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Confessions of a Columnist (I underestimated Donald Trump)
NY Times ^ | 1/2/2016 | Ross Douthat

Posted on 01/02/2016 6:44:26 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

EVERY New Year's, in a spirit of self-examination, I try to catalog my worst blunders from the preceding year. But this year, like almost every pundit in America, I have one mistake that overshadows all the others, one confession that makes my other faults seem venial by comparison.

I underestimated Donald Trump.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; bfac; election2016; elections; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; rossdouthat; trump
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Self-examination is ALWAYS good!

GO TRUMP!!

Many will underestimate you!

1 posted on 01/02/2016 6:44:26 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
NYT using THIS pic? Really?


2 posted on 01/02/2016 6:49:14 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

2016: The year of eating crow.


3 posted on 01/02/2016 6:49:23 PM PST by proust (Texan for Trump!)
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To: Paladin2

the NYT is a homosexual shop.


4 posted on 01/02/2016 6:50:29 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Paladin2

Wow.


5 posted on 01/02/2016 6:50:33 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?!" (Psalm 27:1))
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Some pretty good self-deprecating humor from Ross Douthat. Thanks for posting.


6 posted on 01/02/2016 6:51:08 PM PST by PGalt
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

It’s a trap.

There are no original thoughts allowed.

No political operative ahh, `journalist` is allowed to deviate from the editors script.

The only way to succeed in the MSM is to be a ruthless, dishonest fithy piece of political scum.

I hope this `columnist` slides under a gas truck and tastes his own blood.


7 posted on 01/02/2016 6:53:23 PM PST by Eddie01 (uh oh)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Irrespective of Donald Trump and his candidacy, the fact that Ross Douthat doesn’t know feces from Shinola in this context throws his whole Punditry status into the category of, “And what does Drew Barrymore think?”

Ever thought of a real, useful day job, Ross? Flip a burger, change a tire? No, I didn’t think so.


8 posted on 01/02/2016 6:58:40 PM PST by Tax-chick (Maximizing my cultural appropriation.)
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He goes on to damn Trump with feint praise. "Exploited an opening" ... is it just possible that there are some important issues that need to be addressed? They will not get it even 7 years into his presidency if he wins.

It will never be 'immigration is a threat and a mess, Islam is a threat and a mess, the economy is a threat and a mess, Trump stated clearly he would deal with it"

It will always be about how he pulled off his PR. And that's because that's all the presidency is to Liberals ... a sham to get control of resources and other peoples' money and freedom.

9 posted on 01/02/2016 7:00:38 PM PST by tinyowl (A equals A, And C Edmund Wright thinks I am an idiot and a Trump Sycophant)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

” (I underestimated Donald Trump)”

No Ross, you’re an idiot spewing what you’re paid to.
I mean, if you want self-examination instead of more lying.


10 posted on 01/02/2016 7:00:46 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

No need to underestimate the author. He’ll be voting demoRat with the rest of those mindless drones over there at Pinchy’s Rag.


11 posted on 01/02/2016 7:01:03 PM PST by tflabo
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To: PGalt

The last line is pretty good.

... And “radical-center voters”??? That’s a bizarre way of saying ‘moderates’.


12 posted on 01/02/2016 7:06:09 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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: ) thanks, I did not catch that.


13 posted on 01/02/2016 7:13:31 PM PST by PGalt
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
Douthat's problem is that he doesn't really know what's happening.

Big city liberals, compared to flyover country folks, may as well be from other solar systems. They do not speak or understand our language.

14 posted on 01/02/2016 7:22:57 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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15 posted on 01/02/2016 7:24:12 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

LOL. The problem that these lib morons have is that they get their news from other lib morons.

It’s become a huge lib propaganda echo chamber and they are all living in a parallel universe.


16 posted on 01/02/2016 7:27:27 PM PST by Helicondelta
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

This fool and who?

He, no different than Huffington Post, remember, the paper who refused to cover TRUMP on the political pages....he was introduced in their entetainment section.

Actually, he might have burst on the scene in both sections, seeing that he is excelled at both entertaining and politics on so many levels, he leaves his nay-sayers eating his dust. Wile E. Coyote has nothing compared to the bag of tricks Trump has up his sleeve..He is nothing short of a genius in doing what he does.

GO TRUMP/CRUZ Make America Great for Great Americans!


17 posted on 01/02/2016 7:30:03 PM PST by V K Lee (u TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP to TRIUMPH Follow the lead MAKE AMERICA GREAT)
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...it left him sticky with the tar of Trump’s birther nonsense while delivering little in return.

Douthat is corrupt. Anyone who says that there is evidence that Obama is a citizen of the United States is a liar.

18 posted on 01/02/2016 7:33:09 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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Of course I’m not completely humbled. Indeed, I’m still proud enough to continue predicting, in defiance of national polling, that there’s still no way that Trump will actually be the 2016 Republican nominee.

Trust me: I’m a pundit.

(And I’ll see you in the confessional next year.)...

Almost sounds like he believes Trump will be the nominee :)


19 posted on 01/02/2016 7:35:43 PM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Don’t believe it for even one second. NYT is a nest of treasonous bastages.


20 posted on 01/02/2016 7:36:44 PM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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