It does seem like the America that we know and love doesn't exist anymore.

Tracing the dotted line and assigning blame from hateful rhetoric to 22 dead in El Paso.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Bob Garfield.

Also on this week's show, after newly released tape of Ronald Reagan calling black people

monkeys, we consider the role of racism in the American presidency.

Trump is only expressing in public what many, many American presidents believed in private.

And in Puerto Rico, amid corruption investigations and three governors in a week,

the people are mad as hell, and they're not going to take it anymore.

I have a friend who says, I blame the streetlights,

having to learn how to navigate a place for two years now with dark streetlights.

Like, we have sharpened our skills in ways that the government didn't realize.

There's more coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield.

Let's just be blunt about the question. When a white nationalist massacred 22 people in an El Paso Walmart last week,

who, besides the shooter, had blood on their hands. Most of the media commentary on that question this

week focused on the most obvious culprit. Tonight, President Trump's own words are coming under increasing scrutiny.

Yesterday, Trump made no attempts to reconcile his condemnation of hatred

with his persistent anti-immigrant rhetoric

and made no mention of Hispanics or Latinos.

Which was not like him.

Here's Monday's teleprompter Trump interwoven with unscripted Trump.

In one voice, our nation must condemn racism.

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