Now that we’ve pocketed the $$$ we’ll stop

Really? How much effort does it take to figure out that Trump’s racist campaign ad is racist?

NBC said on Monday that it would no longer air an immigration-themed advertisement approved by President Trump that CNN had refused to run after deeming it “racist.”

“After further review we recognize the insensitive nature of the ad and have decided to cease airing it across our properties as soon as possible,” NBC Universal said in a statement.

After further review – come on. That might pass if the people who approved the ad were all newly arrived from a distant planet, but otherwise, no.

But then of course NBC is the network that landed us with this monster in the first place.

The 30-second prime-time ad, paid for by Donald J. Trump for President, aired in the middle of a highly anticipated “Sunday Night Football” broadcast, stirred fear of a migrant caravan making its way through Mexico that is still hundreds of miles from the United States border.

Football and racism. It’s too bad NBC didn’t manage to figure it out before airing it in the middle of a football game.

It was a shorter version of an ad that the president shared on Twitterlast week, which falsely claimed about Mr. Bracamontes that Democrats “let him into our country” and “let him stay.” CNN dedicated substantial editorial coverage to the longer ad, sometimes showing clips as anchors and chyrons declared it “racist.”

The 30-second version run by NBC did not include the false claim about Democrats, but it still drew a direct connection from immigrants to crime, a tactic the president has repeatedly used. (Many studies have shown immigrants do not drive an increase in crime.)

Inch by inch by inch. Genocidal regimes don’t form overnight; it takes years of prep work. We’re in the prep work phase, and it’s not the least bit clear that we’re going to reverse course.

Updating to add: even Fox has stopped running the ad (after several days and only hours before the election).

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