by Jeff Childers
I’ve said it before, but President Trump is a marketing genius. He knows that corporate media loves to criticize him. The irresistible catnip is whenever Trump exaggerates or generalizes, the media falls for it every time, thinking this time they can convince folks Trump is ‘lying.’
Look how the media and the Democrats are playing defense on this Haitian-pet-eating story. Headline from local 10 WBNS yesterday:1
At Tuesday night’s debate, President Trump boldly claimed Springfield’s Haitians were eating dogs and cats. ABC’s moderators qua debaters promptly fact-checked him, and the national controversy was off and running. People may not consciously recognize the use of the weasel-word “credible” to modify the word “evidence,” but they still detect the deception on some level.
Saying “there’s no credible evidence” of something is totally different from claiming there is NO EVIDENCE of that thing. The phrase “no credible evidence” means there’s evidence, but I don’t believe it. In other words, the speaker found the evidence not credible, which is a purely subjective evaluation.
The Haitian Pet Gobblers story has legs (quite furry ones, in fact). The debate has volcanically erupted all over social media. Even billboards! Snopes ran a fact-check Tuesday headlined, “Arizona GOP Launches ‘Eat Less Kittens’ Billboards Referencing Unfounded Conspiracy Theory.” Here’s Arizona GOP’s tasty billboard:
The Trump Team’s fingerprints are all over this mega-viral story, and in a way I haven’t quite pieced together yet, it’s somehow connected to the original controversy over J.D. Vance’s ‘unmarried cat ladies’ comment. Could the Trump Campaign have been playing a long game of some kind?
Now who should the unmarried cat ladies vote for?
The New York Times noticed, too. This morning the Grey Lady ran a whiny, top-of-fold story headlined, “How Trump Uses Vitriol for Migrants to Sideline Other Issues.” Cry harder, New York Times.
Haitians belong in Haiti Not in America and banning all imagration from Haiti as well their just going to ruin everythng and America needs to totally pull out of the United Nations