Low-information voters tune out all enemediot chatter,
precisely because Brooks et al. peddling "The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg" type Bombshells, Breaking News, Trump scandal, current crises, etc.
Can we complete defund NPR, PBS, other taxpayer funded propaganda (i.e., DNC mouth piece) machines?
The exercise of power is not a parlor game. You must know and deal definitively with enemies.
Extreme smallness appears to be a built in trait of media pretend-males. Not necessarily in stature, but most certainly in intellect.
I don’t like David Brooks or PBS - but he’s right on this. Trump should not have talked to Woodward. I heard he gave him EIGHTEEN interviews for the book? What’s the point of doing that? These DNC stenographer hacks are THE ENEMY. Their goal is to DESTROY TRUMP. Why he continues to give these people interviews, clicks, book royalties is beyond me. I like Trump but his self-centeredness blinds him to the obvious sometimes.
If Trump knew the disease was serious in Feb and March he shoulda told Fauci, who was on every MEdia until early March downplaying the threat to the US. The WHO didnt even declare a pandemic until March.
Brooks is intellectually dishonest to blame Trump for not wanting to panic the public while his chief advisor Fauci ....who had direct ties to WHO and China...was doing the same thing.
Are people ‘low information or high information’ when they logically conclude all they are hearing and seeing is a lie and tune it out or ignore it. That seems like high information to me and a good working brain.
The propaganda press is the real low information entity.
Trump’s pants crease must not be as sharp as Obama’s, so he’ll never measure up in Brooks’ eyes.
There is essentially no one among the voting public who has not already decided to either support or oppose Trump. Woodward isn’t going to convince any Trump supporter to become an opponent, and his agenda is not to convince any Trump opponent to support him, so Trump had very little to lose by talking with Woodword, and much to gain by adding to his stock as someone who is willing to fly into the teeth of the enemy.
Who says Trump didn’t think he’d get hurt by it?
He had two choices. Talk to Woodward or don’t talk to him. Either way he’s going to get hurt.
This was the least of the two and Woodward has to feel hurt. All he’s got is the president saying he did what he needed to do and was quiet about it. The leftists are screeching about it
Who cares? Trump doesn’t. He continues to treat them like the emotional equivalents of 4 year olds. Which they are
How was he hurt? Not one vote changed by this I would guess
Typically Brooks thinks Trump is “catching up.”
Wrong.
He also thinks this is a “scandal” that will hurt him.
Wrong.
Who dragged him out from under his rock? Hadn’t seen/heard of him in years and hadn’t missed him but he’s baaaccckkk?
These idiots who think their opinions are so important that they just have to warn the people are pretty funny...
hey Brooks the American people are so wise that they snatched up 6 months of toilet paper production in two weeks when thet weren’t panicked!
February 29th, Fauci was saying...just go about what you normally do...Covid is no big deal...we’re watching it.
Apparently Brooks doesn't.
Part of Trump’s 2016 strategy was to block out any coverage of Hillary and he often did it with comments that caused him negative press. I think he believes any press is good.
Fearless is another word that comes to mind.
OTOH, now there's headlines everywhere about General Mattis and Dan Coates plotting a coup. Seems to me that's a net gain for the Donald.
Guess what Brooks, nobody cares about that interview. Chew on that one for awhile.
Nothing you gotcha clowns do will persuade anyone to not vote or vote for that drooling moron Biden.
I'm not a mind-reader, nor do I know Trump personally. So what I'm about to present is a guess.
Bernstein was going to write a book about Trump. The man obviously had a contract with a publisher to write a book about Trump. So, it was going to happen no matter what the President did. Without input from Trump, the book would have been written based on "informed sources."
By agreeing to be interviewed for the book, Trump took some control over the narrative. (Not all of it.) If Bernstein wrote something that was not in the interview that was inflammatory, Trump can shoot back with "I didn't tell you that, and it's not true." (Assuming falsehood, which is a safe bet in a witch hunt.)
That's grounds for libel, if the statement rises to the threshold for libel of well-known figures. By providing material, Trump has more solid grounds to build a libel case that will stand up in court. "You had ample opportunity to ask me."
Bernstein was going to write what Bernstein was going to write. The interviews give Trump leverage, leverage that can be applied before November 3.
I don’t think he thought he would not get hurt by talking to Woodward, he hust knew if he didn’t Woodward would just make things up and attribute it to anonymous sources. He just figured he might have a little more control.