2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumCNN's Fareed Zakaria Calls Trump A 'Bulls*** Artist'
CNN host and Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria slammed Donald Trump as a "bullshit artist" who is "plainly ignorant" in a Monday interview with anchor Wolf Blitzer.
In a discussion of Trump's apparent ignorance of Russia's invasion of Crimea in 2014, Blitzer asked Zakaria what such a comment might indicate about the GOP nominee.
"Every time it is demonstrated that Donald Trump is plainly ignorant about some basic public policy issue, some well-known fact, he comes back with a certain bravado and tries to explain it away with a tweet or statement," Zakaria responded. "It's sort of amusing to watch how is he going to pull it off this time, what is he going to argue. Usually he adds that the press hates him."
"But there is a term for this kind of thing," he continued, not mincing words. "This is the mode of a bullshit artist, and it is sometimes amusing. It's entertaining, if the guy is trying to sell you a condo or a car. But for a president of the United States, it is deeply worrying."
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auntpurl
(4,311 posts)Finally, somebody said it in the media!
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)liberalnarb
(4,532 posts)63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)groundloop
(11,521 posts)It's telling that CNN has begun digging into Don the Con's lies. Bravo for journalists doing their job.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)nth degree about Trump's deal with the Kahn's. I was shocked !
canetoad
(17,178 posts)He, Trump, has been scathing about CNN on Twitter.
hamsterjill
(15,223 posts)I couldn't believe the candor, and I think we need more of it.
Because Bullshit is exactly what it is!
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)FairWinds
(1,717 posts)takes it incredibly easy on that cheap con man.
And they did the same with Dubya, who was not fit to
carry Al Gore's Birkenstocks.
If Trump gets elected, it will be substantially their fault.
Lucky Luciano
(11,258 posts)fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)Response to DonViejo (Original post)
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ffr
(22,671 posts)Too bad. So sad.
ailsagirl
(22,898 posts)ailsagirl
(22,898 posts)Excellent!!
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)So, we've had Joy Reid doing this for awhile, it's good to see others speaking out too!
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)auntpurl
(4,311 posts)Looks like the media might be starting to regret their softball, kid glove treatment of this horrifically unfit candidate throughout the primary.
Hekate
(90,773 posts)I love Fareed Zakaria's Sunday morning GPS, as he is always informed and informative, and measured in his speech. Calling actual bullshit was startling and funny.