Members Vee Posted June 20, 2016 Members Share Posted June 20, 2016 (edited) I think most of the outlets are turning on Trump, actually, now that we're facing the general. The attention has gotten much more focused and critical, as the Beltway has begun to realize this is really dangerous and they have to cut the [!@#$%^&*]. That's what got us the various pieces from NBC and the print journalists in the last few weeks that have just torn Trump up about his business dealings. Last week MSNBC cut away from Trump's rambling pressers to go to Hillary. I've never seen that happen before, and it is a sea change that means something. They still want a horse race narrative, of course; they always do. But it's most embodied by disgusting entrenched hack Mark Halperin, who wrote a great dishy book (Game Change) with his buddy John Heilemann but is still the conservative sympathizer who called Obama "kind of a dick" on live TV. Halperin and Heilemann have a docuseries, The Circus, premiering on Showtime shortly following all the candidates around this year, but that's not the story here. The story is how closely Halperin seems to have become personally attached to Donald Trump after following him on the trail over the last year, a la the rest of the press' long love affair with John McCain - there's a ton of cozy photos of them together, and he has a long track record of defending Trump's many foibles in the face of incredulity from even the Morning Joe crew, like the time a while back when he insisted Trump could take California and then when he claimed Trump's comments about Mexicans weren't racist. Or the time he all but did a direct address to the camera begging Trump to tone it down, promising the media could side with him against Clinton if only he weren't so mean to them. Anyway: Halperin got roasted the other day for his latest in a series of 'what if?' tweets trying to create a narrative for Trump to become the nation's hero. Here's the glorious deets. Enjoy. The good news is, Halperin's the only one out there stumping in the mainstream. The rest of the media doesn't seem to be trying too hard for the horse race here, possibly because they (like me) suspect Trump will not be the candidate after all. Unrelated: Mediaite noticed this, which I didn't - buried in a piece comparing Trump to Romney's troubles, the NYT again hints Trump is too broke to campaign. Edited June 21, 2016 by Vee 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted June 20, 2016 Members Share Posted June 20, 2016 (edited) But wait! There's more! Also: Rolling Stone has a remarkably candid piece opining why the media has, as I discussed above, finally started unloading on Trump. Edited June 20, 2016 by Vee 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted June 20, 2016 Members Share Posted June 20, 2016 Trumptastrophe! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted June 20, 2016 Members Share Posted June 20, 2016 Halperin has always struggled to hide his right-leaning tendencies. He used to run a site for ABC called The Note that extolled the virtues of Rove-era Republicans and their genius strategies, while pushing the "Democrats in disarray" narrative at the same time. I'm surprised he's into Trump, but then, a lot of people in the Beltway seem to have gotten into that starfucker type of mindset. Anyway, here's an example of the type of blatant hate that Trump followers give on the local level - encouraging hatred and bile against a church just for having a message about Ramadan. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/matt-jansen-chris-rodkey-blessed-ramadan 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted June 20, 2016 Members Share Posted June 20, 2016 More on Trump's firing of Lewandowski - likely leaked from the campaign, but it's still a minute by minute. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted June 21, 2016 Members Share Posted June 21, 2016 Broke as a joke. Trump's campaign made less money last month than Hamilton ticket sales and the Veronica Mars kickstarter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted June 21, 2016 Members Share Posted June 21, 2016 #TrumpSoPoor 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members DramatistDreamer Posted June 21, 2016 Members Share Posted June 21, 2016 A slightly more detailed look into Trump's cash-strapped campaign. Donald Trump Starts Summer Push With Crippling Money Deficit 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted June 21, 2016 Members Share Posted June 21, 2016 (edited) An in-depth piece on Reince Priebus and the RNC's ongoing struggles to domesticate Trump. This Rubio bit is hilarious: Edited June 21, 2016 by Vee 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dragonflies Posted June 21, 2016 Members Share Posted June 21, 2016 Why does this NOT shock me, UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted June 21, 2016 Members Share Posted June 21, 2016 It Gets Better: The media is unraveling the mystery of Trump's paid advertisers, "Draper Sterling" (yes, from Mad Men). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted June 22, 2016 Members Share Posted June 22, 2016 While struggling to raise cash, Trump is being turned away by prospects for new staff, who fear career damage. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted June 22, 2016 Members Share Posted June 22, 2016 (edited) The rare 'Opposite Trump' is out in force right now doing his get Hillary speech live - he's telepromptered up the wazoo, completely on-book and just using GOP boilerplate lines, not his own. It always sounds very fake and the antithesis of himself (and his appeal to his base), but I suspect it will reenergize the horse race narrative briefly and people will once again claim Trump has finally pivoted to the GE. That said, he's also still lying incessantly. I think the hope for 'New Trump' will last maybe 12 hours. He'll do something else insane by Friday at the latest, this is how he always works. One mediocre speech makes the media think he's finally changed, then he goes ape again. It happened most recently a week or two ago. Edited June 22, 2016 by Vee 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted June 22, 2016 Members Share Posted June 22, 2016 Recently resigned Trump aide Michael Caputo, who publicly cheered the firing of Corey Lewandowski, dishes on the campaign. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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