When Donald Drumpf announced his Presidential candidacy in 2015, reports surfaced of his campaign bringing in bystanders off the street and paying them to join the boisterous boodle.
Well, that practice never stopped. They're just not doing it off the street any more.
In the wake of TV journalist Jim Acosta's dawning realization that Drumpf's demagoguery could get people like him injured or killed, skepticism is growing as to whether the angry Tampa Trumpsters were hurling insults at the press spontaneously or not.
We're leaning toward "not." After all, everything about Donald Drumpf is fake: his wealth, his business smarts, his negotiating skills, his hair — everything. So why shouldn't his rabid crowds be fake, too?
That's why he accuses the media of "fake news" so much: Projection, projection, projection.
We're not saying that journalists shouldn't watch their backs. As we've noted, Trump is whipping up some real danger in a country that's awash in guns. But it would be great if the press would cut out the wide-eyed amazement and see this sociopath and his followers for what they are: phonies and cowards. We cats HISS.
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