Vincent J. Curtis
17 Sept 2016
Donald Trump held a boffo campaign rally in Miami yesterday
afternoon. He played on Hillary’s
contempt for Trump supporters at the beginning of the rally, and savaged her
position on gun control in the middle of it.
The first part was in the news until the media received the new
narrative from Hillary’s campaign.
Trump entered the stage to the theme song of the hit
Broadway play, “Les Miserables,” and he used a photoshopped backdrop of the
play’s artwork. In a scene depicting the
French Revolution, one French tricolor flag was replaced with a Trump flag,
another with a massive Stars and Stripes, and a large flying eagle was added to
the sky. The depiction was wildly
appreciated by the crowd who quickly understood it was a play on Hillary
Clinton’s “Deplorables” remarks. Many in
the crowd were wearing campaign swag or carrying signs that also ridiculed
Hillary’s remarks. One sign read, “Deplorable-
but not Deportable! Born here, build the
wall”
Trump told the crowd “My opponent slanders you as ‘deplorable’
and ‘irredeemable’ – boy that second word it tough. You don’t hear that much. It means you can never come back….I call you
hard-working American patriots who love your family, and really, really, really
love your country.”
One of Trump’s campaign themes is his support for the Second
Amendment, and is often a point that he brings up to separate himself from
Hillary. Hillary Clinton’s position on the
Second Amendment and gun control is most charitably described by her strongest
supporters in the media as mixed or muddled.
Gun owners are not fooled by Clinton’s statements on the subject.
Hillary Clinton’s maneuver on gun control is patently
obvious to gun owners. Hillary will not openly
call for a repeal of the Second Amendment outright, but instead will appoint
justices to the Supreme Court that will overturn the Heller decision and encourage the passing of one “sensible” gun
control measure after another in futile attempts to bring “gun violence” under
control, and eventually to eliminate gun ownership entirely. For the sake of the children, you understand.
Hillary has often spoken of implementing various gun control
measures which would act as restrictions on legal gun ownership, but none of
them would actually have prevented the act of ‘gun violence’ the measures were
called for in response to. Part of the
reason for calling for ineffective gun control measures is to keep the issue of
gun violence alive even as more and more restrictions in legal ownership are
put in place. Eventually, an entire regime
of gun control will be in place and will be found ineffective, leading to
the final step of gun confiscation, Second Amendment or not. Heller
, if not reversed by then, would be effectively reversed by a succession of liberal
judges who were selected for their compliance with the progressive anti-gun agenda.
An argument frequently made to point out the hypocrisy of
those who call for gun control is to have their case made against them. When a celebrity like Oprah Winfrey calls for
gun control, it is pointed out that Oprah travels with a retinue of armed
bodyguards. If Oprah really hated guns
as much as she let on, then perhaps she ought to require her guards to be
unarmed. This very case has been made
about Barack Obama and his secret service protection. Not everyone in America is wealthy enough to
afford an armed security detail to protect them 24/7/365, as the limousine
liberals are, and have to be able to defend themselves.
Trump used
this very argument against Hillary Clinton yesterday in his speech in
Miami. The media, overwhelmed with Trump’s
reception in Florida, featured that favorable aspect in their coverage. Then, the Clinton campaign issued their instructions
and the media changed their subject to Trump’s threatening Hillary with death
and violence - again.
For
example, this piece was included in a report from the U.K.’s Daily Mail,
“The Presidential candidate then went on to revive an old
campaign controversy by implying violence against his opponent. He sarcastically
called for Clinton's Secret Service agents to drop their weapons, "and
let's see what happens to her." 'I
think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons. They should disarm, right?'
Trump said. "Take their guns away, she doesn't want guns. Take their — and
let's see what happens to her. Take their guns away. OK, it would be very
dangerous.' Trump has previously come
under fire for such comments with many saying it was tantamount to advocating
violence against his White House foe.”
This
is what happened. Hillary campaign
Spokesliar Robby Mook released a statement Friday night saying Trump "has
a pattern of inciting people to violence. Whether this is done to provoke
protesters at a rally or casually or even as a joke, it is an unacceptable
quality in anyone seeking the job of Commander in Chief….This kind of talk
should be out of bounds for a presidential candidate.”
“A
spokeswoman for the Secret Service declined to comment,” reported Fox News
helpfully. “The riff recalled a
remark Trump made last month that many Democrats condemned as a call for
Clinton's assassination. Speaking at a rally in North Carolina, the Republican
nominee said his opponent wants to "abolish, essentially, the Second
Amendment."”
The media got Hillary’s change the subject message, and now
the media narrative is that Trump called for violence against Hillary - again. And won’t he ever learn?
However, I doubt that tiresome stupidity is going to get as
much traction the second time around. This
time Trump employed an often-used argument, and this is the second time people
have been exposed to the threatening-violence canard.
Trump made fools of the media earlier in the day in
Washington, and the media trying to play an old canard a second time will look
lame, and make themselves look dense.
Having heard the “wolf!” cry once before, the public is less likely to
be moved by it.
But this is another example of the media changing the
subject and the narrative in response to instructions from the Hillary
campaign.
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