Dropping the breathless hyperliteralism wouldn't be to excuse Trump for any given comment, it would just be to more accurately analyze him.
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You can condemn his calling BHO "leader of ISIS" without insisting that he meant Obama is literally the leader of ISIS. Comes off as dense.
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Hyperliteralism leads to absurd situations where Serious fact-checkers shriek: "ACTUALLY, al-Baghdadi is the leader of ISIS, not Obama."
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What journalistic purpose does such shrieking serve other than to impress fellow savvy journalists? None. It's all an in-group love session.
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@mtracey@MZHemingway We are viewing an Electoral Process in supposedly First World Exceptional Nation #1 & this is the result? Absurdity.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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No, Trump is absurd. Viewing him through any lens leads to absurdity.
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The MSM spins his remarks in a way that marginalizes policy debate, but Trump's base is quite misinformed, extreme too
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And because Trump himself has such an incoherrent, ever-changing platform, he encourages this kind of absurdity
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I don't watch TV, are they just covering this, or are they doing the Hillary stuff?
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@mtracey@MZHemingway Since Trump's words are clearly intended to shock, and it boosts clicks, I'd call this a confluence of interests. -
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@mtracey@MZHemingway Like the Iran "ransom" story was recently new and shocking despite being covered in January. Old story, fresh clicks.
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@instapundit@MZHemingway viewing trump leads to absurdity through any lens or none at allThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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We live in a literal world. Anybody who wants to be a leader in that world should probably have some grasp of it.
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