If Donald Trump wins in November, it could well be because the media hasn’t done its job.
That’s according to On The Media’s Bob Garfield, who accuses the press of malpractice in its reporting on Trump. The piece is titled, “How Not to Normalize Trump” and it’s well worth the six minutes of your time to listen.
Donald Trump’s campaign to crown himself the perennial Olbermann-esque “Worst Person in the World” is working. By campaigning as the prototypical louse — a misogynistic, racist, xenophobic serial philanderer and pathological liar — he’d already become the most disliked presidential candidate in the history of polling. Now a new poll from PPP finds that he is less popular even than actual head lice, traffic jams, used car salesmen, hipsters, the DMV, jury duty, root canals and even Nickelback.
Rachel Maddow broke the story last night.
Among the latest controversies bubbling up around the Trump campaign is the endorsement of Trump last week by former boxer and convicted rapist, Mike Tyson. This sort of unwanted attention would likely hobble a normal presidential candidate for at least a news cycle or two — but Trump, who has built his campaign on misogyny and racism, has absorbed the notorious rapist’s endorsement without missing a beat.
Now Buzzfeed has found a video clip from an NBC News report at the time of Tyson’s rape conviction in which Trump accused Tyson’s victim — an 18-year-old beauty queen — of asking for it.
From the Los Angeles Times:
Thousands of people took to the streets in the annual May Day marches in downtown Los Angeles and Boyle Heights on Sunday to advocate for immigration reform, police accountability and an end to racism.
The diverse array of protesters shared one thing in common: all were offended by something Donald Trump had said. The Republican presidential candidate literally loomed over one of the rallies in the form of a giant balloon effigy carrying a Ku Klux Klan hood.
“He’s plastic, he doesn’t have a heart, he doesn’t have a brain,” organizer Francisco Moreno said, as he gestured at the swaying effigy. “We’re not going to vote for Trump!”
But in his first major outing representing the Donald, uber-lobbyist Manafort committed the ultimate D.C. insider gaffe — he got caught on tape revealing that his client’s Dirtbag Don persona is all an act intended to fool rubes in the GOP base into supporting him.
This might be a commercial for a stock video footage company, but it’s a pretty compelling generic presidential candidate ad nonetheless.
Trump or Cruz? Either way, we’re all moving to Canada (ironic that we might be fleeing the Canadian by moving to the land of his birth and first six years), so get your election insurance now!
From Trump’s “stolen election” lies, we can’t get no relief,
He carps on about stolen votes, but he never names the thief.
Somebody needs to tell this guy
Americans aren’t buying his lies,
And that he’s turned us into the United States of Disbelief.
