I have noticed the same thing Robert Reich has. Corporate media is grossly misreporting what is happened in the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries. I read it as Reich does, although I see it as even worse. Trump is winning but nothing in the numbers suggests he is having any kind of landside dominance. His opponents collectively took nearly half the Iowa vote, and Haley did better than the Trumpers predicted. What is even more disturbing is they are not properly reporting his growing mental deterioration. Jonathan Capehart at the Post noted it, but the paper generally did not. And the electronic corporate media has hardly touched it. I got an email today from a reader who went to a Trump rally, and she reported that not only was the crowd smaller than she anticipated, the meeting was more a racist hatefest than a political rally, but what really stood out for her was that Trump as alarmingly incoherent despite having a teleprompter. She said he repeated himself over and over, sometimes almost word for word and some sentences made no sense at all. She told me, “I voted for Trump twice but never again. The man is mentally disordered. I don’t understand why the media isn’t covering this. It was my main takeaway.”
Criminal Trump rants at rally. Credit: MSNBC
The mainstream media is flabbergasted at Trump’s success in sweeping the Iowa caucuses, dominating the polls, and destroying all his rivals but Nikki Haley before today’s New Hampshire primary.
CNN is gobsmacked, calling Trump’s “landslide victory in Iowa” a “stunning show of strength.”
Time magazine marvels at his “commanding position” to secure the Republican nomination and how “nothing has slowed him down.”
The Washington Post’s Dan Balz writes that “the end of any real competition could come very soon.”
Headline after headline offers the same breathless, spellbound story: “Trump is dominating.” “Disciplined, ruthless.” “Hugely effective.” “Remarkable.” “Powerful.”
Earth to the MSM: This is dangerous nonsense.
Why should Trump’s dominance be surprising? He’s dominated the Republican Party since 2016. He dominates by ridiculing opponents, blasting anyone who stands in his way, bullying, browbeating, and bellowing. The media eats it up. He’s outrageous […]
Albus Eddie
on Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 6:12 am
More evidence of the bankruptcy of the current system. Both parties are delighted to start the primary process in rural, generally conservative locations. This limits candidates, but more importantly, limits voters as the primaries are financially based. As a consequence, most voters get zero opportunity to weigh in regarding preference. For all of its blather about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion the Democrats could have chosen, for example, to start the primaries in the most diverse densely populated State in the country: New Jersey – a small easily traversed state located between to major media markets. But do they actually behave that way? No. Why? because of the risks of getting an unvetted popular candidate that could not be controlled by the empire managers.
Terri Quint
on Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 8:38 am
If anyone even listened to Trump’s “concession” speech of his win in NH, they would immediately begin questioning his sanity and realize that he is a man-child with significant mental problems. Instead of being a real man, he immediately began making fun of Haley’s dress, lied that she would have 3 investigations coming up by the government, and kept repeating himself. What was clearly absent was a thoughtful statement of what he plans to do FOR Americans rather than AGAINST his opponents. He has no platform and except for giving the ultra-rich a huge tax break, he did nothing for this country except create antagonism and divisiveness. While his MAGA cultists cannot be swayed away from him, the rest of the country needs to band together to keep democracy and the current economic improvements, including factory output, low, low unemployment, wage increases, infrastructure projects going to really make America great! Terri Quint
More evidence of the bankruptcy of the current system. Both parties are delighted to start the primary process in rural, generally conservative locations. This limits candidates, but more importantly, limits voters as the primaries are financially based. As a consequence, most voters get zero opportunity to weigh in regarding preference. For all of its blather about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion the Democrats could have chosen, for example, to start the primaries in the most diverse densely populated State in the country: New Jersey – a small easily traversed state located between to major media markets. But do they actually behave that way? No. Why? because of the risks of getting an unvetted popular candidate that could not be controlled by the empire managers.
If anyone even listened to Trump’s “concession” speech of his win in NH, they would immediately begin questioning his sanity and realize that he is a man-child with significant mental problems. Instead of being a real man, he immediately began making fun of Haley’s dress, lied that she would have 3 investigations coming up by the government, and kept repeating himself. What was clearly absent was a thoughtful statement of what he plans to do FOR Americans rather than AGAINST his opponents. He has no platform and except for giving the ultra-rich a huge tax break, he did nothing for this country except create antagonism and divisiveness. While his MAGA cultists cannot be swayed away from him, the rest of the country needs to band together to keep democracy and the current economic improvements, including factory output, low, low unemployment, wage increases, infrastructure projects going to really make America great! Terri Quint