13 Feb 2019 6:11 pm
This is where Clem tells me that Dems have said the same or worse as 45 has about the media.With attack on BBC cameraman, Trump's anti-media speech has been weaponized.
As a cameraman with 25 years' experience working at the BBC, Ron Skeans probably knows a thing or two about hostile environments.
His colleagues have been killed and injured working in war zones and dictatorships the world over.
But when Skeans landed the plum job in the corporation's Washington DC bureau in 1994, he surely didn't expect to come under physical threat while covering the rarified arena of US politics.
Of course, that was before the arrival of Donald Trump as commander in chief.
On Monday evening, the BBC reports that Skeans was violently attacked by a Trump supporter wearing a Make American Great Again cap, while he filmed a presidential rally in El Paso, Texas.
As Gary O'Donoghue, the reporter working with Skeans, later suggested when he described the incident, the assault followed a now-familiar tirade by the President against the press, in which he accused the media of failing to acknowledge his achievements and claimed "93% of the stories are negative."
"This is a constant feature of these rallies, a goading of the crowds against the media," O'Donoghue said.
"I've been spat at before, they hurl abuse. ... This was very different.
A man got on to the platform after this (goading) had happened repeatedly in the President's speech, and previous speeches. ... It was an incredibly violent attack."