{"id":31688,"date":"2018-08-10T02:47:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T02:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31688"},"modified":"2018-08-10T02:47:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T02:47:52","slug":"read-this-column-about-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31688","title":{"rendered":"Read this column about Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/07friedman-jumbo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31689\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/07friedman-jumbo-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/07friedman-jumbo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/07friedman-jumbo-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/07friedman-jumbo.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I want to use this brief blog post to ask you to read a column by a noted columnist for the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Friedman, a Pulitzer Prize winner and a man with a smart and reasoned head on his shoulders, thinks the media need to provide Donald Trump with blanket coverage of his campaign rallies.<\/p>\n<p>Read Friedman&#8217;s column <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/08\/opinion\/keep-up-the-blanket-coverage-of-trump-it-hurts-him.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friedman&#8217;s essay is a beaut. He suggests that the more Americans watch Trump fly off the rails at these campaign rallies, the more they might understand what many of us have known all along: that he is unfit for the office to which he won election in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>His insults. His histrionic behavior. His utterly undignified and unpresidential demeanor. His mocking of foes. His idiotic lies.<\/p>\n<p>They all come to the fore at these rallies.<\/p>\n<p>Friedman dismisses the calls by some anti-Trump folks who want the media to ignore Trump&#8217;s rallies. He says quite the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>He wants &#8220;blanket coverage.&#8221; The public needs to watch this individual in action. Just maybe enough Americans will start to get the picture. Donald Trump is not fit for the high office he occupies.<\/p>\n<p>As Friedman writes: &#8220;I just know that the G.O.P. Congress and Fox News are too compromised to ever tell Trump, &#8216;Enough.\u2019 But there are decent Republican moderates who, while they may never pull the lever for a Democrat, just might get too disgusted to vote. It\u2019s the best hope. So let\u2019s keep them fully informed about our president.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to use this brief blog post to ask you to read a column by a noted columnist for the New York Times. Thomas Friedman, a Pulitzer Prize winner and a man with a smart and reasoned head on his shoulders, thinks the media need to provide Donald Trump with blanket coverage of his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31688\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Read this column about Trump<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7932],"tags":[1424,3360,4799],"class_list":["post-31688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","tag-donald-trump","tag-ny-times","tag-thomas-friedman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31690,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31688\/revisions\/31690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}