Yes, the news media has been trying to create the impression that “everyone” is objecting to the snippet of Trump’s remarks that the news media chooses to play. Especially CNN. It’s like CNN is trying to influence the election instead of reporting the news. :eek:
The problem with using the term “everyone” is that it seldom actually means “everyone”. That’s just silly. Have you met everyone?
Do the polls show a drop in Trump’s support? Do the polls show a drop in the credibility of the news media?
A title of The Assassination of Donald Trump seems to be more than just an observation, but I’ll accept your word that it’s only an observation.
If someone is willing to potentially take a bullet meant for me, I have no problem if he gets wasted and mongers a few whores on his day off. But that’s me.
I’m going to have to stop drinking coffee while reading SDMB. I just spouted hot coffee all over my laptop again.
As opposed to Fair and Balanced news channels? :dubious:
I seriously doubt CNN is hoping to influence anything. They’re just hoping their tiny cadre of remaining viewers will stick around for the next commercial.
Considering that one of the drug lords allegedly put a $100 million bounty on his head over remarks he was making earlier this year, I’m actually kind of surprised there hasn’t been an attempt on his life.
You know I was thinking a great SNL sketch would be Christopher Walken returning to host and doing all kinds of press and he meets Donald Trump and shakes his hand and then like in the movie he starred in, The Dead Zone, see’s him being elected president and some apocalyptic, nuclear scenario taking place and assassinates him.
IMHO, anybody stupid enough to think a drug lord is actually going to fork over $100M is too stupid to plot an effective assassination. I’d like to see that conversation:
“I’ve come to collect my reward!”
:sounds of automatic gunfire:
Obama didn’t even get a shoe thrown his way in his first term. I doubt anyone’s going to go after Trump. Maybe someone who thinks he betrayed the conservative cause – he’s espoused some lib ideas, but they seem to go under the radar for some reason.
The people supporting Trump aren’t ‘real’ conservatives. They’re angry morons who think a rich person with a big mouth is ‘their guy’ because he ‘says what he believes’, regardless of how accurate he is.
I post on another board that had an anti-Obama board in late 2008 and early 2009 that got this fiber arts website on the Secret Service’s radar because of some things that were posted on there. I couldn’t believe some of the things I saw on there myself; a lot of people were banned, and it wouldn’t surprise me if some of them are serving very long prison terms because they posted that they wanted to assassinate the POTUS AND how they planned to do it. :eek:
They must have thought that because you have to register to post on that board, and at the time read posts too, it wouldn’t be seen by anyone outside that site. Wrong-o-rama.
For several years afterwards, the single word that was this group’s name was flagged, and any reference to that group would get an immediate message from an administrator telling the offender that they had better edit that post ASAP or it would be done for them, and a second offense would lead to banning.
Assassinations, like mass shootings in today, and hijackings in the 70s and 80s, are driven by media spectacle. In the 1960s, when someone wanted to make a name for themselves, they assassinated someone. Nowadays they shoot up a school or a movie theater.
Once we do have a major political figure assassinated, we’ll probably see a few more in quick succession. On the bright side, it will probably mean fewer mass shootings.
It’s not as to Trump himself, but conservative media has picked up on an ACLU local board member who posted on Facebook a suggestion to threaten Trump voters with assassination:
Perhaps one could say that of Oswald, and certainly that of Hinckley, but they seem to be in the minority. I don’t think either Wallace’s or King’s shooters were motivated by the need for publicity. Nor do I think that was Sirhan’s motivation. It seems to me that the advocacy of a cause (Booth, Sirhan, Ray) or mental illness (Squeaky) are more prominent causes.
Wallace’s killer had no poiltical motive. RFK and JFK’s killers did, but it was still senseless. The last Presidential assassination to actually make sense was Lincoln’s. Booth’s motive was clear and his target made sense given his motives.
