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Why Is The Corporate Media So Damned Soft in Scrutinizing Donald Trump? - The Ring Of Fire
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7:52Now PlayingIt really seems like every time Donald Trump spouts nonsense out of his mouth, there are zero consequences. The corporate media simply refuses to bury him with scrutiny. So, what gives here? Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss this. Tell us your thoughts in the comments section below.
From Salon: Within moments of Donald Trump trotting out his “woman card” rant, comparisons were being made to Mitt Romney’s “binders full of women” moment. Romney’s gaffe took place during the third presidential debate of the 2012 election when he was asked how he would handle workplace inequality and equal pay. Romney told the town hall member who had posed the question that he had “binders full of women” to choose from when it came to filling cabinet positions.
Within minutes there was a Facebook page, “Binders Full of Women,” that had accrued thousands of followers before the debate even ended. It had almost 300,000 followers by the time of the election.
Romney’s binder gaffe and his 47 percent blunder, where he claimed that 47 percent of the population would vote for Obama because they wanted handouts, pretty much did him in. But when we compare these two epic mistakes in the Romney campaign to Trump’s almost weekly blunders it’s almost impossible to understand how the bloviating billionaire is still in the race.
While there is now a lively Twitter hashtag #womancard that is comparing Trump’s misogyny to Romney’s, the reality is that, unlike Romney, Trump can pretty much say anything about anyone and not hurt his support.
So what gives? How is it that Trump is not being affected in the same ways previous politicians have been?
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