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"exGOPer, post: 4756587, member: 327981"]No one actually believes Jim Acosta did anything wrong.
When I saw this(or “original” video), I thought it was a nothing burger. There was nothing inappropiate that I could discern. Has anybody ever seen reporters jockeying for position in hopes of getting their questions answered? This is an embarrassment.
This is one of those situations where conservatives collectively pretend to believe something they don’t believe.
Pretending to believe something they don’t believe serves multiple purposes:
One, it signals tribal loyalty. Being willing to say blatantly false things shows you put tribe over truth, and that is a critical loyalty test, as anyone who has studied cults can tell you.
If they were smarter about this, they would have a private test of loyalty rather than risking further loss of credibility with voters.
Two, they’re trolling. “Triggering the libs” is the meats and potatoes of their political ideology these days (read my book, Troll Nation). Telling blatant lies and watching liberals make themselves crazy insisting on “facts” and “evidence” makes them laugh in delight.
Not following you here. Perhap we are watching a different movie...
Three, they are trying to push the idea that violence against women isn’t a real problem, but something people only pretend to care about to score points.
How better to seed that idea than only pretending to care to score points?
Republican Hypocracy is a word that came to my mind in the handling of fake “event”.
Fourth, it's about reestablishing Trump's narrative that the media are the "enemy" to be defeated instead of a Fourth Estate necessary to keep democracy healthy. This helps, in turn, fuel the already strong message that democracy is wrong and authoritarianism is right.
Personally, if I were WH press secretary or the President, the reporter that asked the toughest questions would get the most time. The idea is to show the public that the President’s policies are robust or his prior conduct was reasonable by being able to stand up to strong scrutiny. Where a prominent reporter asks a weak question, Trump would have the ability to use it to his advantage.
Fifth, it's a straight up distraction. Trump wants everyone "debating" a completely obvious video, instead of talking about how he's trying to conceal what is almost certainly very serious crimes by interfering with the Mueller investigation.
I see it more as Trump and certain WH staff being fustrated over the election. They may perceive the Democrats got away with or even benefited from ploys or tricks. This incident appears to be an attempt to either try to address this perceived “injustice”. The problem is, this will not play well with swing voters, AKA the difference makers.
I was planning to start my first political thread “Trump’s Halftime Adjustments” where I assess the Midterms results, talk about Trump’s mistakes, and offer ideas going forward on how to address certain issues and how to attract more swing voters. This is now on hold. This is in no way an endorsement of the Democrats and their Radical Left masters. Rather, my heavily contested time is better spent elsewhere.
