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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: ABX on June 08, 2017, 02:29:34 am

Title: Fox News host tears into Trump: News media is not your problem — 'it's you'
Post by: ABX on June 08, 2017, 02:29:34 am
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...."Mr. President, it's not the 'fake-news media' that's your problem," Cavuto said. "It's you. It's not just your tweeting — it's your scapegoating. It's your refusal to see that sometimes you're the one who's feeding your own beast — and acting beastly with your own guys."....

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fox-news-host-tears-trump-040202721.html


Title: Re: Fox News host tears into Trump: News media is not your problem — 'it's you'
Post by: ABX on June 08, 2017, 02:32:49 am
He is right. The question is it on purpose, out of ignorance, accident, or incompetence.

Is he feeding the beast because he needs the beast? He needs the opponent- the us against them game. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Title: Re: Fox News host tears into Trump: News media is not your problem — 'it's you'
Post by: roamer_1 on June 08, 2017, 02:41:09 am
He needs the opponent- the us against them game. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

Somehow, that sounds familiar.
Title: Re: Fox News host tears into Trump: News media is not your problem — 'it's you'
Post by: ABX on June 08, 2017, 02:48:14 am
Somehow, that sounds familiar.

Was that The Art of the Deal? 

In conflict tactics there are certain rules that [should be regarded] as universalities. One is that the opposition must be singled out as the target and 'frozen.'...     "...any target can always say, 'Why do you center on me when there are others to blame as well?' When your 'freeze the target,' you disregard these [rational but distracting] arguments.... Then, as you zero in and freeze your target and carry out your attack, all the 'others' come out of the woodwork very soon. They become visible by their support of the target...'      "One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other."
Title: Re: Fox News host tears into Trump: News media is not your problem — 'it's you'
Post by: roamer_1 on June 08, 2017, 02:57:54 am
Was that The Art of the Deal? 


Maybe... (http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/communism/alinsky.htm)
Yeah... Art of the Deal.. That must have been it.
Title: Re: Fox News host tears into Trump: News media is not your problem — 'it's you'
Post by: Mom MD on June 08, 2017, 03:07:31 am
Maybe... (http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/communism/alinsky.htm)
Yeah... Art of the Deal.. That must have been it.

I believe that's Alinsky's rules for radicals....
Title: Re: Fox News host tears into Trump: News media is not your problem — 'it's you'
Post by: roamer_1 on June 08, 2017, 03:11:00 am
I believe that's Alinsky's rules for radicals....

You may have missed the link in my post...  :whistle:
Title: Re: Fox News host tears into Trump: News media is not your problem — 'it's you'
Post by: Mom MD on June 08, 2017, 03:13:33 am
You may have missed the link in my post...  :whistle:

Sorry.  These old eyes did not pick out the blue link against the blue background.  Mae culpa
Title: Re: Fox News host tears into Trump: News media is not your problem — 'it's you'
Post by: roamer_1 on June 08, 2017, 03:14:01 am
I believe that's Alinsky's rules for radicals....

You may have missed the link in my post...  :whistle:

Oh, and DO pay mind to the dedication found therein...
Title: Re: Fox News host tears into Trump: News media is not your problem — 'it's you'
Post by: roamer_1 on June 08, 2017, 03:16:57 am
Sorry.  These old eyes did not pick out the blue link against the blue background.  Mae culpa

Not to worry... Old eyes on old women are the only way I look sexy anymore. :)
Title: Re: Fox News host tears into Trump: News media is not your problem — 'it's you'
Post by: Weird Tolkienish Figure on June 08, 2017, 04:01:17 am
Wow, Cavuto. Wasn't he a big time Trump supporter?
Title: Re: Fox News host tears into Trump: News media is not your problem — 'it's you'
Post by: Cripplecreek on June 08, 2017, 04:10:45 am
The vast left wing conspiracy "got" to Cavuto.

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