There's been the predictable chatter in the shallows of the "mainstream media" over neo- fascist con artist Donald "Rump" Trump's stagy, staff- written expression of vague "regrets" in a speech yesterday in North Carolina. Coming on the heels of the hiring of alt- right tax- dodging shitheel Steve Bannon as Trump's "campaign" CEO, it seemed to be a one- off to the anticipated ramping up of Trump's vicious rhetoric, and is contrary to Trump's own assertions earlier this week that he doesn't want to "pivot."
Steve M. at No More Mister Nice Blog thinks this is an "anchor left, pivot right" moment that has all the hallmarks of a Bannon/ Breitbart/ Government Accountability Institute operation intended to soften up the "mainstream media" which has been longing for a "pivot" and a horserace election (fate of the country be damned).
Jonathan Capehart looks at Trump's recent speech on race relations in all- white West Bend, WI, as a similar tactic intended not so much to lure African Americans to his side, but to give "embarrassed white Republicans the thinnest of veils they need to vote for him." (We might add, and the thinnest of veils for the "mainstream media" to treat him as a "normal" Republican candidate, like these two credulous children.)
In the meantime, one observer gauges the immediate effect of the North Carolina "regrets" speech:
Past 15 hours— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) August 19, 2016
Trump: Hillary has brain damage
Trump: I regret something
Trump: Immigrants are still bad
Guess which gets the media focus!
If you can find any Edward R. Murrows in our puerile, ADD media, please let us know.
BONUS:
Trump's new campaign people know the press has been dying for a comeback narrative and they are going to feed it. pic.twitter.com/LmBsTXLfq2— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) August 19, 2016
