[C. Edmund Wright]

Trump has a particular function, and I find it very interesting and entertaining. I support him BEING THERE. I don’t support him as a candidate. He is sucking a lot of media oxygen. There are folks, like me, who think it’s simply great that his is in, yes, spouting his mouth off, but unquestionably beating on topics the so-called REAL candidates will not touch or have to tap-dance around. There are folks who probably support him as a candidate, and those I think are misguided.

EXACTLY!! And BTW, you have the best screen name at FR....maybe on the entire web.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Well, thank you! I actually did think of it on my own, then I later discovered it was the name of an obscure local Vermontish NPR-type radio program. Anyway.

Jonah (and many journalists for whom I don’t have even 1/100th the respect I have for Jonah, does not get this theory, that Trump is a media-suck. He’s an irritant, actually. But I don’t say that in a negative way, LOL.

The fact of the matter is:

Trump is serving EXACTLY the function that a once-functioning media once did. Something to ponder. The irony is very appealing.

[samtheman]

you [Attention Surplus Disorder] have the best screen name at FR....maybe on the entire web

I agree.