Larry Wilmore on the election
So when did Larry Wilmore know Donald Trump could win the presidency? The moment came during the first Republican debate, the Emmy-winning writer, comedian, and producer said. It was “when Megyn Kelly confronts him about what he said about women, how he had degraded women and called them disgusting and a pig,” recalled Wilmore. “And he said, ‘No, no, no, only Rosie O’Donnell,’ and he got huge applause. I was like, ‘He’s going to be president.’” Wilmore presented his thoughts, leavened with humor, as he delivered the Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics on Tuesday night at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. The evening event also saw the presentation of the David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism to Nancy Kaffer. A columnist and member of the editorial board of the Detroit Free Press, Kaffer has written extensively about that city’s mortgage problems...