Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan have always made for a compelling story. The KKK in LaGrange, Ga., provided this writer with his first television report for the Columbus, Ga., CBS affiliate in the early 1980s. We had no weekend news, but I was sent “just in case something happened.”
My report was written on the way back to Columbus, at a restaurant, on a napkin, then put together for the Monday newscast. Thankfully, nothing happened.
As I recall, unfettered immigration and affirmative action were the talking points of the day. Sound familiar?
Now the neo-Nazis, demented cousins of the KKK, are goose-stepping to Chattanooga, still talking about immigration and using racial slurs to provoke coverage.
Liberals, 30 years removed from my first report, may again find an opportunity to equate Nazis to Republicans. After all, isn’t illegal immigration a Republican talking point?