>>>I disagree -- condoning or denying racist behavior is a racist action. It's not different that telling a racist joke then claiming you didn't say something racist because you didn't write the joke, you just told it. Furthermore there was no eagerness on my part as I gave him probably a dozen opportunities to see that before I called him out on it.
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>Your namecalling is wasted on me regardless, but I don't think the tactic is much use at all any more. How else would you explain Trump's 52% bipartisan popularity last week? Last week he was more popular than Obama at the same point in office despite the non-stop hatred from Fake News and the Crying Wolf brigade. Perhaps the nastiness directed at him is getting too much to stomach for the reasonable majority and creating sympathy.
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>One thing I can see in the first suit brought by the Covington victims of the whole hateful movement, refers to easily-demonstrated anti-Trump bias of WAPO. In their shoes I'd be as worried about that as about the $250M suit because it that's accepted by the court, the Fake News stain will never be erased.

Trump's approval rating has nothing to do with you condoning or denying racist behavior (which is a racist action). If you have a problem with being called out on it -- then don't do it to begin with.