Posted on 08/17/2018 5:15:43 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” campaign strategist for former President George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) Steve Schmidt said, “40 percent of the country has surrendered their intellectual sovereignty to Donald Trump.”
Schmidt said, “He’s pursuing the only strategy he can pursue, which is try to incite his base. As he incites that base, that base gets smaller, and the majority grows in opposition to Trump, but the smaller base is a harder more intense one. If you go back to inauguration day, Trump has less support today than he did then. His base is smaller. The Republican party is smaller. But it is more faithful and more intense in its loyalty to Trump. Forty percent of the country has surrendered their intellectual sovereignty to Donald Trump.”
He added, “There is for them no such thing as objective truth anymore. What is true is what the leader says is true, what the leader believes is true. Trump has exercised that power and 40 percent of the country has submitted themselves to it. It’s extraordinary and frightening to see, but thank goodness not a majority of the country. In fact, it’s not even close to being a majority of the country.”
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Projection! Bwahahahahahaha!
Just another mouthpiece for “Da Bushes”.
Losers like this schmidt foll are beyond tiresome. What a chancre on the body politic.
Why do conservatives seek out liberal BS like this and publish it in Breitbart and FR and “discuss” it?
Why are conservatives like Hannity and Laura Ingraham constantly playing and replaying what the unhinged leftist talking heads from CNN and MSNBC have to say?
If you’re like me, you avoid the fake news and seek out news outlets that speak the truth - but then, ironically, I wind up having to listen to fake news anyway, because conservatives have this fascination with watching fake news and obsessing over how outrageous it is.
This “know what your enemy is thinking” argument is a stretch - there’s no valuable op research to be gained - we are just doubling their audience and spreading their lies for them.
Wouldn’t it be better to totally ignore them, let them suffer the consequences of their fringe mentality in the form of low ratings? Wouldn’t it be better to publish the truth and let them corner the market on lies and deceit?
Yes, people need to hear all sides - but 90% of news outlets present only the leftist side - why should we feel obligated to present our side AND their side in the name of being balanced? If balance is what we want, then we need to push our side and ignore theirs whenever possible.
So what do you call his working to get aRnie elected in 2003? What a sad piece of excrement ol’ Steve has become. Like aRnie, a Turd World admirer, just look what he did for California. The Gop is dead here, and Steve helped kill it.
Every Democrat Politician and their Media coconspirators are inciting their Base.
The results are that Trump Administration Officials and Trump Supporters have both been targeted, resulting in Mobs of Protestors Verbally and Physically Assaulting them on a daily basis.
The reason is, when you believe you know your enemy you become complacent.
When you finally realize that they are capable of things beyond your wildest dreams, things that you purposely chose to ignore due to your willful ignorance, it is too late to react.
Why did the United States fly U2’s and SR-71’s over the Soviet Union? We all knew they were Evil, but we always did what we could to keep tabs on them.
Go Trump!
5.56mm
If its only 40% support for Trump then what he is worried about, he’ll get voted out and the Dems will destroy the country.
Schmidt knows his numbers are wrong, just like his prediction of a Hillary victory was wrong. He doesn’t know what he is talking about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neTQxqF1Wew
Morning Sloooow regularly has Schmidt to talk his nuttiness to them.
Jun 26, 2018
"Steve Schmidt: By A fluke, Voters Elected An Imbecilic Con Man | Morning Joe | MSNBC "
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLDKdoOZsGM
Schmidt: "a blizzard of lies" said by Trump...
This makes perfect sense. Assuming that we are all mind-numbed robots. But that is what doesn’t make sense.It is cynical to “confound” society - “a blessing” - with government, which is a mere necessary evil. Reciprocally, it is naive to “confound” an evil with a blessing. Socialism is naiveté towards government and, reciprocally, cynicism towards society (and toward society's non-governmental leaders, such as businessmen).Because if we were, we’d be slavishly following the CNN line, wouldn’t we?
Instead, we apply logic such as:
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)and we notice that journalists are in a perpetual virtual meeting among themselves. It’s called, “the AP wire,” and it has been in continuous operation since before the Civil War. And we reflect that you have to be “naive as a babe to believe” that in 150 years of collusion, journalists have found no common ground which advantages journalists at the expense of the public.The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing.points out that skepticism is generally in the public interest - and that journalists (like everyone else, only more so) desire to be listened to and believed. Journalists want to be our leaders and, in furtherance of that ambition, journalists collude to promote the naive conceit that journalism is objective. But journalism is negative - and the conceit that “negativity is objectivity” is cynicism.The man whom we believe is necessarily, in the things concerning which we believe him, our leader and director, and we look up to him with a certain degree of esteem and respect. But as from admiring other people we come to wish to be admired ourselves; so from being led and directed by other people we learn to wish to become ourselves leaders and directors . . .
The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness;the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices.
The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil . . . - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
The massive collusion of journalists, and the “conspiracy against the public” produced by it, is hiding in plain sight. The collusion among journalists is centered in the wire services in general and the AP in particular.- And the conspiracy against the public lies in the promulgation socialist propaganda which makes “the MSM” notorious.
“The reason is, when you believe you know your enemy you become complacent.”
You are just restating the “know your enemy” argument, which I am not refuting.
I agree, we should know our enemies - but there is no lack of knowledge of the Leftist point of view. On the contrary, it is all around us, impossible to avoid, broadcast on all but a few news networks, taught by all but a few professors, preached by all but a few celebrity athletes, actors and musicians, and echoed in all but a few social media echo chambers.
My point is that the enemy’s fake news is everywhere, all around us - why must FR also be deluged with fake news?
You say it is so we can know the enemy - I call BS - I think conservatives are prone to an unhealthy fascination with the fake news.
It’s something akin to commuters rubbernecking to see an accident on the other side of the freeway - what is it they want to see? Are they seeking practical or strategic knowledge that will help them with their commute or other aspects of their life, or is it simply a fascination with tragedy?
Why is it people have a hard time looking away from cable news reporting of natural disasters, terrorist attacks or school shootings? Epileptic fits, dismembered limbs, animals on Wild Kingdom tearing each other apart, etc.? It is a known fact that human beings have a voyueristic attraction to watching things they would never participate in or approve of - conservatives are not immune to this.
Most of the fake news garbage posted on FR has no intellectual or strategic value at all - people here obsess over it for sport.
The other 40% have no intelllecct to surrender. They are slaves on the democrat plantation
I hear your point, but let me respond to one thing.
>>>You say it is so we can know the enemy - I call BS - I think conservatives are prone to an unhealthy fascination with the fake news<<<
Some so called “Conservatives” might be, but I guess I believe that people who Post here are immune. Then again, I could just be wearing Rose Colored Glasses. #8^)
I suppose we all wear various shades of rose colored glasses.
FR is pretty darn great - certainly enough for me to keep coming back. The self censoring thing is a pet peeve of mine, so I probably get carried away sometimes.
Years ago during the Clinton years, my father-in-law was living with us - he grew up in a time when there were 3 news channels and a couple newspapers - nobody questioned whether the news was biased - it was the obligation of an educated adult to have in his library “the classics”, and to have read them. A well informed citizen read the NYT, the local newspaper and watched the local 5 o’clock news. That’s just the way it was. Later that translated into CNN as well for him.
He couldn’t understand how I could watch Fox News and not CNN, or choose not to watch Clinton’s state of the Union address. He would call me into the room when Clinton or Teddy Kennedy or some other leftist was doing a press conference - or if Dan Rather was listing Leftist talking points - I was just not interested and I’d walk out of the room rather than listen. He could not understand this.
He asked me why an educated man shouldn’t “listen to both sides”.
I tried to explain that when he was growing up the media was different - it was very difficult for a writer to get a book published - or a commentator to host a news program - the competition was intense and the standards of excellence and objectivity were much, much higher - there was a limitted amount of books published and programs aired, and they were far more likely to have been vetted for objectivity, reason and sound journalism.
I tried to explain that today (late 1990’s), the media is far, far different. Anyone can publish, promote and distribute a book fairly easily and cheaply - anyone can start a blog - there are thousands of networks and channels and they run 24/7. Due to the Internet, one can achieve name recognition for the strangest of reasons and then write a book or get a show. There’s no guarantee at all that just because a book is s best seller that it is worth reading - there is no guarantee at all that just because a reality show (or a news show) is popular, that it is worth watching. There’s no end to what you could read or listen to - and most of it is unvetted garbage.
At a time in history when there were only a couple hundred important books in the library - an educated man might aspire to read them all and call it a virtue. The idea of limiting what he read would be unthinkable.
In the age of the Internet and cable, an educated man needs to filter - and pick and choose - there is so much media being directed at his eyes and his ears, thete is no longer any virtue in being a sponge and soaking up everything - it is mostly “media pollution” stinking up the air waves.
So if Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Dan Rather or Bill Moyer had something to say, I knew from experience and experimentation that that was a good time for me to do some gardening or take out the trash or light the grill.
I don’t think he really understood what I was saying. It seems like most people don’t understand that the Information Age has brought about profound changes in the way we need to approach our information gathering - just as “work ethic” is not as straight forward in the Information Age as it was in the Agricultural Age and the Industrial Age, information gathering is not as straight forward - the quantity of media is thousand times greater, while the quality is a thousandth as great - the emphasis now must be on selectivity.
Sorry about the long rant
I’m famous here for long rants, no problem.
I understand exactly what you mean. I only started to get Political and pay attention back in the early 90’s, and I’m 65 now.
Even with that, I Voted for Perot in 92 and I feel responsible for everything that came after. LOL
I have always been a Republican, as my Parents were. Even being from New York, they knew the Democrats were losers.
Nowadays I look around and I can’t figure out how people buy the nonsense the Media feeds them. It is so obvious, you wonder what the heck is going on.
I’m not the sharpest tool in the Shed by a longshot, but the idea that anyone can listen to these so called Journalists and still think we have a “fair and balanced” Media in this Country makes me think there is something in the water.
I have a now Ex B-I-L (thank goodness) who buys everything he hears on the Alphabet Channels hook, line and sinker. He is a Retired PHD College Professor and is as Liberal as the day is long.
My Mother always said, some People are so smart, they’re stupid. Fits this guy to a tee.
“My Mother always said, some People are so smart, they’re stupid.”
A wise woman.
They all said “I can’t believe it” when Trump was elected. They still cannot. They cannot see past the leftist crap they have been taught and have accepted all their miserable lives. They cannot fathom that the “Hicks, rednecks, fly-over people, ignorant, duped” fellow countrymen they were so sure of having control over through the media ACTUALLY voted based upon what was right for their country. They cannot believe. Guess what?
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