Anyone see this part of Trumps Mexico speech in the mainstream media?
Is this censorship by omission? Or - "Quick get the negative-spin pundits to trash the speech."
I had to search for a transcript.
This was covered on Al Jazeera, CNN, Fox, the BBC... to name the places I saw it. It wasn't covered "live", necessarily, but if you watch the news and commentary shows, they showed the tape. Funny, though, how Paul Simon was right... "A man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest." Your bias is that you think this was "outreach" or some sort. What Hispanic leaders saw was Trump bragging again about how many Latinos he knows - without actually proffering any - and double-emphasizing how many he employs. And more important, he's in Mexico and isn't addressing Mexico or Mexicans, but Mexican-Americans. His way of saying to El Presidente and to the Mexican public, "Hey, you don't matter. I'm here for the photo op."
And speaking of wheeling out the spin doctors.... have you actually seen a moderate or liberal say that this was a successful moment for Trump. Ann Coulter loved it. Sean Hannity almost wet himself with excitement. "My, how Presidential. Oooh, what a statesman." Most people, and Trump's inner circle in particular, view it as a disaster. What do you think inspired the Get Tough speech in Arizona? He stepped in **** on his Mexico adventure.
Had to go to the conservative media to find a reference to this.
The "crazy Donald" tag of Hillary may backfire if Trump does more appearances like this one. Humble and soft-spoken. Reading from a paper he said he prepared, it nevertheless appeared to be heartfelt and honest.
I am not sure many here could watch it because he honors God and those who believe and worship.
What he has done is differentiate the past Church leadership of the civil rights movement with the current leaderless anger and hate in the streets. Subtle - a strong message.
Want to know your enemy? You cannot if you dismiss and ignore such events.
Makes me wonder. If Hillary is expecting "crazy Donald" on the stand, and a "racist" who visits the Mexican president, Black Churches and Flood districts, she may be in for a surprise.
And well you should have had to go to conservative media. Does the mass media owe Trump a free commercial for every awkward stunt he pulls. The speech is available but the news was covered for days.... the news you conveniently ignore:
> This was a staged event.
> No press allowed.
> No questions that the candidate wasn't apprised of.
> Scripted - 100% no matter what they claim - answers. Not just answers he had time to prepare, but SCRIPTED.
The ten minute speech that you seem so moved by was awkward and offered nothing. He "wrote this the other day"? Ha, I laugh at your naivete! He wrote not a word of that... it's not in his cadence, it uses words he never uses, it's grammatically correct.... All signs that it was written by one of the hacks in the back room.
Content: Absolutely nothing. Self-congratulations for Donald Trump for showing up. Almost like he's aware that he's never been to the inner city, he's never going back and that they live in a world he is totally unaware of. Platitudes on how he's going to rebuild Detroit, but no programs.
Tepid response from the congregation except when he was saying nice things about their Bishop/Doctor/Pastor....
Awkward beyond awkward when he made a point of citing scripture in the correct format. When he did so, the congregation applauded. He thought it was because they recognized the verse from John. They were applauding because he'd previously been called out for not even knowing the correct format with which to cite bible verses.
These are people who would've been aware of that, so their applause was "Attaboy!" He then tried to "make one" with the crowd by saying that "most groups I speak to don't know that (recognize the verse) but we know it". "We"? WE??!! Donald's including himself as a devout Christian? That's just funny. And I only laugh ironically; the fundie base of the GOP laughs derisively. He's not even a member of the church he claims to attend "as often as he can" in NYC, and he seems to attend any old church when he's at Mar-A-Lago. It was a condescending statement, based on pure fantasy... he never spouts verse so how would "most groups I speak to don't know that..." be anything but ********?
(Then again... the PTL folks he was addressing? In entertainment, you "paper the house" to get people who will cheer. The "Bishop" couldn't even do that. The place was 2/3 empty. And it's essentially a private church. Just who appointed the Bishop to be Bishop? I guess next year he'll make himself Cardinal? Maybe Pope? What with the prayer shawl, maybe Grand Rabbi?)
Seriously. I watched CNN international, and got nothing but a couple of pictures. I am curious if the local (US) news covered it?
I have as little access to news networks as you do but I had no trouble finding coverage of the short speech in Mexico. Yet, again, do you think every word he utters should get live coverage? The networks and news outlets covered it, but as it bumped right into his bombastic and worrisome performance in Arizona, they played the two against each other. I guess you're proposing that we let his photo op in Mexico stand alone as a set piece and not compare and contrast to his behavior the very same day when he's back in the arms of his comfy America First posse?
