CBS Sissy "Reporter:" The Real Victims of the Butler Assassin Weren't Corey Campatore or Donald Trump, It Was the Media Because Trump Blamed Us

The Democrats aren't going to win back male votes in the near future.

CBS News Capitol Hill correspondent Scott MacFarlane told podcaster Chuck Todd on Wednesday about how traumatized he was by Trump rallygoers blaming the media for the assassination attempt against President Donald Trump in 2024.

Americans reeled in shock from the attempt on Trump's life during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, but MacFarlane said he had personal trauma from the crowd's immediate rage in response.

"For those of us there, it was such a horror because you saw an emerging America," MacFarlane told Todd on his podcast. "And it wasn't the shooting, Chuck. This was -- I got diagnosed with PTSD within 48 hours. I got put on trauma leave, not because, I think, of the shooting, but because you saw it in the eyes, the reaction of the people."

"They were coming for us," he said in the clip flagged by The Daily Caller. "If [Trump] didn't jump up with his fist, they were going to come kill us!"

CBS News Capitol Hill correspondent Scott MacFarlane told podcaster Chuck Todd about his ongoing trauma from seeing the crowd's rage on the day of the Trump rally shooting. ("The Chuck ToddCast")

"I know," Todd agreed.

Later in the discussion, MacFarlane added that, "Many of us on press row, as we talked about this on our text chains for weeks after, were quite confident we'd be dead if he didn't get back up."

While it wasn't everyone in the crowd, MacFarlane claimed that dozens of people turned on them and said, "'You did this. This is your fault. You caused this. You killed him,' and they were going to beat us with their hands. I mean, they were going to kill us. And respectfully, the Secret Service had bigger issues [than] protecting us. When he jumped up triumphantly, it saved us."

Hmmm... I'm trying to figure out which outcome I'd've preferred.

The ultimate manly man, Barack Obama, is trying to win back the male vote too.

On one hand, Obama told donors at a closed fundraiser that Democrats need to "toughen up."

He said this privately, on a Friday night, for the minimum possible impact.

But he's sending mixed signals. Obama, who once confessed in a letter to a "girlfriend" that he fantasized about having gay sex with men...

Now he says he also wants men to be sensitive and to cultivate gay and nonbinary friends.

Friends with benefits, maybe?

posted by Ace at 04:55 PM

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