As @MZHemingway suggests, it's true that viewing Trump through a hyperliteral interpretative lens leads to absurdityhttp://thefederalist.com/2016/08/12/6-problems-with-medias-hysterical-reaction-to-trumps-isis-comments/ …
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Replying to @mtracey
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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sure, but that's easier to do when he doesn't insist that he means i when given multiple outs tpic.twitter.com/MRwyUV2cyP
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Replying to @LPDonovan
Does that mean he also literally wants to give Obama a "most valuable player" award? Like with a trophy ceremony and everything?
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Replying to @mtracey
but at that point who is being dense? people keep saying you don't mean that and he says "yes I do!" How do you report that?
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Replying to @LPDonovan
You have to figure out a better way to report it than being obstinately hyperliteral. That's my point.
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it's not the media being obstinate here- that's my point
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Hard to avoid hyperliteralism on this. "Trump calls Obama 'founder of ISIS'" can be read as hyperliteral or factual.
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That's why the media needs a better interpretative heuristic.
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I don't think anyone believes Trump literally proclaimed BHO leader of ISIS. So how to convey his actual meaning?
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Wow! That's a risky assumption. Doubt everyone "gets" Trumps "nuance" in nut-job groups at home or abroad
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