{"id":33974,"date":"2018-10-11T13:42:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T20:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33974"},"modified":"2018-10-11T13:42:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T20:42:50","slug":"muzzle-the-sphincter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/11\/muzzle-the-sphincter\/","title":{"rendered":"Muzzle the Sphincter"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are few things that Resident Donald Trump [R-RU], aka Putin’s Pervert, loves more than face time on TV.  He could always depend on the Republican Reichsministry of propaganda, Faux Noise<\/em>, to follow him  everywhere and dutifully send every squawk, no matter how flatulent, out to deplorable Republican sheeple everywhere, until now.  The Fuhrer is a a one-trick pony.  After hearing the same rants a few dozen times, even the most brain-dead sheeple get bored and change the channel.  As ratings dropped below viability, Faux Noise pulled the plug.<\/font><\/p>\n

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It happened to \u201cThe Apprentice,\u201d too. Ratings during the first season were solid; the show\u2019s finale in that first season won the week, the only time it would do so. But then in the second season<\/a>, things faded. Several million fewer people tuned in each week than they had the prior season, and the finale attracted fewer viewers than had nearly any episode of the first season. The magic wasn\u2019t exactly gone, but the novelty was.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday evening, Politico reported<\/a> that Fox News, the last adherents of the air-every-Donald-Trump-rally-live philosophy, were backing off that policy. Fox News had been a respite for President Trump, who has praised the network for showing his rallies while other networks aired other coverage<\/strong>. Whatever else was going on, Fox could be relied on to stick with the president\u2019s riffs and rants, no doubt to the enjoyment of much of its audience.<\/p>\n

But Trump has already held six rallies this month<\/a>, on 60 percent of the evenings in October so far. That\u2019s a lot of time to devote to what is essentially the same thing over and over. Trump doesn\u2019t have a stump speech, but he does have a stump patter. Pick out a string of four sentences from any of his recent events and they could probably slot, unedited, into any of the others. Why keep showing it? Ratings for the Trump Show, Politico reports, had started to slip below the standard ratings for the network\u2019s prime time programming.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So Trump got bumped. On Wednesday night, as Trump had a rally in Pennsylvania<\/a>, Fox aired \u201cThe Story With Martha MacCallum."…  [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Anytime anyone, even Faux Noise<\/em>, decides to muzzle the sphincter, I’m all for it!<\/font><\/p>\n

RESIST!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n

VOTE BLUE!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n

26 DAYS!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are few things that Resident Donald Trump [R-RU], aka Putin’s Pervert, loves more than face time on TV.  He could always depend on the Republican Reichsministry of propaganda, Faux Noise, to follow him  everywhere and dutifully send every squawk, no matter how flatulent, out to deplorable Republican sheeple everywhere, until now.  The Fuhrer is […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}