2016 Oct 25th
Fox News continues to rely on WikiLeaks for its program
content; it now claims that the Clinton campaign had the material on the fat
shaming of Alicia Machado in their arsenal for months before they used it. Of
course they did. That should only be surprising to a campaign priding itself on
never planning ahead, and to the media outlet covering them.
Trump’s complaint that the “mainstream media” is rigged
against him stumbles against the fact that his multiple daily rallies are
always covered from beginning to end by this same “mainstream media.”
That’s all the detritus today. The detritus just a day less
than a year ago, on Oct 26th of last year, follows:
Oct 26th
Yesterday I watched Chuck Todd interview Ben Carson. Todd
covered a lot of ground in that interview; we heard Carson speak about gun
control, he opposes it (sort of) and abortion, he opposes that in all situations
except imminent risk of death to the mother which he claims is very rare. Dr.
Carson is a Seventh Day Adventist, a group that believes the Biblically
appointed day of rest is Saturday not Sunday, that the Bible is literally true
on every point and that Jesus’ return is imminent. They also believe that the
dead are just asleep and will remain in that state until Jesus returns.
Carson’s demeanor though out this interview was the soul of
calm attentiveness. His eyes were half closed and I thought it might be caused
by the glare of television lights but Chuck Todd sat in the same lights and his
eyes were wide open. Maybe Dr. Carson has found a tranquilizer that keeps him
calm but alert. Several beta blockers are known to do that. In any event Dr. Carson
and Mr. Trump present an interesting contrast.
Trump is clearly concerned about his loss of first place in
Iowa polling. He was commenting on this
while hunched over his lectern telling his audience that he was a Presbyterian
and that was “mainstream folks, that’s right down the middle; Seventh Day
Adventist, I don’t know what that is.” Then he got around to those poll results
about which he had recently been so proud. Not anymore, he isn’t. It seems that one is from a newspaper, The De
Moines Register/ Bloomberg News poll has him trailing Ben Carson as does the
Quinnipiac poll. These polls have him trailing Carson by more than just a
couple of points and oh is he upset. He is quick to assure one and all that he
still has the lead nationally and he has the lead in New Hampshire; that’s all
true but there is now a tear in his cloak of invincibility and he isn’t able to
respond to that realistically. If he hadn’t crowed so loudly when the polls had
him ahead he could acknowledge the fact that poll results fluctuate; now he’s
trapped by his own hubris.
Jeb Bush showed more than a
little frustration. He said, "I've got a lot of really cool things I could
do other than sit around, being miserable, listening to people demonize me and
me feeling compelled to demonize them. That is a joke. Elect Trump if you want
that," Oh dear, temper, temper, temper! Trump set out determined to
provoke Bush and Bush let him do just that. Then the other Bush family members
showed up to provide aid and comfort and Trump hit him again with something
like, “Now he runs back to Mummy and Daddy.”
Skipping to Marco Rubio who
is very discontented with being a junior senator; he can’t stand the Senate.
His problem there was that he tried to offer some legislation and some of it
was defeated by Democrats and some defeated by his own party. The result of
this frustration is that he won’t run again for the Senate; it’s the Presidency
or nothing. Old poker players, and I am one, have a saying, “Bet ‘em high and
sleep in the street.” Good luck Marco.
Now it is a year later. As
you all know “little Marco” has changed his mind again and is now running for
the senate. Hey; a guy needs a job!
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