Appearing on CNN’s Reliable Sources, legendary journalist Carl Bernstein ripped into presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, calling him America’s first major party “neofascist.”
The former Washington Post reporter who was part of the team that uncovered the Watergate scandal in the 70’s, offered a very harsh assessment of Trump, saying “very little truth that comes out of his mouth.”
Trump has “shown himself throughout this campaign to be a pathological liar,” Bernstein stated.”There’s very little truth that comes out of his mouth, so let’s start there.”
A pity not all of the press is prepared to make such an uncompromising and accurate assessment of a very, very dangerous man.
Bernstein understands paranoid, power hungry politicians, Lorne.
ReplyDeleteI've been reading a fair bit about Richard Nixon lately, Owen. Bernstein knew of what he wrote. I just worry that today, when few people read newspapers but rely upon the likes of Fox News and talk radio, the true nature of Trump is not reaching a sufficiently wide audience.
DeleteTelevision needs someone to take on Trump the way Edward R. Murrow took on Joe McCarthy, Lorne.
DeleteThat would be something to see, Owen. I can't, off the top of my head, think of anyone who would have the courage and integrity, as well as the permission of a corporate-run media, to take on the task.
DeleteWhat of the number of Trump followers who freely say they don't care about their candidate's dishonesty? They're willing to accommodate Trump's lies as braggadocio, showmanship, because they believe he will deliver what their country supposedly needs (dark as that may be).
ReplyDeleteSuch sentiments show how the venal grasping for power trumps almost every other consideration for far too many politicians, Mound. It shocks me that the average voter cannot see how manifestly unfit to hold public office so many of them are.
DeleteI remember Lorne when the American Supreme Court stopped the voting count in Florida and CHOSE who America's next president would be, George W. Bush. Where one would have expected from the American public riots in the streets or at the very least peaceful ongoing protests to stop the Supreme Court from selecting their president,not a peep was heard and the Supreme Courts decision stayed. I lost alot of respect that day for Americans. American voters for the most part are very malleable and they love to hear a good sales pitch headed by slogans like "lets make America great again." The portrayal of Americans as being these rugged, freedom loving risk takers who would rebel vociferously anytime their government threatened, even minimally their democracy, is a myth and their government knows it! Donald Trump is a top Salesman in a country that uniquely and openly admires sales and the people who are successful at it. Americans may vote for the candidate with the best sales pitch, pathological liar or not.If Trump knows nothing else, he knows how to close the deal. This pitchman may very well be the next president of the USA.
ReplyDeleteThey may find, Pamela, if they choose thus, that they have wound up with a combination of Willie Loman and P.T. Barnum, both full of sound and fury, but ultimately signifying nothing but a further debasement of their democracy.
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