{"id":32538,"date":"2016-09-08T19:10:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T02:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=32538"},"modified":"2016-09-08T19:25:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T02:25:59","slug":"obama-scorches-trump-and-his-outright-wacky-ideas-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=32538","title":{"rendered":"Obama Scorches Trump And His ‘Outright Wacky Ideas’ (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It isn’t often that politicians express personal opinions about their ideological foes. The demands of diplomacy overrule the fleeting satisfaction of rubbing some jerk’s face in it. However, there are circumstances that simply won’t allow the observance of customary protocol.<\/p>\n

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President Obama encountered one of those circumstance yesterday when he was asked at a press conference about comments made by Donald Trump. The reporter cited Trump’s opinion that “Vladimir Putin has been more of a leader than you,”<\/em> and that “you have reduced American generals to rubble.”<\/em> In those two snippets of ignorance Trump managed to insult both America and its military. The reporter then asked Obama if he wanted to “defend his legacy.”<\/em> The President’s first response was hearty laughter. Then he said this:<\/p>\n

“As far as Mr. Trump, I think I’ve already offered my opinion. I don’t think the guy’s qualified to be president of the United States. And every time he speaks that opinion is confirmed. The most important thing for the public and the press is to just listen to what he says and follow up and ask questions about what appear to be either contradictory or uninformed or outright wacky ideas.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s something uplifting about seeing your President righteously smack down a raging goofball like Trump. His ideas, while indisputably wacky, are actually much more problematic than that. They are also dangerous. It’s startling that anyone can take him seriously. Clearly our President doesn’t – at least so far as responding to his insipid blathering.<\/p>\n

In the same forum where Trump confessed his affection for Russia’s dictator and his distaste for our generals, Trump provided details of his wackiness. For instance, he advocated taking Iraq’s oil. That would not only violate international law, it would incite a new generation of terrorists. He also affirmed his view that it should be expected that women in the military will be assaulted. And I can’t imagine that the intelligence agents who briefed him were thrilled to see him discussing it on television.<\/p>\n

Obama further mocked Trump by noting that when talking about critical matters of national security “You actually have to know what you’re talking about.”<\/em> And then he said:<\/p>\n

“There is this process that seems to take place over the course of the election season where somehow behavior that in normal times we would consider completely unacceptable and outrageous becomes normalized.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s actually not Trump’s fault. That’s something the media needs to address. It’s a journalistic travesty that Trump is treated as if his bullcrap is on par with analyses by seasoned experts with decades of experience. The press is too timid to tell the public when Trump is flagrantly lying. Likewise, they seldom expose his rants as merely word jumbles that have no meaning. And more often than not, Trump is either lying or babbling. Ethical journalists have a responsibility to point that out.<\/p>\n

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How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n