June 20, 2016

The Media Is Finally Calling Out Trump's Toxic Demagoguery

By Joshua Holland June 20, 2016 in Rolling Stone

" Until recently, much of the mainstream media coverage of Donald Trump's campaign had been largely positive. Yes, there was some early discussion about whether he's a fascist, and plenty of stories about thuggery at his rallies — but there was also a lot of what we might call a fascination with the chaotic reality-TV show that is the Trump campaign. As the Washington Post's Paul Waldman wrote earlier this month, for much of the race there's been an element of "Wow, is this election crazy or what!" in the reporting about Trump.

A recent Harvard study of Trump coverage in eight major outlets, including Fox News, concluded that the media basically propelled Trump to the nomination. In the year ahead of the primaries, "[m]ajor news outlets covered Donald Trump in a way that was unusual given his low initial polling numbers—a high volume of media coverage preceded Trump's rise in the polls," wrote the researchers, noting that the candidate "received far more 'good press' than 'bad press.'" In those eight outlets alone, Trump's coverage was worth roughly $55 million in ad buys. Estimates that his overall coverage had been worth as much as $2 billion to his barebones campaign "might well be correct," wrote the authors of the study.

In recent weeks, there's been a noticeable change in tone. At least some journalists appear to have slipped off their demagoggles (to borrow a term coined by Nicole Hemmer), and are increasingly covering Trump's habitual falsehoods and stark appeals to white ethnic nationalism in plain terms.

After the Orlando massacre, Trump gave a speech doubling down on his call to bar Muslims from entering the United States. In a New York Times report the same day, Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns called Trump's blather "rife with the sort of misstatements and exaggerations that have typified his campaign," and went on to fact-check his claims on the fly. In a follow-up by Patrick Healey and Thomas Kaplan the next day, the Times reporters wrote that "Trump appears wholly focused on the idea that America has reached an existential moment and that only he can save the country, a classic tactic of demagogy."
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Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-media-is-finally-calling-out-trumps-toxic-demagoguery-20160620#ixzz4C9z9PVou
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June 20, 2016

Didn't Don the Con say he turned running the business over to the kids...

so that he could concentrate on Making America Great Again?


Scotland-bound Trump says he'd vote for 'Brexit'
David M Jackson, USA TODAY 8:50 a.m. EDT June 20, 2016

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The "Brexit" vote on the European Union is Thursday, a day before Trump attends the reopening ceremony for one of his golf courses in Turnberry, Scotland.

Trump also attends a golf property in Aberdeen on Friday before returning to the United States over the weekend.

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Read more at: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/06/20/donald-trump-brexit-turnberry-abderdeen-scotland/86130998/

June 20, 2016

How Rush Limbaugh Explains Donald Trump's Unpopularity

By Conor Friedersdorf in The Atlantic


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Confronted with the most flagrantly unqualified presidential candidate in living memory, a boorish, undisciplined, transparently polarizing nominee, a man reviled by principled movement conservatives whose explicit reasoning Limbaugh well knows, the talk-radio host tells his audience that a left-wing activist historian is responsible for Trump’s low poll numbers, because he poisoned the minds of America’s youth.

A major ideological movement long treated Limbaugh as one of its leading intellectuals. This cycle, that movement got exactly the result that it should have expected."

Read more: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/how-rush-limbaugh-explains-donald-trumps-unpopulaity/487772/

June 20, 2016

Our View: Trump's return to Arizona with his clown act

Editorial Board, The Republic | azcentral.com 8:53 a.m. MST June 17, 2016

" So this is what winning looks like.

In the two weeks since Hillary Clinton secured the Democratic nomination and completed the presidential fight card for November, Donald Trump has taken one pratfall after another.

The campaign that once soared in the imperious “Trump One” has become a guy in clown shoes riding a unicycle.

We’re at that moment when the Republican nominee for president should be setting loose his barbarian hoard of young workers. Instead, Trump is pedaling into Arizona, one of the reddest states in America, trying to shore it up.
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http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/editorial/2016/06/17/trump-version-winner/86033814/

June 19, 2016

Arizona GOP delegates resign rather than vote for Trump

" PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) -
At least two of several Arizona GOP delegates that have resigned say it's primarily because they refuse to vote for Donald Trump at next month's national convention.

The Arizona Capitol Times reports that nine of the state's 58 delegates to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland have stepped down.

[Raw video: Donald Trump campaign speech in Phoenix - June 18, 2016]

Former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Frank Riggs and Zuhdi Jasser, a Muslim reform advocate, say they were willing to go if there was a chance of a contested convention.

Jasser says he also takes issue with Trump's immigration ban specifically targeting Muslims.

The other resigning delegates include top elected officials such as Attorney General Mark Brnovich and Secretary of State Michele Reagan.

Brnovich and Reagan cited previous commitments as the reason for missing the convention. "

http://www.azfamily.com/story/32256218/arizona-gop-delegates-resign-rather-than-vote-for-trump?autostart=true

June 19, 2016

Manifestly unfit to be President

There is a 5 word assessment of Don the Con. What would your 5 words to describe him be?

June 19, 2016

Donald Trump threatens to self-fund campaign if GOP support wavers

" LAS VEGAS — Donald Trump on Saturday claimed most of the money he's been collecting at his recent fundraisers is going to the Republican Party, but also threatened to cut the GOP off if support from the party wavers.

"Right now I'm raising a lot of money for the Republican Party, and a lot of beneficiaries to that, and I like doing it," Trump said.

"Life is like a two-way street, right?" Trump said. "They have to [help], otherwise I'll just keep doing what I'm doing, I'll just keep funding my own campaign...for me, that's the easy way," he said.
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http://www.aol.com/article/2016/06/18/donald-trump-threatens-to-self-fund-campaign-if-gop-support-wavers/21397895/

June 19, 2016

Don the Con rally venue less than 1/2 full

"4:22: p.m.: Trump takes the stage

Donald Trump walks onto the stage for his rally at Veterans Memorial Coliseum

4:00 p.m.: Trump in the building

State Treasurer Jeff DeWit tells the crowd, estimated by the Department of Public Safety at between 5,000 and 6,000 that Trump is in the building."

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/18/donald-trump-republican-arizona-visit-presidential-election/86040256/

It seats almost 15,000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_Veterans_Memorial_Coliseum

June 18, 2016

Trump: "Don't let them take your guns away"

http://www.reuters.com/video/2016/06/18/trump-dont-let-them-take-your-guns-away?videoId=368965689&videoChannel=1

Unless, of course, you want to be anywhere near where Trump is:

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n an effort to keep bullets out of the soup of heat, hydration and hyperbole, local, state and federal law enforcement officials said Friday they will enforce a no-gun zone at the fairgrounds.

Cecil said guns were initially going to be restricted from the coliseum, but that was expanded Friday to the entire fairgrounds.

“For all of those common sense reasons you’re probably thinking,” Cecil said, “it’s probably best to leave guns at home tomorrow.”

Cecil said no specific threat prompted the decision, which was made in collaboration with Trump’s campaign, the U.S. Secret Service and the Phoenix Police Department.
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http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/17/security-donald-trump-arizona-rally-heat-protests-presidential-election/85945576/

June 16, 2016

McCain of the Keating Five

John seems to have bad luck when it comes to real estate developers...