Trump Heckles ‘Boring’ Dems, NBC In First Primary Debate Of 2020
So boring that he felt he needed to heckle and comment… Nah, he needed his name mentioned and the spotlight returned toward him. I’m just hoping that that spotlight sheds more and more lite on the atrocities he and his administration are fostering.
Indeed, but reporting on Trump tweets has become its own local TV evening news segment, in effect. Rather like the weather reporter bubblingly telling us that it had been raining today, and where, and for how long. I am actually becoming intrigued by just how predictable his comments are: I cannot have been alone in thinking, last night, immediately upon the live microphone disruption, that it would earn a tweet from Trump, while he is en route overseas, to save the free world, was it? Ponder that, a moment.
No, I rather think we do need to hear about and pay attention to his blather, however sad it all is, as well as infuriatingly tedious. We need to be forced to live this as well as know of the damning more substantive activities, for the sheer frightening weirdness of the virtual elementary school recess playground that our political era has become, where the President of these United States actually deigns to comment on a (union member, no doubt?) broadcast technician”s mishap, which is derided as the natural failing of a particular news business that he does not care for — Goebels lite? — is actually to be expected, cannot, ever, be forgotten, so we never allow ourselves a moment when the transcending of this national purgatory is not foremost on our minds.
Never the like again!
Trump thinks? I thought he just had involuntary reflex actions, like gagging or puking.
This isn’t at all important in the scheme of things, obviously. He’s got the mind, on his best day, of a dull-witted resentful teen who thinks everything is “stupid.” But it does remind me of what might be the best comment I ever read about him, by whom I forget, about the early debates in the 2016 cycle. The commenter observed that Trump mostly stood there in an uncomfortable silence, as if he knew he didn’t belong up there. I think even today, when he tells himself about how he’s done more than any other president blah blah, he knows, when he hears people like these candidates, that he’s an impostor. We’ve all felt it, seeing someone who was really an ace in your own field and reluctantly thinking "Wow, that person’s a real software engineer/regional sales director/professional surfer/whatever. And we aren’t impostors. We’re into competence, study, improvement. Imagine if you actually sucked at what you pretended to do and were faced with that every minute, and then Warren talks about structural inequality in deeply knowing terms, or any of them, really, people with intelligence, a work ethic, commitment to something larger than themselves (OK not Gabbard). He know he’s a fake, and these people are going to pants him and laugh over the next year and a half. It’s the thing he fears most. He might have been bored by the content—governance and leadership don’t interest him. But he’s scared to death, and that’s never boring.
So how much.did it take for Trump to have that doctored video of him on stage on place to.use?
Let’s see…given the choice between boring and psycho…I will go with the former…it seems as though most of these people renig on their policy constructs anyway so we have to hone in on sound body and mind right now…
Even on good productions with well-trained crew, things go wrong. Imbecile is harsh - you think MSNBC put a rookie on it?
Means the local news readers can phone it in. It is much like “reality” TV all fluff no substance and cheap to produce.
Shame on you M, 45* was off to save the free world by flying first class to one of the most civilized countries in the world to talk about international financial stability - just like the grunts that stormed the beaches of Normandy.
Truth is always boring to pathological liars. He only believes fox and the crap he makes up as he goes along.
I was hoping the media wouldn’t get sucked into making Trump’s response a story unto itself and basically retweeting his inane remarks. A paragraph in the main story would have been sufficient if you thought his reaction was newsworthy. (Did you think he would do anything but trash the debate?) On this one, TPM disappoints.
When I want to know what Trump thinks of a democratic candidate I’ll ask Sarah Sanders.
Yes.
22 years in the industry…
I only have 12, and you’re wrong.
@mattinpa
Please, I can NAME. The shows they did this, from Super Bowls to award shows, it happens every. Single. Day.
I’m no technical wizard, but I’ve read enough about production to know that people who are will constantly tell you about stuff that went hilariously wrong at the worst possible time. The machines are complex, and we’re complex machines ourselves, and both are prone to glitches. It’s a thing you learn to work around because you can’t avoid it. And it’s chancy. That’s something people like about it. Bruno Delbonnel, who has five Academy Award nominations for cinematography, took a chance on the lighting in a key scene in “Inside Llewyn Davis” that he worried could get him fired. He’s no rookie. His luck held, is all. MSNBC, somebody had a bad day, that’s all.
On a commentary track for an obscure film by some crumbum last name…some Italian thing…soapala…Coppola - that’s it - he carefully lit a scene between Michael and his mother for moody darkness and the whole thing came out nearly black and wasn’t good and it bothered him then and it bothers him now. But that’s what happens when rank amateurs are working in the business.
Haha famous DP Gordon Willis, dubbed by his friend Connie Hall “The Prince of Darkness.” Not a rookie either. Just a person who spends all day every day looking for the sweet spot that can be very elusive because pretty much by definition it dwells in tension between two extremes. Now the thing with the audio is different; somebody forgot to throw the right switch is all. But it’s a simple mistake, the kind everyone makes, surgeons, civil engineers, ev-er-y-one, but show biz happens in real time and double-checking isn’t always possible. And when it does happen everyone’s scrambling around to figure out what happened and it can take a seeming eternity to resolve. You laugh it off. Got to.
the tightrope dance of live television - when I read about it, I could just hear the chatter in the booth