The Root
By Richard Prince
October 22, 2015
Latino
groups are voicing outrage at NBC for asking Donald Trump to host
"Saturday Night Live" on Nov. 7, saying that if he had insulted other
groups as he
has Mexicans, no such invitation would be extended.
"What
if all of the Latino cast members all walked off the job at 'Saturday
Night Live'? Oh wait, you don't have any Latino cast members," Rep. Luis
V. Gutiérrez,
D-Ill., said Wednesday on the House floor, Cristina Marcos reported for
the Hill.
Esther
J. Cepeda, a syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Writers
Group, wrote Wednesday, "Whether Trump reprises his hateful rhetoric on
the comedy
show or harmlessly buffoons his egomaniacal persona in an effort to
burnish his 'straight-talking' brand matters little. What's at issue is
that unless 'SNL' disinvites him, it is effectively giving a stamp of
approval to his hateful views . . . ."
Cepeda
also wrote, "If 'SNL' and NBC choose to continue their plan to have
Trump host SNL we should see the gesture for what it is: A big
'[expletive] you'
to the overwhelming majority of a 55 million-strong community who have
clearly articulated their disgust with The Donald."
NBC's decision to invite the front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination had already raised fairness questions.
"You
might be wondering, like we did, if the government’s 'equal time' rule
means Ben Carson, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and the rest of the
Republican
presidential field will each get a shot at hosting the show," Katie
Sanders wrote Wednesday for PunditFact, part of the PolitiFact
fact-checking operation run by the Tampa Bay Times.
"The
answer, PunditFact found, is no. But candidates could score some free
air time in certain markets if they ask for it. . . ."
NBC has steadfastly refused to comment on the furor.
Jeremy
Diamond recalled Monday for CNN, "Trump this summer called undocumented
Mexican immigrants 'rapists' and 'killers' as he launched his
presidential bid,
quickly drawing a mixture of ire and support as he pushed on with his
presidential campaign.
"
'These groups are out for themselves,' Trump said Monday morning on Fox
News, before adding that he is 'leading in the polls with Hispanics'
and has 'thousands
of Hispanics who work for me.'
On
the House floor, Gutiérrez wondered if "Saturday Night Live" would give
Trump airtime if he had targeted other minority groups, Marcos reported
for the
Hill.
"If
Donald Trump had said gays and lesbians were murderers and raping
Americans, would he get to host the show? It is every bit as much a
fiction and a lie,"
Gutiérrez said.
"
' Donald Trump has said some pretty awful things about women
individually and collectively. But what if he said most women were
criminals? Would the writers
be thinking up sketches for Trump if he had slandered an entire gender
rather than an entire ethnic group?' . . ."
Cepeda
added, "A MoveOn.org petition sponsored by the immigration reform group
America's Voice is asking NBC to dump Trump. . . .
"The
National Council of La Raza's Janet Murguia called 'SNL's' Trump
invitation a 'slap in the face' to the Latino community, but that's not
quite right.
"A slap in the face could be seen as a passionate outburst — an intimate gesture implying an affront within a relationship.
"
'SNL's' paltriness in the Hispanic ensemble member department — two
Latino males in 40 years — and a complete dismissal of Hispanics'
complaints over an
offensive 2014 skit featuring a white comedienne portraying a ditzy,
overly accented Latina sexpot tell you all you need to know about
'SNL's' relationship with Hispanic audiences. . . ."
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