Sounds like fake news, huh? Well, this time we have the proof. It's all
been recorded. It's not fake news! It's Trump Time!
Incredible. How can the President-elect have such fond feelings for a man
who was responsible for a series of bombings and beheadings, the savage murders
of countless innocent people and the formation of al-Qaeda in Iraq, which
eventually evolved into ISIS? We're talking about Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the
heinous criminal who was known as "Shayakh of the slaughterers."
Oh, wait. That's not who Trump was talking about. The man who lost the
popular vote was talking about President Barack Obama.
We all remember when Trump called Obama the founder of ISIS, don't
we?
And if you missed it when Trump said that he really likes Obama as a
person, well here it is:
I know, Trump said he was being "sarcastic" when he said that thing about
ISIS.
It did take him two days to come up with that excuse, and he repeated the
ISIS charge emphatically, several times, during those
days -- but I assume that he either never believed it in the first place or at
least he no longer believes it, now.
Unless he's being sarcastic about being sarcastic. Hmmm.
Come to think of it, he did say "I'm being sarcastic... but not that
sarcastic to be honest with you."
So maybe he meant it like, "Yeah, that's right. I'm being sarcastic, I'm
being really sarcastic."
Anyway, when I heard him lavishing all that praise on Obama after his first
meeting with the President, I had to shake my head in disbelief. Even though, by
now, we should all be used to Trump saying such starkly contradictory things,
that was a stunner. Trump also said that Obama "loves the country. He wants to
do right by the country and for the country." !!!
One of the first things I thought of was 'how are the right-wing
haters going to take this?' I was thinking about Trump's basket of deplorables,
including all the radio talkers like Rush Limbag, Michael Savage and Mark Levin.
These media megalomaniacs have based the last eight years of their multi-million
dollar careers on the premise that Obama is a wretched Islamo-sympathizing demon
who hates America with all the fibers of his radical leftist being. They have
convinced their audiences of this belief by manipulating their emotions with an
endless barrage of atrocious mischaracterizations, ridiculous hyperbole and
outright lies.
To illustrate how ridiculous their hyperbole is, let me make
it clear that my characterization of
their characterization of Obama is
not hyperbole.
Where do you think Trump got "Obama is the founder of ISIS" from? Trump
didn't make that shit up himself. He got that from the right-wing
media/blogosphere. That's exactly the kind of ridiculous hyperbole I'm talking
about. If you believe that Obama is a secret jihad sympathizing Muslim -- and
that he hates America with every fiber of his being (these kinds of things
have actually, literally been said countless times during Obama's
entire time on the national stage) then it's not much of a leap to believe that
he really is the founder of ISIS.
This is what Trump does. He listens to and reads the right-wing
hate media and repeats the shit he knows they love to
hear. (Notice how he hardly ever repeats anything from the legitimate,
intellectual conservative press. That wouldn't stoke the anger and hatred that
he used to fuel his campaign.)
He's noticed the same thing that anyone who observes the
right-wing hate media could see -- the audience will believe anything they
hear that feeds their anger and hatred. They will defend those beliefs
ferociously. And the more preposterously evil the things they hear are, the more
ferociously they will believe and defend them.
This is why he hardly ever takes back any of the blatantly false things
he repeats from the right-wing hate media. And when he does take it back, it's
always insincere and not without a fuck you to the media for making him do
it. This is because he knows how strongly his supporters believe in those
things. If he disavows those falsehoods, he disavows their most cherished
beliefs. And he only takes back those things when confronted with it's
falsity (or awfulness) persistently and over a long period of time.
Examples:
(Not an example of a false statement but an awful one)
His admission that John McCain is a war hero --"OK, he's a hero because he
was captured. I prefer soldiers who weren't captured."
His Disavowal of David Duke's endorsement which had to be wrung from
him after days of being asked about it and lying about not even knowing who he
was -- an irritated Trump uses just three words -- "I disavow, OK?"
His admission that Obama was born in the US -- "Hillary started it."
And the Obama/ISIS thing -- "I was being sarcastic."
Like I said, insincere, unapologetic and not without adding even more
falsehoods and insults.
Anyway, getting back to my curiosity about how the right-wing radio talkers
would react to Trump's praise of Obama. Without a doubt, the one theme they have
emphasized more than any other during the last eight years is that Obama hates
America and has even succeeded in destroying everything good and great about
America. (hence the 'Make America Great Again' slogan)
Now here is Trump, right after getting elected and (as he pointed out
himself in a post election rally) no longer needing the votes of his rabid
right-wing supporters, saying the exact opposite!
Wow! I couldn't wait to hear their reactions. I tuned into Rush Limbag's
show the next day and it was the very first thing the bloviating blowhard
brought up! Rush's spin was classic Limbag.
He said that Trump was "playing" Obama. Ah, ha,ha,ha,ha,ha.
Me thinks you are the one being played, oh Lord
and Master of all bullshit.
Yes, El Rushbo went on to say that Trump was playing Obama but that Obama
was too arrogant and narcissistic to realize it. Ah, ha,ha,ha,ha,ha.
Me thinks you are the one who is too arrogant and
narcissistic to realize who is actually being played, oh Lord and Master of all
dittoheads.
He said that Obama thinks he's God's gift to humanity and that it is this
psychological conceit that prevents him from seeing the truth.
Talk about the pot calling the black man something he's not.
I'm sure Obama has a healthy ego but for Christ's sake, for his entire
career Rush is the one who has been using the catchphrase "with talent on loan
from God" to describe the source of his awesomeness.
You can't listen to Dimbulb's show for more than 20 minutes without hearing
him tell his audience how great he is.
And, to add even more irony to the farce, the third person involved, Trump
himself, has also invoked God for creating him to be the greatest at whatever it
is he happens to be talking about.
In a contest of arrogance, narcissism and being an all around shithead,
comparing Rush and Trump for the honor of being the greatest in those areas --
would be like comparing Mickey Mantle to Willie Mays or Michael Jordan to Lebron
James for being the best ever in their respective sports.
Do you want more proof that Trump is playing Rush and all the others in the
basket of deplorables?
Well, stay tuned to this blog
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