One area where Donald Trump has undoubtedly created more jobs this election cycle was in the fact checking sector. And those happily employed little worker bees found that Trump really hit it out of the park when it came to the incessant stream of lies escaping his brain and flowing into the ether. Jane C. Timm writes:
Over the past 56 days, NBC News has exhaustively cataloged him making a long list of baseless claims. Hillary Clinton, for her part, has offered up inaccuracies — but not to the same extent.
Yet, by most measures, America trusts him more than they trust her. Could it be because one candidate is a man, and one is a woman?
Trump led Clinton by 4 points on "being honest and straightforward" in an October NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey, taken just after the second debate when Trump denied tweeting "check out a sex tape" about a former Miss Universe when he most certainly did. Trump also led Clinton by 10 points on the same question in a September survey taken the week he finally conceded that President Barack Obama was actually born in the United States.
Yes, it could be because she’s a woman. If you have marveled at polls suggesting more faith among voters in the honesty of serial liar Donald Trump, sexism provides a very good explanation. Another is the Fox News/Breitbart faithful who wouldn't know a fact if it smacked them between the eyes.
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"When we see a woman not talking in a way you expect to talk, you may feel uncomfortable," explained Deborah Tannen, a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University who has been studying Clinton since 1992. "She is authoritative, she's extremely knowledgeable and articulate, and she cites facts and she cites her experience. It's one of the things that makes people uncomfortable — because they think she's scripted."
I mean, the whole idea that Clinton is citing her own "experience" when she really should have been in the kitchen baking cookies all these years is just preposterous. Amirite?
It's really time for America to jet on into the 20th 21st Century. Some of us are already here and the water’s fine. We know it's a scary proposition that a one-time first lady, U.S. senator, and secretary of state might have more facts, knowledge, and authority on world issues than a silver-spooned Reality TV Star who's never held public office in his life. But there it is.
Not that it will stop people from making totally irrelevant critiques about women. Like when former Cruz communications director Rick Tyler explained for this NBC article why Clinton was viewed as untrustworthy. Part of it is, she’s Washington establishment, he said. But also—she's no Barack Obama when it comes to communicating.
"Hillary Clinton delivers her message confidently, but she's not warm. It's hard to deny that she's not warm, she doesn't give you that feeling," Tyler said.
Does Trump feel warm?
"Donald Trump doesn't feel warm," he said.
Hey, let’s face it, no one exudes more warmth than Trump—aka, Mr. Honesty.