Posted on 11/21/2017 3:04:26 PM PST by Kaslin
Newsweek continues to embarrass the legacy of the once-reputable publication with anti-Trump hit pieces on a regular basis, but a recent story titled, “How murderer Charles Manson and Donald Trump used language to gain followers,” takes things to a dark new level.
The left-leaning publication literally compared a convicted mass murderer and cult leader to the President of the United States. Former President of the American Psychoanalytic Association Mark Smaller told Newsweek that part of Manson’s power lay in the type of language he used.
“A charismatic leader knows how to speak to people in a way that will emotionally engage those people,” he said.
Smaller said we can look to the current president to see how language is used to form a bond with followers.
“It's almost predictable that some idiot online will write an outlandish story connecting Trump to the villain du jour, all designed to generate web traffic and ad dollars."- Media Research Center Vice President Dan Gainor
Dan Gainor, vice president of Media Research Center, which documents liberal media bias, called the piece “clickbait” and said Newsweek stopped being a legitimate news organization years ago.
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Yeah, I understand partisan bs politics and fake news. but the manson thing is a 15 yard penalty...
Newsweek is reading for octagenarians. It has descended into pure partisan hackery.
Can someone please put it out of its misery?
Opposition Media is having a mental health breakdown with all the Sexual Harassment coming to light!
Once-reputable Newsweek
its true, Dad brought home a copy from his office, I agreed with them, once, it was 1978
Once reputable...
When??
Once-reputable? The rag was a source of fake news in the early 60s. Did it become reputable later?
Then Obama’s was like Jim Jones, right, Newsweak?
You meant Octogenarian, I doubt even they would read that rag.
Newsweek has, in my more than half century on God’s green Earth, only ever had a reputation for publishing lies, distortions, and half-truths.
A very looooooooooooooooooooong time ago.
The left is hysterical and mad.
Manson had a handful of followers vs. 70,000,000 and growing for Trump.
How can these publications stay in business? I gave up on the leftist Newsweek in the 1970s as a waste of money and time.
Trump isn’t exactly what I would call a charismatic speaker. He has some of that at times but usually he is just a plain-spoken speaker and can even be crude at times. People support him because he is saying what a lot of people think but politically correct politicians won’t say or do.
In fact Trump seems to me to be the opposite of slick charismatic speakers.
I believe President Trump is a strong communicator...perhaps even gifted. He doesn’t speak above or below anyone, he’s direct and to the point.
I can not think of another person in my lifetime that can move people like his words can. Love him or hate him ....everybody listens to what he has to say.
They might not agree.... but they listen.
Says the people who still cut babies out of their mothers to kill them.
He has some of that ... perhaps. But I think most people like him because he reinforces what they already believe.
“Newsweek is reading for octagenarians. It has descended into pure partisan hackery.
Can someone please put it out of its misery?”
Left leaning publication? Give me a break...its a total communist/democrat rag! Emergency outhouse paper.
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