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This should be good for a 3% bump upward in his polling. He can tell his rally crowds the NYT is owned by the Russian Mafia and their chief opinion editor is an ISIS plant. Theyâll cheer wildly.
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At last important medium (not media?) has denounced Trump as a racist liar.
This was long overdue.
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Donald Trumpâs needed support in the GOP base is largely a toxic stew of homophobes, racists, misogynists, xenophobes, anti-intellectuals and Bible literalists. Heâs appealing directly to the voters he needs to secure the nomination. You donât quote Gandhi when youâre having a beer with a Klansman.
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From the GOP baseâs perspective, the media is already part of âThemâ. And the NYT most definitely is. I read an interesting column today which basically said that its not about Trump lying or not, its about him âbeing strongâ. And âbeing strongâ means attacking âThemâ.
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The Rabbit Hole gets deeper.
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So who had today in the âWhen Will The Press Grow One Tiny Ballâ sweepstakes?
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Fuckin eh
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Do WE NEEd aNY MORE PROOF that THE NYT is IN THE POCKEt of SOCIALISts and LIBtards (Interchangeable) thaN TRUMP BEING castigated FOR Repeating TRUE FACTs from THE INTERNET!!1!!1!!!one!!11!!!
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Thatâs a very important point: While theyâre sick of hearing truths about a complicated world, Trumpâs supporters are feeling threatened by that complicated world. So âstrengthâ is the more valuable commodity to them. The irony is that once one discounts truth, one becomes incompetent at evaluating whatâs strong and whatâs weak (and anything else for that matter).
Itâs the age-old pattern of the demagogue being empowered by people who are too weak to cope with the real world. Just look at the two massive egos clashing today between Turkey and Russia.
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His right to spew nonsense is protected by the Constitution, but the public doesnât need to swallow it.
Why do writers always need to point this out? After 200 years canât we all just accept that it goes without saying?
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Not only do Trumpâs supporters feel threatened by a complicated world, they want attitude and tone, not specificity because they believe conventional pols have never delivered on their promises so are happy to hear complicated ideas summarized by either âterribleâ or âterrificâ and occasionally huge.
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Itâs because the public is less and less interested in substantive discussions and is more and more willing to drink enormous amounts of Kool-Aid in their quest for the perfect vacant candidate who reminds them of themselves.
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Is this what you read?
âTrump has an amazing ability to backtrack without incurring any political harm from doing so,â said Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review. âHis supporters donât seem to care very much about consistency from one interview or statement to the next, as long as heâs always projecting strength.â
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âTrump said this weekend that he saw âthousands and thousandsâ of people in New Jersey cheering on 9/11âŚ.â
PNAC members donât count.
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Thatâs what the Fourth Amendment thought.
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Just who exactly is the Times preaching to? Why donât they themselves just do the work necessary to explain to the no nothings the elaborate fraud that is Trump, and at least hope it trickles down, down, down to where the rest of the media lives, quivering to sound âfairâ to those who enthusiastically support Trump?
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In JFK Oliver Stone showed thousands of people cheering the news of the assassination at a bar in New Orleans. Whoâs to say it didnât happen since it was caught on film?
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Because it happened in an Oliver Stone movie, we must assume it happened then, and on 9-11? Odd.