There Are African-American Voters Out There! OMGOMG!

• Trump has discovered that there are black voters out there who wouldn't vote for him and he tries to appeal to them by speaking to a largely-white audience in Michigan.  BBC, with video.
• From Heather, Crooks and Liars:

  Apparently the executives over at CNN believe that allowing their employees to go on the air and spout racist bile while insulting the other guests is good for business, because that's what they've been allowing the many Trump surrogates they've got on their payroll to do for months on end now.
  
  Case in point is one of Trump's more vocal and obnoxious surrogates, Kayleigh McEnany, who has defended waterboarding, calling it just a "bit of discomfort," pretended that Donald Trump was just being sarcastic when he called President Obama the founder of ISIS, and just this week called Trump's race baiting speech in front of an almost all white audience a message tailored for blacks.

  This article links to Media Matters, which transcribes the smackdown of Ms. McEnany.

• Joy Reid's deft handling of a lying, filibustering pastor this morning was a sight to behold. Everyone should take a lesson about how it's done.
  
  [...] Scott cut in on her with the claim that the birtherism was the fruit of Hillary Clinton's primary campaign.
  
  It's a bad idea to try and pull that with Joy Reid, who knows the history of these things better than anyone else.
  
  "No, that's wrong," Reid corrected. "Even a pastor cannot just make things up on this show."
  
  [...]
  
  As they cut away, she said, "No, sir, I respect you as a pastor. You're not going to come on my show and make things up."
  
  And that, as they say, was that.
  
  This is exactly how these liars have to be handled. Correct the lie, expose them as liars, and show them the door.

  Karoli Kuns, Crooks and Liars. With video.
  

Yanno, conservatives seem to believe that black people are an aggregate populace who are just not smart enough to vote for people who hate them.  I just can't understand it.  Maybe conservatives are an aggregate populace who are just not smart enough to realize that black people know perfectly well that conservatives hate them, and won't vote for people who hate them.