Posted on 10/22/2017 4:41:04 PM PDT by markomalley
As a trained hypnotist and a lifelong student of persuasion, I’m often impressed by how much “work” President Trump gets out of his tweets. Most of them are harmless retweets about whatever is going right, and they tend to be forgettable. The good ones are something entirely different, and many are gems of persuasion.
Consider this one: “With Jemele Hill at the mike, it is no wonder ESPN ratings have ‘tanked,’ in fact, tanked so badly it is the talk of the industry!”
When Mr. Trump smack-tweets a notable public critic—Ms. Hill has called the president a “white supremacist”—it violates our expectations of his office. That’s what makes it both entertaining and memorable. He often injects into his tweets what memory expert Carmen Simon calls a “little bit of wrongness” to make it hard to look away. If the wrongness alarms you, consider that for years he has adroitly operated within a narrow range of useful wrongness on Twitter without going too far. That suggests technique. In the Twitter environment, strategic wrongness is jet fuel.
Watch for Mr. Trump’s tweets to make you think past the sale, a well-known technique of persuasion. In the Jemele Hill tweet, he makes you wonder if ESPN’s ratings really are the “talk of the industry.” And in order even to consider that question, you must imagine a world in which the primary claim—that Ms. Hill is bad for the network—is true. Even if it isn’t.
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Try this link: https://t.co/mxjVhcYhfj (I didn’t have the paywall problem)
I’ll take Trump tweets over “prudence”.
Thanks but no luck.
Trump controls the narrative through his tweets, which is why fakestream presstitutes hate his tweets so much.
THEY are supposed to have control of the narrative, don’t you know?
A fog soon decended, it did.
Now all we need is to get someone in Bogota to re-tweet the entire editorial page. Every day. :o)
"have effectively merged. President Trump"
Include the quotes. That string is unique to the WSJ article, and you might be able to click through from Google to the WSJ.
If it works, please post.
Yeah, it works. It takes you right to the WSJ paywall. LOL
Just refer to the law of Trump Tweetability:
The inherent effectiveness of a Trump tweet is directly proportional to the level of hyperbolic outrage bloviating from the MSM.
Well, it sent the NFL into tailspin that they’ve yet to recover from. And even the Lefties at ESPN now sheepishly admit what Trump did caused real harm to the NFL because it exposed that the NFL’s fan base is heavily Conservative and the National Anthem mess turned into a public relations disaster for the league. And it may end up costing Roger Goodell his job as NFL Commissioner.
TY! How did you do that? I wanted to read this one, but got stuck with the usual having to subscribe stuff
Thanks for the link, it worked just fine.
“Trump controls the narrative through his tweets, which is why fakestream presstitutes hate his tweets so much.
THEY are supposed to have control of the narrative, don’t you know?”
Rush gave a commentary on this last week. The drive bys cruise by and shoot everything up, create chaos and leave the carnage in the rearview. With Trump, they cannot drive off as they are forced to keep coming back and get caught with Fake reporting.
Where would Trump be today if he had not put out any tweets? His administration would be buried. MAGA!
Damn.
There is a Firefox/Chrome add-on called "Bypass Paywalls" that might work, but I have not tried it, and I don't know if it is safe to use.
What finally worked for me was the URL in comment #3.
It’s a great article, BTW, worth the trouble.
Didn’t work for me. I’ll try it tomorrow from a different computer and different IP address.
Indeed!
'WE' want to control what he says and does.
Have we so soon forgotten what a LEADER is?
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