As IF Times

Source: Donald Trump Bashes Alicia Machado Again, Alleging a ‘Sex Tape’ (Without Evidence) – The New York Times

To no one’s surprise, the mainstream media have aligned themselves solidly against the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, as the never ending US presidential election reaches its conclusion.  We all know that it wouldn’t make a difference if Mother Teresa ran under the GOP banner, the mere fact of the affiliation would make her a target of disdain.   We all recall the last GOP candidate, Mitt Romney, who compared to the tempestuous Trump, really was a prince of a guy.   Romney was as squeaky clean as it gets;  successful, a family man, gracious and articulate.  Still, he was portrayed as an elitist and demonized as out of touch.   They preferred the PC demagogue paper pusher of the day.  What chance does Trump have of getting any boo yahs from the media?

This most recent ‘fumble’ by Trump is more telling of the media than it is of Trump.  Essentially, they are lambasting him for calling a fat girl, Alicia Machado, fat. Trump is hardly the most tactful or articulate of speakers as we all now know, but is this really the disqualifying trait for him?  Does he cheat at golf too? He must have at least a 3 foot long list of personal frailties; calling someone a name is hardly the worst of them.  Is that the card that they want to play, that he insulted an employee 20 years ago?  Well it’s pretty transparent what the strategy is: try to disenfranchise the female vote.  A word to women who may fall for this ruse: snap out of it!  It’s the 21st century;  women are clamoring to equal  men in all aspects of life.  Getting all hurty-feely because someone called you fat is pretty lame.

People may still not understand that the reason for his success with the electorate to this point is that he is a plain talking guy who won’t be bullied to tow the liberal pc lines.  If you’re fat, you’re fat.  A Dale Carnegie graduate, he’s not,  but it’s time to move away from all the double-non speak that terrorizes people today.

Like Romney, Trump has created employment and wealth for thousands of employees.  There is a record of accomplishment and achievement.   Democrats by comparison all seem to be professional government teat suckers who have done little in life other than parlay their law degrees to pander to whatever constituencies’ votes are coveted but have never been responsible for a payroll.  The Democratic presidents going back into history all fit this profile.  Go ahead, check it out, I’ll wait here.

The present incarnation, Hilary Clinton fits this profile on steroids.  Other than the fact that she’s the politically correct flavor of the day, the main rationale offered as her qualification is “experience”, as in over 30 years of being in public office of some kind or other, flying on government planes and attending useless meetings with other useless politicos.  Why anyone would tout that as an asset is odd to me.  It’s as if the ticket taker at the parking lot claimed experience in security.  If her character and history of questionable activity and connections were detailed, it could serve as the operations manual for the Mafia.  If Hilary was around during the day that George Washington’s famous tree was chopped down, she’d have blamed it on mob that was incited by a video.  Hilary is an ideological wind vane.

The media will be and are predictable in whom they support, no surprise there.  The surprise will be if the public decides to ignore their desperate bleats this time and make up their own minds based on the important characteristics of the candidates.  I hope the vast legion of long suffering deplorables make their voices heard.  Trump’s no choir boy, but he’s still better than Hilary.

Source: Donald Trump’s treatment of a crying baby reveals his total lack of empathy | Jonathan Freedland | Opinion | The Guardian

The word of the day is now faux.  Not to be confused with the Vietnamese soup, pho, which is savory and delectable.   No, I mean faux as in the affected outrage, angst and furor directed at The Donald for any and all of his utterances, which is definitely un-savory.  Like jackals baying and snapping at a presumptive victim, the popular media are circling Trump looking to exploit any possible weakness to tear him apart.

It’s like a large scale version of junior high girls whereby any and every utterance of the bullied victim is subject to ridicule and taunting.  Of course this is delicious irony since Trump is also no stranger to puerile insults.  Name calling now passes as witty debate during this election cycle.  But for those with naïve and already made up minds, faux outrage can make an indelible impression on their views.

We recall the last election when Mitt Romney set tongues a cluckin’ with his revelation of placing the family dog on the car roof during road trips, Beverly Hillbillies style.  The wailing from the PETA crowd was like keening at an Irish funeral.  Unlike eating a dog, which is acceptable if you one day become President, roofing a dog is beyond the pale.  So, Romney antagonized the dog crowd and was painted as an insensitive rich guy.  Romney didn’t address the incidents directly since it was too ridiculous to answer for.  The Donald ain’t takin’ any of that.

The recent ‘trumped up’ incident involving  Khizr Khan, father of the hero veteran stirred predictable media outrage at Trump because his retort was ‘insulting’.  While Trump did not in fact disparage the heroism of the son, he made an oblique remark about the ability of the Muslim wife to make comment, which would not be unusual for Muslims.  So the cascade of ‘racist’, ‘shameful’, ‘intemperate’, yada yada yada condemnations from media and pundits alike, rained upon Trump like expletives at a rap concert.  Meanwhile the mother of an American killed in Benghazi was criticized for grandstanding when she spoke of her son’s heroism.  Clint Eastwood spoke for many when he today said, “The pussy generation needs to just ‘f**king get over it”  Eloquently and succinctly said; the oppression of politically correct speech may finally be coming to an end; which is the primary reason for Trump’s ascendancy to popularity.

The faux indignation for anything connected to Trump would have more validity if not for the Orwellianly labelled Progressives’ penchant for ascribing anything not aligned with their worldviews as being evil and malevolent. Meanwhile, they tie themselves up in Gordian knots explaining the illogical positions of their culture warriors; for example, John Kerry’s assertion that air conditioners are a bigger threat to mankind than ISIS.  Laugh out loud stuff from over there. Can’t wait to see what Trump will do next to set the left off in sputtering faux rage.  He can tell them they fight like 12 year old girls.