War on the media is all Trump and conservatives have left - since they can't get anything done
FRIDAY, JUN 30, 2017 05:00 AM EDT
War on the media is all Trump and conservatives have left since they cant get anything done
Conservatives have totally lost the ability to govern, so they attack the press to distract the public
MATTHEW SHEFFIELD
It is no coincidence that President Donald Trump, a man who tells lies with a frequency and ease unprecedented in modern American history, has made attacking the journalists who cover him an essential component of his public relations strategy.
Every president has shaded the truth or told occasional whoppers, New York Times columnist David Leonhard wrote in his June 23 catalog of the presidents multitude of falsehoods. But no other president of either party has behaved as Trump is behaving. He is trying to create an atmosphere in which reality is irrelevant.
Trumps love of deception has been in evidence throughout his many decades as a public figure, starting from his days as a low-rent New York real estate developer. He even admitted how much he loves lying in his ghostwritten autobiography (which he falsely claims is the best-selling business book of all time).
I call it truthful hyperbole. Its an innocent form of exaggeration and a very effective form of promotion, reads one of the most salient passages in The Art of the Deal.
Thirty years after writing it, Trumps ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz, disavowed and explained the passage to New Yorker writer Jane Mayer:
He lied strategically. He had a complete lack of conscience about it, Schwartz said. Trumps constant reliance on untruths gave him a strange advantage.
more
http://www.salon.com/2017/06/30/attacking-the-media-is-the-only-thing-conservatives-have-left/