Nothing is Real Unless Cameras Are Rolling

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BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
JUN 23, 2017

... He's going to lurch from photo op to rally to photo op, proclaim victory over something, celebrate his own greatness, and then move on to whatever the next thing is ... Declare victory and then get out. Nothing is real, except in the immediate moment, when the cameras are hot and the ovations, rapturous. Actual results are irrelevant ...

We all live in his reality, and his reality is no reality at all. This, by the way, is a lesson American politics first learned from Ronald Reagan.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a55850/trump-reality-reagan/

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1. So is Jeff Zucker at CNN going to enable this, or stand up for America?

We all know that CNN is infotainment interested in chasing ratings and dollars.


But this guy (Zucker, CNN CEO) is going to be largely responsible if the president does anything really bad. Because Zucker enabled the president to win in chasing dollars for his own network and his own pocket.