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To: GilGil
What amazes me is that the other Republican candidates are taking what the press says at face value and attacking Trump

Michael Crichton called it "The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect":

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”


39 posted on 07/19/2015 12:04:11 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: eddie willers

That is not the only reason. Those who jumped on Trump for his McCain war hero comments, are DESPERATE to get Trump out of the way. They are mad as hell a non-professional politician like Trump has leap frogged over them.


55 posted on 07/19/2015 2:59:11 PM PDT by entropy12 (Audi Murphy & Alvin York are REAL war heroes for extraordinary bravery. McCain just a bad pilot.)
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