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NBC’s “Meet the Press” marked the 56th anniversary of Bloody Sunday by sounding off on what they called shortcomings in President Biden’s first State of the Union address.
The poignant day in American civil rights history, Sunday, March 7, 1965, came when unarmed civil rights protesters were met with violent resistance from local law enforcement during a march from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights.
Host Chuck Todd suggested Biden missed an opportunity to reflect on the brutality enacted on African-American protestors during the Selma to Montgomery marches of 1965 as he addressed Ukraine’s fight for democracy.
“If there’s one thing that surprised me about the president’s State of the Union, it was the lack of connecting the fight for democracy and freedom abroad with the fight for democracy and freedom at home. Today’s Bloody Sunday,” Todd said.
“Were you surprised?” he asked author and Princeton University professor Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
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NBC News political director and “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd dismissed the notion that there is a liberal bias in the media. (Photo by: William B. Plowman/NBC)
“I was stunned,” Glaude responded. “I mean, it was an easy kind of rhetorical move: Let’s defend democracy abroad and secure democracy at home.”
“And what would it mean to secure democracy at home?” he continued. “We would have to address the question of what’s happening across the country in terms of the assault on voting rights, and we would also have to address the illiberal forces within our country that are driving the challenge to voting rights.”
“I thought [not saying it] was a mistake,” Glaude concluded.
Fox News Channel was the most-watched network in all of television on Tuesday for President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union address. (Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times via AP, Pool)
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