As a rather distant
observer of the Roger Ailes sexual misconduct scandal at Fox News surfacing on
the eve of the Republican National Convention last week the timing and the
nomination of Trump triggered a few thoughts.
Megyn Kelly’s confrontational debate moderating with Donald Trump
earlier in the primary season may have been ratings-based coming from Ailes’
management. However given the background
coming to light it would appear two separate roads colliding with the party of
the pachyderms.
The Republican base
has never wanted Donald Trump as the nominee.
Trump is great for ratings distracting attention to a flamboyant
carnival act self-absorbed shyster, but he is not and will never be a politician. Trump created his own ratings threatening his
creation of an alternative network to Fox News.
Although I have my doubts the Donald could pull it off, if there is a
grand scheme to what the Donald has planned I imagine that might be it. Gain as much attention as possible and pray
to the god of his Scrooge McDuck Money Bin that he loses in November. The man does not want to actually have to
wake up and do the job of president. He
might like the nameplate or being called Mr. President on his golden pinky ring,
but the grind of actually governing? There
is nothing in his personal history that would lead one to believe that he is
capable or desiring for that sort of public service.
Rupert Murdoch probably
recognized the threat as Trump’s viability in poll numbers ascended within the
asylum. The Republican establishment
recognized the threat to reroute and divide the angry white males of moderate
to low income part of the voting coalition at the Republican base away from the
traditional Bush pedigree at the dog show. The base in modern terms is: the religious
right, giant business, voters with military and firearm self-identifiers, and
poor to moderate angry white people.
Trump is exposing the massive structural flaws in the party itself by
showing that an incompetent man spouting nonsense could win the nomination.
In this revelation
one may ponder how very much Ken doll Mitt Romney and grizzled veteran John
McCain capable of choosing Sarah Palin, and C- student George Bush were puppets
for the party spouting nonsense. The
party has very few new or productive ideas on policy only the same game plan of
marketing fear and investment in the military while also cutting and
eliminating governmental revenue streams while the masses fend for
themselves. The party is about the
private portion of the economy being as big as possible and as much wealth of
that portion of the economy going to owners as possible. The externalities of a destroyed planet and
increased violence in the world can be handled by a strong military and police
force to quell the inevitable problems the masses will have with not being able
to make ends meet or being exploited.
The flawed
mathematics of trickledown economics and laissez faire capitalism have
deteriorated the structural integrity of the American economy to enrich the top
one percent so much that most of this can no longer be hidden without an
increase in the massive amount of marketing into delusion rivaling Inquisition-period
Catholicism or a Barry Manilow concert.
Fox News has become the 1984 talking rad-caged head for Republican
Marketing. Murdoch controls that money
maker. Trump is the biggest threat to come along to take a piece of that
profit. You have Megyn Kelly and the Mattel
news team instructed to go after Trump.
Ailes was managing Fox News at the helm of the whole deal.
Therein we get back
to the sexual misconduct and the engineered screen shot blueprint for the blond
haired Barbie body as female Fox News anchor who despite being the most
intelligent anchor on the network is reduced back to that body by her employer
and male coworkers. The idea of any
person being sexual harassed at work no matter if appearance was a significant
factor in their selection of employment by the nature of the position is
reprehensible and illegal. The fact that
the harassment went on as long as it did and male counterparts on air have been
filmed engaging in repeated misogynistic comments with female anchors creates a
hostile work environment. That
environment comes full tilt at the start of the convention.
It would appear to
me that the timing of the release on the information to bring down Ailes right
before the convention was intentional and probably connected and done by the
Trump campaign. The image that really brings
this full circle is you have the women on the most watched television bastion
of American Republican values in the world in a war to not be sexually harassed
in the workplace combined with a man that has been married three times and has
shown himself to be a racist xenophobic misogynist to inflate the ego of the
white American male frustrated that his privilege in modern America is
deteriorating. This candidate is set to
run against and be beaten by a woman who is better than him in almost every
category one could measure in what it constitutes actually doing the job of
governance.
The woman of America
see this sexual harassment suffered on the biggest marketing tool. They see Trump the kind of man that can
easily be imagined doing such things as reducing a professional journalist like
Megyn Kelly to how she looks which he has done on air multiple times. Trump is running against a woman who even if
one disagrees with politically a high number of even Fox News watching females
can probably recognize the massive amount of bullshit Hillary Clinton has had
to put up with for being a woman in her workplace. This election is a like a perfect storm for
having the lowest female Republican voter turnout in history. Maybe the preponderance of this section of
the population does not vote for Hillary, maybe they skip the box all together,
but how many woman can stomach voting for a man who when it comes down to it probably
reminds her of a sleazy married cheese ball who would try to hit on her if given
the chance if that guy was her boss? Now
imagine you are pushing a button that basically makes this guy the boss of all
women in America. How the hell do you
stomach that?
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