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But I don’t think we would ever see a President Trump making a jackass of himself on an Argentinian dance floor, or doing The Wave at a baseball game with a cold-blooded murdering dictator…

Via The Hill: Obama on Trump: ‘This is not a reality show’

President Obama on Friday urged the news media to closely scrutinize Donald Trump’s record and past comments, and avoid coverage that highlights “the spectacle and the circus” of the campaign trail….

Via CNN: Obamas dance with stormtroopers, R2-D2 on Star Wars Day

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  1. Maynard says:

    Last night I found myself surrounded by enlightened people, and of course they all understood that Trump was the second coming of Mussolini, and that he represented a dangerous fascism that all right-thinking Americans should oppose. I decided it was a good moment to bite my tongue and maintain a neutral expression, because to do anything else would have been pointlessly unpleasant. These people, these smart, educated people; they don’t get it and they’re never going to get it.

    But what is “it” that they’re never going to get? It’s not as if I wanted to rush to the defense of Trump and praise his virtues, but it’s so obvious that the violence and enforced regimentation in modern America comes from the Left, and the disruptions at Trump’s rallies come from the Left, and the riots and looting comes from the Left, and the obsession with race and sexual orientation and the like comes from the Left. And if we’re in trouble today, if we’re failing, if we’re sinking, it’s not because of Trump; Trump arises to fill a vacuum created because our institutions have failed us, repeatedly and willfully and catastrophically — or at least so we perceive, those of us who live with our feet on the ground and not in ivory towers. Yes, Shifra, what you say here is so obvious that, in a sane world, you wouldn’t have to say it.

  2. Alain41 says:

    It’s about plastic Greek columns, selfie stick photos, YouTube Glozell interviews, and interviews between 2 Ferns. Not to mention bowing and lying.

  3. Maynard says:

    I’m hearing a new meme being floated, and liberals are starting to repeat it like parrots: The media made Trump, the media gave Trump $2 billion (that’s the figure they’re all repeating) of free publicity. The implication is the media should now organize to stop promoting Trump, so we’ll all see him the way we’re supposed to.

    Peggy Noonan’s latest column has an interesting take on the media role:

    Before I go to larger issues I mention how everyone, especially the media, is blaming the media for Donald Trump’s rise. I hate to get in the way of their self-flagellation but that’s not how I see it. From the time he announced, they gave Mr. Trump unprecedented free media in long, live interviews, many by phone, some possibly from his bathtub. We’ll never know. It was a great boon to him and amounted, by one estimate, to nearly $2 billion worth of airtime.

    But the media did not make Donald Trump’s allure, his allure made for big ratings. Mr. Trump was a draw from the beginning. If anyone had wanted to listen to Jeb Bush, cable networks would have been happy to show his rallies, too.

    When Mr. Trump was on, ratings jumped, but it wasn’t only ratings, it was something else. It was the freak show at its zenith, it was great TV—you didn’t know what he was going to say next! He didn’t know! It was better than everyone else’s boring, prefabricated, airless, weightless, relentless word-saying—better than Ted Cruz, who seemed like someone who practiced sincere hand gestures in the mirror at night, better than Marco the moist robot, better than Hillary’s grim and horrifying attempts to chuckle like a person who chuckles.

    And it was something else. TV producers were all sure he’d die on their show. They weren’t for Mr. Trump. By showing him they were revealing him: Look at this fatuous dope, see through him! They knew he’d quickly enough say something unforgivable, and if he said it on their air he died on their show! They took him down with the question! It was only after a solid six months of his not dying that they came to have qualms. They now understood they were helping him. Nothing he says is unforgivable to his supporters! Or, another way to put it, his fans would forgive anything so long as he promised to be what they want him to be, a human bomb that will explode by timer under a bench in Lafayette Park and take out all the people but leave the monuments standing.

    In this regard today’s television producers remind me of the producers of 1969 who heard one day that Spiro Agnew, the idiotic new Republican vice president, was going to make a big speech lambasting the media for its liberal bias. They knew Agnew was about to make a fool of himself. Who would believe him? So they covered that speech all over the place, hyped it like you wouldn’t believe—no one in America didn’t hear about it. It made Agnew a sensation. The American people—“the silent majority”—saw it as Agnew did. “Nattering nabobs of negativism,” from the witty, alliterative pen of William Safire, entered the language.

    The producers had projected their own loathing. They found out they and America loathed different things.

    That’s a little like what happened this year with TV and Mr. Trump.

  4. Maynard says:

    And speaking of reality, here’s an odd video; 6 minutes of a Trump supporter walking through a crowd of vulgar, violent Trump haters in San Francisco. Gotta hand it to this guy; he will not be cowed by those scum. But it’s Trump who’s the guy with the dangerous crowds behind him. Right, just keep repeating that. Say it often enough and it takes on the ring of truth.

  5. midget says:

    Talk about the pot calling the kettle, I don’t think there’s ever been a
    politician that has made all the rounds of the talk shows several times
    a year these past 7 years.I’m sure BO’s finale will be him getting
    slimed on the Nickleodeon Kids Choice Awards.

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