“PBS NewsHour” correspondent Yamiche Alcindor was heavily criticized late Wednesday over a tweet describing GOP House candidate Madison Cawthorn who stood at the conclusion of his remarks from the Republican National Convention as a “direct reproach” to those who protesting against social injustice.
Cawthorn, who was partially paralyzed in a car accident in 2014 and used a wheelchair, ended his speech by urging Americans not to “crawl to a mob”, and “kneel before God, but stand before our flag .
“Be a radical for freedom and be a radical for our republic for whom I stand, one people under God, with freedom and justice for all,” Cawthorn said as he got up from his wheelchair and stood behind a walker.
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Alcindor, who is also a contributor to NBC News and MSNBC, responded by tweeting: “Madison Cawthorn made it a point to stand, suggesting that all Americans should stand by the promise of fidelity and national anthem. It was a direct reproach of actions by ppl – including black [sic] athletes who are currently playing games – protesting against police brutality. “
“How on earth would you turn the rather moving act of a FREAKIN ‘PARAPLEGIC standing up for the national anthem into an early BLM journey?” Advocate and contribution from National Review Jeff Blehar tweeted. “If someone keeps the door open for you, is that also a reproach from BLM? My patience for taking such has reached its limit.”
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“The activist below found a way to make a paraplegic who got up in his wheelchair an act of white supremacy,” tweeted Daily Caller reporter Chuck Ross.
“Nowhere has Cawthorn said his position was a” direct reproach of actions by ppl – including black athletes currently playing games – protesting against police brutality. And Yamiche Alcindor is not a journalist, “said Conservative commentator Stephen Miller.
“If you thought, ‘Surely no one could attack this man in a wheelchair to get up at the end of his speech,’ you did not meet our completely insane press corps in the White House, at the moment viciously attacking a paralyzed man for not sharing left-wing political views, “tweeted the Federalist senior and Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway.
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Earlier this summer, Alcindor was criticized for trying to refute President Trump’s claim that Protestants who destroyed statues had no knowledge of the statues they were destroying.
“Protestants say they understand who the statues are,” she wrote, “and that images of those people – many of whom are guilty people – had to be removed.”
