If Obama made 1 divisive statement the media covered it for eight years, Trump goes full Frank Booth

[Snake Plissken]

for two full hours at CPAC and not a peep out of the media about his unhinged psychotic rant.

Trump appeared to be losing his mind in delusional CPAC speech — why didn’t media cover it that way?

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/trump-appeared-losing-mind-delusional-cpac-speech-didnt-media-cover-way/

[malaise]

1. Not only that

Fucking M$Greedia hacks are discussing whether any Democratic candidate can beat this monster of a lunatic in 2020.
I can no longer process this madness.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. I am starting to think the same thing. People

Do not realize how close it is. We have to get WI MI and PA the states they may have rigged. Or Texas. And read that if trump approval in the mid 40s or up likely GOP state.

And nothing the monster does matters. His approval ratings are going up. And just watching helplessly while he and GOP are spreading "socialists !"

Today is the first day I am thinking I need to prepare my brain for 5-6 more years of him.

[thegoose]

2. Really. Where's the nitrous oxide?

Daddy wants to f**k! (Istanka)

[Jim__]

3. Full Frank Booth - great reference!

[FrankBooth]

20. I concur...

Thanks for the love letter!

[grantcart]

21. Frank Booth, hell we passed Bulworth 10.7 months ago.

[BigmanPigman]

4. Nicole Wallace just did

and others on both CNN and MSNBC did cover it that way over the weekend. I saw it mentioned several times...they all mentioned how crazy and dangerous he is.

[NewJeffCT]

5. When Bill Clinton made long speeches in the 90s

he was a narcissist who liked to hear himself talk, according to much of the media

[Laura PourMeADrink]

19. I was there. 1988 Dem convention. Clinton

Went on and on so long...when he said "in conclusion.." the entire room burst into applause. Didn't seem to faze him at all.

[uponit7771]

6. The US M$M has lack of focus when it comes to gish galloping con men. They move from one to

... another and never let the populous focus on a big lie that can be disproved quickly and admitted by the person gish galloping.

[Honeycombe8]

7. I don't know what you're watching & reading, but it's all over the place.

Stories about him being unhinged, that his rambling speech went on for two hours, parts of it shown on tv to show how snarky he was being.

The media is properly covering it.

Next!

[Snake Plissken]

8. Which media?

specifically

[Honeycombe8]

11. Right off the bat, I can think of CNN & MSNBC. But those haven't been the only ones.

SNL did a skit on it.
Guardian News ("bizarre&quot
Thenation.com (he had "a breakdown&quot
NYT.com (fact checking)
theweek.com (speech contained 104 false/misleading statements)
theatlantic.com ("bewildering&quot

It's been on the morning programs, the evening programs, jokes by comedians. It's been everywhere.

[Snake Plissken]

12. I should have been more specific I mean real news, not cable news

Not a single main stream channel has mention how unhinged his psychotic rant was

[Honeycombe8]

15. I listed more. CNN is the premier news source for the world.

Saying it's not real news is Trumpian, you know. That's EXACTLY what Trumpers say.

Virtually every news source for the country covered the speech. Political fact sites fact checked. Comedians made jokes about it.

[GaYellowDawg]

24. Seriously?

How the hell is CNN not “main stream”? By the way, that’s one word, not two. Anyhow, how is CNN not mainstream? It’s only been around for THIRTY NINE YEARS.

[Snake Plissken]

25. The viewership of cables channels says it's not main stream

What to they get maybe 2 million viewers on their very best night? in a country of 325 million people

[Honeycombe8]

16. "The 67 Most Stunning Lines from Donald Trump's...CPAC Speech"

The 67 most stunning lines from Donald Trump's epic 2-hour CPAC speech

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/04/politics/donald-trump-cpac-speech/index.html

[GaYellowDawg]

22. It's been next to nonstop on MSNBC

I didn’t see the original rant, but I’ll bet I’ve seen about 45 minutes of it between all the clips.

[gratuitous]

9. I'm waiting for the pitty-pats and schoolmarms to admonish Trump over saying "bullshit"

Remember how out in force they were when Robert DeNiro and Patton Oswald said swear words? How indicative is it of our times that entertainers are held to a higher standard than the president?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. president tRump IS an entertainer. So was RayGun. . . . nt

[Pepsidog]

10. Heard this term recently "normalcy bias".

[superpatriotman]

13. Frank Booth committed less crimes

And dressed much better

[Scruffy1]

17. What did yo expect?

The American media is the same "vast wasteland " it was in the 60's. Corporate owned and controlled by corporate ad dollars. unplug,haul to curb.

[progressoid]

23. Not a peep?

I couldn't avoid hearing about that fucking disaster.

[Snake Plissken]

27. You must watch nothing but cable news

I didn't see anything about how unhinged he was on any of the network channels

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. MSNBC hosts have been ranting about the CPAC speech all afternoon and so far

all evening. I don't know who else is ignoring it (besides Fox, obviously), but they sure aren't.

[Snake Plissken]

28. so far nobody has mentioned anything but cable news

cable news in not what most people watch in fact nobody but political junkies watch cable news, aside from Fox News which is watched by oatmeal drooling mouth breathers, but even Fox News only gets 3 million viewers on it's best night.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. Broadcast TV is almost entirely entertainment. There is very little news

or commentary on broadcast TV. There are some short news programs early in the morning and in the evening, plus Nightline late in the evening and then the Sunday morning shows, which are commentary shows. Do people watch those programs any more than they watch CNN? I'd argue that CNN, which is on every airport in the US and is broadcast all over the world, is the mainstreamiest of the mainstream.

[Snake Plissken]

30. 130 million people vote in this country and only about 5% of them watch cable news

Aside from people I converse with online I don't know anyone who watches cable news, I personally don't even have cable TV.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

31. I don't know anyone who *doesn't* watch cable news. Anecdotes aren't data.