Posted on 01/23/2017 3:06:43 PM PST by LS
Listening to the drivebys, and even Rush and Hannity to some extent, tells me that Trump STILL is playing 3D chess while everyone else is watching a Parcheesi match.
The latest is this "fight" over crowd size at the inauguration, or how many people watched it. First, this is unprovable, because no one knows how many people were viewing this on a non-TV screen--Facebook, a phone, iPads, etc. Any REASONABLE person would assume that with the 31 million confirmed watching on TV, and the million present at the event, at last 10 million more watched on alternative media, this was easily the most watched inauguration ever. Of course, the drivebys/fake news media are not reasonable.
So why fight? There are several reasons, and all of them are good.
1) The "Broken Window" form of law enforcement works on journalists. Never let a small lie fester and take root. Attack them on EVERY lie. Make THEM defend their fraud (as, after he got rolling, Spicer did). Bush '43 failed miserably at this, as Karl Rove admitted in his book, calling it the worst mistake of Bush's presidency. Call out the press, every time, all the time.
2) It establishes that there IS another "side to the story" and that fake news cannot be relied upon to provide facts. This is critical---and this part Rush did get---to keeping the troops motivated, fired up, and in the game. This is all important.
3) But going back to Kzir Khan and the "Mexican judge," other arguments that Trump "shouldn't have," both I and Scott Adams at the time wrote that in the long run Trump won these. In Khan's case, it was what was said vs. the image of Khan on stage with a submissive, non-speaking Muslim wife. Believe me, that image stuck with a lot more people than the tiff between Trump and Khan.
Meanwhile, what was Trump doing while that was going on? Retooling his campaign with Bannon and Conway to take it to the next level. While the media was a-buzz with the "controversy," Trump was taking real, practical steps to win.
Now? More of the same. The fake news media is obsessed with crowd size, as Rush puts it, in an attempt to delegitimize Trump by saying he doesn't have "that many" supporters. Meanwhile, what is Trump doing?
Issuing executive orders, cancelling Zero's executive orders, resetting the playing field on almost every issue, all behind the curtain of the "crowd" debate.
I'm reminded of one of the masters of military deception, Robert E. Lee, who would "demonstrate" in front of the Union Army with about 2/3 of his force while Stonewall Jackson was smashing in on a nearly undefended flank with the other 1/3.
I can post this because I know the fake media is too arrogant to admit they are being had and too stupid to change even if they knew it. So, fake news, keep carrying Ashley ("I'm so lonely") Judd and Madonna (long in the tooth is an affront to teeth!), while Trump completely "transforms" the government. That's it. Just keep those cameras pointed at Katy Perry's, er, ... points.
No, there aren’t. There are more pressing things TO DO.
You’re still not getting it. Talking about x while DOING y keeps the Alinskyite focus off of Y and onto x.
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You 100% nailed it Larry.
The firetruck showed up to the house after it burned down because they went to the wrong address, again.
Too late boys!
Yeah, they’re dying. But, for now , network/cable are the main source of news and control the public square.
They’re all desperate, and desperately fighting to make more/lose less by providing their advertisers with the most of the most-desired demographics.
They’re very vulnerable, financially, to Trump’s supporters’ disgust. We’re not their most desirable demographic but their situation is so precarious that the loss of any audience is frightening.
Slim and Jeff are not trying to revive the Us/National Gazette model IMO, but seeking a ‘...publication with a strong relationship to its community ... “These have the ability to harvest a diversity of revenues, and these are places like National Geographic, The Atlantic, The New Yorker and little places like us,...”
“ “http://technical.ly/brooklyn/2017/01/24/david-plotz-atlas-obscura-business-model/?utm_content=bufferd1c1a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Not clear that model can work on a large scale though.
IMO the best model for the political news business is that of POLITICO, The Hill, etc.: sell the reporting to the lobbying industry, let some lesser pearls fall to the peasants for free for PR (though they have been too partisan).
I would say that their influence and “control of the public square” is weak and fading fast. You see it with the fact that no one under 40 watches “the news” anymore, and idiots like Jon Stewart and Colbert are now old, tired, has beens.
Don’t look at what Slim/Bezos say. Look at where they are getting their support—100% from the Dem Party. I bet the kickbacks in various contracts are mind boggling. We are indeed back to the 1830s.
The quote isn’t from or about them- just described what I’d gathered about their plans from reports. (I don’t recommend the source article, just had to give credit).
On close examination it does describe a model similar to that of a partisan newspaper, with “a diversity of revenues”.
IF they both try to be the ‘National Democrat Newspaper’, they’ll be fighting each other: a pleasant thought.
LS I agree with your assessment ENTIRELY!!! GREAT JOB!!!
Bump
Nah, Larry S. is willing to do all this for his own delicious patriotic fervor! GTH, Harry Larry!
At Gettysburg Lee spent a day marching his troops past an opening in a tree line that the Union spies watched. The Union spies thought it must be the largest army ever assembled. Only, they didn’t realize that the troops marching by were actually the same small band over and over and over.
That happened at Chancellorsville, not Gettysburg.
Are you sure he didn’t do it twice?
Jackson was dead and he didn’t another corp commander that could pull that off again. That was a once in a war trick.
Well, if you are correct, all I can say is he should have done it again at Gettysburg.
The only thing that comes close in “ballsiness” was when Lee sent Longstreet’s entire corp to Tennessee by rail in four days just before the battle of Chicamauga Creek. What a shock that must have been to the Union command.
Sorry Georgia not Tennessee.
"During the American Civil War, Confederate General John B. Magruder faced off against Union General George B. McClellan at the Siege of Yorktown. Magruder and the confederate forces were outnumbered by an estimated 4 to 1. In order to overcome the Union forces, Magruder marched his troops in a repetitive back-and-forth in an effort to convince Union scouts that the Confederate force was larger than it appeared. The Union was deceived, and halted the assault instead of pushing its advantage. This allowed Magruder time to reinforce his position, leading what would have been a certain Union victory to an inconclusive finish."
And several other incidents of deception practiced during the Civil War here:
http://www.historynet.com/hoodwinked-during-americas-civl-war-confederate-military-deception.html
2,000 years ago, in his famous treatise The Art of War, Sun Tzu wrote, “All warfare is based on deception."
You have to admit it would be good strategery.
Yes, and I think that is why Bannon and the rest of the campaign kept talking with Larry Schweikart. Captains in the field are the natural extension of the General in the tower.
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