As often as Trump says or does something beyond ridiculous, our "dispassionate" media will always out-Trump him. The two sides-the media, and Trump the media manipulator-truly deserve each other. They're basically Mo and Larry of the Three Stooges, poking each other in the eye on a daily basis. Enjoy the next three and a half years!
In any case, the above headline is a fake-I think. The difference between the National Enquirer and the New York Times is now more what schools the reporters went to than content.
We got Trump for a lot of nasty reasons, all of which are too unpleasant to detail, and he is no real antidote to any of that, but yes, Hillary would've been worse. That's what we're reduced to.
I didn't vote for him. I voted for Evan McMullin. The Mormon Roundhead.
Embarrassing.
As usual, very insightful. It is absolutely true that the media's fascination with Trump powered his rise through the primaries into the general election. As you correctly observe, Trump and the media are yin and yang - seemingly contrary forces that are, in reality interconnected and even complementary --- at least for the moment.
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Thanks Jim. History tells us that Jefferson paid people to plant phony stories about his political rivals in the press, so I guess nothing's new under the sun.
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