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How Donald Trump plays the media

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This is just fascinating beyond belief!

How Donald Trump Plays the Media - The Rush Limbaugh Show

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RUSH: This latest Donald Trump episode is a glittering, glaring example of how he is playing the media like a Stradivarius. And I tell you, folks, for all of you people who have complained and whined and moaned about the media over the years, and how unfair they are to Republicans and how unfair that makes the whole process and, "What are we gonna do?" You need to be studying Donald Trump. I don't care whether you think what he says is outrageous or wrong or whatever. That's the wrong way to look at this right now.

This latest quote/unquote "outrage" from Trump is a perfect example of how he plays the media, how he knows exactly what to do and how to do it to own their attention and airtime. He says things that he knows will drive them crazy. He says things over and over that he knows will drive them insane, and then when they go insane, he doubles down on it and drives them even crazier. He also knows that his audience is in on what he is doing.

He knows that a lot of Americans agree, to a certain extent, with things that he says. He also knows he's the only one reaching those people. And then he sits back and watches (no doubt with a huge smile) the media cover what he says over and over and over and over again. Then they analyze it over and over and over, and they talk about it over and over and over again. He's confident that a lot of his voters are gonna be able to strip away the bombast and be able to get to the nuts and bolts of what he's saying, the kernel of truth of what he's saying.

In the meantime, he ends up occupying political positions exclusively that many support.
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The man is a genius.
 
Trump Supporter: Read The Art of the Deal to Understand What He's Doing - The Rush Limbaugh Show

As far as he's concerned, the more outrageous, the better. It calls attention to the point that he's making, and he ends up being the only person occupying his position. He's got no competition. Everybody else -- everybody -- is saying the exact the same thing, but none of them are saying what Trump is saying. So just in a political sense here, as I sit back literally objectively watch this rather than get all bent out of shape and emotionally attached to all this and just sit here and study it, it is literally fascinating. I have never seen anybody own the media like this.

JFK did not own the media like this.

Bill Clinton did not own the media like this.

Nobody has ever owned the media like Trump.

And when they media figures this out, the real fun thing to watch is going to be whether or not they can change the way they're covering Trump. But I don't think so, folks. You know why? They need his voters as audience. His support base is so huge, the cable networks want as much Trump as they can get. Forget their ratings. Forget what they think about what he's saying. Forget their outrage. Forget the fact that they can't believe somebody actually believes this kind of thing. Just as long as he's saying it on their network.

The thing they fear most is Trump's voters not watching. Trump's audience may be bigger than... There's no question it's bigger than CNN's. The number of people supporting Donald Trump dwarf the total audience of CNN, for example. Just last night on Fox, Greta Van Susteren turned her show over to a Trump personal appearance where this whole Muslim thing is being discussed. It's a ratings goldmine. It's ratings gold. Literally, Donald Trump has these people palm of his hand.

As I say, those of you in this audience who've been angry and frustrated and think the media is our biggest enemy and the biggest obstacle, here's somebody showing you that it's possible to neuter them. And by saying "neuter them," they're not supporting Trump, and they have not changed their hatred for Trump. But the fact is, it isn't mattering. They cannot harm his support. They can't take him out. They can take anybody else they want to. They can destroy any of these other candidates any day they decide to, and everybody in the game knows they can.
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Total Genius.
 
There is another critical thing at play here - the actions, or lack thereof, of the current POTUS. The usual way to counter "extremist" policy position proposals (Trump has no real power to act at all) is to show that the current policy, or some other candidate's proposed policy, is better. To do that they may actually have to let other republicants get some air time.

It is hard to get behind the idea that Obama's policy (strategy?) is part of the solution, rather than part of the problem. After being officially told that ISIS was a JV squad, well "contained" and posed no "existential" threat inside the US we see clear evidence to the contrary reported by the media. The problem that the MSM has is that they can't do anything but try to say how "outrageous" Trump's mere proposal is - they dare not hold up the actual policy of Obama (to be continued by Hillary?) and claim that to be a working solution.

EDIT: We know that if Hillary Clinton had a better idea, and agreed to share that brilliant and detailed plan on the air, that the MSM would put her "solution" on every time Trump was mentioned.
 
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Well, he is right. I have no idea what Huckabee or Bush said today but I can almost repeat Trump's statement verbatim.
 
In the same way hackers are geniuses for getting your bank details and stealing all your money.

In the same way the bankers were geniuses for packaging up toxic loans to sell on at a massive profit.

In the same way corrupt lawyers are geniuses for getting murderers and rapists set free using bribes and intimidation.

In the same way ISIS are geniuses for tricking him (and many others) in to turning on Muslims in general.
 
reason10 said:
This is just fascinating beyond belief!

How Donald Trump Plays the Media - The Rush Limbaugh Show

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The man is a genius.
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Con men are good at manipulating others, nothing new there and sheep rarely know they are being played. Trump says outrageous things and waits for the media to jump all over it then he gets the attention he was seeking free of charge. The faithful will ignore his tactics and make excuses for his often stated lies and the haters will say everything he says is a lie. He is playing the GOP and a portion of the American public, but in the end he will not get the GOP nomination and if he runs as an Independent he will be ensuring that Hillary wins the Whitehouse. Sadly his faithful followers do not care if the GOP loses if their guy does not win and that alone should tell the Republicans that it is time for the GOP be split along political ideological lines, the moderates get the GOP and the far right gets to start their own Party and take their chances with the public.
 
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