{"id":219661,"date":"2016-01-29T17:10:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T17:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=219661"},"modified":"2016-01-29T17:11:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T17:11:23","slug":"media-war-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/media-war-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Media War on Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Stephen Lendman<\/p>\n

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(RINF<\/a>) – His super-wealth, demagogic style, outlandish views, support for wealth and power, and likely business as usual agenda if elected president aside, Trump so far masterfully outwitted, outmaneuvered, and outfoxed other presidential aspirants, besting professional politicians, beating them at their own dirty game.<\/div>\n
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He\u2019s no flash-in-the-pan. He proved he\u2019s a force to reckoned with. Polls show he\u2019s way ahead of Republican rivals, appearing unstoppable, party bosses and media scoundrels frantic to derail his campaign, their efforts futile so far.<\/div>\n
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He appeals to voters against politics they deplore, business as usual campaigning and governance, promising change, delivering betrayal, ignoring popular needs – even though don\u2019t expect him to change things if elected.<\/div>\n
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He didn\u2019t become super-rich by being a nice guy. People needs aren’t his concern. US policy won\u2019t change with him in charge – notably its permanent war agenda, corporate favoritism, scorn for social justice, and intolerance of efforts to change things.<\/div>\n
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Efforts to dent his impregnability don\u2019t quit. Media scoundrels relentlessly attack him. Last month, New York Times<\/span><\/a> editors accused him of \u201cbr(inging) his party and its politics to the brink of fascism\u201d – ignoring police state rule under Bush and Obama, state-sponsored ruthlessness, waging war on humanity at home and abroad.<\/div>\n
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Trump\u2019s candidacy caused \u201cserious damage\u2026to the country, to its reputation overseas,\u201d Times editors absurdly claimed.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe time to renounce (his) views was the day he entered the race,\u201d they added – mindless of an array of deplorable Republican and Democrat aspirants all supporting endless wars, Israeli barbarism, corporate favoritism and harsh crackdowns on nonbelievers.<\/div>\n
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In late November, Washington Post<\/span><\/a> editors urged Republicans \u201cto stand up to Trump\u2019s (so-called) Bullying,\u201d saying:<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe growing ugliness of (his) campaign poses a challenge to us all. We have seen the likes of him before\u2026spreading lies, appealing to fears and stoking hatred.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cSuch people are dangerous.\u201d Post editors like their Times counterparts ignored longstanding bipartisan US wars on humanity – raping one country after another, turning US streets into battleground in Black and Latino communities, serving wealth and power interests exclusively.<\/div>\n
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Trump \u201clack(s) the qualifications, experience or knowledge to be president,\u201d WaPo editors blustered.<\/div>\n
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Bush I\u2019s presidency was W\u2019s only qualification, achieving at best a gentleman C average overall academically at Yale and Harvard, often skipping classes.<\/div>\n
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Obama was chosen solely as a front man for imperial adventurism, as well as Wall Street and other corporate interests at the expense of ordinary Americans who elected him.<\/div>\n
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His only qualification was and remains following the agenda assigned him, causing more harm to more people than his predecessors.<\/div>\n
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\u201cRepublican leaders should speak up\u201d against Trump, WaPo editors ranted. \u201cThe only way to beat a bully is to stand up to him.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The American way involves endless global \u201cbully(ing)\u201d to achieve unchallenged worldwide dominance – an agenda WaPo editors wholeheartedly endorse without admitting it.<\/div>\n
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Last November, Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/a> editors violated Ronald Reagan\u2019s 11th commandment about \u201cnot speak(ing) ill of any fellow Republican.\u201d<\/div>\n
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They quoted Trump, calling himself \u201ca free trader,\u201d then blasted his criticism of the nightmarish Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), calling it a \u201cterrible (trade) deal.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Journal editors claim he doesn\u2019t understand what\u2019s in it, mischaracterizing TPP as a new \u201cstandard for trade under freer Western rules.\u201d<\/div>\n
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TPP is a hugely one-sided corporate giveaway, nightmarishly anti-consumer, anti-labor, anti-environmental sanity. The full text revealed last November showed it\u2019s worse than most critics feared.<\/div>\n
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Trump\u2019s opposition has nothing to do with it\u2019s handing business interests a huge bonanza. He expressed concern over its failure to deal with alleged Chinese currency manipulation, even though he knows Beijing isn\u2019t part of the deal.<\/div>\n
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On January 21, the right-wing National Review<\/span><\/a> published an anti-Trump issue – an effort to derail his campaign, featuring almost two dozen neocons and other hardliners bashing his candidacy.<\/div>\n
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Editor Rick Lowry is a notorious right-wing extremist. Contributors to his anti-Trump diatribe included Glenn Beck, Cruz supporter Brent Bozell, hawkish columnist Mona Charen, neocon Project for the New American Century (PNAC) co-founder William Kristol, Fox News favorite Dana Loesch, hard-right Club for Growth president David McIntosh, former Reagan attorney general Edwin Meese, former GW Bush attorney general Michael Mukasey, and notorious right-wing extremist John Podhoretz, among others.<\/div>\n
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Campaign season is in full swing, the Iowa caucus scheduled for February 1, followed by New Hampshire\u2019s primary on February 9.<\/div>\n
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Regardless of individual contest outcomes, Trump\u2019s lead looks insurmountable. He\u2019s proved skillful in maintaining it, despite continued media flack targeting him.<\/div>\n
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Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.<\/div>\n
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His new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.”<\/div>\n
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http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html<\/div>\n
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Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.<\/div>\n
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Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/div>\n
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by Stephen Lendman (RINF) – His super-wealth, demagogic style, outlandish views, support for wealth and power, and likely business as usual agenda if elected president aside, Trump so far masterfully outwitted, outmaneuvered, and outfoxed other presidential aspirants, besting professional politicians, beating them at their own dirty game. He\u2019s no flash-in-the-pan. He proved he\u2019s a force […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,1622,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-219661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-featured","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}