The world must be ending. Or is it that Donald Trump is becoming a consensus builder? I agree with Glenn Beck. On Beck’s radio show he decimates Donald Trump because of his use of the F-word throughout a public recent speech — yet another attempt by Trump to lower the bar on American discourse which is down so far that it is close to striking oil. Here’s the segment:
Aside from this independent voter (and I suspect MANY others), Donald Trump is accumulating quite a non-fan club of non-fans who don’t just dislike him because they disagree with his ideas on issues but simply cannot stomach the way he operates (which probably tells us a lot about the way he does business, too).
Two footnotes on this:
1. As in the case of Ed Schultz, Glenn Beck is much better on radio than on television. The reason is the format. They have a longer time on the radio — longer to develop themes. On TV they have to compress and try to get the audience to return. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell and Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly are two examples of personalities whose personas and show formulas work to near perfection on the tube(I am not referring to their ideas).
2. This Beck segment truly fits in with this Cagle cartoon that ran a few days ago:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.