It’s Alien vs Predator

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-05-15/election-2016-alien-vs-predator

I’m for Trump in the Fall…

And I don’t want to be.

The good guy lost.

See Cohen.

Your theory would make more sense if Trump had said “Yes, of course, I was just joking with the media. A practical joke—don’t you have a sense of humor?”

That’s essentially what he said about it years ago. That would have defused the whole thing.

Instead, he denied it, despite the previous admission from him. That makes him look like a liar, and a pathological liar at that. Why deny it? It’s not even so bad, if it was a sort of joke.

But I do agree with you that most people aren’t paying attention, and most of the rest don’t care anyway, because they’ve made up their minds about him.

By Kennedy we must assume Ted Kennedy.

And by KGB, we assume you’re talking about his ‘back channel’ game with Moscow.

If you are not aware, Barry Soetoro pulled the exact same stunt with Tehran — in 2008 — he sent back channel go-betweens to Tehran ( Valerie Girl ) to assure them that they ought to stall ANY negotiations with Bush II — as he’d REALLY treat them well.

He has proved as good as that pledge.

His VERY first public address was to Iranians — by a tape recording — the day after he was sworn into office. (!!!)

I hate to be arrogant, and I don’t have your permission:

Barney had a male-whore running call boys out of his house.

Barney Franks, the Big Wheel in the House of Representatives.

An item that ought to have hounded him from office — was tossed off as merely amusing.

Whereas it exposed his arrogance, his astoundingly BAD judgement, and his queer value set.

( Arrogant ? Barney routinely let it be known that his IQ was 160+ )

The reporter lost hers — years ago. She never made a duplicate.

The ONLY other copy belonged to Donald Trump.

1) Trump attacks Bezos as being on a crusade against him.

2) Trump feeds the WaPo irresistible dirt — the tape.

3) The WaPo runs with it — and makes Bezos look like a hatchet man.

4) By brining this issue out, it’s defused, made “old news” — Clinton-style.

One is reminded of Clancy’s “Clear and Present Danger” schtick wherein the hero tells the president that instead of denying his friendship with the deceased felon — that he go entirely the other way — and shut down any follow up.

Donald, KNEW this sword was hanging over his head.

He has just cut it down.

As long as Donald can control the tempo of the MSM — he can deflate their dirt discoveries by taking all the excitement about them — into a pre-mature calendar.

Practically nothing revealed now will matter in the Fall. The greater public is still not paying attention. And the Press will not want to retread tired material that’s wholly overexposed… regardless of merit. ONLY new news is worthy of print.

THAT’S the formulation that Trump has realized.

Correct IMO.

Art is our own Honey Badger (ht/ Blert) for Sir Donald, he just doesn’t care about conflicting details (certain facts).

“the left is forcing you to judge trump on tons of things having nothing to do with the outcome, but we are falsely told it does”

Um, no. Trump was/is actively courting the media. That is what the “$2B” in coverage is all about.

HE is the source of most of what the media plays for us, very often unfiltered.

With Trump occupying the airwaves across all media channels, he had virtually eliminated any oxygen from his nomination competitors.

They basically had no opportunity to get their message out, short of massive funding on a scale beyond a normal Presidential campaign itself (~$1B)

ALSO, that 24/7 focus on Trump drove away MOST coverage of Obama, his Admin, and Clinton, probably one of the biggest benefits the Dems have received.

But your emphasis is on the media, yet, if there wasn’t an appetite for this it wouldn’t exist. It is an interesting conundrum in a capitalist society – maximizing owner value vs behaving “responsibly” (according to OUR view of society, of course).

It is also the trap Trump set for himself. He venerates material from the National Enquirer, even might supply some of it himself, about those he opposes. So he can expect to be treated the same for his own stupid behavior.

IMHO, Trump should have said he did it just for the fun. But, that he did not, especially in the face of evidence that he did with his past admission, as Neo says, gives us all insight to his real character.

Expect the media to find more on Trump to highlight and mock.

It might turn enough off of Trump to make a difference.