Horse
By Mitch Berg
If you listen to, read, or talk to me, you know I’m not a Donald Trump fan. Very, very, not.
But over the weekend, I listened to NPR’s “On the Media” program. It’s NPR’s in-house out-house of media “criticism”. I listen because it’s a fairly reliable barometer of the narcissism of the mainstream media elite, and because it’s a bottomless font of material.
Anyway – they ran a work of (intentional) fiction yesterday; a smug, sanctimonious, self-righteous, intellectually entitled fictional look back at a Trump presidency (adapted from an article in The Atlantic, or as we in the know call it, “American Progressive Project).
It’s narrated with smug unctuousness by one of NPR’s stable of voice-over people that can affect that perfect, detached, smug “NPR accent”. And even if you don’t like Trump – and I do not – you have to think “whomever the front-runner would be, they’d be doing the same, exact bit of fiction”.
And it started me thinking.
One of the current mainstream conspiracy theories is that Trump is a Pat Buchanan or, worse, Ross Perot figure, working the field to get ready for a third-party candidacy that, at best (Buchanan) dilute the GOP nomination process, and at worst (Perot) doom a GOP candidate.
But what if it’s the other way around? What if Trump is merely playing this for big publicity, using his big turbocharged mouth to bring lots of attention to issues that’d be trayf for a legitimate candidate to broach, if not discuss…
…and soak up all the biased media’s hatred, allowing the real candidates to duke out the endorsement battle unmolested by Nina Totenberg and CNN and the rest of the Democrats’ PR firms?
A stretch? Sure.
Implausible? Maybe.
Impossible? Who cares?
August 24th, 2015 at 7:56 am
…and soak up all the biased media’s hatred
Like George Will, Krouthammer,Medved, Beck, Erickson, Mirengoff………….Berg.
August 24th, 2015 at 8:29 am
“I don’t support” <> “Hatred”.
August 24th, 2015 at 8:33 am
It breaks my heart to hear of the financial problems NPR and its affiliates are having.
Maybe the Ol’ Scout and his fellow enlightened being, Michael Feldmen, will reduce their syndication fees.
August 24th, 2015 at 9:17 am
financial problems NPR
People’s TV is half a $million short of their goal for the fiscal year too. (according to a graphic they keep putting up).
August 24th, 2015 at 9:17 am
Author of aforementioned Atlantic article, Jon Lovett, was an Obama speechwriter. Enough said.
August 24th, 2015 at 10:56 am
Who was that guy the Democrats put up to create a fake primary fight to generate debates and news stories so Al Gore would look good – was it Bill Bradley? Trump staking out the Lunatic Fringe position allows everybody else to claim the Moderate position coveted by political consultants. Could be onto something, Mitch.
By the way – anybody who thinks Paul Mirengoff is a right-wing-kook has drunk every drop of kook-aide for the other side.
August 24th, 2015 at 4:55 pm
If your master plan includes Trump following some kind of script, you need a new master plan.
August 24th, 2015 at 9:58 pm
I have to admit he’s surprised even me. Books will be written about how he hasn’t already crashed and burned.
August 24th, 2015 at 10:02 pm
I actually think he’s doing us a potential favor unintentionally. Every debate he’s in will triple the ratings and I even got Queen of Darkness (Mom) to watch it. She said she’d vote for Kasich over Clinton. Meanwhile I think Fiorina will lay the smack down to Trump in a few weeks so she can either get the VP slot or a cabinet position in a Rubio or Walker administration.