On Wednesday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC, former NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw criticized President Trump’s DACA decision by claiming that the Republican party has been "giving the back of [its] hand to people who have Hispanic surnames" and “declaring war on Hispanics in this country.” Gee, what a reasoned, balanced point of view.
Newsbusters reports that co-host Mika Brzezinski began by pitching this softball to Brokaw: “DACA. What do you think happened yesterday?”
Brokaw opined,
I think what happened is a continuation of the Republican determination to cut out Hispanic votes on their side, for as long as we can see. This has been going on for a long time. This is a rejection, on the part of the Republican Party, that we have Hispanic citizens in this country and other people, who, in many ways are inclined to share their values. Stuart Spencer, the genius of Ronald Reagan’s campaigns, he used to say we should have the Hispanic vote in our corner. These are people who are family-oriented. They’re faithful. They work hard. They’ve got all those values. But for a long, long time, the Republican Party has been declaring war on Hispanics in this country.
Brokaw went on to say that the country needed to get immigration under control with a comprehensive “reform” bill:
We need a big one, because this is not going to go away. But the reason you see resistance on the Hill is that the Republicans there know that if they turn the Hispanic voters against them in the southwest, and now increasingly in the midwest, where they work in meat processing plants -- Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, says the dairy industry in northern Wisconsin goes down if we lose all the workers that are up there.
They're doing the jobs that a lot of Americans just don't want to do anymore, in meat packing plants. It’s not that they don't want to work hard. These are terrible jobs they're fulfilling. So, I — it’s hard for me to see the big picture, from a Republican point of view, Joe, going forward and just giving the back of your hand to people who have Hispanic surnames.
All of Brokaw's leftist talking points, including the one about Hispanic immigrants doing the jobs Americans "don't want to do," are false, but Brokaw's post-anchor mission now is to pop in to the left-leaning media's opinion shows and lend what little gravitas and credibility he possesses to the left's narrative.
Republicans are "determined to cut out Hispanic votes"? Nonsense. As Newsbusters notes, Trump’s share of that vote was larger than Mitt Romney’s in 2012. And "waging a war on Hispanics"? The left simply uses the bombastic "war" metaphor to hype the lie that Republicans wage war on everything: women, immigrants, people of color, science, anything the left claims falsely to champion.
Brokaw added that he's well aware that the American electorate has had enough of media pundits. “They look around and they say you guys are well paid, you show up in your coats and ties, you've got an answer for everything, you're critical of everything that goes on in this country, and we're just kind of tired of it.”
At least he's right about that. Go home, Tom, and enjoy your retirement.
