Media Try Calling The Shots . . . But Trump Talks Past Arrogant Interrupters To Reach The People
By DEXTER DUGGAN
As the Donald Trump tornado continued howling over the land, the question remained whether this big wind blew for good or ill.
Or rather, good for whom and ill for whom? Because it seemed likely to benefit some faction, fraction or formidable force, but not all of them together.
It couldn’t have blown into being without a reason.
Was Trump truly a frustrated tycoon with conservative sympathies who finally tired of the political game-playing pulling down the nation, and he resolved to rout it?
Or did he conceal being a representative of what he actually comes from, the anti-conservative donor class, jumping into the fray to undercut the large assortment of conservative GOP presidential aspirants for 2016?
And if by some chance Trump were to be elected president, would he play things both ways at once, continuing his anti-establishment rhetoric while delivering what the donor class desired? That would suit politics to a T, as in Trump. It likely also would generate a new, anti-Trump tornado of outrage.
One group that seemed to fear losing clout while Trump spouted was the liberal media cohort, long accustomed to defining and framing issues and how to address them, regardless of, and often in opposition to, the facts.
Trump not only wouldn’t show this gang the deference they expected; he also talked right back to them, or past them to the public.
With his long experience in the public eye and also entertainment television, Trump was entirely comfortable in the role.
At a news conference on August 25, Trump didn’t cower to racial grievance-monger and impatient TV agitator Jorge Ramos, of Univision. The developer took on the interrupter mano-a-mano.
If a person didn’t understand the significance of the Trump-Ramos exchange, “you’re politically tone deaf,” columnist James Lileks said on the August 27 Hugh Hewitt national radio program, adding that he’s not a Trump fan.
Some public figures stand up for their platforms and some don’t. Trump is willing to absorb the hostility. Barack Obama needn’t worry on that point because of his lapdog media pals.
National radio talkmeister Rush Limbaugh noted on August 26 that Obama said he’d shut down the government if Congress dares to defund his illegal-immigration “executive action.”
But, Limbaugh said, Republican leadership still won’t take a similarly strong stand against tax funding for Planned Parenthood — even though the eighth video released by the pro-life Center for Medical Progress on August 25 showed the CEO of StemExpress talking, among other topics, about shipping the intact heads of aborted babies.
StemExpress is a major buyer of body parts from babies that PP aborts.
If congressional Republicans can’t get together to vote against continued tax funding for the abortion giant despite these unspeakable facts, Limbaugh wondered what’s left. He noted that the media will blame the GOP anyway for any potential government shutdown in September due to budgetary disagreements.
An August 31 story posted at the Washington Examiner website said that “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) has said repeatedly he will not engage in a possible shutdown battle with Democrats and President Obama, who would likely veto any legislation that attempts to strip funding from the (Planned Parenthood) organization.”
Glowering Obama stands strong for breaking the law from here to eternity to muscle through his nightmares assaulting Americans, but Republican congressional leadership runs scared from breakfast-porridge time to dinnertime tea, fearing some nasty newspaper articles that weigh a twelfth of an ounce.
One can dream of the day that a President Trump would hold a news conference with large, factual photos of aborted babies’ heads as he talks past sneering reporters to tell the public these atrocities demand an absolute cutoff of PP tax money. Is that too much to dream?
Commentator Mark Steyn, noting that Democrat Hillary Clinton was launching another “war on women” assault against the GOP, told the August 27 Hugh Hewitt program, “This is a test for, I think, Republican muscle.”
If there is any such muscle to fight back.
Steyn remarked that the August 25 CMP video even showed StemExpress CEO Cate Dyer joking about the disease she sees from abortion clinics.
Dyer said: “Contamination is a big issue. We’ve seen all sorts of things. I’ve seen rampant, rampant problems with bacteria in certain clinics. Some where you’re in question, should they — I’ve seen staph (infection) come out of clinics; I’ve seen all sorts of things come out of clinics.”
If Republicans want to affirm women’s health, they could be pounding the lectern every day on the campaign trail about this horrid revelation. It would seem an issue that irrefutably puts them on the virtuous side and also pummels media-darling abortionists. Did you see that begin happening on August 25 — from any of the GOP presidential candidates?
Limbaugh, talking on August 26 about whether Trump supporters are “angry,” said there can be justified reasons for anger, adding: “You angry at what’s happened at Planned Parenthood? You damn well should be.”
The Hill national political news website reported on August 29 that “Trump argued he is surging in national polls because he represents the Tea Party supporters ignored by Democrats and betrayed by Republicans.
“ ‘I love the Tea Party,’ Trump said. ‘You people have not been treated fairly. These are people who work hard and love their country, and then get beat up by the media. It’s disgusting. At least I have a microphone and can fight back’,” The Hill quoted Trump.
It appeared the multibillionaire developer carefully was targeting conservative activists likely to respond happily to his message.
However, conservative writer Ramesh Ponnuru posted at National Review on August 27 that Trump just said in a “Bloomberg Politics” interview that his sister, a federal judge, would be a “phenomenal” Supreme Court justice.
Although it’s understandable that Trump would praise a family member, Ponnuru said, she fought from the bench to defend partial-birth abortion.
Ponnuru commented: “Maryanne Trump Barry came up in my book The Party of Death for writing one of those heated judicial decisions in favor of giving constitutional protection to partial-birth abortion. She called a New Jersey law against it a ‘desperate attempt’ to undermine Roe v. Wade.
“It was, she wrote, ‘based on semantic machinations, irrational line-drawing, and an obvious attempt to inflame public opinion instead of logic or medical evidence’,” Ponnuru wrote.
Maybe Trump was just spouting off again. However, an increasingly big name like Trump at some point has to guard against putting his foot in his spout.
He does presumably understand about dealing with left-wing media manipulators who try to twist every campaign to their liking. As a very wealthy New York businessman, he has seen the Gotham media circus from top to bottom that dictates to the nation. With a wave of the editorial wizards’ wands, deadly cobras can become delightful butterflies overnight. Or vice-versa.
Race War
If media tricksters can do what they did with the horrifying murders of two Virginia journalists on August 26, they can distort anything. Even though it would seem that the victims, being up-and-coming young television news workers, would elicit the special empathy of big-time media.
However, this became a very dangerous story for the politically correct to report because the killer was a black homosexual bent on starting a race war, and the victims were white heterosexuals doing chatty breakfast-time stories. Hmm, who possibly could be the villain here? Oh, of course, the gun he used!
One can only imagine the vastly different reportage if the killer had been a white Tea Partier leaping out and firing on two black homosexual reporters.
An August 28 Associated Press story, distributed with the headline “Gunman in on-air deaths remembered as ‘professional victim’,” minimized the racial angle, as did other such stories, although of course they got around to remarks on limiting gun possession.
It might have been interesting to explore how liberal media’s fixation with alleged racism might have fed the unbalanced mind of the gunman, or how this media’s fervor for promoting homosexuality might have lured the gunman deeper into sins that he finally apparently felt he couldn’t escape, instead of his repenting and renewing his life.
And then there was the issue that the gunman, who’d been fired for incompetence from the same television station where the victims worked, had been rebuked internally by the station for wearing a Barack Obama campaign sticker on Election Day 2012 while employed as a reporter.
Ah, if only a white racist gunman had sported a Ted Cruz sticker, or a Donald Trump sticker. That would have been in every headline. But race-obsessed Obama, what’s he to blame for?
A bit of warning wisdom about media that go for the jugular of their perceived enemies, and serve up cream puff after éclair for their chosen friends. Trump no doubt knows this. Republican candidates who don’t should learn quickly.
Any media that try to cover up Cecile Richards’ workers’ cruel slaughter and dismemberment of millions of defenseless babies, so that the monstrosities can continue, aren’t too likely to stop stalking their political enemies who want to bring peace to this bloody battlefront.
As for weeping over the death of faraway sweet Cecil the Lion, why, he was just so adorable as he gorged on flesh. Like Planned Parenthood.
