Charles P. Pierce, at Esquire.com, has advice for our soft-spined corporate media heads concerning vulgarian narcissist Donald "Rump" Trump, whom they allow to call into their gab fests, rather than appear in person:
"No more phone calls. If he wants to be on your air—which is actually air that belongs to all of us, but this is no time to get into that—then he has to sit his ass down in your studio and take questions face-to-face. I know of no other candidate for any office anywhere who's gotten away with just being a voice on the telephone. It's one baby step away from Hal Philip Walker, the candidate in Robert Altman's Nashville who campaigned only as a voice on a sound truck. In your cowardice and your insecurity, you've allowed him to rewrite rules that you have every right and duty to enforce. He is getting away with murder, figuratively, at least at the moment, and you're letting him do it. Good god, what's next?"Pierce answers the "what's next?" in the next breath: Rump is thinking of extorting $5 million from host CNN in order for him to appear in the next Rethuglican poo-fling on December 15. We'd like to think that Rump's competitors on the clown bus would chip in double that amount to CNN to keep him off the stage.
