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Trump successfully baits media into hysteria. Again.
americanthinker.com ^ | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 08/11/2016 5:22:30 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

Because everyone knows that Trump’s followers are barely civilized, some of them in more distant regions man-ape hybrids. And everyone knows that “Second Amendment people” are not united behind part of the Bill of Rights; they are using that as disguise of their true nature as bloodthirsty assassins.

The media are once again making themselves appear ridiculous, twisting Trump’s words and exposing their own disdain for Trump’s followers. They are following a general script. Samantha Strayer of The Federalist identifies the pattern:

The media frenzy surrounding this election, the 24/7 news-cycle, and Trump’s gumption ensure we’re constantly talking about him, analyzing his every move. (snip)

many criticisms of Trump have been rather hysterical, sophomoric, and downright lewd. As if set on auto-repeat, headlines, tweets, and the like squeal XENOPHOBE! FASCIST! RACIST! DEMAGOGUE! PUDGY FINGERS! Eerily in sync, media outlets and Trump haters described his convention speech — and his soul! — as DARK!

Trump obviously knows this, and yet he keeps feeding anti-Trumpers ambiguous opportunities to vent their mania. There are two possible means of explaining this. Either, as a friend who shall remain anonymous emailed me:

  1. “Trump went one whole day without saying something really stupid. Two days was too much to ask.” Or
  2. Trump is exercising some political jujitsu, able to anticipate the opposition’s reaction and planning to use their momentum against them.
If Trump had so little self-awareness and self-control as the first alternative hypothesizes, could he have built the empire he has created? I would note that in The Art of the Deal, he brags about psyching out his rivals in negotiations.

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To: spokeshave
I'll take a Thach Weave

Well that means we need to be taking out the guys who go in for the attack.

One of the "fifty" was Gen. Michael Hayden. Now as a former director of NSA and the CIA you would think he would be concerned about Hillary's criminal negligence in the mishandling of this country's most sensitive intelligence material. Does this fraud, dupe, and globalist rent-seeking sell-out attack Hillary, though?

No, he attacks Trump because of his "tone." What publicly funded trough does this Hayden have all four trotters firmly ensconced in, drooling the gravy down his chin like something out of Animal Farm.

21 posted on 08/11/2016 6:08:09 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: jokemoke
Brilliant move on Trump’s part.

It was. Like Nelson cutting the line at Trafalgar, it allowed Trump to take the whole 2nd amendment crowd and a lot of other Bill of Rights enthusiasts with him, while the Dims are rolling and pounding and shooting wildly into the air endangering friends as much as enemies.

22 posted on 08/11/2016 6:10:29 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: walkingdead

Abosolutely. And when he is elected it will be a whirlwind like we’ve never seen. I anticipate daily battles with the media...just imagine what his press conferences and State of the Union addresses will be like. It will be awesome...totally upside down compared to the BS we have today.


23 posted on 08/11/2016 6:15:35 AM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject)
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To: RoosterRedux

Thomas, as every other Lion in the jungle, Trump has a tendency to play with his captive before destroying him. Only those supporters of the great white hunter understand this and understand exactly just what he is doing. Being as blood thirsty as we are, we enjoy a little foreplay prior to striking. The MFM has made themselves to be complete jackasses in going overboard with the Trump criticisms and lies. Soon, they will have made themselves completely irrelevant and will be standing in the bread lines, scratching their head wondering what just happened. They have become parodies of themselves. Perhaps a new team for SNL next season? It will be years, if ever, for these same ‘folks’ to once again be the ‘go to’ for fair, truthful news items. They should consider DJT to be another *Sister Mary Elephant* of C&C fame. A teacher few like but is still instilling something of value to her students. News being shown today only installs in American citizens the strong need that certain things needing change, must be changed for our country to become the nation our Founding Fathers intended.

JM2c


24 posted on 08/11/2016 6:16:02 AM PDT by V K Lee (u TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP to TRIUMPH Follow the lead MAKE AMERICA GREAT)
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To: RoosterRedux

Never witnessed such brilliant manipulation. Trumps owns the media despite the main stream medias attempt to canonize Clinton. He has spent nothing.....yet.


25 posted on 08/11/2016 6:24:39 AM PDT by halfright (Character is what a man does when nobody is watching.... Trump/Pence 2016!)
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To: RoosterRedux

“There are two possible means of explaining this. Either, as a friend who shall remain anonymous emailed me:

“Trump went one whole day without saying something really stupid. Two days was too much to ask.”

Or Trump is exercising some political jujitsu, able to anticipate the opposition’s reaction and planning to use their momentum against them.

If Trump had so little self-awareness and self-control as the first alternative hypothesizes, could he have built the empire he has created? I would note that in The Art of the Deal, he brags about psyching out his rivals in negotiations.”


The Media vs. Trump is a bit like Bambi vs. Godzilla. Godzilla may not look and sound as nice, but he wins every time (and its not close). This is not much of a challenge for him, he’s fought and won against opponents far more brilliant than the Media morons.


26 posted on 08/11/2016 6:59:18 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: RoosterRedux

Diamond and Silk respond to the treasonous media:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9b4rfmEOb4


27 posted on 08/11/2016 7:03:31 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: RoosterRedux

The Media hates us because WE WON’T BUY THEIR NEWSPAPERS... OR THEIR BULLSH*T.


28 posted on 08/11/2016 7:26:19 AM PDT by GOPJ (White Liberal Elites: Tacky White Trash With Money)
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To: Artcore
Attention: Rush Limbaugh and FR Concern Trolls

Does anyone still listen to Limbaugh?
I thought he lost a bunch of credibility when he about-faces in 2012 and pushed for Romney after illustrating exactly what a terrible choice he was. (That's when I dismissed him.) And then there was his blind support of Cruz who, as was revealed, is not eligible nor even desirable for the presidency.

29 posted on 08/11/2016 8:48:19 AM PDT by Edward.Fish
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To: Balding_Eagle
Netflix of course just released “Art of the Deal” - a clearly Trump and conservative hating parody of Trump. Still waiting for that parody on Clinton.
30 posted on 08/11/2016 9:02:13 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Balding_Eagle

It could also be that Trump’s mind causes him to naturally swerve into these non-outrages.

He’s ‘stream of consciousness’. And since his consciousness holds no true malice toward normal people [by freedom loving standards] he naturally means well.


31 posted on 08/12/2016 5:10:26 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Obama giving away the internet: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407691/posts)
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