Be afraid, be very afraid: Trump is trying to cow journalists out of doing their work

[applegrove]

by Todd Gitlin, Bill Moyers at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2016/09/24/be-afraid-be-very-afraid-trump-is-trying-to-cow-journalists-out-of-doing-their-work_partner/

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As for Trump, his game is crystal clear. It’s the game of the thug. He’s going way beyond Bush’s 2000 conventional exercise in expectation-lowering. What you’ll see and hear isn’t about his performance; it’s about the moderators’: He aims to pre-insulate himself from serious questioning. He’s whining already: They hit me first! They’re in the tank! Bring back Matt Lauer! If a moderator corrects a falsehood, points out that he hasn’t answered a question, asks him to do so — all of which they are obliged to do if they care about truth — he’ll accuse them of doing Hillary Clinton’s work for her. If they toss him anything but a cream puff, he’ll say he told us so, those disgusting reporters have rigged the game against him.

Trump is showing his hand. He’s trying to cow journalists out of doing their work. The moderators will decide whether he runs away with the game.


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[upaloopa]

1. Fear of Trnmp is out of the question. After November he will start his

cable channel were the stupid can continue to adore him and the rest of us can tune out.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. I don't think he can really pull that off for an entire 90 minutes.

For five or ten minutes, yeah. He'd gain a lot of sympathy at first, but after a half hour or so, if he keeps on trying to claim the victim, people watching will catch on, and they'll see him as the cowardly ignoramus that he is.

[Orsino]

3. Potemkin's candidate.

Sunlight and scrutiny are what he fears most.

[Madam45for2923]

4. Soon reporters/newspeople will have to get out of Trump's suffocating little world

MSM get hold of yourself. Get that walk of shame out of the way!

[RBInMaine]

5. Never, ever, ever be "afraid." Be STRONG and CAMPAIGN. SMASH TRUMP TO PIECES!