Limbaugh floats idea Trump is playing dumb about the Klan cause he's afraid of losing the KKK vote:
But there has to be a reason that Trump, on the actual show with Jake Tapper, hems and haws and acts like he doesn’t know who Duke is and the Klan and (imitating Trump) Well, I need to investigate. I never heard of the group. You need to send me a list.” And Jake says okay, I’ll send you the list, but I’m just talking about David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan. “Well, you know, there’s a lot of different people in these groups, and I gotta research it.”
Let me throw a theory out there to you. The Sunday shows have, amazingly still, their own separate and distinct stature. What is said on a Sunday show is treated differently and may be different in terms of its weight than what is said in a little sound bite that’s part of the nightly news, for example, or part of a guest appearance on a cable news show during the evening. A Sunday show, that’s stature, by reputation.
A Sunday show is serious, no fooling around. It’s like “for the record,” what you say on the Sunday show. And it could well be that Trump thinks of it that way and just didn’t want the quote, did not want any sound bite from the Sunday show one way or the other because maybe Trump’s nervous. Maybe he’s nervous after that debate. Maybe he’s worried. The polls don’t indicate it. Maybe he’s worried that Cruz and Rubio are gaining on him, and he doesn’t want to tick off anybody that might vote for him.
Hey, my speculation’s as good as anybody else’s, because I can think of no reason that he would purposely dodge, when he’s not dodged it before. I think about it being on a Sunday show, and that having more weight, more stature, something about it being these Sunday shows are TV shows of record, as opposed to your average cable news show which happens every day or every night.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/02/rush-limbaugh/
Trump is a NYC liberal. Most liberal New Yorkers take it as a matter of faith that the Klan is wildly popular in the south. So of course, thinking that, Trump wouldn't want to piss off the mythical massive KKK vote. |
