tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post4632599062515962166..comments2024-03-29T22:18:45.103+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the pond gets out the pitchfork to deal with sundry heretics ... it being the very best scientific method available to the ABC ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-84474638381933749332016-10-09T11:59:24.485+11:002016-10-09T11:59:24.485+11:00James Thurber knew the solution.<a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-donald-trump-greatest-man-world-20150916-story.html" rel="nofollow">James Thurber</a> knew the solution.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-38339572936686722932016-10-09T10:34:24.956+11:002016-10-09T10:34:24.956+11:00What!? Trump still there, despite legions of pilgr...What!? Trump still there, despite legions of pilgrims clutching at their pearls?<br />Maybe a bit of <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-shamer-in-chief/" rel="nofollow">Donald Trump, Shamer in Chief</a> will help.<br /><i>In a description of Murdoch’s entry into the British media business in the 1960s, The Economist once credited him with having “invented the modern tabloid newspaper—a stew of sexual titillation, moral outrage and political aggression.” Long before his most famous media property appeared on American cable, Murdoch imported this stew to the United States with his purchase of the New York Post in the mid-’70s. One of the first things he did was to order up a gossip column, the famous “Page Six.” The “heart—and spleen—of the paper,” as Vanity Fair once described it, the column was meant to bring the high and mighty down to the realm its readers occupied by exposing their hidden seediness.<br />“Page Six” and the New York Post are what first made Trump famous. As a former “Page Six” editor aptly put it, the column “definitely played a role in helping push Donald Trump to the first round of his never-ending whatever.” An otherwise unremarkable heir of a real-estate fortune, Trump became the subject of a record number of Post covers for his carefully cultivated and basically false image as a Manhattan playboy. His salacious behavior and conspicuous lifestyle sold newspapers, just as they sell cable and Web ads today. </i><br /><br />If pushed on his "salacious behaviour" in the next debate, he could be ready with a line like "Well, why do women parade their sexuality around men?". Checkmate, Hillary. (Please, do not go the shrill.)<br />The GOP know already what it would do for their chances if they dropped Trump at this stage. Far better for him to develop a sudden, life-threatening illness. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08158673564017581517noreply@blogger.com