Posted on 09/04/2015 12:53:55 PM PDT by Sontagged
...Thus two weeks ago we dispatched a warning about Hugh Hewitt specifically:
Politics as an industry – Salem Communications [radio talk show (Hewitt), Red State (Erickson), now also Twitchy (Malkin), Hot Air (McCain), NRO, Townhall, Human Events, Bearing Arms etc.] has the same general ideological world view as Jeb Bush, George Will, Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal, etc.
UPDATE: As if on cue – Salem Communications, Via Hot Air, publishes a “compare and contrast” article pushing the GOPe Carly Fiorina – as savior angle. LINK HERE
Salem Communications owns both Hot Air and Hugh Hewitt. See how they roll?
Shorter: “the betters”, the “elites”. Or those who feel superior enough to tell others what they should or must think. You’ll note these Salem groups rarely research, present raw data, or offer unfiltered information; it’s almost always Op-Ed.
We, the proud vulgarian team, without financial considerations to skew our perspectives and viewpoints, do not like the “financial media class” and the skewered perspectives that come with financial dependency. We are able to research, watch, describe and discuss through clear-eyed glasses. Hence, we can transmit the warning above.
The gathering of the opposition research includes trying to record Donald Trump for use in later campaigns, ie. the lead to the debate. Hence again, the warning above.
They, all of them, want Trump stumbling and stammering. Desperately seeking to create the “Park Row Narrative” – inept, inexperienced, incompetent, et al.
Just like Bloomberg’s John Heilemann and Mark Halperin with the “what’s your favorite bible passage” question (ie. prove you’re a christian); or Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin asking Ted Cruz his favorite “Hispanic food or Hispanic singer” in essence prove you’re Hispanic bona fides questions:
Today’s questions from Hugh Hewitt are no less strategic or strategically motivated. Hugh Hewitt has a plan. Hewitt is also part of the Salem Op-Ed machine who are trying to provide the soundbites for the upcoming assault.
Within seconds of Hewitt providing the fuel, the RNC industrial machine jumped to action. This is only going to get worse by infinite magnitudes. Prepare for it.
(New York Times) […] Mr. Trump, a real estate developer and brand manager who has never worked in government, has relatively little experience dealing with foreign governments. But he has boasted of his global reach and international experience as a businessman. Mr. Hewitt said he was not interested in “gotcha” questions but wanted to be sure Mr. Trump had a baseline of knowledge about foreign leaders. “On the front of Islamist terrorism, I’m looking for the next commander in chief to know who Hassan Nasrallah is, and Zawahiri, and al-Julani, and al-Baghdadi. Do you know the players without a scorecard, yet, Donald Trump?” Mr. Hewitt asked. There is one goal in all of this – DESTROY DONALD TRUMP ! It’s simply what they do, every election, every time, when the industrial political machine doesn’t like the candidate.
And the intel/optics will be used as fuel injected into the debate while GOPe co-horts (Carly Fiorina) will continue the Megyn Kelly approach.
The RNC/GOPe machine, through the various Wall Street funded Super-PACs will also fund liberal groups (Hispanics, La Raza, and Black Lives Matter as examples) and labor organizations (remember the SEIU orcs?) to campaign against Trump visibly based on “racist” and divisive accusations.
Yes, that is correct. The same party who just presented a loyalty pledge is now empowered, with full plausible deniability of course, to fund Trump’s removal at all costs.
This is going to get even more UGLY as the political power brokers grow increasingly more anxious.
GOPe Republicans are just as vicious as Democrats when it comes to attacking their adversaries. Unfortunately, GOPe Republicans don’t view Democrats as their opposition (see Mitt Romney ’12), they only view conservatives as their adversaries. 
“Don’t you get tired of posting the same things over and over again?”
Isn’t it at all possible that just because these things have been repeated doesn’t mean they’re not true?
Cruz unfortunately is GOPe, though he plays a good game.
What GeronL and nickcarraway and C Edmund Wright and hosepipe don’t want us discussing about Cruz is that if he gets within spitting distance of the Executive Branch, the Dems will launch a birther lawsuit against him.
Don’t believe me? Because no one on the ostensible “right wing” (except Donald Trump in 2011!) would dare challenge Obama on birther stuff, that the Dems wouldn’t challenge Cruz?
Cruz knows he is a liability. He’s a BushMan. So’s the wife. He caved on TPP, and there are other “GOPe tripwires” on Cruz as well. Sad, but true.
H/T Black Agnes, btw.
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His FB page has some interesting posts.
https://www.facebook.com/hughhewittshow?fref=ts
A lot of people think he’s a jerk. I’m one of them.
The trivialities of the interview are not the point. The article I linked is pointing out the anti Trump Putsch by the Establishment, and how Hewitt is being used by the GOPe (again) in this election cycle.
I noticed in 08 how Hewitt was a GOPe tool with his Mitt crush.
How about asking Hugh Hewitt, Michael Medved, George Will, etc. about their favorite brand of sherry and their favorite harpsichord tune--to prove their sherry-and-harpsichord conservative (the counterpart of wine-and-cheese liberal) bona fides.
You can’t be serious.
Oh, geez, I’m sorry! Is there anyway I can delete the offending post?
Then don’t vote for him.
He a moderate jerk. That doesn’t mean he can’t ask questions in an interview. He explained the difference and Trump still didn’t get it.
Not interested in calling people names, I’m just sick of paid trolls messing up the marketplace of ideas here on Free Republic.
Trump is less than ideal. But he’s not Establishment, and that’s what this Hewitt thing proves.
That is the real story, and what we should be looking at.
The author is casting a wide net when he describes various follks as “the same general ideological world view as Jeb Bush, George Will, Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal, etc.”
Human Events has been around for a lot longer thgan Salem Communications, and the tone hasn’t changed all that much. Pat Buchanan and Walter Williams are hardly pals of John Ellis Bush and George Will. Other writers like Ann Coulter and Michael Barone may be more establishment, but neither appear to take marching orders from the like of John Ellis Bush.
I am suspicious of anyone who claims to be the one wearing the “clear glasses”. I like Free Republic in large part because this site puts it ALL out there, and I get to view through my own glasses. If they aren’t clear, it’s because I haven’t wiped them.
Quds and Kurds over the phone sound the same.
I will be watching to see how many of the Terrorists either die or are “retired” in the next 16 months, Trump is right it doesn’t seem to matter since he wants them all dead anyway.
HH in a recent program was anti Trump, he should recuse himself as a debate moderator. I don’t like biased moderators in a position to “Me Gyn Crowley” the debate and then all we talk about is the F-ing slimy questions.
How come they don’t ask Jebba the Hut why his wife is here 27 years and doesn’t speak English at home?
Recuse yourself HH, or Trump should force him out since I would not go to a debate that was a rigged mine field.
No Trump No big ratings. Nobody tunes in for the Moderators.
The Establishment is the Establishment; I imagine it all boils down to who has how much money at stake if Jeb wins and Trump loses.
Yes, I am serious. The Donald says whatever is on his mind without even beginning to think through the implications. He is a braggart and a bully.
Again, using the Hewitt interview as an example, the supposed gotcha questions are not. They are questions that anyone with any acquaintance with the Middle East should be able to answer. Trump’s response of “well, I’ll learn them before I take up residence in the White House, and I’ll hire the right experts to advise me” is hardly comforting.
I expect high things of my elected officials. I don’t want to settle for less. What does Trump offer other than braggadocio and intimidation?
All true, but then Trump also had fair warning and should’ve avoided the trap. He better not make the same mistake at the debate.
Yes, the story is not what Hewitt asked Trump, it’s how and why Hewitt is being used by the Establishment as they have been cozy for decades.
This isn’t unique to Trump.
It happened in the Mississippi Senate runoff and it will happen to Senator Cruz if he ever rises to the level of being a legitimate threat to the establishment.
The GOPe attack apparatus needs to be permanently dismantled.
Agreed. This is when his old reliable but “colorful” friend Roger Stone needs to step in again to help.
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