2. The same media he used to blast away also got used against him and turned ppl so far off they refused to support him and actively campaigned against him. He deliberately played the same celebrity and campaign games that were used on him.
You still don't get it.
There's really no such thing as media being used "against" you if it's giving you ATTENTION. Sure the content may be negative --- on the surface and in the moment --- but that quickly fades in the traditional seven-day news window. What remains is the attention and the notoriety it bestows. That shouldn't be important, but it is in a country full of morons who vote on the basis of "I've heard of that guy -- he's been on TV".
So you may score fewer points with a day-after-day story about a captured conversation on a bus ---- but you're still getting publicity every day. And you get a lot more than you get for showing up in a Louisiana flood and handing out Play Doh, so in effect you've scored MORE points.
Gotta understand media psychology, Em. You get more "points" for being talked about negatively for a week than you get for being talked about positively for two days.
He wasn't afraid to go on camera confronting Clinton and say things no one else dared to say.
He's a loose cannon with the emotional maturity of a twelve-year-old. That's why no one's willing to say them -- most people actually grow up. Most people grow what we call a "filter".
So yes the same games he played the media for went both ways. He used those same tactics to bear them at it.
I guess that's a typo. You mean "beat them at it"?
I don't think you're seeing my point. He didn't "beat them at it". THEY BOTH WON. You don't seem to understand what each one's motive is. That's what I just tried to spell out. They used each other to mutual advantage. You're focused on the content, which is the irrelevant tree --- pan back and see the forest.
Content is immaterial. The manipulation of the medium is the message.
Mass media's motive isn't to "beat" anybody. It's to enrich itself. And Rump gives them many many MANY tools to do that.
It should have cost him the election with all the negative hype against him.
See above.
I still wonder if something could happen before the Electoral College vote in December. Could something illegal be found in his records where he gets disqualified?
Yannno ---- I hear he was born in Kenya. Many people have said that. I read a report. It was yuge. I read it along with thousands and thousands of cheering people on a rooftop in Jersey City.
I saw a YouTube video featuring a phone call from a demented street preacher talking to his grandmother in Kenya who says he was born there. Well she doesn't say that but the interpreter does. Well, actually you can't hear his voice but the demented street preacher says that's what he said, and that's good enough for me.
Hey, it worked for O'bama. Went on for some seven years so why not?
Anyone voting based on image or anything else in the media would have said NO to Trump.
OK then you explain what went down yesterday. I already have.
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