Joe Scarborough Nearly Brought To Tears, Curses On Air Because Trump Dominated At CNN Town Hall

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[–]passionflounderIndependent 6 insightful - 6 fun6 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

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[–]Siebel_Fawlty 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Wait… so you put Trump on TV and he just blustered and bullshitted the whole time?

Weird.

[–]StillLessons 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

lol

[–]jerkwad152 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, you got it. Trump went on TV and Scarborough blustered and bullshitted the whole time.

[–]StillLessons 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

The actual interview is secondary to the real story here.

The real story is the decision by CNN to give him airtime in the first place. There's a lot to unpack in that decision. Let your mind wander far enough, and we find Trump and Biden dancing together in a field of daisies laughing their asses off watching all of us taking sides with either of them, as though they're actually opposed...

Remember from 1984, the Party created Goldstein. He is an equally important tool for The Party as Big Brother.

[–]Chipit[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes, because the deep state reacted with terror to Trump, and cheers to Biden, that must mean both of them are the same. Yup, no difference there.

[–]StillLessons 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If they really don't want someone, they've got tool kits for that. Those kits were used with Ron Paul on the right in 2012 and with Bernie Sanders on the left in 2016. When things get extremely bad, they go the JFK route. When the deep state wants someone out, they are out. Be under no illusions as to their capabilities in this arena.

Trump is a special case. They've got this perfect boogeyman in him which allows them to keep us all focused on the "Pro Trump / Anti Trump" sideshow while the real battles against us roll along undisturbed. The greatest assault on liberty in the west for the past five years was the lockdowns / vaccine rollout. That moved pretty seamlessly from Trump's administration to Biden's. They screamed bloody murder when Trump was doing it, BUT critically, it moved forward. Then with Biden, they praised it to high heaven. Once again, it moved forward. Trump talks a lot of shit, but in the end, the effect of his presidency was simply that they did what they wanted anyway, while still making him "the bad guy" for doing precisely what they wanted done all along. That's not real power. He never had real power, and I don't think he would for a second go either.

[–]noshore4me 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The real story is ratings. CNN lost 50% of their primetime viewership when Trump was out of office: https://www.businessinsider.com/cnn-ratings-have-crashed-since-donald-trump-left-the-white-house-2021-3?op=1

They bring him in a couple years later and voila: https://deadline.com/2023/05/donald-trump-cnn-town-hall-ratings-1235363575/

[–]StillLessons 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The people with sufficient power to determine media coverage have goals they prioritize more highly than they do ratings. Otherwise, CNN wouldn't have chosen to trash their ratings in the first place, which was a calculated decision over a period of years. The current Tucker situation is the other tell. Ratings are very much a secondary concern stacked against propaganda flow. In a related vein, Anheiser Busch took a flamethrower to their brand, and the reasoning behind that was not market share, as the results demonstrate.