{"id":1483539,"date":"2024-08-14T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1483539"},"modified":"2024-08-14T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T15:20:00","slug":"will-trump-end-elections-anatomy-of-a-failed-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/will-trump-end-elections-anatomy-of-a-failed-hoax\/1483539\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Trump End Elections? Anatomy Of A Failed Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will Trump End Elections? Anatomy Of A Failed Hoax<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Frank Miele via RealClearPolitics<\/a>,<\/em><\/p>\n

Apparently Saul Alinsky has been resurrected and is working as the chief propaganda coordinator for the Kamala Harris presidential campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alinsky was a 1960s radical who helped shape the strategy for a leftist takeover of the bulwark institutions that for two centuries had protected the American republic from opportunistic would-be dictators.<\/p>\n

Alinsky\u2019s goal was to create a guidebook for how leftist radicals could wrest America\u2019s domestic and foreign policy away from conservatives, moderates, and traditional liberals. His 1971 blueprint was called \u201cRules for Radicals,\u201d and it instructed left-wing activists how to gain power in their communities through a campaign of character assassination, manipulation, and ruthless persistence.<\/p>\n

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Those three characteristics have been in plain view for the last two weeks as Harris and her surrogates have unleashed a series of attacks on Donald Trump and his running mate, J.D. Vance.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In particular, Harris and the left-wing media have adopted two of Alinsky\u2019s rules in order to try to destroy the public image of Trump and Vance. The first is: \u201cRidicule is man\u2019s most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.\u201d The second rule is \u201cPick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Both of those can be seen in the push to label Trump and Vance as \u201cweird,\u201d an insult employed by Harris\u2019 running mate Tim Walz when he was auditioning for the job. There is absolutely no response to that insult except to say, \u201cI\u2019m not weird; you are,\u201d and that\u2019s the tactic Trump\u2019s team employed, but it was hopeless. The Democrats picked the target, froze it, and personalized it. Alinsky was right. You can\u2019t counterattack ridicule.<\/p>\n

So the best you can hope for is to expose the attack as itself being ridiculous<\/strong>. Vance has tried to do that by pointing out that Walz\u2019s policies such as putting tampons in elementary school boys bathrooms are what\u2019s weird. It might have been an effective counter-tactic when this country had a media that wasn\u2019t thoroughly partisan. But a press corps thrilled to join in regurgitating Democratic Party talking points doesn\u2019t care how weird it is that Tampon Tim can\u2019t tell the difference between boys and girls.<\/p>\n

The good news is that Donald Trump is very familiar with the Democrats\u2019 tactic of character assassination. For the past nine years he has been subjected to endless false attacks that aimed to polarize him as first a Russian stooge, then a white supremacist, and finally an enemy of democracy who threatened a \u201cbloodbath\u201d if he wasn\u2019t reelected in 2024. Those attacks have all been exposed as partisan chicanery, but that doesn\u2019t stop his opponents from repeating them every chance they get.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, Democrats and the mainstream media were caught red-handed as they tried to jump-start a new hoax that suggested Trump would cancel future elections if he were elected this year.<\/p>\n

The video that played on Sunday morning shows and across the universe of cable news channels for three days at the end of July came from a speech that Trump delivered to the Turning Point Action Believers Summit on Friday, July 26. This clip from CNN<\/a> typified the way Trump\u2019s words were portrayed, with one commentator saying that \u201cit certainly sounds like a presidential candidate that is determined to shut down the democratic process.\u201d<\/p>\n

CBS News<\/a> reached the same conclusion, saying that on social media there were \u201csome calls of alarm in response to Trump\u2019s comments, expressing concern that they alluded to authoritarianism and could be interpreted as an indication that he would not leave office if he wins the election.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s ridiculous, of course, and if there should be any concern about Trump\u2019s words, it would be about how nonchalantly the media distorted them for the purpose of character assassination.<\/p>\n

The part of Trump\u2019s speech that was played or quoted ad infinitum<\/em> by mainstream media for those three days was this:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cChristians, get out and vote, just this time. You won\u2019t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it\u2019ll be fixed, it\u2019ll be fine, you won\u2019t have to vote any more, my beautiful Christians \u2026 In four years, you don\u2019t have to vote again. We\u2019ll have it fixed so good you\u2019re not going to have to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n

Twisting those words to suggest Trump was planning \u201cto shut down the democratic process\u201d is just cynical. But if anyone were sincerely alarmed, you\u2019d think that their next step would be to listen to the entire speech where these words were uttered to find out if there was any missing context.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A real journalist would look for answers <\/strong>before running with a hugely damaging and potentially slanderous story. But this episode demonstrates conclusively that there are very few real journalists left in America.<\/p>\n

I knew the real meaning of Trump\u2019s words because I had watched the speech live on a streaming channel, but how much work would it take for a highly paid network reporter or anchor to look at the Believers speech<\/a> after the fact before accusing the former president of plotting to eliminate elections?<\/p>\n

If they had, they would have found that, a little over 37 minutes into his speech, Trump explained to his audience that Christians vote in disappointingly low numbers, and if they wanted him to return to the White House, they needed to go out and vote \u201cat least this election.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the full quote that I don\u2019t believe was ever played, not once, by any major media outlet:<\/strong><\/p>\n

And by the way, Christians have to vote. You know, I don\u2019t want to scold you, but do you know Christians do not vote proportionately, they don\u2019t vote like they should. They\u2019re not big voters \u2026 They have to vote. If they don\u2019t vote, we\u2019re not going to win the election. If you do vote, we\u2019re going to win in a landslide. Too big to rig. We\u2019re gonna win in a landslide. \u2026 You know, you have tremendous power, but you just don\u2019t know that. But you have to use that power. Christians are a group that\u2019s known not to vote very much. You have to go out at least this election, just get us into that beautiful White House. Vote for your congressmen and women. Vote for your senators. We will change this country for the better. This country will be great again like never before. You gotta vote. \u2026 This election will be the most important election in the history of our country. We\u2019re going to save our country with this election.<\/em><\/p>\n

Who knows how much damage the reporting of CNN, CBS, ABC and NBC did to Trump while the \u201cCanceled Elections Hoax\u201d played out from that Friday until Tuesday of the following week? And I don\u2019t expect that we have heard the last of this hoax, any more than we have heard the last of the \u201cVery Fine People Hoax<\/a>\u201d after seven years.<\/p>\n

But there was a sudden and definitive end to the use of the misleading clip on TV news outlets starting that Monday night, July 29. That\u2019s because Laura Ingraham aired an interview with Trump on Fox News where she asked him specifically what he meant by saying that Christians wouldn\u2019t have to vote again in four years.<\/p>\n

Trump repeated to Ingraham exactly what he had said in his speech \u2013 that Christians tend not to vote in as high numbers as other interest groups \u2013 but even Ingraham had a hard time grasping the idea.<\/strong> Certainly she had never watched the video of the entire speech, and apparently neither did anyone on her staff, because she truly seemed to be unsure why Trump had said that he wanted Christians to \u201cvote, just this time.\u201d Even after Trump explained, she still wanted him to reassure her that he didn\u2019t plan to cancel future elections.<\/p>\n

To be clear, Ingraham is a lawyer by training, not a journalist.<\/strong> Even so, she shamed the real journalists by at least asking the target of the smear to explain himself. But that wouldn\u2019t have even been necessary if anyone in the media had bothered to listen to the Believers speech in the first place.<\/p>\n

And even after the Ingraham interview, there were several news articles that simply refused to comprehend Trump\u2019s explanation. The New York Times<\/a> characterized the interview as Trump declining \u201cto back away from [the] \u2018You don\u2019t have to vote again\u2019 line\u201d and saying that he \u201cbrushed aside multiple requests to walk back or clarify the statement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wrong. Actually, the New York Times declined to accept Trump\u2019s explanation and tried unsuccessfully to keep the hoax alive. But as we see every day, the real hoax is journalists pretending to be fair and impartial when, in fact, they are just tools of the radical left who have one goal in mind: Target Trump.<\/p>\n

Saul Alinsky would be proud.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Frank Miele, the retired editor of the Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell, Mont., is a columnist for RealClearPolitics. His newest book, \u201cWhat Matters Most: God, Country, Family and Friends<\/a>,\u201d is available<\/em> from his Amazon author page<\/a>. Visit him at HeartlandDiaryUSA.com<\/a>\u00a0or follow him on Facebook @HeartlandDiaryUSA or on Twitter or Gettr @HeartlandDiary.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nWed, 08\/14\/2024 – 07:20<\/span><\/p>\n

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