MSM Tactics

People easily toss around the term hate in today's world. But who gets to define that term, you, us or some distant agenda-driven bureaucrat or elected official. Just what is hate speech, anything that differs with your beliefs and opinions? Or ours?

So we'll use the term detractor. Detractors are usually a little more subtle about their disdain or dislike. We all know the two current presidential candidates have, like most who seek this office, lots of detractors. One persistent Trump detractor is a guy named Rob Garver, a writer for the Fiscal Times. Garver likes to use deceitful or misleading material to make his point. Here's an example aimed at Trump's possible VP choice.

Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, the chairman of the prestigious Foreign Relations Committee, was being considered for the post by the Trump campaign. He appeared with Trump on the campaign trail Tuesday, and was showered with praise by the presumptive nominee.

By Wednesday, though, Corker told The Washington Post that he had informed Trump that he was no longer interested in being considered. In a later interview with CNN, he said, "I feel like I'm better suited to other kinds of things and I think there are probably better suited people for this particular job for now.”

The technique here is to make it look as if Coker doesn't want to be associated on the same ticket with the rogue Trump. And that could well be true. But there are other public recorded things about Coker having little to do with Trump that could be just as true for his decision to decline.

This is shaping up to be a bloody, down and dirty campaign, maybe one of most in history. Both sides are going to scraping the bottom looking for dirt, any dirt each might conclude useful and productive. Some even if they feel they don't have anything to hide will opt out for obvious reasons.

Coker's from Tennessee and he's had known problems--some call them over sites--more than once filing his income tax statements correctly. Coker was a real estate investment multiple millionaire long before her came to the Senate. In fact, some of his real estate associations came up again in his hometown of  Chattanooga not too long ago. This is not to suggest Coker did anything wrong, just to point out people have lots reasons for doing what they do.

Garver's intent is clear. A well-known Trump detractor, Garver spends a good deal of his time attacking Trump. Attacking is fine, but insinuating is one of those pathetic, slimy MSM tactics people like Garver try to slide past others everyday. 

When someone asked Carl Sandburg years ago why he wrote three time consuming volumes about Abraham Lincoln, Sandburg relied, "I thought I was in good company."

What's your excuse, Mr. Garver?