Spot on. This is war and you need to win every battle. They lie and call them out.
Just in the name of getting things right.
“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.”
Actually, Lee would demonstrate with 1/3 and flank with another 1/3 and fight another battle with the last 1/3. Chancellorsville was like this. 2nd Manassas was the same but he brought 2/3rds with him with Longstreet.
Picky? Yes, but, I am a historical board wargamer, and, it’s a challenge to win like that against a competent Union player.
If he would have listened to them, Hillary would be our POTUS. Even pundits on Fox said he should back off and get into only bigger issues. What they don’t realize is you give these people an inch, they will take a mile. STOP THEM! Don’t let them gain ONE DAMNED INCH of ground. Go Trump.
Your point is well made- I hadn’t thought of it this way. I was thinking in a more conventional manner. I hope you’re correct and he’s playing chess :)
I can say this, I hadn't watched one of these in decades, but I watched a lot of Trump's inauguration.
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.The thing that I take note of is the media reporting a picture of Obama’s crowd - and comparing it with a photo of Trump’s crowd which was obviously taken at some time other than noon. Clearly much earlier.I don’t know if you were able to be in Washington on 9/12/09 when we were part of a huge rally on the mall. One of the speakers - retired Congressman from Texas, I can see him but won’t remember his famous name ’til after I post - mentioned that the attendance might have been a million. That was believable.
What was not believable was the media coverage. TV barely mentioned the event, if at all.
And on the Internet afterward, the same trick - authority estimate of the size of the crowd before most of the crowd had arrived - was done against us. And switcheroo pictures of crowds at recognizably different events.
I agree with the idea that it can be useful as a distraction, but I also believe there is virtue simply in refusing to swallow their lies. Force them to take a credibility hit when they lie.
“Issuing executive orders, cancelling Zero’s executive orders, resetting the playing field on almost every issue, all behind the curtain of the “crowd” debate.”
And President Trump will KEEP doing this, signing 2-3 NEW EOs each day while the enemedia is still howling about the ones from the day before. Really, I think the enemedia will succumb to outrage exhaustion before President Trump runs out of EOs.
He told them that the Trump Administration would be straight up honest and that they would naturally hold the Press to it and not allow them a bunch of free shots w/o responding - especially since the shots being taken are not based in honesty.
The guy was slow and kept saying that Spicer said that more folks attended to inauguration and Spicer read him the exact statement that he had made showing that the guy was doing the LSM thing by re-interpreting the words to suit their argument.
Spicer is going to be super as the front man.
Bump