President Trump engaged in an appalling Twitter tantrum yesterday, as former First Lady, Barbara Bush, was being laid to rest. First Lady, Melania Trump, attended the memorial service, as did former presidents, Clinton, Obama and their wives and of course both Bush presidents were there. The glaring absence was President Trump.
President Trump reacted like a kid, who wasn’t invited to the birthday party that all his peers were attending, by tweeting mean and petty attacks. He was a child lashing out and I doubt he realizes how much he damages himself by continuing the petty name-calling and “Trump being Trump” tactic. Long ago, I wrote that Trump made a big mistake being the one-man show hurling insults to run his scorched earth. The Clintons always relied on Blumenthal’s sneaky planting dirt in the media and people like James Carville to be the attack dogs, so they never got their hands dirty.
Trump’s embrace of the vicious SPIN info war and being his own attack dog is a self-defeating tactic, if his goal is to be treated with respect befitting the President of the United States of America. To be treated with respect demands you treat others with respect. To ever hope to be treated as a great leader, means you learn to rise above the gutter and insults, and lead by example.
Way back in the beginning of Trump’s presidential run, I wrote often about how he learned how to use the Clinton SPIN information warfare tactics and due to a variety of factors, including Hillary Clinton’s own missteps, like not campaigning in key Rust Belt states to shore up support and calling Trump supporters a “basket of deplorables”, he won the election. However, the Clintons, Democrats and many in the mainstream media, who run the Left’s SPIN info war were never going to allow Trump to be treated like a President of the United States. They’ve waged the same relentless SPIN war against Trump that they ran against GW Bush, except it’s more intense.
Bill Clinton survived impeachment, leaving extreme partisan animus. However there wasn’t much love lost between Al Gore and Bill Clinton, so compared to the 2000 election loss, that partisan battle over the election results, was not as vicious as the battle over 2016. 2016 is deeply personal and Hillary Clinton has a well-seasoned information warfare apparatus, which has waged non-stop information warfare against President Trump. Sid Blumenthal’s fingerprints are all-over the “Trump Russia Collusion” hysteria and the media recycling through the Dump on Trump spin attacks.
That Comey, Clapper and Brennan decided to sell Kremlin propaganda and disguise it as legitimate intelligence, along with selling Steele’s dossier as an intelligence report rather than as political opposition dirt needs to be investigated by the proper U.S. intelligence authorities. The supposed credibility of the Steele dossier is that it came from high-level Kremlin sources. Unpack that in your mind – the credibility , Comey, Clapper, Brennan, the Dems, and the mainstream media are relying on to prove “Trump Russian Collusion” came from the Kremlin… The Steele dossier is Clinton/DNC Russian collusion. That top U.S. intelligence officials would engage in a SPIN operation selling unverified Kremlin dirt is not only unethical, it’s a serious national security concern.
Even now, James Comey caveats the infamous alleged pee tape as unverified, but slyly hints that it might be true and that the Kremlin might have compromising information on Trump. Reality check here – the Kremlin likely has compromising dirt on most high US officials and Western officials, because amassing dirt to engage in smear campaigns is the Kremlin’s information warfare modus operandi. To have a former FBI director using Kremlin propaganda to destroy a duly elected American president is surreal.
President Trump rather than colluding with the Russians, appears to be a dupe, just as the Clintons are. The Kremlin fed them the dirt for the Steele dossier and they swallowed it whole.
President Trump watches a lot of FOX news and gets a great deal of his SPIN attacks from FOX pundits. I believe our counter-intelligence agencies should be looking closely at the FOX SPIN apparatus for hostile foreign intelligence connections. Add Drudge Report to that concern, among several other Trump SPIN outlets. Sadly, I have felt for a long time that the Clinton’s reliance on Blumenthal and several other shady operators surrounding them left them completely compromised and some hostile foreign intelligence have access to all the inner-workings of the Clinton machine.
It’s way past time for America to defeat the corrupt, polarizing, destabilizing scorched earth SPIN information warfare being waged via America’s mass media outlets. This isn’t about choosing between Trump or Hillary, Republican or Democrat, it’s about deciding to promote being an American first and to work to promote pulling America’s moral center back to the middle, away from the extreme partisan fringes. It’s about changing the tenor of our American political culture. It’s about stopping the SPIN news cycle and teaching reporters, political leaders and the American people to begin the process of taking a deep breath and not jumping to conclusions or repeating every piece of sensationalized news which wafts across the news airwaves or internet superhighway.
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Here’s hoping LB, you’ll make this “Weekend SpinWar Status Report” a regular Sunday feature?
You’re aware I reliably watch the Sunday Shows?
It’d be nice if, after I’m done with ’em, to come here just before the regular 5:30 (CST) news comes on so I can get a recap?
I would though submit that perhaps its not just FOX and Drudge though, in my opinion I’d add MSNBC (“Curious?” I hear you ask LB, “Why not CNN too?”)
In a name, Michael Smerconish. Otherwise were it just Brian Stelter, Don Lemon, and Anderson Cooper I’d suggest, “Why not? Add that network too.”
I very rarely watch cable news these days and mostly watch clips online of interviews from various shows. Lately, I often think about just tuning out politics altogether, because my voice here, on Twitter or anywhere online is totally irrelevant.
The Zucker animus toward Trump and vice versa seems to be personal. From Trump’s outbursts it seemed to me that Zucker is like Scarborough and Mika, someone whom Trump considered a friend who turned on him and betrayed him. Zucker had CNN running Trump’s GOP Insurgency Show too and promoting him as an outsider. During the GOP Insurgency FOX, CNN and MSNBC were all running the pro-Trump SPIN, much of it the very same talking points. However, since they’re all active and willing participants in this neverending 2016 scorched earth information war, we need some dispassionate information warfare experts analyzing all of the repetitive messaging spin cycles and working to trace it back to initial source (both domestic & foreign sources) & piecing together the bigger picture in regards to American national security.
I’ve been curious for years about the Sid Blumenthal information operations too. How on earth his “intelligence” was being used by Hillary and the State Department is as disturbing as Trump relying on Sean Hannity for policy advice.