Following on from an earlier post today quoting the BBC's top editor in the Americas Paul Danahar tweeting:
President Trump,the politician, will brush off his ostracism from the US political establishment, symbolised by his absence from McCain’s funeral. But I suspect for Trump the man, who has always wanted the respect of his peers, his absence & isolation will sting him greatly.
Is this the very dispassionate BBC America’s bureau chief? Delighted to see no hint of partiality here.
Opinionated Big Chief Paul of the BBC duly replied:
it’s entirely reasonable analysis from someone who’s been covering the man & his rise in politics for over four years.
...ah yes, "entirely reasonable analysis". If he says so himself!
Very BBC.
Very BBC.
Oh well time to go off and check Dr Google, to see if any of Mr Danahar's prognostications have ever been found to eventuate or to be verifiably factual...
ReplyDelete...and how does Danahar defend this partisan tweet?:
ReplyDelete"John McCain memorial is, probably by the design of the man himself, a rallying cry against what in life he saw as the Trump era’s assault on the cornerstones of America life: public service & duty."
https://twitter.com/pdanahar/status/1035917326355521537
What is this great tradition of public service and duty?
JFK using the mob to deliver Chicago, and shagging everything that moved while in the White House? LBJ disposing of his political opponents in Texas and up to eyes in dirty deal corruption? Nixon organising a burglary? Ford engaging in a cover up of the JFK assassination record? Jimmy Carter hobnobbing with dictators around the world? Ronald Reagan illegally invading Grenada? The Bushes putting so many young men in harm's way in the Middle East? Obama covering up virtually half his life, not least his involvement with Communists and Sharia promoters? And the Clintons! - where to begin!!!?
It seems to me that Trump is relatively fragrant in comparison.
Trump seems to work really hard. He gave up an easy life as a famed American businessman and reality TV star to tackle one of the toughest jobs on the planet. He's been subject to levels of sustained personal abuse and vitriol never before seen in American politics. So far he has shown incredible strength of character in not buckling. He knows his life is in danger and a deranged Brit - radicalised by the UK media - almost got a chance to fire a shot at him. There was also the (covered up by the MSM) attempt by someone to ram his car in their own vehicle - a v serious attempt.
But all that means nothing to Danahar.
"President Trump,the politician, will brush off his ostracism from the US political establishment, symbolised by his absence from McCain’s funeral."
ReplyDeleteI troll around a few lefty sites too. It's funny, but concerning Mr Trump it's fairly clear that both the left and the right are heartily sick of the media narrative. They just keep flicking that heel into their own groins with their scratch-yer-eyes-out BS.
As long as he stays out of Idlib, it remains amusing.
Hush now, and due deference please to one who's nearly as grand as the chief pontificator and World Affairs Editor:
ReplyDelete"Running the BBC's news operation across the Americas."
That speculative comment does strike one as unlikely to be correct or reasonable considering that Trump of all people doesn't have 'peers' and that he seems perfectly happy to lay about him and knock down like skittles anyone and everyone as he pleases. He's the top dog who appears to like it that way and take on challenges unhindered by fear or caution. There is a much more interesting analysis to be made of this phenomenon of a President who is not a politician as we would think of it, who is a novice in the world of politics as we normally see it and yet who is intensely political, with strong views on many things and the will to throw over what most would dare not touch. The BBC is too busy saying how awful he is to notice the most unusual and intriguing aspects of this presidency.