Let's examine: Donald Has Been Reading The Wrong Experts.
This is meant to invoke the image that Donald views negative players in history as "experts". They know a certain percentage will buy into this if for no other reason that people do not want to support a bad person. So if it is even remotely a possibility they move their support to someone else.
Has Donald ever said Mussolini was someone to look up to as a great leader, or that Mussolini was an expert at some particular endeavor? If he has provide the proof. Well of course there is no proof because he never made such a claim. However, it sets a tone that he must view him as such, otherwise, why would he quote him.
The reality is the quote did not begin with Mussolini anyway. The true goal is to imply that if Trump can share a quote that Mussolini once uttered he may be another Mussolini. We have had enough of these sophomoric attempts yo use innuendos to impugn not only Trump but ourselves. That we are somehow incapable of seeing Trump for who he is and what they want people to believe, what he may be. They have no proof of course, but they do have conviction.
Conviction of what I have come to the conclusion is, to aid the GOPe. I sure don't see it as supporting Ted Cruz, because they never even mention his name.
So sad, too bed, for them. Their tactics are not working. Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee and the 45th President of the United States unless they use their nuclear option of assassinating him.
Thank you for the well thought out post. Provocative headlines are there to attract attention, of course.
Which reminds me of a book that I have often mentioned on this board. I continue to believe it to be THE vital work to understand the information culture we all inhabit. It is amazing that Postman wrote it pre-Interned.
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985)
I would summarize the thesis as:
By it's very nature, television cannot be relied on to deliver complete information about anything. And when it tries to be most serious, it is most dangerous. Attracting the most eyeballs for highest revenues is the highest good. Every other agenda is in a distant second place.
Gotta go - meeting with the city on some drainage issues.