Polling shows most Americans support this position, and any reading of US Immigration law shows it to be both legal and Constitutional.
Brilliant set-up.
Rush and Levin are for ‘me to Ted’ and have been all along, they just don’t want to lose their listeners....
That's what Erik Erickson is doing. He was smart enough to see the writing on the wall (and he is hard core establishment).
Brilliant analysis
Rush: “But despite it all they can’t take him out. They can’t stop covering him. They can’t humiliate him. They can’t embarrass him. They can’t diminish his support. They’re powerless, and this has them in a panic. The media that can make-or-break anybody cannot touch Trump, and every time they try, all they do is make him bigger. They can’t explain this.”
Hubby and I were listening to the Cuomo interview of Trump, and hubby noted that dealing with Trump is like a drug to the media. They want to stop, but they can’t. It makes them irate that they can’t stop giving him free publicity. The more they try to stop, the more they need him for their greed.
If they would just keep repeating the lies, they just might be able to take him out. In this case, the lie that he wants to ban all Muslims. But they have to interview him, where he sets the lie straight. Within minutes of the interview starting, the logo on the bottom of the screen went from something about Trump’s ‘ban’ to a ‘temporary’ pause on Muslim immigration. So eventually what Trump really says cones out, within 12 hours of all the media frenzy. Then the public likes what Trump said, thinks the media are idiots, and his poll numbers go up.
Then it happens again and the media acts like crack addicts, begging Trump to go on their shows.
Yep. This works. Say something that you know is going to cause the fur to fly, but first make sure you have the ducks in a row as far as research and have a surprisingly sensible position hiding in back of an apparently inflammatory statement.
I've tried this writing in a local county paper and I'd get a flurry of nasty emails. But because I had done the research already I was able to come back at those emails bang bang and eventually argue the emailer to (at least) a draw or calling me names or something.
This is how you turn political correctness against itself. They are hair-trigger wired to be offended, so you trigger it and face down the expected response while flanking them with a counterargument they were not at all expecting.
In fact, Trump is only famous because he deliberately pursued celebrity status and crafted a national brand image of "brilliant businessman" via prime time TV, how-to books, and excellent PR and advertising campaigns.
It is the ONLY reason he is famous. His "vaunted business acumen" pales in comparison to several seriously high-roller real estate moguls.
Yet no one has ever heard of them. They are anonymous nationally not because they aren't a lot better than Trump in business smarts, but because Trump is the only one with the will, and possibly the showmanship, to establish an overbrown brand image of "genius" in the business world and establish credibility through media branding alone. It is currently working because media consumers are being played as much as the media itself.
Great post! The Donald is the master of the art of war and says what the others lack the backbone to say. And it scares the hell of them.