{"id":84741,"date":"2016-01-07T18:29:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T02:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=84741"},"modified":"2016-01-07T18:30:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T02:30:57","slug":"trump-as-a-pool-shark-hustling-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=84741","title":{"rendered":"Trump as a Pool Shark Hustling the Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comments to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* Bum hunting is the media\u2019s preferred tactic of fighting the culture war too: Westboro Baptist, that Starbucks cup controversy guy, Dylann Roof, etc.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s one of the funner angles on Trump. He walks, talks and acts like a bum, which draws the media to him like piranhas every time he wades into the pool, but he beats them every time. But they are so convinced that he\u2019s a bum that they keep on coming after him. He\u2019s the perfect hustler.<\/p>\n

* The media cover Trump, I think, because he\u2019s \u2018newsworthy\u2019: his statements, his behavior, his very existence outrage and offend the majority. And since they\u2019re outraged in a manner which causes them to want to know more, he\u2019s covered extensively, because he raises the ratings \/ sells the papers \/ generally brings in attention and money.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s the political equivalent of clickbait; if he didn\u2019t exist, the media would be forced to create him.<\/p>\n

He gets coverage for the same reason the serious problems facing our civilization don\u2019t get coverage \u2013 the only principle the media venerate is \u201cgive the masses what they want\u201d \u2013 with the implied corollary \u201cdon\u2019t give the masses what they don\u2019t want\u201d.<\/p>\n

If the majority of German\u2019s citizenry really wanted to know the effects of their immigration policy, not only would the censorship fail, the government wouldn\u2019t even be trying to impose it. Most people don\u2019t want to know, and therefore it\u2019s worth the government\u2019s while to try to keep the facts out of their awareness.<\/p>\n

Same phenomenon here in America, if less overt.<\/p>\n

* Sometimes he even says things that sound frankly dubious (\u201cgetting schlonged is a perfectly normal expression in New York politics\u201d), that inevitably turns out to be 100 percent correct. Yet all the little Noahs and Madisons who work for the dominant press, just can\u2019t conceive of the existence of an unPC, older White man who is smarter than they are, and so they keep falling for it, time and time again. And I don\u2019t think they\u2019re adaptable enough to break out of that pattern before Election Day.<\/p>\n

* Trump is having a positive impact on the whole political culture. The Governor of Maine just told the truth in a speech, saying that gangsta thugs are coming to his state and impregnating the girls and then leaving. Without Trump, this governor never would have had the courage.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Comments to Steve Sailer: * Bum hunting is the media\u2019s preferred tactic of fighting the culture war too: Westboro Baptist, that Starbucks cup controversy guy, Dylann Roof, etc. That\u2019s one of the funner angles on Trump. He walks, talks and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29752],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84741"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84745,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84741\/revisions\/84745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}