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Trump is playing with the press: Glenn Reynolds (Read this!)
USA Today | January 26, 2017 | Professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds

Posted on 01/26/2017 10:20:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Link only due to copyright issues: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/01/26/white-house-press-media-donald-trump-glenn-reynolds-column/97042872/?siteID=je6NUbpObpQ-JsZXwiUTGBVRumNocL1wEw


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: first100days; media; msm; neophytes; press; trump; trump45; trumpmedia
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To: Samurai_Jack
"...I think that DJT’s going to be doing this Flash Pan routine for a long time before they catch on to it."

He has been doing it for a long time, at least a year and a half, and they don't have a clue. They are so dumb this could go on for years.

21 posted on 01/27/2017 3:30:06 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (My North America stops at the Rio Grande)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

President Trump has the so called press out thought, out planned and out gunned. He should perhaps enter the fray with both hands tied behind his back to help make it fair.


22 posted on 01/27/2017 3:37:59 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: Hostage

Well put!


23 posted on 01/27/2017 4:01:48 AM PST by HollyB
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s almost cruel to be having this battle of wits with such an unarmed opponent....


24 posted on 01/27/2017 4:03:51 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Samurai_Jack

Exactly. Apparently Trump studied Sun Tzu along the way also.


25 posted on 01/27/2017 4:08:54 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ ("It's a war against humanity!" Donald J. Trump)
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To: trebb

Carl Rove and the GOP has not figured it out either

they keep saying take about the issues


26 posted on 01/27/2017 4:11:31 AM PST by Hojczyk
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump and his staff have been using this strategy since the start of the campaign. They’ve been very open about it. During the campaign, I told my left-leaning friends exactly what he’s doing, and why it works.

Instead of taking heed, they just get more enraged. Like the bull, they know where the matador is, but can’t help chasing after the red cape instead, over and over again.

You’d think at least one of them would figure it out and coach his comrades, but that should have happened months ago, a year ago. They can’t help themselves. If they could, they’d cease to be leftists.


27 posted on 01/27/2017 4:13:16 AM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: Hojczyk
Yep - even the "brightest political pundits" are woefully unprepared to deal with the powerhouse of Trump.

They don't realize that everything he does helps advance his issues/agenda and those who keep falling into the pit by "calling him out" are unwittingly helping him.

I will always love Reagan, and what he did, but I am starting to believe that Trump will replace him as the standard for a conservative President.

Ironic for the guy who was "never conservative enough" for so many.

28 posted on 01/27/2017 4:21:59 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: rightwingcrazy
You’d think at least one of them would figure it out and coach his comrades, but that should have happened months ago, a year ago.

For that to occur, they would have to admit that they are not as smart as they believe they are.

Won't happen.
29 posted on 01/27/2017 4:24:59 AM PST by yuleeyahoo (Those are my principles, and if you do not like them...well I have others. - Groucho Marx)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Trump is playing with the press:

NOOOoooo!

When did THIS start???

30 posted on 01/27/2017 5:31:20 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Samurai_Jack
I was going to comment on this before actually reading the article, but I know better than that.

This has never stopped ME!

31 posted on 01/27/2017 5:33:51 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Samurai_Jack
...Flash Pan routine...

Bower birds like shiny objects.

32 posted on 01/27/2017 5:35:58 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Falconspeed
First a bumper sticker:
Hating Trump is a quick way to lose customers.


Then a billboard:

Hating Trump is a quick way to lose customers.


33 posted on 01/27/2017 5:37:46 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Lion Den Dan

Both hands tied behind his back won’t help.

He’d just kick em in the ....


34 posted on 01/27/2017 6:07:49 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Samurai_Jack

Damn you write well, Jack!


35 posted on 01/27/2017 7:21:37 AM PST by doberville
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
From the article:

Trump has more media experience than probably 99% of the people covering him. (As Obama operative Ben Rhodes gloated with regard to selling a dishonest story on the Iran deal, the average reporter the Obama White House dealt with “is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns.” In Rhodes’ words, “they literally know nothing.”)

36 posted on 01/27/2017 10:56:48 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("January 20, 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again.")
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To: EarthResearcher333

good post


37 posted on 01/27/2017 8:58:45 PM PST by Pelham (the refusal to Deport is defacto Amnesty)
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