If you think back to the days of the Iraq War you remember a daily media campaign of discouragement and delegitimization that was accurately described at the time as a drum beat.\u00a0 Newscasters at CBS, CNN and other outlets kept up a daily count of casualties, atrocities and protests.\u00a0 Any bad news, no matter how random was heaped on top of the war news and spun as further proof of the Bush incompetence.\u00a0 When a hurricane hit New Orleans and flooding and loss of life occurred due to the incompetence of the Democrat mayor it was hammered at continuously as the racist agenda of George Bush.\u00a0 Completely fabricated stories of bodies floating along main streets and violent acts of desperation were sprinkled in the daily news and pointed to as proof of the apocalypse engulfing America.<\/p>\n
This drum beat was not the primary cause of the Democrat electoral success in 2006 and 2008 but it was the intensifier that made the victory so complete.\u00a0 And it shows you that the media has a basic strategy for intensifying the effect of a news story.\u00a0 And that it is effective.\u00a0 At the time this was a source of great frustration for me.\u00a0 The ploy was so obviously false and artificial that it offended my sense of logic.\u00a0 After all, people weren\u2019t that stupid and gullible.\u00a0 They must have been able to see they were being manipulated.\u00a0 Apparently, I was not the target for these messages and so I couldn\u2019t understand their effect.\u00a0 But grudgingly I learned their potency.<\/p>\n
Donald Trump is a creature of the media.\u00a0 He moves through it and thrives in it like a fish in water.\u00a0 It\u2019s his natural element.\u00a0 And that is a good thing for our side.\u00a0 He recognizes how media works.\u00a0 He knows that the MSM will do the same thing to him that they did to Bush.\u00a0 They will conflate the Mueller probe with school shootings with rises in gasoline prices with rain on the weekend.\u00a0 They don\u2019t care if there is any logic or connection.\u00a0 They are looking to aggravate the population any way they can.<\/p>\n
So, what will Donald trump do?\u00a0 He\u2019ll fight fire with fire.\u00a0 He is doing a little bit of drum beating of his own.\u00a0 Every day he has a tweet or two showing the dishonesty of the media and the effectiveness of his administration.\u00a0 And every day there are several stories coming out of the Inspector General\u2019s investigation of the Justice Department and the House investigation into the Russia probe.\u00a0 And this goes on day after day after day.\u00a0 And every few months an FBI bigwig is fired and then there is a flurry of news about the details of how that ties into the other investigations and how this will spawn other investigations, and on and on and on.\u00a0 And for me this is annoying and boring and obviously, transparently contrived.\u00a0 And it\u2019s effective.<\/p>\n
So that\u2019s why I am both aggravated and satisfied with the current state of affairs.\u00a0 The annoying nature of the Kabuki theater drives me insane.\u00a0 But the knowledge that this is exactly what is needed to both stymie the MSM methodology and also build public opinion for the eventual killing stroke allows me to agree with the strategy.\u00a0 But I wish I had a time machine.\u00a0 I\u2019d love to wake up tomorrow and see footage of Mueller getting the bum\u2019s rush out the back door of the Justice Department and \u00a0James Comey giving testimony against Loretta Lynch to save his own hide.\u00a0 But my flux capacitor is in the shop so I guess I\u2019ll just enjoy the warm weather and read a few more tweets about Robert Mueller being very unfair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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