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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
A penetrating and thought-provoking piece by a conservative Wall Street Journal columnist about the danger Trump poses to journalists, conservatives, and the nation.
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White House hand-picks select media outlets for briefing
by Jordan Fabian @ The Hill, Feb. 24 & THEY ARE POSTING MORE ON TOPIC FAST & FURIOUS...
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/24/2017 - 3:59pm
Stephens says
and I agree in that Bill and the Clinton war room really popularized and were unashamedly proud of their "spin", and thereafter everyone wanted to be their own spinmeister (or worship one in contemporaneous phenomena like "Rush rooms"). But the point was that a good spinmeister and his/her team "stays on message".
We don't have this now, often, instead we have crack addled speech. You don't have to call it stupid if you don't want to, nor to call it truth if you don't want to.But there is no consistent message, it truly is almost like stream of consciousness. The spinner in chief's mixture of dog whistling and other mutterings and shouts vary from day to day and the minions are left to figure out "WHAT IS THE MESSAGE?" He's an oracle to them, but they can't really figure out what he means to say. So in the end, they just wing it and hope they don't have to do spin about spin about spin:
This one is extra rich; I swear, seems like it's meant to boggle our own minds. Yes, to "GASLIGHT" in effect. If you read about his real estate career, you start to see it, the outrageous things he did and said just to get the other side to say "uncle, I give, this guy's crazy." and thereafter the result is that they don't do business with him again. And he moves on to fiddle with a new victim.
Forget the thing about Saturday Night Live not being able to top reality. It's more like we are dealing with the main character of a novel by Bret Easton Ellis. Who knew narcissism could get so incredibly weird?
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/25/2017 - 12:26am
Maybe Trump is Col Kurtz and Spicer et al are that Dennis Hopper journalist character (Sean Flynn, Errol's son in real life)
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 02/25/2017 - 6:04am
oh my yes, brilliant comparison!
especially when Trump babbles about all the good people he met in the heartland on the campaign trail that he is going to save
http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0002962/quotes
Heart of Darkness, indeed.
The question then of course is: who would be the Willard character? The Intel community? Comes to mind that McCain usually has the same look on his face as Willard did in the movie.
I am having a hard time believing that the current chaotic state of affairs can continue once some of his cabinet officers get more up to speed. I mean the CEO types like Tillerson or Mnuchin. I just can't imagine them cowtowing to this level of bozo craziness forever. I can't imagine them even respecting him. And dissing a narcissist is dangerous.
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/25/2017 - 9:28am
I was delighted to see that General McMaster does not think it helps anything to refer to Radical Islamic Terrorism, and has instructed those who answer to him not to use the term.
I just love this! I guess trump really can't pick people very well. Never mind; he has plenty of other rats on his team.
by CVille Dem on Sat, 02/25/2017 - 11:04am