Jon Miller of Blaze TV reports that the media now thinks it’s news what actor Chris Pratt wears when he’s strolling around town with his new wife.
The story first appeared when Yahoo News U.K. published a story with the headline, “Chris Pratt criticized for ‘white supremacist’ T-shirt.” The article that was picked up by several US outlets relied on six random tweets who found Pratt’s “Don’t Tread on Me” or Gadsden flag to be racist.
One person labeled the flag as a “white supremacist dog whistle” while another wondered it Pratt was transphobic or perhaps even sympathized with the tea party.
Six tweets were apparently enough to paint Pratt as a racist. Even the liberal Washington Post wrote that the “Yahoo piece did its best to undermine” the narrative that Trump’s tweets are racist.
According to The Washington Post, “It makes the media look rabid for this controversy and for more symbols to associate with racism. It allows defenders of Trump’s racist tweets … to say: ‘See, look how out of touch these people are! They see racism everywhere.’”
Watch the video and learn what Miller says the real problem is with the media’s reporting. It’s not Trump, not Pratt, and not even racism.
Perhaps we all need to take to heart Miller’s conclusion as to what the real problem is. He leaves no doubt the media does.
