BloggeRhythms

Today’s first item not only sets a premise for confirming the major shift in American politics toward the right-center, it also underlines the leftist's in the MSM's inability to grasp the fact that they’re almost irrelevant except to each other. 

To begin, Michael Goodwin once again astutely assesses the lefts obtuseness, writing about it @nypost.com today. 

While many “pundits” are urging the POTUS to tone down his rhetoric for his first State of the Union speech tomorrow, Mr. Goodwin begins by “betting humble pie is not on the president’s menu. On the contrary, Tuesday night in the Capitol is likely to be a shock-and-awe blowout of pure Trumpism.” 

From there, Mr. Goodwin presents a historical synopsis of Trump’s rise and the leftist MSM's failure to acknowledge what’s actually taken place, writing: “The idea that Trump must go mild has been a staple of the punditocracy since he announced his candidacy. That it still holds such a prominent place in his second month in the Oval Office reveals what slow learners media liberals are. 

“Although completely wrong about the mind-set of voters from start to finish, they remain steadfast in their certainty that Trump needs a personality transplant to satisfy the public. At least that’s what they say.” 

After correctly establishing the liberal media’s lack of acuity, Mr. Goodwin goes on to clarify a critical point the very same media refuses to consider at all. Mr. Goodwin quotes the POTUS as also saying: “I’m not against the media. I’m not against the press . . . I am only against the fake news media or press.” 

Reported next was that any illusion of a “beautiful new relationship was soon shattered” when Sean Spicer barred some outlets from his office while admitting others for a briefing. “Those barred included the New York Times and CNN, which have been unfairly harsh on Trump, and he has returned the favor by accusing them of being “dishonest” purveyors of “fake news.” 

Following that framework, Mr. Goodwin presents the conclusion the POTUS’s consistent actions to date have led him to, addressing not only the cornerstone of the POTUS’s methodology but the modus operendi he’s followed throughout his entire career.  

“Besides, we should not underestimate Trump’s determination or his strategy for success. Business taught him and politics reinforced that lowering your sights too soon is a losing proposition. Timing is key to the art of the deal. 

“He will compromise if he must at the end. Now he will go full speed ahead, guns blazing.”

While Mr. Godwin addressed serious issues greatly affecting the decline of the left in the nation, another of their events provided insight regarding their inherent incapability's in general.

Last night, the most shocking mix-up in Oscars history took place. While Moonlight won best picture, presenter Faye Dunaway announced La La Land as the winner, setting off mass confusion in the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. 

As reported by Kristopher Tapley and Lawrence Yee @variety.com, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were incorrectly given the best actress award envelope. “A confused Beatty saw Emma Stone’s name and “La La Land,” and handed the envelope to Dunaway, who then announced the musical as the Best Picture winner. 

“The “La La Land” cast took the stage and producers began their speeches. But they stopped midway when they realized their error.” 

Now, had this bungling taken place in the past, it would most likely be treated as a Hollywood mix-up and become part of movie land lore. However today, where Hollywood-types have become so personally involved in leftist politics, public reaction has changed dramatically (no pun intended.)  

As a result, numbers-wise,  “ABC's Oscars had suffered two consecutive years of dramatic dips — losing almost 10 million viewers between 2014 and 2016. 

“Early numbers have the lengthy show off 4 percent from comparable stats in 2016, averaging an overnight 22.4 rating among metered market households. That measurement, courtesy of Nielsen, is shy of last year's — which saw its overnight score (a 23.4 rating) ultimately translate to 34.43 million viewers.” 

However, no matter how many people watched the show, the flubbing of the award for Best Picture will surely forever be the defining point of the 2017 Oscars. 

As far as viewers themselves are concerned, the leftist swing is not only very well-known among them but considerably out of sync with the vast majority’s opinions. That disparity is shown in readers comments, as follows:  

Reader Fred Bailey wrote: “What a bunch of morons. Related to Joe Biden, I guess?” 

Tymtrvlr says: “Bush’s fault! Let the childish Trump bashing begin. Oh yeah, TRUMP won!”

Mitch Rapp followed with: “I imagine the Washington Post will announce that this was all orchestrated by Russian hackers.” 

stephaniesharf wrote: “Why don’t you launch an investigation, Academy? The Russians hacked the envelopes to embarrass you and promote the Moscow film industry. Putin was drinking vodka with Beatty and Dunaway in the Kremlin, it was all planned months ago! Comey knew but he kept quiet. I demand that Rachel Madcow and Me-again Kelley speak out “ 

Chuck Darney says: “Beatty did play in the movie Reds, so you may not be far off.” 

Richard Davidson opined: “Wrong envelope? It was WikiLeaks! No, no, it was Comey and the FBI….No, no, it was Putin and the Russians….No, no, it was Trump and the RNC! …They could not even handle this simple task correctly and yet have the nerve to try and tell us how to run our Country!” 

And then, after viewing the reactions from the sampling of very well-informed readers, an AFP article was found @yahoo.com/news containing a quite interesting indication of what might the future might bring.  

Yesterday, Iran's ex-president Mahmud Ahmadinejad published an open letter to Donald Trump. While welcoming Trump’s criticism of the US political system,  Ahmadinejad took issue with his visa ban and attitude to women. 

Most interesting is the fact that: “Many Iranians see the new US president as cut from the same cloth as Ahmadinejad, who shocked the establishment with his sudden rise to power in 2005, combining hardline rhetoric and populist economic policies to win a powerful following among Iran's lower classes.” 

Over time, Ahmadinejad has also sent letters to Obama, Angela Merkel and the pope – “as well as an 18-page missive to previous US leader George W. Bush.” 

In Trump’s case, when he was elected “many Iranians joked about the similarities to their former president, whose tenure ended in 2013. 

"When Ahmadinejad said that he intended to export his method of managing the world, we didn't take him seriously..." wrote one bemused commenter on social media.” 

Thus, while the two nations are diametrically different politically and ideologically, “hardline rhetoric and populist economic policies” played the most significant roles regarding their president’s rise to power. And what may be of the utmost importance to Trump and those who support him is that Ahmadinejad  served a full eight years in office. 

That’s it for today folks. 

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