Jorge Ramos: My 'right' to talk over other reporters and ask Trump grandstanding questions was trampledhttp://hotair.com/archives/2015/08/26/jorge-ramos-my-right-to-talk-over-other-reporters-and-ask-trump-grandstanding-questions-was-trampled/Is that headline not a fair characterization of what he?s saying here? In what sense was his ?right? to question Trump at that moment any greater than any other reporter?s? He says at one point in passing in the clip below, ?I thought it was my turn,? but that?s obviously not true. Go watch the video from last night if you haven?t seen it already. Ramos starts speaking as Trump is stepping to the mic, before Trump can so much as look at him. Trump calls on another reporter and Ramos just keeps going.
What he wants to say is that he thought he had a greater moral right to question Trump. He?s an activist. Unlike the other reporters in the room, he was there to push a cause and wanted to use Trump?s media megaphone to amplify it. When you?re speaking open-borders ?truth? to security power, your righteous urgency leaves no room for professional courtesy. And now he?s a free-speech martyr, all because Trump wouldn?t stand there and be heckled at length ? even though he did eventually let Ramos back in for a little heckling and counter-heckling.
Ramos said that the use of force to ?suppress freedom of expression? worried him. He also defended his aggressive approach at the press conference?
In an interview with ABC, Ramos said that another responsibility of being a journalist is to ?denounce? the ?dangerous words and extreme behavior of Donald Trump.??
?I think the best journalism happens when you take a stand, and when it comes to racism, discrimination, corruption, public life, dictatorship or human rights, as journalists, we are not only required but we are forced to take a stand, and clearly when Mr. Trump is talking about immigration in an extreme way, we have to confront him, and I think that?s what I did yesterday,? he said.
Why Trump has a responsibility to answer questions from a guy who finds him so ?dangerous? as to supposedly warrant denunciation from the wider, supposedly impartial media, I have no idea. Jim Geraghty notes that last week Ramos called Trump ?the loudest voice of intolerance, hatred and division in the United States.? The day liberals decide that Obama or Hillary Clinton is