Trump's Tricks: How He Riles the Media While Entertaining Supporters
Debra J. Saunders
Posted: Oct 28, 2018 12:01 AM
WASHINGTON -- Critics often accuse President Donald Trump of using dog-whistles to gin up his conservative base. But really, Trump's most effective trick is to get TV journalists to attack on demand -- as you can see in cable news coverage on the caravan of Central Americans headed toward the U.S. border.
Perhaps the biggest sucker for Trump's caravan play is Joe Scarborough, the former GOP congressman who hosts MSNBC's "Morning Joe." Scarborough led his Friday show with a lecture to Americans concerned about the caravan.
Voters should be concerned about the GOP tax cut that benefited the rich, and the prospect of Republicans fiddling with Social Security and health care, not the caravan, Scarborough schooled his viewers. "That's what's happening in your life. And they don't want you to know that."
Scarborough pooh-poohed the notion that some voters might have concerns about criminal elements sneaking in among refugees looking for a better life -- as happened during the Mariel boatlift from Cuba in 1980 -- by dismissing such fears as simple racism against "brown people."
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