Legacy media “jump the shark” on Trump

Legacy media “jump the shark” on Trump
By Terry A. Hurlbut
The past thirty-odd hours have seen the most absurd distortion of a candidate’s words the legacy media have ever produced. After Donald Trump predicted massive job losses if he loses reelection, his enemies accused him of predicting massive casualties. But as a measure of the power of the New Media, a key legacy media commentator had to take back an accusation he posted. This will, without a doubt, lose them even more subscribers than they have already lost. The best they can now hope for is to have half the country follow them, while the other half refuse.
The latest legacy media outrage
Yesterday, President Trump appeared in a campaign rally in Dayton, Ohio, to support the candidacy of Bernie Moreno. Mr. Moreno is challenging incumbent Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) this November. (Actually he must first win the March 19 primary against two RINOs.) Moreno is also a former automobile dealer, which is relevant to what Mr. Trump said at the rally.
Trump began speaking shortly after 4:00 p.m. EDT in Dayton.
https://rumble.com/v4ite9u-live-pres.-trump-speaks-at-buckeye-values-pac-rally-in-dayton-ohio-31624.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6
Kristinn Taylor at The Gateway Pundit pointed out that the rally was very well-attended. When Trump arrived, the crowd greeted him with great enthusiasm.
https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1769093474870009963
He spoke of mathematically clinching the nomination,
https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1769095146866364628
reversing the disastrous policies of the Biden administration,
https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1769095815912415671
and seeing justice done for Laken Riley, who lost her life to an attack by an illegal alien, and all other such victims.
https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1769101054648504655
But then he started talking about the automotive industry, and about how he would reinstate tariffs against Chinese automobile imports.
We're going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line.
That, of course, would be relevant to Mr. Moreno’s automobile dealership ventures. Then he made the remark that started the legacy media going wild. He said that, if he didn’t get reelected, a “bloodbath in the automotive industry” would result.
Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s gonna be a bloodbath. That’s going to be the least of it.
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1769125293954884059
This is a reference to more job losses, especially at domestic automotive companies.
How the legacy media reported it
But several legacy media outlets, and their reporters, saw fit to construe Trump’s remarks another way.
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1769121671317721324
https://twitter.com/mjfree/status/1769104815911559238
https://twitter.com/PopularLiberal/status/1769124349095653482
https://twitter.com/maddenifico/status/1769112616092250579
https://twitter.com/TheDividedStat3/status/1769120284685328438
These posts said much the same: that Trump had threatened a flat-out, right now, blood-and-flames civil war if he lost. One account apparently sought to make a criminal referral of some kind to Attorney General Merrick Garland. That attempt is still amusing, because he forgot to use Garland’s account name. Still another account mentioned Trump’s shake-up of the Republican National Committee, or at least its ranking officers.
But other New Media accounts stepped in immediately to correct the misconstruction:
https://twitter.com/albert1776/status/1769128983562494373
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1769144187595723169
https://twitter.com/JessieJaneDuff/status/1769146585433379093
https://twitter.com/reesejgorman/status/1769135936363692152
Rumble influencer Grant Stinchfield made an unusual Sunday episode of his show, to discuss this latest distortion.
https://rumble.com/v4jt5wf-the-bloodbath-hoax-backfiring-media-ratings-plunge-along-with-joe-bidens-po.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6
He wasn’t the only outraged New Media influencer. “Professor Nez” weighed in, too:
https://rumble.com/v4jvzm5-main-stream-media-invents-new-hoax-to-get-trump-massive-disinformation-camp.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6
But the final humiliation came from Elon Musk, now the owner of X. First, Joe Scarborough of MSNBC actually posted a worse construction on the word bloodbath, in a reference to the January 6 event. An angry Musk replied:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1769338682706632805
After which, Scarborough deleted his post. Perhaps he didn’t want to risk Musk taking it down, as the “Old Twitter” Trust and Safety team might have done – to a post from the other side.
Musk goes full animal
In any event, Musk later posted this commentary:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1769343816434139583
The letterword NPC stands for Non-Player Character and refers to one refusing to think for oneself. Later he accused the legacy media straight-out of lying.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1769347889392730271
Then he posted this clip giving the full context of the word Trump used:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1769362828954132928
Finally he posted this zinger:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1769364263041187851
Musk had already said if Republicans do not regain the White House and both chambers of Congress, “America is doomed.”
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1768819343628947703
Your correspondent notes that, so far, Musk has ruled out making Presidential campaign donations. Ben Kew at The Gateway Pundit suggested Musk might make a few donations in down-ticket races. Perhaps he really should ally himself with Mike Lindell and support cases like Curling v. Raffensperger and Lake v. Fontes.
https://rumble.com/v43uanv-georgia-elections-insecure-statewide.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6
https://rumble.com/v4jpga3-kari-lake-takes-it-to-scotus.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6
Just one more word
This kind of silliness shouldn’t bear mention. But, sixty-odd years ago, it wouldn’t – because it wouldn’t happen. Editors were far more careful about context dropping than they are today. They were also careful about comparing people to one of the most dangerous despots the world has known.
Today the legacy media has thrown such caution to the wind. The only reason why Trump cannot sue any of those people is that, in America, “public figures” have almost no recourse against the “lying and bad-mouth offenses” of libel, slander, and defamation of character.
But if he can’t sue them, then he and his allies can encourage people to unsubscribe from legacy media organs, and stop reading, watching, or listening to their content. This of course goes along with the Parallel Economy that Steven Turley, Ph.D., and others, have urged Americans to build.
The once-popular American television show Happy Days ended its run rather abruptly, after its most famous supporting character, Arthur “Fonz” Fonzarelli, literally took a ski jump over a live shark. “Jumping the shark” is now proverbial for an outrageous publicity stunt that makes the one pulling it look stupid. Which is exactly what the legacy media has now done.
Link to:
Livestream from Trump’s rally in Dayton:
https://rumble.com/v4ite9u-live-pres.-trump-speaks-at-buckeye-values-pac-rally-in-dayton-ohio-31624.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6

Five X posts about Trump’s arrival and speech:
https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1769093474870009963
https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1769095146866364628
https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1769095815912415671
https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1769101054648504655
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1769125293954884059

Five misconstructions of Trump’s word:
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1769121671317721324
https://twitter.com/mjfree/status/1769104815911559238
https://twitter.com/PopularLiberal/status/1769124349095653482
https://twitter.com/maddenifico/status/1769112616092250579
https://twitter.com/TheDividedStat3/status/1769120284685328438

Four posts correcting the record:
https://twitter.com/albert1776/status/1769128983562494373
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1769144187595723169
https://twitter.com/JessieJaneDuff/status/1769146585433379093
https://twitter.com/reesejgorman/status/1769135936363692152

Videos by Grant Stinchfield and “Professor Nez”:
https://rumble.com/v4jt5wf-the-bloodbath-hoax-backfiring-media-ratings-plunge-along-with-joe-bidens-po.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6
https://rumble.com/v4jvzm5-main-stream-media-invents-new-hoax-to-get-trump-massive-disinformation-camp.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6

Elon Musk’s posts:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1769338682706632805
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1769343816434139583
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1769347889392730271
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1769362828954132928
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1769364263041187851
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1768819343628947703

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https://rumble.com/v4jpga3-kari-lake-takes-it-to-scotus.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6

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