Mainstream media would never say ‘South Carolina is too black’
With the Iowa caucus less than 24 hours away, there is still some hesitation in the media that the caucus, not being an actual election and being somewhere in the Midwest, isn’t entirely representative of the nation. On tonight’s O’Reilly Factor, media critic Bernard Goldberg took on precisely this claim from Andrea Mitchell, suggesting that it was only acceptable in the mainstream media to say Iowa wasn’t representative of the nation because it was white. “We’re not going to hear that South Carolina… is too black,” he argued.
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Goldberg argued that he did not quite understand what “too white” means, other than to mean that it may be “more white” than the national average. “Every four years we get the same song and dance from the Andrea Mitchells of the mainstream media,” Goldberg griped, that Iowa was too white and rural to make a difference, that they were “covering voters who aren’t representative of any other Americans.” If they really believed it, Goldberg suggested, “here’s some free advice: don’t go!”