- Seems to be the operating slogan of Trumps critics, left and right
- The chief analyst of the nation’s intelligence operations is not the CIA chief or any other current administration underling, it is the president of the United States.
- Some conservative columnists (opportunists) are intent on burnishing their “independence” by over the top psycho babel and irresponsible parroting of anti-Trump media and premature and out of context analysis of their own
- Dems are just psycho
Stilton Jarlsberg at Stilton’s Place makes appropriate points in his grand style
Looking at the most recent news cycle, we feel that our nation has reached a crisis point which requires the services of an exciting new superhero.
When alleged journalists lose their minds about Donald Trump and start screaming and foaming at the mouth, STFUman would suddenly appear with his trusty whiffle bat and thonk, thonk, thonk the hysterical newsperson on the noggin until either sanity or blissful unconsciousness was reached.
He would then dart away in a flash, remove his mask, cover his spandex uniform with street clothes, and slip the whiffle bat into his pant leg to make his escape unnoticed. Except for a really lopsided walk.
If he were available, STFUman would have had his hands full over the last couple of days as everyone on the Left and many on the Right lost their ever-loving minds over President Trump’s press conference remarks following his one-on-one meeting with Vladimir Putin.
In a nutshell, and we’ve never used that phrase more appropriately, Donald Trump didn’t turn to Putin during the press conference and call him a dirty, lying bastard who overthrew the 2016 Presidential election. Rather, Trump said that our intelligence services (which have been demonstrably dripping with anti-Trump corruption) have claimed there was Russian meddling, while Putin told him behind closed doors that there wasn’t Russian meddling.
Trump then had the apparently treasonous gall to suggest that we try to solve this impasse by looking at actual physical evidence, like the allegedly-hacked DNC computer server which neither the FBI nor any other law enforcement agency has ever even looked at.
This entirely reasonable suggestion basically opened the gates of fake news hell. Subsequent stories declared Trump to be a traitor and tool of Putin, and his press conference appearance was likened to Kristallnacht, the Cuban Missile Crisis, 9/11, and the attack on Pearl Harbor. One congressman even tweeted that it was time for the US military to step up to the plate, presumably to stage a coups d’etat to preserve democracy. Because nothing says “freedom” to Leftists quite like martial law and government at gunpoint.
Lost in all of this cacophony is any discussion of what Trump might have actually said to Putin behind closed doors before presenting a pleasant face for the press. For all we know, Trump told Putin that he’d rip the weasel-faced dictator’s leg off and beat him senseless with it if there was even suspicion of Russian meddling in the future.
Trump has since offered a predictably confusing “clarification” of his press conference remarks, which strikes us as unnecessary considering that few outlets were reporting on what he actually said versus what they feverishly fantasized.
Frankly, we think this whole media uproar is another exercise in willful lunacy which is far more damaging to our nation than anything Russia could possibly do. We’d say even more, but we’ve got a lot of sit-ups to do if we’re going to fit into that spandex uniform
Previously Jarlsberg had stylistically observed:
The irony here is that those on the Left seemingly had no problem with Saint Soetoro, just prior to his reelection, whispering (so as not to tip off those pesky American voters) that he would be offering Putin much more “flexibility” (about freaking missile deployment, no less) after the election.
That’s the kind of flexibility which is most closely associated with the generous use of KY Jelly, and which was emblematic of Barry’s method of “assuming the position” for every “tough guy” state in the world, be it Russia, Iran, North Korea, or a jihadi califate. Not for nothing was his leadership strategy accurately described as “bleeding from behind.”
You can read a couple of the cluck cluck sister act of Jonah Goldberg and Guy Benson at Townhall today. They seem quite sure they know Trump’s motivations at any given time or utterance . . . that he is predominantly ego driven (as if any writer/ pontificator is immune).
Oh they claim angst and or objectivity. They insist that they praise his policies but somehow the deeper motivations producing those don’t necessitate a complimentary psychoanalysis. Instead it is as if Trump just stumbles on to them. They somehow know him by some utterances and foibles but not other utterances and qualities.
Whatever the degree of truth in their actually weak on context character analysis assassination over some display by Trump, praising the inner character of Trump that produced the policies they favor deserves far more relative attention. In other words if you are going to talk character, then talk character.
Both Goldberg and Benso’s commentaries have similar themes almost that Trump’s ego is his pure character . . . that TRUMP is obsessed with justifying the legitimacy of his presidency. Trump cannot avoid it because the media is obsessed with delegitimizing it and denigrating most of what he does. They are demonic, unrelenting in their obsession but they carry the news. Neither columnist mentioned and by not mentioning it they implied that Trump went out of his way to raise the issues they critique his performance on.
We are told most of the questions at the news conference were about Russian collusion or interference. That does not square with their contention of his obsession. We can agree more reliance on careful definitive cover the bases/ turn the tables answers would serve Trump given every utterance of his is analyzed. But superficial character analysis when policy should be key is just cheap commentary.
We prefer this sort of policy oriented analysis:
Trump’s Remarkable Press Conference
Just Like Obama, Trump’s Russia Policy Speaks Louder Than His Words
And these take-downs of the sorts of things Trump’s critics are spewing:
6 Stupidest Points In Chris Cillizza’s Outrage Listicle Over The Trump-Putin Press Conference
