Up close and VERY personal with The Donald on Air Force One: (trunc)

Daily mail ^ | 7-14-18 | Piers Morgan

[edie1960]

HEADS UP!!!

President Trump will be interviewed by CBS’ Jeff Glor tomorrow morning on Face The Nation. More of the same conversation, conducted today at POTUS’ Turnberry golf course in Scotland, will air on CBS’ Morning Show on Monday.

Glor will also conduct a second interview at the White House on Wednesday, covering the Putin summit in Helsinki which will be shown on CBS’ Evening News program.

[Duchess47]

Great article, thanks.

[huldah1776]

I guess after the clintoons and zero I became adept at filtering crud. The questions to the president and his answers were what I read. Go back and think about how you read the headlines here at FR and do the same for the article. Or just read Trump’s statements.

[Bellflower]

The Bible talks about at the end of time fire raining down mightily on “the isles”. At one time I wondered if it meant W. Europe or The USA. I think it is Europe, and they will deserve it richly.

[CJ Wolf]

Aside from a longwinded commentary about the awe of airforce one, the actual interview was quite good.

[CJ Wolf]

I also noticed a bit of journalistic envy he pointed out, fake news, in the back, lol, when President Trump finally kicked him off the plane.

[CJ Wolf]

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[zlala]

Bump for later read

[robowombat]

Most don't realize that aside from being the closest thing to a pacifist to occupy the WH since Wilson in his first term and Herbert Hoover Carter in ‘76 really detested the Beltway culture. He also found the imperial trappings of the Presidency from ‘Hail to the Chief’, to the Old Guard color trooping for heads of state and the pervasive ceremonial presence of marines (being a sailor he did not care for the USMC at all) to be repellent and un-American. For a time he would not countenance the expense of air lifting Marine choppers to Warner Robbins for the flight to Plains. But after some very tiring motorcades through the heart of Georgia he acquiesced to using choppers. Carter was the last Dem the media openly despise from jump street. Arthur Schlensiger, Jr. could not stand him from their first meeting. Not ‘suave or sophisticated’ ‘a grinning hick’. However old Arthur just loved Billy Jack Clinton from the first time they met. Carter, I think has gone through a period of virtue hubris and also decided to start making all the right progressive noises so he gets post WH accolades. In passing, I don't count his administration as responsible for the fall of the Pahlavi's. It was coming period but everyone in DC ran and hid their fecklessness and let the administration get out in front and look like clueless fools.

[BlackbirdSST]

Point to the assistant for helpfully noting that the other chairs swiveled.

Extra points would have been given for the added phrase, 'Go sit and spin!".

[Albion Wilde]

Very interesting about peanut boy. “Virtue hubris.” LOL! He was like the millenials’ fastidious “soyboy”—of his era.

Arguably not directly responsible for the fall of the shah, but didn’t Carter send Brzezinski over to Afghanistan to arm the taliban, thinking they would fight against the Russians? The whole Brzez “grand chessboard” thing? Look how that turned out. And he has meddled in the Middle East to Israel’s detriment, due to his loathing of Jews.

He was elevated during the Vietnam era because he appealed to many of the tropes of the peacenicks, including John Lennon’s “working class hero” thing, the wearing of jeans as standard attire that was a new thing then, the “back to the earth” trust fund hippies loving his peanut farmer persona and the anti-establishmentarianism of the politico hippies. A sad time in our nation’s recovery from WW2 and antipathy to the draft for VN.

[huldah1776]

Yeah, I did laugh. It was lighthearted. Good read.

It is really hard for me to understand how anyone with an IQ over 70 doesn’t get it. But maybe it’s a marketing thing. With the power of journalism, you would think being able to keep people from jumping off a bridge would be...priceless.

I truly fear for the current generation. Empathy is what is being destroyed the most with tech media.

[USS Alaska]

And the diseased old skank hillary will NEVER sit in it!

Great line.

I never really watched Piers Morgan when he was on cnn, but I read some of his anti-gun views and had no use for him.

You've got to give morgan credit because he does get access to President Trump, which really has to piss off everyone at ccn, when they just had a John Bolton interview cancelled.

heheheh

[Portcall24]

Always wondered if the story I heard where JC kept the schedule for the tennis court at WH was true. The way told to me was there was a conflict one day and he said he would keep the schedule to ensure no more conflict.

[JustaCowgirl]

Carter has always been an incompetent, sanctimonious little dirtbag.

[robowombat]

JC was and probably still is a really complex character. The Romanian communist secret police had already profiled him as he closed in on the Dem candidacy. Their take, according to the defecting head of the Secruritate, was that Carter was deeply inwardly motivated and religiously oriented. His perpetual wrestle with his conscience over whether he was being personally virtuous or whether his public actions were or had Godly and virtuous grounding would render him a generally ineffectual leader as he was less interested in doing something than in doing the ‘right thing’ regardless of whether it was functional or not. I grew up in a Southern Baptist church just as did JC and knew a couple adult males active in the church who were like that. One guy in particular, an Air Force full colonel. For these types after they have spent a long time being conventionally observant Baptists they start having the ‘Dark Night of the Soul’ crisis and question everything they have ever accepted. For this officer it was everything, the military, national defense, the need for believers to give almost all possessions away and ‘humble ones self’. Carter, I think had this experience after he got to the governor's mansion. and it is key to why he seemed so disconnected and ineffectual. He had his immortal soul to worry about. Other things were small in comparison.

This mindset is key to his animus toward Israel. He sees the current State of Israel as the way Jeremiah say the Kingdom when he was around. Prosperous carefully observant and completely corrupt and worthy of judgment because of its pride and arrogance and unjust treatment of the paliwogs.

[Albion Wilde]

You are as kind as you are insightful. In my rather more rancid opinion, a lot of people feel self-righteous if they are raised in a Christian community—full of the “right stuff.” With maturity in Christ, the necessity for humility and repentance and being really born again, not just emotionally, but with the entire mind, soul, body and strength may present itself when one is faced with a life-changing crisis, whether it is a great failure or a great success.

The stricken look on his face the night he won the Presidency struck terror in my heart right through the television set. He appeared to me to feel inadequate and frightened.

Churchiness is a cowardly cover-up for the hateful and insecure part of his personality (I can’t really say character). I hope not to offend you here since you are more forgiving than I, but in my opinion he is the prissy kind of “Christian” who gives the church a bad name, both for making the body of Christ seem to be an exclusive club for Really Good People and for his consciencelessness about rewriting the Bible to suit his idosyncratic points of view.

Of course, the Democrat media loves to run to him to hear him prononce his shifting heresies, such as the one earlier cited. But the Word of God never changes.

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[Albion Wilde]

an incompetent, sanctimonious little dirtbag.

And that's just his good points.