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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. It’s been a lot of attention to President Donald Trump’s rallies and his interactions with reporters, political reporters, impromptu press conferences. And the gist of it is that Donald Trump can say things that are cruel. It’s true. He can.

No need to call Rep. Jasmine Crockett a low-IQ person or a reporter dumb or stupid or fatty. And I would call that crass crudity. And it’s something that Trump does and probably should not do, and people have probably reminded him of that.

But there’s another type of crudity, I would call that crudity refined crudity. Crass crudity is openly overt, transparent, and condemned. But it’s also rhetorical. It doesn’t affect policies. It’s the ways one reacts to criticism in Trump’s case. But what is refined crudity? I wanna tell you, give you some examples, very different examples of what I would call refined crudity.

The University of Southern California School of Journalism, the Annenberg center, gives a prize for the top journalist in the nation. This year they gave them to Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart. That’s refined crudity.

Rachel Maddow said almost every night that she was on the air, Russian collusion, Russian collusion, Russian collusion. And when that was exposed as a fraud, she went right into Russian disinformation, Russian disinformation, Russian disinformation.

Jon Stewart is not a journalist. He may be entertaining, he’s........

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