Monday, July 25, 2016

"...The Problem With Those Who Light The Way For Us Is Sometimes Their Sneaky Way Of Blinding Us With That Light...."

thoughts and ponderances from the return of our weekly show

on explaining how "confirmation bias" has a major effect on the coming election....

THE MOTHER OF THE LIBYAN AMBASSADOR WHO DIED IN BENGHAZI WROTE THIS LETTER TO TODAY’S NEW YORK TIMES………..As Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens’s mother, I am writing to object to any mention of his name and death in Benghazi, Libya, by Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican Party,” Mary Commanday said in a letter-to-the-editor published in the New York Times on Saturday.
“I know for certain that Chris would not have wanted his name or memory used in that connection. I hope that there will be an immediate and permanent stop to this opportunistic and cynical use by the campaign.”
“I do not blame Hillary Clinton or [Former Secretary of Defense] Leon Panetta,” she said in an interview with the New Yorker last month. “They were balancing security efforts at embassies and missions around the world. And their staffs were doing their best to provide what they could with the resources they had.”


AND THE VERY FIRST FB POST COMMENT I READ WAS THIS:

So sad. I understand to a point. I do however think this is another one taking one for the Clinton's... Who in their right mind would not fight to the bitter end if this was their son? I would ! I know people say, all these people sharing don't have a clue what really happened..... Read all about it people. It's all over the internet where it has been LONG before Trump ever mentions running for president... Hillary has blood on her hands and as we all know not just his mans.. Go ahead stick your head in the sand some more..


THE MAN’S OWN MOTHER SAYS SHE DOESN’T BLAME CLINTON OR PANETTA…YOU want to believe that Hillary caused him to die…and so she DID…THAT’s called confirmation bias.


 on Donald's inability to take the high road...ever....for any reason....

the Republican nominee for President of the United States returns, the day after he is nominated to be President of the United States, to being the weasely, pathetic little bully boy he has been since the day he first set foot on the campaign trail….
and those little quirks we’ve all come to recognize now as Donald’s dealios…..oh I DIDN’T say anything about Cruz’s dad being involved in the JFK killing…the NATIONAL ENQUIRER said that and ALL I SAID was that the NATIONAL ENQUIRER said that…..

THEN there’s the nonsense about Trump saying that Cruz STARTED it all because he made fun of Melania’s half naked pictures, so Donald had to make fun of pictures of Cruz’s wife…and that childish nonsense carried itself all the way to the convention and Donald expected Cruz to endorse him, but Cruz didn’t endorse him, so Donald shows up at the end of Cruz’s speech and sits in the family section with this look on his face like Michael Corleone right before he tells Fredo ...



"...don't ever take sides with anyone against the family again....ever...."


and…BY THE WAY, the WHOLE EVENT FRIDAY morning was supposed to be a thank you to staff and convention organizers and Donald spent the largest chunk of time in the event talking about how Cruz started it first and how he doesn’t want Cruz endorsement and he wouldn’t accept Cruz’s endorsement even if Cruz wanted to give it to him AND if Cruz ever runs for President Trump will form a super PAC to stop him AND here’s a question for YOU…..are you EMBARRASSED yet that THIS is how America is behaving in the eyes of the world? is THIS what you honestly think makes us look like, let alone be, the most powerful, most admired, most respected country in the world?


on answering a caller's question about why I simply can't get behind a guy like Trump

Friday night after watching Trump doing his wah wah wah at Cruz, I posted this on my Facebook page

Trump has his nomination and Ted Cruz shouldn't even be on his radar anymore....the fact that Donald is obsessing on Cruz and can't let it go says all that anyone with a brain needs to understand the vindictive, petty, self absorbed and childish personality of the man so many millions of people think is the salvation of the nation.....

A dozen or so folks indicated they liked the comment, I got an Amen from one friend of the station and then….the comment I’m always, comically or sadly, depending on the topic or mood of the day, waiting for….cause it always shows up…from somebody…or somebodies….

So, the morning after Cruz spake, the first address Trump made since Cruz spake, Trump gave rebuttal. The evening after, you and the media are the only ones obsessively talking about Cruz. Your jedi spin fools no one OB1Phelps 

Okay, first… I honestly usually don’t engage or acknowledge this kind of thing because experience has taught me that it very quickly becomes nothing more than Pee Wee and Francis.



But I’m sharing it with you tonight by way of proving the point I’m making about the psychological makeup of this guy so many people think is a hero or the answer to all America’s ills…..
I cant speak for other “media”, but I’m not obsessing on Cruz…Trump is…and not because I say he is….I saw him do it…and millions of others have seen and heard him do it in the last couple of days…..OH AND PS….I’m not trying to fool anybody…what you hear on this show and read on my blog sites and social media pages is my opinion, nothing more nothing less…you disagree? that’s your prerogative…you don’t want to hear it? here’s an idea….change the station…or move on to another blog or website….

here’s the larger issue, though….another Facebook friend got into the thread and said

So I'm guessing you're voting for Hillary? Not saying I'm for Trump.. just wondering..

Again, I don’t usually engage those kind of comments because they’re a hamster wheel, but, again, in this case, I wanted to make the point that seems to be getting lost in this election….and this FB friend’s tone seemed polite and cordial, so here’s what I replied

it's admittedly frustrating for many (present company included) that (except for the Libertarian) "that's all there is" to choose from..That said, I've said before in private and on air that a large part of the problem for all of us is this notion that being "against" one automatically means being "for" another....I honestly haven't decided whether to vote at all because I'm not enthused or encouraged about what Hillary has to offer, either. All I am sure of is that Trump's shortcomings are not only considerable, they are also dangerous. The finest people I have worked for/with in my life have been strong, firm, determined and confident about who they are and what they are doing. The WORST people I have worked for/with have been vain, petty, vindictive, insecure, and unsure, but try to hide all of that behind a "mask" of strong, firm, etc. That's what I see and hear when I hear and see Trump. (for example, the day after "rebuttal" referred to up there in the comment thread....a secure man with a presidential nomination in hand would, at most, wave away Cruz as if he were a fly...the fact that he has to restart cranking out the cheap shots about Cruz, the endorsement nonsense, the JFK thing (AGAIN?) would alert any first year psych student that we're dealing with a very, very insecure guy ) I get that he's making people feel like he has all the answers. But all that glitters...and all that...

Here’s the bottom line for everybody who wants to come at the case I’m making with the same old tired “well, you’re just a Hillary lover, then, aint ya?”….no, I’m not. But I am genuinely concerned about the kind of man Donald Trump is. A world class salesman who has convinced millions of people that he is strong, firm, determined and confident….when that’s nothing more than the mask he wears to cover up that he is vain, petty, vindictive, insecure and unsure …of himself…and what he would actually DO if he actually gets elected President…..


 on the concept that we all, inevitably, make our choices based on our own reality

If I’m trying to sell you a car, the car doesn’t HAVE TO BE a good buy… I just have to convince you that it is…and after you buy it, if it turns out to be a lemon? hey, you bought it, baby, its not my problem…warranty? uh, yeah, right…how often do you get satisfaction with crappy things AFTER the purchase?

MEANWHILE….you need to elect me president because the country is about to go up in flames or go completely bankrupt or be invaded by hordes of terrorists and your families are in immediate and grave danger….well, here’s a thing…NONE of that HAS TO BE TRUE….ALL I HAVE TO DO IS CONVINCE YOU THAT IT IS….

and for those people who don’t like Hillary and don’t think she’s good enough to be president, that’s something, believe it or not, we can agree on….I don’t think she’s good enough….at selling the country on things that just arent true….but I know someone who is a genius at selling the country on things that just arent true……and you know him, too….

don’t listen to me, though…..you keep right on supporting and celebrating and voting for the guy…and when it turns out to be a lemon….well, now, just count on that same satisfaction you always get when the merchandise turns out to be crappy.



 on being enamored of a guy solely because he "tells it like it is..."

 “TELLING IT LIKE IT IS” seems to be very much in fashion these days, in fact, it’s a quality we apparently hunger for in presidential candidates, so to those folks listening tonight who like to post whatever comes out of their brain without a single thought for others and then gets their panties or flag all bunched up when somebody calls them the asshats that their behavior leads us to believe that they are, let me do a little table turn in your direction:

saw your wife today at Wal Mart…wow, she’s really gotten fat, hasn’t she?

hey, we were at the game the other night, too…saw your kid didn’t get put in until the last three minutes…probably because he couldn’t sink a basket if he put a huge rock in one and dropped it off the Bay Bridge, right?

wow…geez….I mean, for God’s sake, man, do you think your daughter’s skin is EVER gonna clear up there?

WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’RE OFFENDED? HEY, MAN, I’M JUST TELLING IT LIKE IT IS….






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