Re: Planet America
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2024 6:06 am
I just watched an ABC News segment about Georgia poll workers conducting active shooter drills.
There is much truth there, but I think there are also a couple of failings.Admin wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2024 4:58 pm That's 100% true.
Good piece here: https://newrepublic.com/post/188197/tru ... dscape-fox
That's all true, except the first sentence. Was it the right wing media that enabled him?And that is why Donald Trump won. Indeed, the right-wing media is why he exists in our political lives in the first place. Don’t believe me? Try this thought experiment. Imagine Trump coming down that escalator in 2015 with no right-wing media; no Fox News; an agenda still set, and mores still established, by staid old CBS News, the House of Murrow, and The New York Times.
That atmosphere would have denied an outrageous figure like Trump the oxygen he needed to survive and flourish. He just would not have been taken seriously at all. In that world, ruled by a traditional mainstream media, Trump would have been seen by Republicans as a liability, and they would have done what they failed to do in real life—banded together to marginalize him.
According to Bob Woodward, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reportedly said: “Going to Mar-a-Lago is a little bit like going to North Korea. Everybody stands up and claps every time Trump comes in.”
You might appreciate this, too:Admin wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2024 4:58 pm That's 100% true.
Good piece here: https://newrepublic.com/post/188197/tru ... dscape-fox