Joan Walsh of Salon wrote today,
“The New York Times trumpeted an ‘indignant Jeb Bush’ who ‘said he takes Donald Trump’s remarks personally.’ … Bush told the Times Trump was ‘wrong’ and ‘way out of the mainstream of what Republicans think.’ But he actually had to be asked by a reporter ‘if the comments struck a personal chord.’ Then he answered, as prompted, ‘Of course it does, absolutely.’ He went on: ‘He’s not a stupid guy, so I don’t assume that he thinks every Mexican crossing the border is a rapist. So he’s doing this to inflame and to incite and to draw attention to his campaign, which seems to be his organizing principle of his campaign, and it doesn’t represent the Republican Party or its values.’
“That would be big headline news if Bush, whose wife was born in Mexico and whose kids are thus of Mexican descent, said it the day after Trump’s ugly outburst. Instead, it took Bush eighteen days to denounce the birther-in-chief.
“I wouldn’t call that indignant.”
(Click here to read the piece.)