To Tweet Or Not To Tweet:
That Is The Backchannel
DISCLAIMER: I THINK. THEREFORE, I’M NEITHER
DEMOCRAT NOR REPUBLICAN.
And just like that, (to mimic innumerable (Un)Social media memes these days), Omarosa with her endless supply of secret White House recordings was never heard from again.
Yep, Bob Woodward’s book needed to be promoted, and The New York Times just HAD to publish an anonymous OPINION piece allegedly from inside the Trump administration that told of utter chaos in the White House. So many deflections and diversions to avoid reporting actual, factual news. But let’s just be crystal clear about one thing: Next week there will be some other “sound-bite bombshell” to feed the American public’s gnat-sized attention span.
But here’s this week’s clincher.
Today, September 9th, 2018, there was a story reporting that Bob Woodward in a broadcast of CBS Sunday Morning told of a Trump tweet that was drafted…yes DRAFTED…that talked about pulling our military dependents from South Korea. It was never sent because a “back-channel message from the North Koreans” said that they would consider this an indication that the US was preparing a military attack, according to a report from Agency France Presse (AFP). The by-line of AFP’s report ran, “Trump Spooked Pentagon With Almost-Sent Tweet On N.Korea: Woodward”.
Yes, “Don’t send that tweet out, or we will be angry,” said the North Koreans never.
Ok. Hold the phone. Back up the bus. Seal the missile silos.
This so-called story raises more questions than the facts it doesn’t report.
Are we to believe that Trump’s tweets are drafted, proof-read, vetted, and approved by White House or Pentagon staffers? If so, and even if not, how did the North Koreans know of Trump’s drafted tweet? Is someone in the administration feeding inside information, i.e. Trump’s Twitter ‘drafts’ to the North Koreans? Are the North Koreans spying and listening in on the White House? Have they hacked into Trump’s phone and know exactly what he’s going to tweet about before he tweets it?
I mean, come on, America. I’ve come to NOT believe about 90% of what I hear, read, and see in media these days, and I strongly doubt the other 10%. The story simply makes NO sense as written.
But this report just reeks of media fecal material.
I personally think Trump is functioning (or not) on some other level NO ONE is familiar with, but Woodward is stretching credibility to the limit, in my opinion.
Woodward’s glory days of Watergate and Deep Throat are decades past. The movie isn’t even on anyone’s radar any longer. And now he, like Omarosa, has a book to get promoted and up to the top of the NY Times Best Seller list.
As for all this “anonymous” hooey, ENOUGH! If all these media hacks are so intent on discrediting Trump, then out with it! Give us your sources, say who said what to whom and when, and stop being self-promoting con-artists. Perhaps then you could actually facilitate a change in our elected leadership that so many voters are noisily clamoring for. Otherwise, put a sock in it.
Here’s MY question: Since this latest Woodward claptrap suggests that Trump DRAFTS his tweets, and since the story suggests others were worried about his proposed tweet, WHO IS TRUMP’S TWEET EDITOR?
That might just explain a year and a half of this Trump Twitter Shit Show! I see (smell) a new reality series in the making. You listening, Omarosa??
September 9, 2018
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