Trump’s “October Surprise.” Completely Botching The Media

Man, how the mighty have fallen. Going all the way back to 2016, Trump had a standard media mantra. He’s go anywhere, anytime, and talk to anybody. In 2016 he even did a town hall on MSNBC hosted by Chris Matthews, and one or more on CNN, I believe at least one hosted by Anderson Cooper.

And why not? Trump was the clown prince darling of the mainstream media. He was free air filler, and he never failed to bump up the ratings when he was on. What did the media care if he was full of sh*t? Like the old Roman Circuses in the Coliseum, the media gave the people what they wanted.

But that’s changed. For one thing, Trump’s sh*t just isn’t funny anymore, it’s like watching the same Howie Mandel comedy show 19 times in a row. It’s reached the point where not even NewsMax, OAN and FUX News don’t cover Trump rallies live anymore, they just do quick 2-3 minute pop-ins for a taste of what’s going on. And even that is almost always in the first 45 minutes of the rally, before the place starts emptying out in the second hour.

But there was also a fundamental media change that took place in 2024 that was almost never there before. And it’s the two words that are the original sunlight for Trump’s vampire. Fact Checking.

Last night CBS put on their presidential campaign 60 Minutes episode, with both candidates invited in for separate one-on-one interviews. Then late last week the Trump team backed out of his interview. First the campaign said it was because the network had fact checked Trump real time in the presidential debate. Then they said that it was because Leslie Stahl had fact checked Trump back in 2020 about Hunter Biden’s laptop being Russian. Same pig, different lipstick.

And Lordy, Lordy, Lordy did CBS make him pay for it. In their lead-in the host noted that both candidates had accepted, and then the Trump camp dropped out. The host gave the campaign’s reasons, and then blew Traitor tot out of the water, The former President should know that we fact check every segment that appears on the air. And we fact checked his 2020 claim, and found that it never happened. Beautiful. First get your fat ass handed to you, and do it in such a way that you can’t even respond! Stand up and take a bow, FOOL!

And here’s another shade, again same pig. One of the rules for the Vice Presidential debate was that the moderators would do no live fact checking, although there was an exception in there. And Vance violated that exception when he was asked about the Springfield, Ohio story and blatantly lied. When the moderator immediately corrected his statement, Beggar Vance whined like a three year old, Well, now you’re fact checking me in real time, and that wasn’t supposed to happen! When the moderator read the exception rule to him, he whined even louder, Well, if you’re going to do that, then I demand equal time to present my side! while stomping his little hillbilly foot. The moderators, both over six years old, shut that sh*t down most riki-tik.

It’s gotten so bad that even the FUX Ministry of Propaganda actually fact checked El Pendejo ex Presidente twice in a phone interview last week, causing a world class Trumper tantrum. And why not? Il Douche is running out of shades of Trump branded porcine lipstick.

But here’s the McGuffin ladies and gentlemen, which is why you read me. One question keeps running through my mind as I watch this nonsense. Why now? I mean come on! It’s not like Baron von Schitzenpants ever gave a sh*t about facts or the lack thereof for the last nine years. Why does he suddenly care now? In the past he always just steamrolled over fact checking, see his response when he was called out on John McCain being a war hero.

There’s only one reason I can think of. The media fact checking is killing him in the polls. The most likely source of that information would be sub tabs in internal Trump campaign polling, showing him getting high negative ratings from viewers  when Traitor Tot got caught in a whopper from the moderator, and couldn’t immediately bullsh*t his way out of it. Nothing else makes any sense.

And meanwhile, what is Kamala Harris doing on the campaign media front? Oh, not much. For starters she did her 60 Minutes interview and knocked it out of the park. Then she was on with a young female podcaster with a show named, Just call me Daddy, which is only downloaded about 5 million times a week, mostly by younger women. Then it was on to The View, then Howard Stern today, and a late night talk show tonight. And when she’s in AZ and NC later this week, she’s doing a televised town hall on Telemundo. Man! Talk about reaching people where they live.

And I can’t stop laughing. When Harris first started running, all of the overstuffed, self important media twits complained that she wasn’t doing enough media interviews. And now she’s spending damn near as much time in studios as on the trail, and they’re still pissing and moaning, because she’s not going into their studios! Instead she’s going on venues and platforms that reach the actual voters that she needs to turn out in November. Tough sh*t MSM. *giggle*

So that’s the scoop Baskin-Robbins. Trump’s media time has been down for a while now, since he’s no longer juice for the numbers. And when he does appear lately, he keeps gettiing clipped across the chops by the moderators. And later this week you can bet your ass that Traitor Tot is going to be on the camera screaming about Millions of dollars in damage to his pitch-and-putt resort with No FEMA in sight! Even though Mar-A-Slobo is fully insured, and not so much a top priority for FEMA. Don’t touch that dial.

I thank you for the privilege of your time.

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