Posted on 07/03/2015 3:04:04 PM PDT by Mariner
The first time I interviewed Donald Trump, back in 1987, he said this:
“When I go up to New Hampshire -- I'm not running for president, by the way -- I get the best crowd, the best of everything in terms of reception.
“The politicians go up and get a moderate audience. I go up, and they're scalping tickets. You heard that? They're scalping tickets. Why? Because people don't want to be ripped off, and this country is being ripped off. I think if I ran, I'd win.”
He has been honing this act for a long time.
Many pundits—some of them the same wiseguys who thought Trump would sink like a stone—are saying that he’s taken a beating over the last week. After all, NBC, Univision, Macy’s and Serta have all cut ties with him over his comments on Mexican immigrants.
Many people obviously found those comments offensive. But in purely political terms, this is helping Trump.
For one thing, he has dominated the campaign news cycle for a week, drawing more attention than all the other candidates combined. He has driven home his message with a spate of cable news interviews. (And—subtle plug here—The Donald will be talking about these issues Sunday on “Media Buzz.”)
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Well, love him or hate him, he has blown the heck out of the PC narrative and it badly needed to be done.
“...over his comments on Mexican immigrants.”
Tell a lie often enough...
LOL. The establishment isn’t piling on Trump so much for what he said but because of how favorable people are reacting to what he said. Can’t lose control of that narrative don’t cha know.
“He has been honing this act for a long time.”
Indeed. The Trump quote can be found in Kurtz’ book, “Media Circus,” copyright 1993; it’s not far past page 18 where Kurtz writes, “In the fall of 1987, Trump began to encourage speculation that he might run for president...”
It reads like 2015. There’s a Trump associate saying Trump is addicted to publicity. There’s Trump saying that the administration subsidizes foreign nations to the detriment of the American economy.
Here’s another gem: “Despite the fact that so many journalists were taken in for so long, we still have a seemingly insatiable appetite for Trump-o-mania. Sure, the game now is to ridicule Trump instead of glorifying him...”
Again, that was written in 1993. I wasn’t even born yet.
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