The beauty of the Flowers invite

[ChairmanAgnostic]

The vile, evil beauty, I should say.

Whether she comes or not, whether trump raises a related point or not, he's already won the news cycle. Meat Depressed, CBS, even Washington weekly mentioned it. Cable news has it. And all three of my Sunday papers report it. Instead of reporting more lies, more Russian ties, more tax evasion, and abuse of charity funds, they talk about Gennifer. Talk about a swift, but deadly bit of media sabotage by him.

THAT is the evil media manipulator that is the con man, Donald Trump.

[Hortensis]

1. Perhaps, but don't forget that people who don't know

what to think about real issues will have an opinion on this. The spiteful people won't be affected, but his campaign's quashing of this reveals their belief that it would repel those they are hoping to woo or keep. Of course.

[Cracklin Charlie]

24. Exactly.

This failure kind of hits him where HE lives. He should be winning HUGELY in the tabloid arena. I'm not exactly sure that is the case.

[unblock]

2. He's not that manipulative.

I can't seriously believe that he carefully thought, hmm, I want to crowd bad stories about me off the front page, how do I do that? Lessee, I know! I'll look for an opportunity to mention something silly! Wait, did hill just invite that Cuban guy to the debates? That's it, I'll threaten to invite flowers! They'll cover that tweet storm instead! I'm a calm, calculating supragenius!



No, Donnie is a virus. He just does what he does, out of instinct of preprogramming. He's just wired to snap back with crap like that.

It's the media that runs with it. It's their flaw. Trump's behavior exploits this, but not by thought, and more than a virus exploits a weakness in its host.

[bettyellen]

3. He's manipulative enough to hog the headlines though.

[unblock]

5. Only in the way Ebola was manipulative

[bettyellen]

6. LOL, it's nice to see his lies have gone from taboo to mention to "everyone knows"

(Despite us MSM saying nothing) over just the course of a few days. Liar is now sticking to him more.

[unblock]

7. Now if only we can progress from "everybody knows" to "everybody cares"....

[bettyellen]

17. If they'd actually spend a few minutes on the lies and issues of non- transparency

Then more people would care. Blew my mind when chuck Todd said people didn't care- he's one who reports rumors and gossip rather than issues all the time. Ugh.

[Arkansas Granny]

13. His tweet about inviting Flowers was purely vindictive and

his campaign has spent the day trying to walk it back. I think this is going to backfire on Trump in the long run.

[zenabby]

14. I think you are right..

But he has mentioned that he has realized that the first, base, shallow instinct the audience has for anything is the most deep, valuable one. He does everything to appeal to that first instinctive, basal, animal like instinct in us - fight or flight, fear, tantalization, sex etc. He appeals to that knowing that most people are too lazy to use their logical brain.

[DarthDem]

4. I Don't Think He Deserves Any Credit

Evil manipulators are not always successful geniuses. And this doesn't look like a win to me for Trump's idiotic, gutter-dwelling campaign. It looks like the opposite. The exact opposite.

One related note: if you push bad story after bad story off the metaphorical front page with this kind of despicably stupid stunt, you're desperate, and you look even worse.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. Except he is a master of setting the tone and picking the issue

and like the Pied Piper, with the role if kids being filled by our MSM, he leads them merrily astray.

[DarthDem]

15. Some Master

This was about as far from a masterstroke as I can imagine. More like incalculably stupid.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

16. To you. NOT to the anti-lakewobegone crew that loves him.

[DarthDem]

21. Guess What?

That crowd's going to vote for him anyway. But the sane people he needs? This won't help with them. At all.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

22. I truly hope you are correct.

So far, I am giving the media a D+ this season.
Hillary has been steady, predictable, almost stoic. C+ - B- overall.
As for Der Trumpenfuerher, B+ for monopolizing and putting the media into a professional coma, a D- for honesty and truth, and an F- on the actual issues we face.

I am giving myself a V+

[MoonRiver]

8. It doesn't help him to be associated with Flowers.

Reminds people about what a cheater Rump is and builds sympathy for Hillary. If he actually calculated this it was a stupid move.

[Agschmid]

10. Everyone has had a mostly negative reaction to it.

Don't be so stressed about it.

[LuvLoogie]

11. Trump won the GOP nomination by being outwardly bigoted and jingoistic. He's debating

the smartest,toughest woman in American Politics. He doen't have the mental agility to pull off a Gish Gallop in the first debate, and the first debate isn't in Denver.

[pnwmom]

12. And he's just alienated even more women voters. I think the beauty was in the way Cuban trolled him.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

18. Chess, poker, and Russian roulette all mixed into one.

[stopbush]

19. We need to stop thinking that winning the news cycle is the same thing

as winning the argument...or the election.

[BainsBane]

20. It shows how utterly tacky and hostile to women he is

In short, Trump is a pig.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

23. My uncle had a pet pig.

Smart, obedient, protective, and very interactive. If you played with his ears or scratched his ample chest, he would squeal with delight and try to give you his toys. Yes, he had toys.

Thy had cats, dogs, and this pig, and the pig made them cry the most when he passed.

[Demsrule86]

25. Bullshit...you guys make Trump out to be well smart and he is not

All publicity is not good publicity and this backfired on him...which is why he took it back.

[stopbush]

26. Yep.