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11-30-2015, 01:39 PM
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I usually when I'm making coffee, but eventually I tune out because I'm disgusted by the buffoonery that passes for news and analysis.
Take today's show.
Donald Trump was being interviewed by phone. He did what you would expect: he heavily salted his vague comments with rampant self-regard. He used the word "great" as often as he could. He bashed Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
Over all, he sounded like he always does to me, a native New Yorker: like an angry cab driver or someone at the end of a bar on the way to a drunken stupor.
Is it a pose? Maybe, maybe not.
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But Joe and the reporters around the table--including someone from The Washington Post-- let him ramble without ever pressing him too explain or be specific.
Best example: What was his policy climate change? Trump's slumgullion of a response included repeated statements that we send all our coal China because we can't burn coal here; he had gotten many awards for his environmentally clean factories; we had to be tough with China (and Vietnam); the environmentalists probably didn't like him but that's okay.
When it was gently pointed out that he was talking about the environment, the same mess was spewed back at them, while Mika Brzezinski smirked. She does that a lot. I guess I would, too if I were paid $2,000,000 a year and didn't do my homework (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynUjo99Gzbk).
I couldn't watch much more at that point because laziness is the Morning Joe style though they act as if they're sharp. They don't really press anyone hard, which is cowardly and shameful. Are they really afraid guests will refuse to come back on the show if they ask probing questions?
And do they honestly believe Donald Trump could resist the chance to bloviate for any audience anywhere? He feuded with Fox and then did an about face.
Lev Raphael is the author of 25 books in genres from memoir to mystery which you can find on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=lev+raphael). -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. (http://start.westnet.ca/newstempch.php?article=terms.html/) It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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I usually when I'm making coffee, but eventually I tune out because I'm disgusted by the buffoonery that passes for news and analysis.
Take today's show.
Donald Trump was being interviewed by phone. He did what you would expect: he heavily salted his vague comments with rampant self-regard. He used the word "great" as often as he could. He bashed Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
Over all, he sounded like he always does to me, a native New Yorker: like an angry cab driver or someone at the end of a bar on the way to a drunken stupor.
Is it a pose? Maybe, maybe not.
http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-11-30-1448891629-3297584-donaldtrump-thumb.jpg (http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-11-30-1448891629-3297584-donaldtrump.jpg)
But Joe and the reporters around the table--including someone from The Washington Post-- let him ramble without ever pressing him too explain or be specific.
Best example: What was his policy climate change? Trump's slumgullion of a response included repeated statements that we send all our coal China because we can't burn coal here; he had gotten many awards for his environmentally clean factories; we had to be tough with China (and Vietnam); the environmentalists probably didn't like him but that's okay.
When it was gently pointed out that he was talking about the environment, the same mess was spewed back at them, while Mika Brzezinski smirked. She does that a lot. I guess I would, too if I were paid $2,000,000 a year and didn't do my homework (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynUjo99Gzbk).
I couldn't watch much more at that point because laziness is the Morning Joe style though they act as if they're sharp. They don't really press anyone hard, which is cowardly and shameful. Are they really afraid guests will refuse to come back on the show if they ask probing questions?
And do they honestly believe Donald Trump could resist the chance to bloviate for any audience anywhere? He feuded with Fox and then did an about face.
Lev Raphael is the author of 25 books in genres from memoir to mystery which you can find on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=lev+raphael). -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. (http://start.westnet.ca/newstempch.php?article=terms.html/) It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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