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Trump’s Loyalty Pledge and the Curse of Rand Paul
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Jack Kerwick
GOP loyalists may have finally gotten their wish. Since Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign, Republican politicians and their apologists on Fox News and in some quarters of “conservative” talk radio have been laboring tirelessly to discredit him. No effort, no tactic has been spared. Not only have all such endeavors failed; they have doubtless…
Hugh Hewitt v. Donald Trump: A “Third Rate Announcer’s” Gotcha’ Questions
By
Jack Kerwick
Radio talk show host and moderator of the next GOP/CNN debate, Hugh Hewitt, is the latest Republican pundit—and he is a pundit, not a “journalist”—to try to trip up his party’s frontrunner, Donald Trump. While on Hewitt’s program on Thursday, September 3, the host—who Trump now characterizes as a “third rate radio announcer”—made the following…
Trump and the GOP’s Election Cycle Talking Points
By
Jack Kerwick
During every presidential election cycle, both Democratic and Republican talking heads trot out the same tired conventionalities that they predictably use to promote their preferred candidates and undermine those whom they dislike. Given the Big Bang that is Donald Trump’s candidacy, the political props posing as species of reason have been particularly visible this time…
Thinking Seriously About the Virginia Murders
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Jack Kerwick
On the morning of August 26, Vester Lee Flanagan, a former employee of WBDJ, shot and murdered WBDJ TV’s Alison Parker and Adam Ward on live television. He shot a third person, Vicki Gardner, who Parker was interviewing. Fortunately, the latter will survive. Just as fortunately, the gunman is now dead (Too bad, though, that…
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