It seems to me that Der Donald may be running out of friendly hiding places. He has built his whole campaign on “earned media”, coverage from the MSM without him actually having to pay for it. It worked out very well for a while, but now? Not so much.
Whither is an old word, and it basically means “Where”, or “to what place”. The media picked it up in the 70’s and 80’s and for some reason the word always stuck with me. The media used it to make them look like they didn’t get their degrees from a university off of the inside of a matchbook cover, it made them sound all deep, and thoughtful and shit. Hell, I like to be thought of as deep and thoughtful and shit too!
Trump is running out of friends in the media. In the good old days Trump got up, scratched himself, kissed himself in the mirror and walked out into the living room to make his daily circuit of the morning talk shows, calling them in to get his narrative out first. Those salad days are over. Most t.v. morning shows will no longer accept his call ins, they’re treating him as an almost “serious” candidate. What a bummer man, the Dude will not abide! But it only gets worse for him.
It turns out that now that he’s an actual candidate for President the media actually wants him to answer actual question and stuff, like about real issues, and not just let him bloviate away on whatever crosses his feeble mind at that moment. That is like just so very unfair man! Like, answer actual questions and shit? What gives?
Trump spent almost a month appearing on programs nowhere else than Fixed News. Little wonder. But now the rose seems to be falling off of that bloom as well. He can’t appear on Megyn Kelly’s show, the exclusive interview didn’t go so well when she called him out about his “bleeding from her wherever” comments. Now Chris Wallace is regularly shredding his surrogates when they spout the normal idiotic talking points, and Bret Bair called him out as well. Hell, even Greta Sustern calls him out on his idiocy. The final slice of the cake is when Shep Smith gushed all over himself complimenting Hillary Clinton on using his own words to connect him to racists! What, oh what is a mega billionaire supposed to do?
So now the question is, what do you do for free media Donald? Your old buddy Roger Ailes is no longer there to run interference for you and get you preferential treatment. That interview with Anderson Cooper the other night didn’t exactly set the barn on fire. And as civilly and politely as Rachel Maddow treated Kellyanne Conway in her interview, I just don’t see a stop at TRMS as being on the Trump Train anytime soon. So, where do you go from here for free face time?
Trump is I believe deliberately not spending money on ads, counting on free media coverage. If appearances on Bill O’Reilly (who has recently gently called him out for some of his shit) and Sean Hannity for his free face time, the pickings are gonna be kind of slim from here on out pardner.
Thanks as always for reading!