Posted on 05/16/2016 1:39:47 PM PDT by winoneforthegipper
Donald Trump woke up Monday staring down the barrel of a terrible news week. A scathing New York Times report about his "unsettling" treatment of women was the talk of the morning shows and looked set to dominate the news cycle for days.
But by the time the morning shows were over, Trump had muddied the narrative. Now the Times, too, was on the defensive.
For the umpteenth time this campaign cycle, Trump seemingly succeeded in shifting scrutiny away from himself and back onto the media. He does so by capitalizing on any uncertainty in the reporting and then aggressively calling attention to it.
In this instance, Trump's opening was former girlfriend Rowanne Brewer Lane, who appeared on Fox News and accused the Times of spinning her words.
Trump was watching. He went to great lengths to alert others to the interview -- even calling CNN's "New Day" control room to personally make sure that the producers had seen it.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
She sure had her nose in the air.
That phrase made me chuckle...”any uncertainty in the reporting”.
You mean little dissonances like his GF going on TV to denounce the Times story as distorted BS?
“And as soon as Hillary says, ‘Im the one running for president here, not Bill.’ Then the trap is set...he can go off on her. ‘So, youre saying you knew nothing of these allegations?’ Hillary, youre not only crooked, youre a liar.’”
Even worse, once she’s opened that door he can say, “Your friend and employee, Betsy Wright, had the solitary job of controlling Bill’s ‘bimbo eruptions’. One method of control you used was to attack and smear the women who Bill abused. Do you think the women of America want someone such as yourself in the Oval Office?”
Video here.
Here’s a good article on the lead author in the Trump NY Times fiction, titled Michael Barbaro New York Times Objectivity Questioned
Transparently and virulently anti Trump hack. I won’t even bother searching the background of the other author. No need.
Just play a minute of her hideous cackle Each one slightly different. Each with. Title under it what question triggered that laugh. (She fake laughs when she is asked a question she doesn’t want to answer )
It’s all he needs to win !
Obama has ordered his mainstream media to pull out all the stops in taking Donald J. Trump down...right now!!! Obama is terrified that Hillary Clinton will get slaughtered politically come November, by DJT & company!!! He sees his legacy going down in flames and, as such, is ready to play his weak bench using Joe Biden & Elizabeth Warren, to replace Clinton!!!
Trump....meanwhile totally destroys the NY Times creditability in one fell swoop this morning......forcing the Obama media to play they ace-in-the-hole cards, much earlier, then they ever intented to. Good show, DJT!!!
If Hillary Clinton loses either Kentucky or Oregon tomorrow evening, look for Ms. Clinton to withdraw from the POTUS race within the next few weeks, or, Obama will order his AG to charge her with numerous felon crimes!!! Obama is in full panic mode!!!
Bump.....
Unlike the last bunch of worthless Republican presidential candidates, Donald Trump fights back.
Everything they post from now on even if true will have an element of skepticism
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Your point - absolutely! The big Times “backfire” is that with their false narrative/reporting, they have further inoculated Trump against such trash in the future. Time and time again, the media has been found to be lying & it’s gotten to the point that people just say “more lies” and negative Trump reporting is dismissed out of hand. Trump, on his own, had a fairly thick Teflon coating to start with, but the Times et al is merely slathering on more Teflon with every ‘hit piece’ they desperately try to smear on Trump. It’s fun to watch, actually.
This is so much fun to watch.
BTW if Hillary drops out Trump will grab the narrative of how unstoppable he is and milk it for all its worth. Expected Bidend to be branded as creepy.
Donald: Crush your enemies. See the drive-by media run screaming before you. Hear the lamentations of Michael Barbaro.
Imdon’t know how to post pictures, but here’s Roxanne’s twitter handle with a pic of her and Trump. She’s a former Miss Maryland.
I love the teardrop in the POOR ME logo!
Not only all you said, but this inoculates Trump for a while from any other NYT attacks.
It was reported today on every media portal I had the misfortune of coming into contact with that Trump had a “very very bad weekend.”
Which was the first I’d heard of it.
I’ve said it before: They write the story first, then the event happens, and whether it matches up or not, they report from the script.
The media companies LIE. ALWAYS.
How did you come up with such a macaca concept? ;)
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