Liberal Media’s Attrition War against Trump’s Immigration Policy
(UPDATED VERSION)
1. “Amnesty” Don
Donald Trump won fair and square the 2016 election with a solid platform against illegal immigration. Yet the Mainstream Media has been striving before and after the elections to paint Trump as a flip-flopper in terms of immigration.
One of their gimmicks was the nickname of Amnesty Don.
On Monday, August 29, 2016, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, the Morning Joe “conservative” co-host, went with the flow of the mainstream liberal media and trolled the then-Republican presidential candidate for allegedly softening his position on deporting some illegal immigrants in a two-hour Fox News Hannity show exclusive, aired on August 23, 2016
and August 24, 2016
in Austin, Texas: “Think about this, for 14 months, Amnesty Don, and a lot of people are calling him Amnesty Don. People are saying it, they’re calling him Amnesty Don. Amnesty Don, that’s what people are calling him… I’m not calling him that, Amnesty Don. Hashtag #AmnestyDon…”
Scarborough claimed that the moniker — which, in fact, appeared on Twitter at least as early as July 2015 — “is the #1 trending topic on Twitter right now” and that “Twitter Loves It” (as if Twitter’s users were all liberals). In fact, Scarborough had his payback for Trump calling his show “low rated” and “unwatchable” a week before.
2. “Dump Trump”
The relationship between Trump and Scarborough has had constant turmoil. With three months before the general elections, Scarborough published an op-ed for The Washington Post urging the Republican Party to “dump Donald Trump” as their presidential candidate because of Trump’s suggestion that gun rights advocates might try to stop Hillary Clinton from appointing Supreme Court justices.
(Trump said later that he was referring to political, not violent, action).
Scarborough likes to present himself as a poster boy for conservatism, giving false credits to his ultra-leftist MSNBC working place in being considered a “news” network. In early 2009, the former Florida Republican representative was asked by his Florida party colleagues to run for the Senate seat vacated by Republican Mel Martinez, but he declined, saying that he can have more influence over public policy as the host of Morning Joe than as a U.S. Senator.
And that was perfectly understandable, since his seven-figure 2007 job, as an MSNBC co-host for his show, had proven much more lucrative.
3. “Mourning” Joe
Trump’s media feuds were constant during his campaign, and a way to rally voters on his side, particularly in the primary elections.
With less than three months until the general elections of November 8, 2016 some strategists suggested though that these fights with various media personalities and reporters might limit his efforts to expand his brand and reach out to new supporters.
The media attrition war against Trump’s immigration policy helped their ratings, which, according to Trump, were “low.” Besides, his dishy personality, incomparable with Hillary Clinton’s, attracted the mass-media’s interest like a magnet, despite their notoriously and passionately undissimulated hatred for the man.
It is interesting to follow the mainstream liberal media’s tactics in presenting Clinton’s personality and scandals as “boring” in order to take her out from the spotlight. Clinton did not hold a formal press conference since December 4, 2015 and she was known for avoiding questions.
As for Scarborough, maybe a hashtag should be invented for him, too. Maybe now, that Donald Trump is president, he should change his show name to Mourning Joe.
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INTELLECTUAL CONSERVATIVE (Phoenix, Arizona) [800+ views; 3 comments]
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MEDIUM (San Francisco, California) [100+ views; 3 comments; 50+ likes]
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