Sunday, June 28, 2015

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CNN Inserts Plan for Anti-Poverty Spending into Discussion of Charleston Massacre 

By Brad Wilmouth, Jun. 27, 2015, Newsbusters

On Friday's New Day, during a discussion of the then-upcoming funeral for South Carolina State Senator Clementa Pinckney, CNN host Alisyn Camerota brought up issues of high poverty in South Carolina's black population and invited Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn to use the recent church massacre as a springboard to push for diverting more federal money into high-poverty areas.

After Charleston's Democratic mayor, Joseph Riley, spoke of the accomplishments of his tenure, Camerota posed:

And you have accomplished that. Yet, there's so much more work to be done. We have some statistics about what South Carolina looks like. South Carolina poverty rate for whites, 13 percent. For blacks, 30 percent. South Carolina per capita income: $28,000 for whites, $15,000 for blacks. Congressman, after this funeral, what will you go back to Congress and do? What can you change now?

Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the Friday, June 26, New Day on CNN, from the 8:00 a.m. hour:



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