Monday, January 25, 2016

Epic Media Fail: How And Why Trump Trumped The Press


Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the press, politics and presidents, explains a journalism fiasco linked below.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-press_us_56a552fee4b076aadcc6fefc

A dictionary derivative

Names often have meaning outside of a personal appellation that is they are, many times, derived from something else.  It is no less true, I think, for Mr. Trump's name. In fact, I think the meaning of its possible derivative could not capture his personal essence any better:


Diane Curtis's photo.

HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT TO SAVE A NATION AND SAVE A NATION FROM THE ECONOMIC RUIN CONSERVATIVES WOULD LOVE TO CREATE FOR YOU WHILE THEY STEAL YOUR WEALTH, TAKE YOUR CIVIL LIBERTIES AWAY, ERADICATE YOUR HARD FOUGHT FOR VOTE, STEAL RIGHTS WOMEN SHOULD HAVE AND DECISIONS ABOUT HEALTH THEY SHOULD MAKE FOR THEMSELVES?  HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT THIS NATION TO BE OFF A FOOTING OF ETERNAL MIDDLE EAST WAR?  HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT THIS NATION NOT CATAPULTED INTO A NUCLEAR CONFLAGRATION WITH RUSSIA, NORTH KOREA OR WITH OTHER NATIONS LIKE IRAN OR PAKISTAN THAT HAVE NUCLEAR CAPACITY AND FOR WHOM WE ARE NOT HIGH ON THEIR HIT PARADE LIST?  HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT HUMAN BEINGS TO HAVE THE ABILITY TO MARRY WHOM THEY CHOOSE? HOW MUCH DO YOU VALUE THE EARTH NOT BEING CLIMATE CHANGE DESTROYED WITH US IN IT?  IF YOU DO NOT WANT REPUBLICANS TO REVERSE HUNDREDS OF YEARS OF WORK TO MAKE A MORE PERFECT AND PROGRESSIVE NATION OF INCLUSION THEN GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE EVERYWHERE AND MOST ESPECIALLY FOR THE PRESIDENCY.  CRUZ AND/OR TRUMP IS UNTHINKABLE AND ENDS THIS NATION AS WE HAVE KNOWN IT PUTTING US IN AN ALDOUS HUXLEY BRAVE NEW WORLD.

NOT ANYMORE

  I wrote this last week and for the most part sat on it because I did not want my writing to imply anything against Israel. As stated agai...