Category Archives: Media

A Study In Contrasts

Ethics, Media, Morality, Politics, Republicans

The political class is immoral by its very nature and in the way it operates. Witness Ted Cruz’s ego-centered battle with the New York Times, because of “the Gray Lady’s refusal to put his book on its bestseller list.” A book written and promoted on the taxpayer’s dime, as are all books peddled by politicians in office. (Fox News’ Megyn Kelly promised to hype this vanity duel from her vanity perch.)

Contrast this with a man who doesn’t need the political process to increase his riches; the obverse. Donald Trump filed his financial disclosure with the Federal Election Commission (FEC). With much snickering and snide smirks, CNN bobbing heads reported and wrote that Trump was “boasting” his worth was upwards of $10 billion.

What’s there to be humble about?

Lindsey Graham Polling Well With … Lame-Stream Media

Elections, Media, Neoconservatism

For trashing Donald Trump, armchair warrior Lindsey Graham is making news with the media—polling well with the same crowd, only.

In national polls of potential primary voters, Graham is near last. “Trump,” however, “has the support of 17 percent of Republican or independent voters who say they plan to participate in the party’s primary elections or caucuses.” Trump is “in a statistical tie with former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida.” (New York Times)

Trump had some fighting words about the thrust of a Graham bid for more power: Graham wants to bomb everybody all the time. Yet if you search Google for the exact barb Trump lobbed at Lindsey, you’ll find no headline to allude to Trump’s response to the evil, ideological twin of John McCain. Not even by page 9.

Google represents the lame-stream as it leads the rube-hicks to the Right Answers.

Here is the first page of a search worded, “Donald Trump, Lindsey Graham”:

Lindsey Graham: ‘I Reject’ Donald Trump
NBC News? – 7 hours ago
Calling Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric ‘demagoguery,’ the Republican presidential …
Donald Trump is ‘a wrecking ball for the future of the Republican party,’ Lindsey Graham says
Yahoo Politics? – 2 days ago
Lindsey Graham predicts Donald Trump has peaked: ‘He’s probably hit where he’s going to go’
Washington Post? – 1 day ago

Talk Show Roundup: Lindsey Graham Calls Donald Trump …
www.nytimes.com/…/talk-show-roundup-lindsey-g…
The New York Times
2 days ago – Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina sharply attacked Mr. Trump’s caustic remarks on …
Graham on Trump: He came in like a ‘wrecking ball …
www.cnn.com/2015/…/donald-trump-lindsey-graham-wrecking-bal…
CNN
2 days ago – (CNN) Sen. Lindsey Graham says Donald Trump is a “wrecking ball” who has put the Republican Party’s future on the line with his controversial …
Even Lindsey Graham Thinks Donald Trump Is an Asshole
jezebel.com/even-lindsey-graham-thinks-donald-trump-is-an-assh…
Jezebel
2 days ago – Donald Trump had a very Trump-ish weekend. During a Saturday rally held in Phoenix, the presidential candidate promised a group of …
Lindsey Graham predicts Donald Trump has peaked: ‘He’s …
www.washingtonpost.com/…/lindsey-graham-predicts…The Washington Post
1 day ago – Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), who has become one of his party’s most vocal critics of his fellow Republican presidential candidate Donald …
Donald Trump is ‘a wrecking ball for the future of the … – Yahoo
https://www.yahoo.com/…/donald-trump-is-a-wrecking-ball-for-t…
Yahoo!
2 days ago – A handful of protesters interrupted Donald Trump during a speech in Phoenix … Lindsey Graham said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday.
Lindsey Graham Laments Trump ‘Hijacking’ GOP With …
www.huffingtonpost.com/…/lindsey-graham-donald…
The Huffington Post
2 days ago – WASHINGTON — Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) complained Sunday that Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy …
Lindsey Graham Blasts Donald Trump as a ‘Wrecking Ball’
time.com/3954792/donald-trump-lindsey-graham/
Time
2 days ago – South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham on Sunday denounced fellow GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump as “a wrecking ball for the future …
Lindsey Graham: Trump’s comments are going to ‘kill my …
www.politico.com/…/lindsey-graham-gop-debate-fox-rnc-11995…
Politico
4 days ago – Donald Trump’s statements on immigrants are going to kill the Republican Party, fellow candidate Lindsey Graham says. “Well, I think he said …
Lindsey Graham Admits That Trump Is Telling Hispanics …
www.politicususa.com/…/lindsey-graham-calls-donald-trump-wrecking-…
2 days ago – Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who is running for his party’s … Graham also called Donald Trump a “wrecking ball” for the GOP with …

AL Jazeera And RToo On America

America, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Media, Middle East, Russia

a DRUDGE headline blares: “AL JAZEERA July 4 vid mocks Americans as fat, gun-toting, pill-poping, porn-watching racists …” Al-Jaz has always been a clone of the American left. John Stewart on steroids. RT, however, used to have a strong libertarian streak. No more. The American anchor babes took control there and that was that. The Al-Jaz headline could have come from RT (which went instead with as a mild “Number of ‘extremely proud’ Americans drops by 3 percent”).

No Trump Apology Tour

Elections, IMMIGRATION, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Media, Politics

“No Trump Apology Tour” is the current column, now on The Unz Review, America’s smartest webzine. An excerpt:

“CNN anchor Don Lemon conducted an interview with Donald Trump. It went very well, for Mr. Trump, that is. So well that Lemon’s scoop is difficult to locate on CNN’s website. Instead, Mediate.com scooped the telephonic exchange.

Lemon was at a loss. He got more sour-looking by the minute, as Trump bulldozed him with the force of his convictions and personality. There was no interrupting Trump’s train of thought. The “builder-businessman” was going to say his piece.

Americans have been listening intently. “A CNN/ORC poll released Wednesday,” reported National Journal, ‘showed Trump had 12 percent of the vote among Republicans and Republican-leaners, second only to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who earned 19 percent.’

Trump’s retort: “I’m not happy being behind Jeb Bush.” He went on to ponder beguilingly how Bush 3 (a man he would fire) could be soaring in the polls:

I don’t get it. He’s in favor of Common Core, extremely weak on immigration. He thinks people come over for love. I don’t understand why he’s in first place. Maybe it’s the Bush name. Last thing we need is another Bush. But I will tell you, I’m a little surprised he’s in the position he’s in.

As Trump sees it, his countrymen are being betrayed by the Beltway. To make America great, he’d have to restore American prosperity. Jeb Bush will not do America’s bidding. It’s not his thing.

True. Jeb Bush will not lead America to the Promised Land, in Trump’s words. No politician will. The hope is that Trump, who does not need to ride us like the others, will get the parasites-in waiting off our backs.

Trump’s strength is that he keeps coming back to the stuff of life: business, economics, making a living. Politics is the stuff that kills all that. …”

… Read the rest. “No Trump Apology Tour” is the current column, now on Unz.