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Just a day after they tried to shame Second Lady Karen Pence for working at a Christian school, CBS Evening News took time out of their Thursday broadcast to attempt to downplay the rampant and well-documented anti-Semitic and racist bent of the Women’s March organizers.
CBS finally found the topic after a Tablet magazine story had been circulating for over a month detailing how deep the organization’s anti-Jewish roots crept. But judging by the report by CBS correspondent Alex Wagner it may have been to defend why their upcoming protest in Washington, DC would be so small (just 10,000).
“Several factors have seemingly contributed to lower enthusiasm, weather conditions, a lack of funding, and controversy,” she noted. As the sole example given for the controversy, Wagner pointed to a recent interview Women’s March co-president Tamika Mallory did on The View:
Women's March co-president Tamika Mallory appeared on The View this week defending her association with Louis Farrakhan, top minister in the Nation of Islam, an organization dedicated hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center because of the “racist, anti-Semitic and anti-LGBT rhetoric of its leaders”. Mallory posted this photo with Farrakhan on his birthday in 2017 calling him the “GOAT”, the greatest of all time.
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