Column So Over-the-Top with Trump Derangement, It (Almost) Seems Fake
Hyperbole shouldn't be the only tool in a writer's kit.
5.1.2017
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SF Gate blogger and yoga instructor Mark Morford doesn't like Donald Trump. Hereally doesn't like him. Judging from his most recent column, which attempts to make sense of President Trump's first 100 days in the Oval Office, he might need to take a step away from the keyboard and toward a good counselor's office. He begins by asking, "Did you survive? It would appear you have survived."
After establishing that the person reading his words has survived the apocalypse of Trump's first 100 days, he gets to the heart of his angst:
It’s only been 100 days, but that’s a lifetime in Trump years. If disillusion is your measure, Trump is a runaway success. If moral heartache is the yardstick, we are miles high, and screaming doom. If this had all been a reality TV-show contest to see how quickly a single human could disembowel the national spirit, poison international goodwill and bring a pox upon all our houses, Trump has indeed proven to be the biggest loser.Right now, there is, across the media spectrum, analysis, commentary, a number of outlets sort of half-heartedly attempting to take the “100 days” benchmark semi-seriously. As in, “Trump promised these 30 things in the first 100 days. How did he do?” and the like, as though he were an actual, functioning politician with actual, functioning ideas designed to improve the well-being of the nation.He has nothing of the sort. He is just an ogre, the hell-mouth incarnate, a shockingly incompetent, weak-kneed, kindness-abhorring con man incapable of a single complex thought, a charlatan merely using the most powerful office in the land to rape the U.S. Treasury and launder mountains of cash through his own businesses. But wait, our president does “tell more untruths than any president in American history,” says Texas A&M political scientist George Edwards, editor of the scholarly journal Presidential Studies Quarterly. Does that count as an accomplishment?
So, is this the first time someone has referred to the President of the United States as the "hell-mouth incarnate?" I'd put money on the probability that it is. The piece gets even worse, believe it or not, but it says more about its unhinged, hate-spewing writer than it does about the President. The media have been living in La-La-land for the past 8 years, and this column is evidence that reality is sometimes a cold, harsh teacher. Disappointed columnists could take a lesson from the rest of America and just suck it up, deal with the loss, and move on. But that would require them to acknowledge that the rest of America actually, you know, exists.
Read the rest of his piece here, if you want a good laugh or cry, depending on whether you see liberal tears as comic or depressing. Either way, Morford might want to add another literary tool to his arsenal other than hysterical hyperbole. And he might want to get some professional help.
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