Now you'd think that if you had a brand-spanking media-machine that can crank out 2,000 cookie cutter articles overnight blasting "sexist" Trump as a first-class scoundrel and praising the dainty Ms Kelly as the unwitting victim of abusive male bullying, then dastardly Trump would plunge in the polls, right?
Wrong. Trump is still comfortably in the lead and more popular that ever.
Why?
Because people don't trust the lying media. Because people don't trust the lying liars who run the Republican party (or the Democratic party). And because people resent the fact that they're being manipulated. Is that so hard to understand? The feeling now, is that, "if the assho**s who run this country are against Trump, then I'm for him. It's that simple. It's not about populism or channeling anger and frustration to a rebel candidate. Trump is no rebel, and he's no reformer either. And he'd probably be a shitty president too. But Trump has one thing going for him that is sadly lacking in all the other candidates, all the party honchos, and all the flannel-mouth, stuffed-shirt fake politicians who are presently in office. What is that, you ask?
He tells the truth, at least it sounds like the truth to a lot people. And that makes all the difference.
Think about that. Think about what that says about the pathetic state of our national politics, that the bar has dropped so low, that a brassy, outspoken business tycoon can move to the head of the pack simply because people believe "He speaks his mind and doesn't pull his punches."
That's why Trump's popularity has not been impacted by the media's irritating smear campaign. Just look at the blogs, the comments sections of the daily papers, and the twitter storm that has focused overwhelmingly on Fox's blonde Rottweiler, the amiable Ms Kelly. She's getting totally raked-over-the-coals, skewered at every turn, and (surprisingly) nearly all the criticism is from right wingers who feel thoroughly betrayed by Fox News, a station they trusted and that they thought shared their values, but now they realize they were wrong. Fox doesn't share their values. It's a freaking franchise for rich fu**ers who want to manipulate conservative principles to fit their own self-aggrandizing agenda. That's Fox News in a nutshell.
This whole Trump-flap has sparked a rebellion in the conservative ranks, a rebellion that anyone who is even slightly interested in politics should be paying close attention to. The worker-bees appear to be increasingly suspicious of the party leadership and their wavering commitment to conservative values. Case in point: Here's an excerpt from an article that appeared at the far right WND website titled "Rush (Limbaugh): 'Orders from GOP donors to take out Trump.'" Here's an excerpt:
"Who won the great debate?
"According to the mainstream media, the winner was ... Fox News.
"According to Rush Limbaugh, the loser was ... Fox News.
"At least, in the sense that the network may have blown its credibility with conservatives.
"And Limbaugh said he saw it coming.
"'Everybody should have known this was gonna happen,' he said. 'This is presidential politics, and Republican candidates are where media people score their points. It's where they build their careers. It's where they establish their credentials.'
"The conservative talk-radio giant saw another motivation for the moderators' attack-dog tactics. He said GOP bigwigs ordered Fox to take out Trump.
On Friday, Limbaugh began by telling listeners how, on the day of Thursday's debate, he had learned 'that big-time Republican donors had ordered to take out Donald Trump in the debate last night....'
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