Got to hear the whole speech today.
I must say the media reaction didn't surprise me, but it is stunning how you can twist anything into anything if you're determined enough to fit an agenda.
Chris Matthews, who at once time was a knowledgeable and moderate man who once worked for Tip O'Neill, called it "Hitlerian". I'm not sure that's a word, but I'm sure I know what he means. Hitler-like? really? What part? A call for nationalism is now a being like Hitler? When Churchill called on the British people to "defend our island whatever the cost may be" was he being a fascist?
Then we have ABC and MSNBC, who among others all called it "dark" and "militant". If Obama had talked about the empty factories and the drugs and the loss of young lives to bad education and lost opportunites he would have been hailed as a brave man willing to draw attention to america's lost citizens. Trump is painted as somehow wrong to reach out to those with the least hope.
But the best, the absolute best of all, was taking his comment of putting "America first", and using it as a reference to the "America First Committee" of the pre WWII era, wrapped up with Charles Lindburgh and others who were deeply isolationist.
Now, today, the fact that the two words are the same had paid national media pundits calling the speech "anti-Semitic" b/c of course in the politics of 1939 and 1940 in the us Jewish groups were pushing for the US to enter the war given the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, and isolationists were of course pushing to stay out of the European war.
Folks, that's OUTRAGEOUS. It's beyond outrageous. It's pathologically insane. In the SAME SPEECH Trump called for the eradication of Islamist Radicalism, the exact opposite of anything supported by the America First Committee. Yes he's called for not funding every other nation's defense ahead of our own, but so did Reagan, and he was certainly no isolationist.
That point is right out there with the tinfoil hat crowd, the youtube videos with 500 views that try to show secret symbols in the hand movements of leaders to show they are communists or Nazis. It's hysterical, and not in the meaning of funny but rather overtaken by emotion to such a degree as to be beyond reason.
People want Trump to give up his twitter account. IMO he can't afford to, even though ideally that would be nice. Just the opposite, Trump's team needs to work full bore on every possible way to subvert and avoid the national media, getting their message out directly through social media, the internet, and any other means possible. There is ZeRO hope of more than a few in the media being anything more than vicious and biased and twisting of everything he does and says. Far better to isolate them, marginalize them and minimize their voice .
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