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A White House official told CNN the President's "shithole" remark is being received much differently inside of the White House than it is outside. The official said that although this might enrage Washington, staffers predict the comment would resonate with Trump's base, similarly to how Trump's attacks on NFL players kneeling during the National Anthem did.

Donald Trump visit to London called off amid fears of mass protests

...recent Nigerian immigrants would never "go back to their huts" in Africa...

Ali grew up in a culture saturated with myths about Africa. In 1960, during the Rome Olympics, he had compared America favorably to Africa, whose natives, he said, were still fighting alligators and living in mud huts.

[He] thought very little about Africa and cared even less. In his view, Africans were not a celebrated people; they were the butt of his jokes. In 1962, he told sportswriter Myron Cope a story about an encounter with two African men.

“Man,” he chuckled, “I was down at the beach with two of them Africans. They so black they almost blue, but they said to me, ‘Cassius, we have to leave now and go put on our turbans and uniforms ’cause, if we don’t, people gonna think we’re Negroes.’ ”

Elijah determined that Ali’s trip abroad would overshadow their attacks, helping him legitimize his Muslim movement...Elijah reserved profound doubts about the regions.

After his own journey there in 1959, Elijah was disillusioned by the extreme poverty he saw, which he interpreted as a weakness in the people. Before his trip, he had talked about building an emigration movement to Africa, but afterward he ceased considering the plan.

Years after his trek abroad, he complained that Africans still lived “a jungle life,” deriding them as “savages” in need of his civilizing influence. Although he praised the emergence of independent African nations, he remained uninterested in building any genuine relationships with African leaders.

Malcolm X said: “You cannot read anything that Elijah Muhammad has ever written that’s pro-African,” he charged. “I defy you to find one word in his direct writings that is pro-African. You can’t find it.”

In his 1928 classic Propaganda, Bernays said propagandists constituted “an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of…in almost every act of our daily lives…. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.”

In an era of “manipulation of public opinion,” Bernays believed the people’s “voice” had come to be the “inherited prejudices and symbols and cliches and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders.” He understood: “Good government can be sold to a community just as any other commodity can be sold.” But bad government could be sold, too. Anticipating Ronald Reagan—and Donald Trump—Bernays recommended sending young politicos “to work for Broadway theatrical productions or … as assistants to professional propagandists before recruiting them” to politics.

I'm watching Anderson Cooper on CNN and he's the first on-air person to actually use the phrase 'shithole' instead of 's'hole....Bravo Anderson for not sugar coating the president's racist remarks.

A number of analysts have argued that Clinton lost the election the day she made her "basket of deplorables" statement. They're probably right.

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Many people sent this to me. Can't think of a clearer demo for the weakness of our press corps. https://interc.pt/2Di2naU

That's a very good point.