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Dilbert Creator Scott Adams on Donald Trump's "Linguistic Kill Shots"
Reason Magazine ^ | October 6, 2015 | Justin Monticello & Zach Weissmueller

Posted on 10/06/2015 3:46:24 PM PDT by EveningStar

Donald Trump has a way with words—and with people. Yet despite his popularity, he has been a mystery to the media, which have mostly derided his campaign as consisting of nothing more than random insults and ignorant bluster.

Scott Adams, prolific author, blogger, and creator of the massively popular comic strip Dilbert, has a different theory. He tells Reason TV's Zach Weissmueller that the media are being trolled by a skilled manipulator, or in Adams's parlance, a Master Wizard. So exquisite does Adams believe Trump's skills to be that he predicts The Donald will go on to win the presidency.

(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dilbert; donaldtrump; linguisticjudo; linguistickillshots; masterwizard; protrump; protrumparticle; scottadams; skilledmanipulator; trump
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1 posted on 10/06/2015 3:46:24 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Trump, the ultimate sniper. Head shots at 1000 yards.


2 posted on 10/06/2015 3:48:26 PM PDT by refermech
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To: refermech

Yep


3 posted on 10/06/2015 3:50:08 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: EveningStar

Somewhat related:

Donald Trump Breaks Lindsey Graham Like a Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3PQOP6eax8


4 posted on 10/06/2015 3:50:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: refermech
....According to Adams, when Trump describes Jeb Bush as low energy, Carly Fiorina as robotic, or Ben Carson as nice, he's imprinting a label you already feel about these people. They're not random insults, but linguistic kill shots that you can never get out of your mind....
5 posted on 10/06/2015 3:53:56 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled-...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: EveningStar
I made this very same argument when I posted the article about "little Rube" yesterday.

Trump is writing another book, and it's far more powerful and insightful than Alinski's Tactics.

He has an uncanny ability to find his opponents weakest point...and it's NOT policy...but public persona...and just nuking it.

6 posted on 10/06/2015 3:54:51 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: EveningStar

I love it when someone can see past their nose....lol....


7 posted on 10/06/2015 3:56:16 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, and hope you do too!!!)
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To: EveningStar

I have been saying this to friends for several months. But I add that he is also an ‘entertainer’ which in this age of ‘bread and circuses’ will win the masses.


8 posted on 10/06/2015 3:58:05 PM PDT by DocRock (All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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To: EveningStar

I wondered when someone would catch on, I live with a man like this. It is really fun!


9 posted on 10/06/2015 3:58:53 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (1 John 2:22...the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist...)
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To: refermech

Over his shoulder, looking in a mirror.


10 posted on 10/06/2015 3:59:10 PM PDT by moovova
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To: moovova

While getting laid...


11 posted on 10/06/2015 4:01:42 PM PDT by refermech
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To: Mariner

What happens when the tables get turned on him? Trump’s not exactly a hard figure to lampoon.


12 posted on 10/06/2015 4:02:39 PM PDT by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: JediJones

Trump has dared do many things that political correctness has been attempting (and largely succeeding) to intimidate the body politic out of doing. He is breaking the hypnotic spell. That gives him a huge amount of goodwill and that insulates him against lampooning. Lampooning works better against figures who have worn their welcome thin.


13 posted on 10/06/2015 4:09:25 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Mariner

Trump says what he truly feels and his passion shines through. He is the ONLY candidate who has done anything near the span of control and complexity he handles with aplomb...

The Politicians All have been exposed as “missing Wardrobe”...

Some more than others...

Watch and See, time to thin the herd...


14 posted on 10/06/2015 4:10:51 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

He also insulates himself by doing his own lampooning.


15 posted on 10/06/2015 4:10:57 PM PDT by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: JediJones
"What happens when the tables get turned on him?"

What...like every media outlet, person in the media and every politician/pundit in America has not been doing their best...with every asset at their disposal...to paint Trump with a negative image?

Don't tell me you cannot see that. Whether warranted or not, that's what's happening.

So Trump turned it on them.

Trump has said to all of them: "Who do YOU want to be tomorrow?"

16 posted on 10/06/2015 4:11:41 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: EveningStar

He doesn’t talk or act like a politician and the media and the other candidates don’t know how to attack him.


17 posted on 10/06/2015 4:13:26 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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To: EveningStar

I believe exactly what Adams is saying. Sending the water to Rubio was perfect. Rubio, the water BOY! Trump was saying what was. They are sweating and Rubio is just a boy.


18 posted on 10/06/2015 4:13:38 PM PDT by Cats Pajamas (Romans 1:18-32 ..............God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things.....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You could have warned us that is from Cenk Underwear.

I wouldn’t have given that jackass the hits


19 posted on 10/06/2015 4:16:48 PM PDT by digger48 (ars)
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To: TheStickman

trumping


20 posted on 10/06/2015 4:16:50 PM PDT by visualops (artlife.us)
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