i*****r
发帖数: 105 | 1 After all my years in public life I am sickened by the intellectual
dishonesty, arrogance, and smugness of what Nassim Taleb calls the
Intellectual Yet Idiots.
The IYI’s showed up immediately after the debate.
They stacked the deck against Trump with Lester Holt’s one-sided questions
and interventions.
The Holt-Clinton team was glib, articulate, and self-congratulatory. However
, they lost.
The Intellectual Yet Idiot class that dominates our news media fell all over
themselves critiquing Trump and praising Holt and Clinton.
In doing so, they repeated the mistake they have made about every debate
since August 2015.
Trump wins strategically because in a blunt, clear style, he is saying
things most Americans believe.
Trump’s opponents, including Holt and Clinton, felt good after the debate
because their side was glib, articulate, and said things they and their
friends believe to be true.
The Intellectual Yet Idiot class is so out of touch with America that they
don’t even realize how badly they are doing and how well Trump is doing.
Salena Zito is one of the country’s most perceptive journalists, in part
because she is grounded outside of Washington and New York. Her column about
the debate, “How Trump Won Over a Bar of Undecideds and Democrats,”
should be required reading for everyone who wants to understand why Trump
strategically won the debate.
This process of media elites and Washington insiders reassuring themselves
that Trump lost while a variety of online polls showed him winning
decisively has been going on since the very first Fox News debate in August
2015.
Trump has a hard time with media elites because they earn a living by
talking. The media values glibness. In their world you can speak nonsense if
you do it smoothly and convincingly.
Secretary Clinton is a professional politician. She has been campaigning as
a volunteer, spouse, and candidate for 46 years (far longer than Trump
suggested). She volunteered for Joe Lieberman’s state senate race in 1970.
She and Bill worked for George McGovern in Texas in 1972. Secretary Clinton
is also a Yale-educated lawyer. She combines Ivy League polish and arrogance
with verbal smoothness and four decades of political speak.
Trump is a blunt, let’s-make-a-deal, let’s-get-the-building-built, let’s-
sell-our-product businessman.
The first debate showcased a blunt, plain spoken businessman and a polished
professional politician.
Of course the Intellectual Yet Idiot insiders would pick Hillary. They share
her passion for words without meaning, analysis without facts, and promises
without performance. They are more than for her. They are her.
In fact, it is worth looking at a list of online polls to understand the gap
between the elites and the vast majority of Americans. This list is long
because I want to show you how willfully out of touch and dishonest the
Intellectual Yet Idiot class is:
Time: Trump 55 Clinton 45
Fortune: Trump 53, Clinton 47
N.J.com (New Jersey): Trump 57.5, Clinton 37.78
CNBC: Trump 68, Clinton 32
WCPO Cincinnati: Trump 57, Clinton 37
Variety: Trump 58.12, Clinton 41.88
Slate: Trump 55.18, Clinton 44.82
WKRN Nashville: Trump 64.58, Clinton 35.42
Las Vegas Sun: Trump 82, Clinton 18
Fox5 San Diego: Trump 61.45, Clinton 33.69
San Diego Tribune: Trump 65, Clinton 35
If you go to theDaily Mail, you can see that the list goes on and on.
Clinton won a handful of liberal sites with liberal audiences but she lost
virtually everywhere else.
The elites can argue Trump does better in online surveys because his
supporters are more energized, but that is a self-defeating analysis.
The lack of energy and enthusiasm for Clinton is a big problem for her.
InIowa, the Democrats currently have one half the number of absentee
ballots they’d received for Obama at this point in 2012. Polls in Iowa
reflect a decisive Republican lead in a state Obama carried twice.
In Wisconsin, theMarquette Universitypoll shows Clinton ahead by
only 3 points.
InMinnesota, a poll which came out this week shows the race tied at 43-
43.
If Clinton has to fight for Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, her campaign is
in real trouble.
Trump is beginning to pull away and she has to stop the momentum.
On Monday night, she failed.
Trump won because he didn’t make a major mistake and he stuck to the facts.
I was proudest of him at the very end.
Hillary was vicious, nasty, mean-spirited, and arrogant. Look again at those
final minutes.
Hillary knew there was almost no time left and so she rattled off a
memorized rant about Trump insulting women. The look on her face is smug.
You could see Trump thinking.
He was really mad at the end of the debate with her cheap shot.
His natural pattern in Republican debates would have been to humiliate her
with all of Bill’s accusers and her role as his defender and enabler.
It would have been powerful and ugly.
But he stopped. He thought, “This is not what a potential president would
do, and I will not do it in front of Chelsea.” He responded as a president
and not a candidate.
The media elite were thrilled that Hillary could be so mean and nasty.
The country will prefer a president with self-discipline and a sense of
decency.
Trump is going to become president unless he makes a big mistake.
Clinton is going to lose again unless she turns the momentum around.
Last night, Trump conveyed his core messages. He may have lost on glibness
but he won on sincerity, empathy, and authenticity. | s*********5
发帖数: 116 | 2 They share her passion for words without meaning, analysis without facts,
and promises without performance.
一针见血。 | f****g
发帖数: 23666 | 3 Last night, Trump conveyed his core messages. He may have lost on glibness
but he won on sincerity, empathy, and authenticity.
这句说得太好了，加油吧。
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【在 i*****r 的大作中提到】
: After all my years in public life I am sickened by the intellectual
: dishonesty, arrogance, and smugness of what Nassim Taleb calls the
: Intellectual Yet Idiots.
: The IYI’s showed up immediately after the debate.
: They stacked the deck against Trump with Lester Holt’s one-sided questions
: and interventions.
: The Holt-Clinton team was glib, articulate, and self-congratulatory. However
: , they lost.
: The Intellectual Yet Idiot class that dominates our news media fell all over
: themselves critiquing Trump and praising Holt and Clinton.
| t*******d
发帖数: 12895 | | a*****1
发帖数: 3817 | 5 good
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However
over
【在 i*****r 的大作中提到】
: After all my years in public life I am sickened by the intellectual
: dishonesty, arrogance, and smugness of what Nassim Taleb calls the
: Intellectual Yet Idiots.
: The IYI’s showed up immediately after the debate.
: They stacked the deck against Trump with Lester Holt’s one-sided questions
: and interventions.
: The Holt-Clinton team was glib, articulate, and self-congratulatory. However
: , they lost.
: The Intellectual Yet Idiot class that dominates our news media fell all over
: themselves critiquing Trump and praising Holt and Clinton.
| T**********1
发帖数: 2406 | 6 Beautiful.
【在 s*********5 的大作中提到】
: They share her passion for words without meaning, analysis without facts,
: and promises without performance.
: 一针见血。
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