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Posted on 01/23/2017 6:55:45 AM PST by RoosterRedux
The media have been clucking their disapproval at the “darkness” of Donald Trump’s inaugural speech. “Uniquely dark vision of the U.S.,” read a New York Times headline on Saturday. The Washington Post reported that “Trump delivered a dark inaugural address” — adding, somewhat contradictorily — “in which he pledged fealty to all Americans.” A New York Times op-ed by a former speechwriter for President Bill Clinton decried Trump’s “dark, counterfactual picture of ‘American carnage’: an economy in decline, communities under siege by ‘the crime and the gangs and the drugs.’” A New York Times editorial, “President Trump’s Dystopian America,” scoffed at how President Trump “waxed apocalyptic in imagining the prevalence of crime in the nation’s cities. ‘This American carnage stops right here and stops right now,’ [Mr. Trump] vowed,” the Times wrote incredulously.
The press unleashed an identical outpouring of criticism for Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, which was likewise said to adopt a counterfactually bleak view of the nation.
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The media’s contempt for Trump’s use of the phrase “carnage” to describe the rising violence in the inner city is particularly ludicrous. The press has slavishly amplified the Black Lives Matter claim that we are living through an epidemic of racist police shootings of black men. A New York Times editorial from July 2016 was titled “When Will the Killing Stop?” That same month, President Barack Obama asserted that black mothers and fathers were right to fear that their child will be killed by a cop — remarkably, he made this claim during the memorial service for five Dallas police officers gunned down by a Black Lives Matter–inspired assassin.
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The elitist left, with trust funds and gated communities need to step out of their limousines and experience what is really going on in America. They still cannot figure out why almost 90% of the counties in America voted for Trump.
The media has been slinging the “dark” thing around for months. I think it’s ridiculous.
My wife and I were cheering all through the speech. I thought it was hopeful, exciting, patriotic, and refreshing. I was uplifted.
But you can call it “dark” if you want to. I guess that fits “the narrative”.
I listened to President Trump’s [doesn’t that sound great??] speech on Friday, and I was inspired by its honesty and straightforward language. Easy to understand and to the point. Not too long also.
This oped piece is factually correct - describing the two-faced positions of the leftists. I knew Ashley Judd was a liberal, but she sounds like an anarchist here. It these people would get out of their ivory towers and try to see other people’s perspective, they could channel their energy into productive progress, not regressive behavior.
I don’t know much about urban cities because I prefer to avoid them, but I’m sure his metaphor is accurate.
However, I heard it in a different context. When Trump talked about n economy in decline, I think of the small midwestern towns where the factories that once brought in outside money that fueled prosperity are now nothing but weed-filled vacant buildings where the moms and dads of the kids now forced to eat crappy school lunches once worked. Kids who taught the nuances of condom use but not American history by unionized teachers who are all over the “danger” posed by a rubber knife but are clueless about the damage they are doing to American culture. Families that now must rely on food stamps and part-time jobs while hiding their worries from the kids and doing the best they can to try to remember what the American Dream is all about in a harsh world they did nothing to create.
This is the carnage the Obama years has brought. And the hope that Trump represents.
Keep it up lamestream, you are a laughingstock and Trump will easily pick up another 4 year run in 2020. By then you guys will be dead and buried.
As long as Media Matters is in existence, we have no free press. Flip the channels and watch the talking heads on all networks parroting the same theme. I fail to see how they can hold themselves out there as a check on government when they themselves are controlled.
When I’ve traveled in the U.S. in places where I’ve lived
during my 70 years, just driving down to the court squares
is a jolt viewing the empty buildings that used to house
many going businesses, or riding in the outskirts of the
towns, seeing factories deserted where my mother worked
when I was a child is depressing. - EVERYBODY can’t teach
at some prestigious university or get paid huge salaries
to do virtually nothing. (Nor do us “commoners” even desire
such a “position”.) The rusting, aging metal & boarded-up
windows are Hussein’s LEGACY.
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