Thursday, May 23, 2019

Trump v. Pelosi

Eli,

One of the valid criticisms of President Trump is his style of speaking. It's inarticulate, garbled, jumbled and often difficult to follow. The good news for his opponents is they can fairly easily mis-characterize what he has said, like the lie perpetuated regarding his "good people on both sides" comment after Charlottesville.

His recent Rose Garden statements are a pretty good example of his style.


The next video You Tube decided to show me was Nancy Pelosi and not for the first time I thought she is very similar to Trump in speaking style: Confused, jumbled, inarticulate and quite difficult to follow.

Bill



Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Game of Thrones v Fox News

Eli,

The Game of Thrones (boring) finale attracted 18 million or so viewers. This is far from the 106 million viewers for the season finale of MASH, or the 95 million who tuned in spontaneously for the pursuit of OJ Simpson (an oddly gripping broadcast). It does dwarf, however, the 2.4 million who view Fox News primetime, or  the 1.1 million who watched Mayor Pete on the Fox News Town Hall.

All to say, it is slightly more than ridiculous to paint Fox News, as E. Warren and others do, as the evil influence controlling opinions for half of America.

Bill