Category Archives: Journalism

Missing The Megyn Kelly Production Doesn’t Hurt Trump One Bit

Donald Trump, Journalism, Media, Republicans

I don’t believe the higher-ups at the Fox News Channel are so stupid as to put Megyn Kelly in the moderator’s chair, after the ego-activism and showy exhibitionism of her first prime-time Republican debate, in Cleveland, Ohio. I suspect, Fox’s golden goose must have henpecked the Bosses at FNC for a chance to have at it again. Kelly’s central focus is to be center-stage again. The woman is self-obsessed.


Nevertheless, it’s bloody stupid of FNC to put a snarky Millennial in charge of composing a press release in response—a release that cemented Donald Trump’s decision to do something more useful and foil the Megyn Kelly extravaganza.

“We learned from a secret back channel that the Ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump unfairly when they meet with him if he becomes president — a nefarious source tells us that Trump has his own secret plan to replace the Cabinet with his Twitter followers to see if he should even go to those meetings …”

Come again?

Either way, the left is going to love Kelly even more for supposedly intimidating Trump. For Kelly to love herself more than she does is impossible, so no change on that front.

STILL, TRUMP SHOULD MAKE IT CLEAR that it’s not Kelly’s turgid war-on-women, waste-of-time, sub-intelligent questions he fears. Rather, it’s the posturing and preening that goes with the Kelly Production that he would rather avoid.

The Trump Guy Sincerely Loves The Common American

America, Barack Obama, Britain, Donald Trump, Journalism, Media

Donald Trump draws half the town to a BILOXI, Miss rally. The malfunctioning media, having abnegated their mandate to report the news, harp on why ISIS prefers Hillary (by which, I imagine they mean to suggest Hillary should be president). Here’s the WaPo lead:

“Forty-five minutes into his first speech of 2016, Donald Trump finally talked about the video. …”

What sophisticates (and such rotten journalists).

The role of media is to report the news, not advance an angle, or make consumers of news products “think,” as one CNN bimbo once put it. “Make the viewers think” was her incomplete sentence. What she—Brooke Baldwin or fellow fem Anderson Cooper—meant to say is, “Make the viewer think … the way I do.”

From these mass, under-reported rallies it emerges, moreover, that The Trump guy sincerely loves the Common American. Unlike Obama, who described small-town Americans, derisively, as clinging to their guns, God and other bigotries. Or Britain’s Gordon Brown, who famously called a perfectly decent English biddy “horrible,” “old woman,” and “bigoted.” (Poor Mrs. Gillian Duffy had been trusting enough to air her perfectly proper worries over deficits and immigration to the pompous, two-faced ponce, Brown.)

Trump insults The Powers that be; never the common man. That’s a good personality trait. (Donald J. Trump ought to be, however, very careful on these rallies. The establishment will do anything to maintain its privileged position.)

The Week’s Tweets 12/015 (Affluenza, Cosby, Feds V. Farmers, Race Riots, Trump)

Barely A Blog, IlanaMercer.com, Journalism, Media, Politics

In addition to Ramadi and the ubiquitous media insults to Trump’s America, Jim Webb and Christmas made a comeback, sadly, so did S.E. Idiot. The Department of Homeland Insecurity made history, KrauthHannity were found to have shared amnesty aspirations, Bernie found, then quickly lost his male bits—perhaps Tulsi Gabbarad has them?—and much more. (Support Barely a Blog.)

Special-Needs Media Six Months Late To Recognize The Trump Revolution

Donald Trump, Elections, Iraq, Journalism, Media

Chris Hayes’s MSNBC replacements did a token mea culpa for themselves and their brethren across the malfunctioning media, for dismissing the political staying power of Donald Trump.

Whether they’re missing the Trump phenomenon or the bogus casus belli for war in Iraq (see “Iraq Liars & Deniers: We Knew Then What We Know Now”)—these stupid establishment types only recognize truth once THEY arrive at it, sometimes years later.

Just like we identified the wrongness of the Iraq War in 2002 and not in 2012; very many of us marginalized writers of America also recognized right away (6/19/2015) that Trump was “a candidate to ‘kick the crap out of all the politicians’” and that he “could send the system’s sycophants scattering” (8/14/2015)

Alas, truth is arrived at officially in American public life only once the special-needs media get it.