Posted on 01/17/2019 4:41:55 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Amidst all the mockery over President Donald Trump serving fast food to the Clemson Tigers football team in the White House, there was one surprising contrary note. It came from Megan Garber of The Atlantic on Tuesday which was unusual because she didn't seem to be a fan of Trump judging from her past writings.
While most other mainstream media sources were laughing at Trump, Garber had a much different opinion in her article, "The President’s Big-Mac Feast Was Politically Savvy":
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
I have to give this Megan Garber credit. It’s a well-written article.
Fried chicken, watermelon and strawberry soda would have really made the libs heads explode.
Curious to know how much fast food each player consumed. Bet they enjoyed all of it!
L8r
Kinda says it all. I might've added...
"...with the President of the United States.".
I couldn’t get through the original article it was so overwritten. But thanks for posting it.
What they refuse to get is that this is what America eats. Obviously, most of DC is too snobbish to eat it although the town is full of fast food restaurants if you hit the google search engine.
And if I hear once more than the food was “wilted” or cold, I’ll scream. The food had been kept under heat lamps.
For all the manufactured fun the MSM made of President Trump about this, I believe politically he slammed the 'rats - like a wrestling move done over a concrete sidewalk. Of course they'll never admit it, nor will their MSM lapdogs. But they took it on the chin - and did it to themselves with all their slanted coverage. That's the genius of President Trump. He gets them to help him and they don't even realize it until well after the fact. Even if they see it going in, they can't help themselves. They are trapped by their own modus operandi, they have to. It is expected that they will pile-on, because {Diety} help them if they don't, their own rabid far left will turn on them. Genius, just plain genius.
Amen
Interesting and insightful. Compare what Trump is doing to Mitt Romney’s use of a newspaper op-ed, the quintessential 20th century medium, to make his point with disastrous consequences.
Does she have any evidence whatsoever of this?
“Does she have any evidence whatsoever of this? “
It’s fast food takeout. I would expect nothing less than the food being “wilted” when the Team finally got to eat. Hot burgers sitting in a box will steam, hence the wilting effect.
Think about how crispy pizza crust is when you eat it in the store compared to when it is delivered.
You may be right. It’s actually her repeated shots about it that is a turnoff and makes me believe everything else she writes is hopelessly biased and therefore open to doubt.
Are you serious? It’s dripping with sarcasm.
She’s mocking the president with every turn...
“A dinner of champions, with only one winner: The event was thus very little about the Clemson Tigers, whose fate, on Monday evening, was to dine on lukewarm Whoppers, and very much about the man who hosted them.”
Yes, sarcasm, yet grudging admiration of his political savvy.
Filet-O-Fish was created for Catholics on Fridays, back when we actually abstained that day. Niche market to get mackerel snappers into McD’s all week long.
She just had to go snarky.
Yes, sarcasm, yet grudging admiration of his political savvy.
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She spelled his name right and mentioned that name in conjunction with savvy. Win.
These writers winced at the charts of the tables, the photos and the positive responses of the players. Most readers glide over adjectives anyway. They saw smiling, appreciative young football champions eating food everyone knows and likes. Win.
How many football parties will now just feature takeout attractively displayed on a buffet with the host’s best serving pieces?
This will trend. No one will forget it.
a functioning government is not fully necessary; the only thing Americans really need, the Quarter Pounders whisper, is Trump himself. He is both the strict father of political discourse and the generous father of ancient myth, capable of providing the American family with the 21st century’s version of the fatted calf. He is all you—all we—require. I alone can fix it.
She was so close, but she misses the point right after she states the point. We don’t need to be taken care of by the government, we don’t want them to do more “for us”. We want them to do substantially less. But, being a liberal, she can’t accept that concept of individualism, so she imagines we all just swap out government for the “generous father” that Trump represents.
No, dear, we don’t want Father Trump any more than we want Nanny Government. We like Trump because he’s breaking the idea that government is our only savior, he’s not transferring the father concept to himself. It’s great that he bought all the fast food, not because we want a rich man to feed us, but because a human hosting a party is supposed to be fully capable of purchasing or cooking the food. He saw a problem and he solved it and he didn’t need a committee or a nutritionist or a high end chef or a catering crew. He bought some food.
We don’t look to Trump or the Democrat or Republican government to provide for us. He is the agent of change that is dismantling those concepts. The spread of food does not represent what we want him to provide for us, other than the freedom to provide for ourselves.
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