Why can’t we all give Donald Trump a break and focus on Howard Dean?
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Cilizza’s butt seems awfully hurt in that column.
Dean’s remark about Trump using cocaine was flippant, unnecessary.
Anyway, onward to the 3rd debate. It must be getting harder and harder to find undecided voters. I suspect they’re going to try to reanimate some cryogenically frozen bodies for the purpose.
My volunteer phone bankers are calling into swing states. On Tuesday, there were a significant number of Union members in Nevada who said they were undecided.
The number who haven’t landed on a decision has reduced each week we’ve called, but undecided voters are officially still A Thing.
Thanks for some real insight. This is helpful and real.
I’m fairly certain that if you’re “undecided” at this point, you probably don’t have the cognitive facilities to vote in your own best interest anyway, never mind how these people are able to keep breathing while they aren’t awake.
And then neoprogressives wonder why we don’t have full-blown socialism across America yet.
I can only imagine if the situation was reversed, that we would hear demands from the right for the public release of a urine specimen analysis from Hillary. And that situation would linger much longer in the media than Dean’s allegation did.
But I think it died because no one really took it seriously. Not sure that even Dean took it seriously. Unlike Bill Frists’ remote diagnosis of Terry Schiavo from the well of the Senate. And, of course, we have Tom Coburn’s remote diagnosis of Bowe Bergdahl.
But as is usually the case, Cillizza is much more likely to obfuscate people than enlighten them.
Here’s my question: how much time would the mainstream media have spent speculating about Hillary Clinton if she had been the one sniffling uncontrollably in both debates? It was leading news for several days when she had a coughing spell at a rally several weeks ago. I submit that they would be totally obsessing about Hillary’s sniffles. It would be a foregone conclusion on Fox that she was a coke addict (after all, she hangs out with those people) and all the networks would have had their hack doctor pundits on to wildly speculate. The news would openly ask the question “Does Hillary Clinton do Cocaine? Some people aren’t sure!”.
It’s kind of hilarious that the media actually treated Dean’s comments more responsibly than they would have if the shoe had been on the other foot, and because of that everyone had already forgotten about this (making Deans’ comments ineffective as a line of attack), but Chris Cillizza is bringing it back up because he can’t bring himself to write another article critical of the human shit-stain without first finding a Democrat to whine about.
I guess the appropriate reaction should be to savor Cillizza’s discomfort at having such pathetic things to criticize Democrats for when he’s preparing to write again about Trump being a monster. Both sides!
I read somewhere (sorry, don’t have a link) that the Trump sniffles were an anxiety symptom–like, a very common one. If true that says much more to me: he’s been up there unprepared and terrified, as well he should be.
Carrie Fisher says it’s blow and that she’s an expert. So, there’s that expert testimony.
If it’s his idea of a debate PED, he might want to try something else.
You wanna argue with Princess Leia about numbed out nostrils that can’t deal with standard drip?
Nah, I’ll defer to her diagnosis, I’m just questioning his assessment of the merits. But I guess we don’t need any more evidence of the quality of his judgment.
that was my thought, some kind of nervous tic. bizarre, and very distracting this time around
Nervous…from the cocaine!
LOL
could be;
armrest trutherism
How clever of the Hillary campaign to make sure the airlines took pictures 30 years ago showing first class armrests in a retracted position. It’s like they had a plan, all the way back then, to catch the Trump campaign in a lie about it. It’s just like the Obama family running that fake birth announcement in the newspaper decades ago, just to throw people off about their son’s ACTUAL birthplace, knowing that some day he would run for President and would need the cover of that story.
Those Democrats are EVIL GENIUSES,I tell you.
Obama was the Manchurian Candidate.
his concern from 9/29 was obviously not taken seriously then when he wrote it that I’m not going to concern myself with it now
I have no special knowledge on this, but I would think that Dean was just taking the opportunity to give Trump a taste of his own medicine. Doesn’t matter if it’s true, in other words.
There’s just as much justification for saying TRUMP DOES COCAINE than there was for Trump’s birther allegations. “People are saying…” “I’ve been hearing…” In itself, no justification. But to Trump, he amply deserves it. But if it’s not flying, it’s because the media is too scared to play that game with Trump.
vs.
As they used to sing on Sesame Street (and may still):
As for Cillizza’s cutesy “thought experiment”, it’s bullshit in virtually every way:
Well sure, Chris, “yes” to a) is “obvious” to you, a card-carrying member of the Beltway Village Corporate Media, with the understanding of how your cohort thinks and acts that that implies.
But (duh, hack!) Trump did sniff near-constantly. Clinton didn’t “slur” words.
So the “obvious” (to non-Villager non-hacks) answer to b) here in the Reality-Based Community is “no”, not “yes”, given that the Haley hypothetical would be completely baseless partisan flacking. And, of course, Dean’s alleged faux-pas did “get covered” . . . for three silly days, by your own telling! So “yes” to b) implies it’s “obvious” to Cillizza that the Haley hypothetical “should get covered” more than Dean’s 3-day wonder was (else this Cillizza hacktastic shit is utterly pointless). To which the “obvious” answer is instead not merely “no”, but Fuck No!
If the competition weren’t so fierce, I’d name Cillizza the poster child for the worst of what’s wrong with the Corporate Media’s Beltway Village.
Maybe Dean knows something we don’t that the campaign is not intending to mention.
If Trump is indeed a cocaine user they probably know who his connection(s) would be and how much blow he’s buying. But no need to bring it up given how he’s imploding over the sex scandals. Something in reserve, just in case, like, oh, I dunno, maybe in the third debate if Trump tries to flog her over her health, say “Donald, my health is fine, my medical records show it, and heck, I’m willing to take a drug test and tell the American people what it shows. How about you?“
Yeah, exactly. It seemed to me the intended consumer of the Dean remarks was somewhere within the Trump campaign itself; never intended for the pubic or media.
“…never intended for the…”
bwa-hahahahahahahahaha
What better candidate for such a typo?
Anyone halfway sane in that campaign organization (such as it is) must be cringing at the prospect of all the other bombshells, haymakers and planet-busters the Clintons undoubtedly have in reserve.
Dean’s comment is a perfect attack dog comment.
Clinton and Friends didn’t say it, and now it’s just floating around, out there, as a possible weapon.