discussion on "The Five" about the movie, "Chappaquiddick":
Williams said he didn't know the "story" of Chappaquiddick. You would expect that someone whose job is a paid political commentator would know the story. Kennedy would have been the Democratic nominee for president but for Chappaquiddick. Kennedy was lauded by the Dems and the media as the Lion of the Senate. ...
If not knowing about Chappaquiddick isn't bad enough for a paid political commentator, Williams then outdid himself. He said that while the left wanted to block the Chappaquiddick movie, the "right" wanted to block the movie about President Reagan's last years while he was afflicted with Alzheimer's. This is beyond stupidity and civility. How could anyone compare a movie about President Reagan's Alzheimer's with Ted Kennedy leaving Mary Jo Kopechne to die in a car submerged in a pond that he put her in? How is that equivalent, analogous, or relevant? There is no equivalency between blocking the truth about how Kennedy caused Ms. Kopechne to die and respecting the privacy of President Reagan during the last years of his life.
OK, it wasn't a good comparison. But that's all Williams had in the debate. And by proxy, that's all Democrats have in the debate. It's over, and while Democrats controlled the narrative for 50 years, they've lost it. Finally. But this whole thing is a good demonstration of how powerful the Democrats and the media are in managing a story.
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1:08 PM 4/6/2018
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