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Comments on: Latest NY Times Trump transcript: Why do reporters clean it up for TV? https://occasionalplanet.org/2017/07/20/latest-ny-times-trump-transcript-reporters-clean-tv/ Progressive Voices Speaking Out Tue, 08 Aug 2017 00:38:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: Trump’s Mexico call: The Art of the Desperate Appeal - Occasional Planet https://occasionalplanet.org/2017/07/20/latest-ny-times-trump-transcript-reporters-clean-tv/#comment-17192 Tue, 08 Aug 2017 00:38:16 +0000 http://occasionalplanet.org/?p=37448#comment-17192 […] transcripts of Donald Trump’s conversations and interviews continue to roll out [authorized or not], we are getting a behind-the-scenes look at how he really […]

]]> By: Searchfortruth https://occasionalplanet.org/2017/07/20/latest-ny-times-trump-transcript-reporters-clean-tv/#comment-17185 Sat, 22 Jul 2017 19:11:00 +0000 http://occasionalplanet.org/?p=37448#comment-17185 In reply to Stacy Mergenthal.

Nice summation of the insane ‘Trumpian Era’ in which we, unfortunately, find ourselves. I look forward to the day when I can look back and say, “Phew, that was close.” Close to WWIII.

]]> By: Stacy Mergenthal https://occasionalplanet.org/2017/07/20/latest-ny-times-trump-transcript-reporters-clean-tv/#comment-17180 Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:11:00 +0000 http://occasionalplanet.org/?p=37448#comment-17180 My thought exactly, re: normalizing this president’s and his
administration’s behavior. I know we are all relieved to get through
another day without the sort of catastrophe that starts a new war or
harms millions of people, but that’s a pretty low bar to set. I was
listening to Scott Adams defend Trump as a genius persuader and extol the virtues of results over methods when it occurred to me that is exactly what he and other Trump supporters are doing: justifying Trump’s position by any means necessary, making his behavior seem logical when it’s anything but. When Sam Harris pointed out, in the discussion with Scott Adams, that Trump was a lying con man, Adams “suggested” it was all in Harris’s own biased perception! As if we can no longer believe our own eyes and ears or trust anyone other than Trump. It’s bizarre, these inept attempts at psychological manipulation and vocab jujitsu. They must work on a select group of people because most people seem to be much too smart to fall for these obvious obfuscations but they [Team Trump] keep deploying them anyway.

The media’s sloppy cleaning-up of Trump’s remarks is really hurting them, as it’s transparent and reinforces people’s distrust in them. I wonder how they benefit from it at all. It seems that unvarnished Trump nets far more viewers/readers, anyway.

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