Climbing out of the Pitts.

Donald Trump is a ‘BS artist’

OPINION

By Leonard Pitts - Miami Herald

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Posted: 12:00 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016

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We’ve called him many things. We pundits have overworked our thesauruses and our imaginations to describe Donald Trump.

Kathleen Parker called him “the biggest goofball ever to enter the Oval Office sweepstakes.”

Nicholas Kristof called him “ill-informed,” ”deceptive,” ”vacuous” and a “crackpot.”

Yours truly called him “a tire fire in an expensive suit.”

But if there were a prize for getting it right, all of us would be runners-up to Fareed Zakaria. Last month, in a live interview on CNN and a later column in The Washington Post, he nailed Trump perfectly. The Republican candidate for president, he said, is “a bull—-t artist.”

Yes, it’s a coarse and vulgar term. But there is no demure synonym that captures the man with such crystalline accuracy.

Donald Trump is not just a liar, a word that connotes strategic untruths told for expedience or advantage. No, he is a BS artist, a man who speaks most forcefully where he knows the least, and whose entire modus operandi is to bluff, bluster, boast and bully his way through whatever the subject or situation may be.

Think Cliff Clavin holding forth in “Cheers,” or Eddie Murphy rousting that redneck bar in “48 Hours.”

Perhaps the clearest proof of Trump’s BS artistry came last week when he conceded what intelligent people have known for years. “President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Period,” he said. It was a terse, grudging statement at the end of an event at his hotel in Washington celebrating the glory of all things Trump.

“President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Period.” Well, gee, thanks for clearing that up.

That this was ever a matter of controversy speaks volumes about the intellectual state of the Union. That the majority of Republicans still doubt or disbelieve the president’s birthplace speaks volumes about the intellectual state of that party. That Trump led this racist movement for five years, that he fanned its bizarre conspiracy theories and claimed to have hired private investigators to look into them, that he dumped the whole thing when it became political baggage, that he did not apologize for what he did, that he instead attempted to shift blame and to claim — lying through his teeth — that Hillary Clinton started it all, speaks volumes about the moral state of the would-be president.

Indeed, it provides redundant proof that there is no “there” there, no core values holding him together, unless you count the value of always doing whatever gratifies or advances Donald Trump and his ego in a given moment. Otherwise, he is formless, a cloud sculpted by the breeze, water taking the shape of the glass.

He is, transparently and obviously, exactly what Zakaria called him. And he is rising in the polls.

That ought to give you pause. Trump is not an overly clever man and certainly not a subtle one. He does not hide what he is. Yet some of us are nonetheless drawn to what he is, to the way he validates their anger at all the faceless others — Muslims and Mexicans, gays and transgender, blacks and uppity women — whose rising has changed America. They want “their” country back, and Trump, with the easy grin of a conscienceless man who stands for nothing and therefore, stands for whatever you need him to, promises to give it to them.

Just as he once promised them he’d once solve the “mystery” of Obama’s birthplace, only to unceremoniously abandon that promise when it became politic to do so. You’d think Trump’s acolytes would see a warning there. The stench of bovine excretions could not be more obvious.

But for them, apparently, change smells even worse

Climbing out of the Pitts

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race 

and Inheritance

Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in 

my mind that as a member of the Black community 

I was somehow obligated to this community and 

would use all of my present and future resources 

to benefit this community first and foremost. 

Mr. Obama publicly promised to govern as a 
racist and I don’t remember Mr. Pitts protesting 
but, rather,  ignoring the racism of members  of 
the Liberal Cult he is a member of and 
back when Mr. Obama was running he 
was the axiological principle of the 

Cult of Liberalism which is the media 
collective and which is much like Scientology, 
just not as reasonable.

Hillary is just the newest manifestation of the 
axiological principle of the Liberal Cult.

Mr. Trump is not a racist for questioning  Mr.

Obama’s  legitimacy as a candidate anymore than 

he was a racist for questioning the legitimacy of
the candidacy of Mr. Cruz.

Or, maybe, Mr. Pitts thinks Mr. Trump is also a 

racist against white Canadians.

Mr. Trump and his campaign is spot on in their 

observation that questioning the legitimacy of Mr. 

Obama’s candidacy arose from the Clinton 
campaign and that has been well-documented by 
The Washington Post - 
hardy a right wing racist site.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/09/26/washington-
post-confirms-hillary-clinton-started-the-birther-movement/

Like the Scientologists they so closely mirror 

(although the media has a different ideology), the 

Cult of Liberalism continues to plummet in the 

eyes of the average Joe.

Deservingly so is the media at a new nadir of 

trustworthiness (but additional decreases will 
follow) and Mr. Pitts is just another rich example
of why.

He is publicly lying about facts easily obtained 

and he is publicly calling Mr. Trump a racist and 

that name-calling is an important part of the 
Liberal’s Cult Creed.

Just try and name the republican candidate for 

POTUS in your lifetime the media have not 
labelled a racist.

You can’t, can you.

Fear of the Jews drives Russet, Obama, and 

Hillary to denounce attacks on the Jews because 

The  Messias-Deniers control 90% of the media

 (six companies comprise that control and all are

headed by Jews) and they control discourse and 

they can make or break political candidates if 

American political candidates do not plight

their political troth to the Messias-Deniers and
Israel.

None of them denounced the hatred directed

against whites because whites are kittens; they

do not engage in identity politics (but many of 
those who vote for Trump are learning the 
lessons) and they are quiescent; for now.