"You know, Bob, though, that there will be people who look at that last comment you made and said your normalizing the president," said Berman. "You're saying because he met this admittedly very low bar for not sounding foolish, in fact, he was in fact presidential. What would you say to criticism like that?”
"Well, I'm not trying to normalize him in any way," Schieffer replied
Wait. This is satire, right?
Curse you, John Semmens! You got me again!
CNN shares MSNBC’s megalomaniacal belief that it’s purpose is not reporting news, but shaping public opinion.
Enormous concession by Bob Schieffer, that President Donald J. Trump “actually sounded presidential”.
The entire coterie of anti-Trumpers who claim to deny legitimacy to Number 45, waving petitions and shouting through bullhorns, is repeatedly surprised and dismayed at how time after time, Trump both confounds them and turns their arguments around against them.
In the words of Dubya, the press and the anti-Trumpers in general have “misunderestimated” The Donald.
By a wide margin.