Conservative political commentators are coming to Trump’s rescue. Again.
Sean Hannity and Karl Rove were doing damage control on Fox News Wednesday night, a job typically reserved for White House press secretaries, after unbecoming revelations about the inner-workings of President Donald Trump’s thinking on key election issues were brought to light in the newly-released book of famed investigative journalist Bob Woodward.
When you turn to these two for your defense, you are really scraping the bottom of the barrel. I wonder if Ham Rove has “the numbers” for this election, too.
You do realize that the people who watch Hannity, Carlson, and Ingraham, do so religiously? That these voters are not only non-getters in regards to voting for Biden, they’re high on the living in non-reality.
So how much overlap is there between Qanonites and Foxites?
Rove says about Biden: “So, he deliberately attacks the President in an over-the-top way,” Rove said, before suggesting that Biden has taken the attitude that “President Trump did everything wrong, I’m a genius, if you would only listen to me, if I’d only been in charge.”
They are missing the point. Trump is a nincompoop who hires other nincompoops and together they can’t do anything well. Biden is a nincompoop who will hire people who are not nincompoops. There’s a big difference. A big part of governing/managing is hiring competent people. Trump doesn’t like competent people because they make him insecure.
Karl Rove ? really ? to quote from an old John Wayne movie " I thought that you were dead ! ". And he’s trying to do his favorite trick again, turn a strength into a weakness. The results might be somewhat interesting but they won’t make a difference, tRump withheld information that could have saved thousands of lives. That is what will stick.
At the end it doesn’t matter, no Trump fan is going to change his mind.
Friedman article is bunk, nobody humiliated Trump’s base. But this paragraph is spot on.
The media feed Trump’s supporters a daily diet of how outrageous this or that Trump action is — but none of it diminishes their support. Because many Trump supporters are not attracted to his policies. They’re attracted to his attitude — his willingness and evident delight in skewering the people they hate and who they feel look down on them.
“Did President Roosevelt fan the flames of misery? Did he call for panic and anxiety?” Hannity said. “No, he actually rallied a nation in a time of need and focused on making Americans stronger by staying positive,”
Yes, I still remember FDR saying after the attack on Pearl Harbor, “hey, it was a pretty good day”.
Sadly, he hones in on the fact that many non-college educated people feel inferior to those with college degrees and they feel like Trump is in their camp on this.
The trick, for Biden, or whomever, is to show respect for everyone and not talk about “deplorables,” as Hillary Clinton did.
They have been doing damage control and whipping up panic and anxiety for as of tomorrow’s anniversary the past 19 years. After the 9/11 attacks W. Bush and Rove opposed a commission to look into what and why it occurred. Then they tried to have of all people Henry Kissinger head it. There was enough outrage from victims families and many in congress that an independent commission was created.
“The host went on to draw a wildly off-base comparison between Trump and wartime President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who during WWII instilled confidence in an aching nation by saying, ‘We have nothing to fear but fear itself.’
For the record, FDR said this about the Depression, not the war.
