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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Donald Trump Set Off a Civil War Within the Right-Wing Media
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For 20 years Ive been saying how its not true that talk radio is all about ratings and we dont believe what we say, he went on. Then you watch how the media types rolled over for him. Obviously Donald Trump is very good for ratings, and at some point its hard not to conclude they decided the Trump train was the gravy train. Ive been thoroughly disillusioned, and Im not alone in that. Its like watching Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Oh, my God, they got another one!
When Trump declared his candidacy in June 2015, the part of his announcement speech that most clearly foreshadowed the campaign to come had to do with immigration. When Mexico sends its people, theyre not sending their best, he told the crowd at Trump Tower. Theyre sending people that have lots of problems, and theyre bringing those problems with us. Theyre bringing drugs. Theyre bringing crime. Theyre rapists.
The line struck Sykes as awfully familiar when he heard it. A month before, he had run a segment with Ann Coulter, who had just published her 10th book, an anti-immigration screed titled ¡Adios, America! Sykes was well aware of Coulters views, but he was taken aback when she began a riff on Mexican rapists surging into the United States (a subject that takes up an entire chapter of ¡Adios, America!). I remember looking at my producer and going, Wow, this is rather extraordinary,? he told me. When Trump used that line, I instantly recognized it as Ann Coulters.
In fact, Corey Lewandowski had reached out to Coulter for advice in the run-up to Trumps announcement speech. The address Trump delivered on June 16 bore no resemblance to his prepared text, which contained a mere two sentences about immigration. Instead, he ad-libbed what Coulter today calls the Mexican rapist speech that won my heart. When Trumps remarks provoked fury, Lewandowski called Coulter for backup. Three days later, she went on HBOs Real Time With Bill Maher and, amid shrieks of laughter from the audience, predicted that Trump was the Republican candidate most likely to win the presidency.
One evening this past March, Trump received Coulter at Mar-a-Lago. Though in recent years the two had developed a rapport on Twitter, she had met him face to face only once before he declared his candidacy, a lunch date at Trump Tower in 2011. Over lunch, Trump gave Coulter the impression that he had read her books. He also gave her a few items from his wifes line of costume jewelry and told Coulter, who keeps a house in Palm Beach, that she was welcome to use the pool at Mar-a-Lago anytime.
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When I watched this debate between Cenk Uyger of The Young Turks and Ann Coulter a few months ago, I said "Ah ha!", THAT'S where Trump has been getting all of this racist drivel about Mexican rapists planted in his head.
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How Donald Trump Set Off a Civil War Within the Right-Wing Media (Original Post)
StrictlyRockers
Sep 2016
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StrictlyRockers
(3,855 posts)1. I'm gonna do the bump.
And the hustle.
StrictlyRockers
(3,855 posts)2. Bump for visibility.
The Free Mexican Air Force is flying tonight.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,996 posts)3. Circular firing squad
Love it.