First, Get Their Attention
“‘If you do things a little differently,’ [Trump] writes
of the media, ‘if you say outrageous things and fight back, they love you.’ The
free publicity that results from deliberately provoking controversy is
invaluable. And if a bit of exaggeration is what it takes, Trump doesn’t have a
problem with that. ‘When,’ he asks ‘was the last time you saw a sign hanging
outside a pizzeria claiming ‘The fourth best pizza in the world’?’”
—Matthew Yglesias,
writer, “The Bullshitter-in-Chief,” Vox, May 30, 2017.
• Editorial Comment: Cheesy.
PeezPix by Ted Pease
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