{"id":391834,"date":"2019-01-06T17:28:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T16:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/democrats-press-must-stop-playing-into-the-master-manipulators-hands\/"},"modified":"2019-01-06T17:28:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T16:28:02","slug":"democrats-press-must-stop-playing-into-the-master-manipulators-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/democrats-press-must-stop-playing-into-the-master-manipulators-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats, Press Must Stop Playing Into the Master Manipulator\u2019s Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>The day after Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced that she was launching an exploratory committee for the 2020 presidential race, National Public Radio reported that President Donald Trump had responded to the news by again referring to the Massachusetts senator as \u201cPocahontas\u201d and ridiculing her recent attempt to prove her Native American ancestry via a DNA test.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than talking about Sen. Warren\u2019s policies, her advocacy for consumer protections, her experience as a longtime Ivy League economics professor, her political and economic ideas, her bootstrap autobiographical story, instead of talking about Trumps\u2019 countless lies and potential crimes, National Public Radio \u2014 and many other news outlets and pundits \u2014 was talking about\u2026\u201cPocahontas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is Trump\u2019s genius. Don\u2019t get me wrong, Trump is a moron, but like Isaiah Berlin\u2019s hedgehog, he knows one important thing. How to divert the press and the public\u2019s attention from what is truly important (his lies, charges of obstruction of justice, etc.) toward whatever nonsense he wants them to focus on: Pocahontas. Hillary\u2019s emails. George Soros. Trump knows that an outrageous utterance by the President of the United States is considered news. News that will knock the real news of the day off the front page: Dow Jones plummets more than 800 Points? Trump responds by tweeting: FAKE NEWS \u2013 THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Warren\u2019s decision to take a DNA test to prove her Native American ancestry is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/01\/04\/on-pocahontas-democrats-press-must-stop-playing-into-the-master-manipulators-hands\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day after Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced that she was launching an exploratory committee for the 2020 presidential race, National Public Radio reported that President Donald Trump had responded to the news by again referring to the Massachusetts senator as \u201cPocahontas\u201d and ridiculing her recent attempt to prove her Native American ancestry via a DNA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-391834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391834","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=391834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}