Thursday, September 27, 2018

We Are To Read Only What Is On The Syllabus

Question: The President recently told a group of evangelical leaders...."Now one of the things I'm most proud of is getting rid of the Johnson Amendment." Is it a true statement? The answer follows this post.

       Folks, I have never seen CNN cable news.  I can't remember ever tuning in to CNN while on vacation where I had access to the major cable news networks which I do not have access to at home.  If the ratings for CNN are so low as conservative talk radio hosts remind us of so often....and if no one is watching....why do they highlight the network so much? The answer is that they need to control the narrative so that conservatives do not get too inquisitive as to who Donald Trump really is.
       One radio show this morning ridiculed Chris Cuomo of CNN because of his poor vocabulary. OK....point taken....but President Trump's vocabulary and grammar are notoriously poor....and he is brilliant to these folks? How do these type of contradictions continue so often on conservative talk radio without being recognized and acknowledged by conservatives? The answer is that conservative talk radio hosts have no intention of letting us think for ourselves.
       On the same morning program one regular guest commented that President Trump seemed to have changed in the past two weeks......"He's become a fairly normal President....I'm kind of enjoying it.....and his approval ratings are going up." This commentator's observance is true and I've noticed it also. The reason for this is the Bob Woodward book. President Trump....through his advisors....saw how bad he looks to the American public.....and the world....and has been making an attempt to calm down....probably at the extreme behest and pleading of these advisors.
       The President's approval ratings have edged upwards during the attacks on Brett Kavanaugh but this isn't because President Trump has sounded like a normal president lately....its because Americans are sick of the tactics of the Democrats. As I have mentioned quite a few times in these posts.....the conservative base in America has been fighting the Progressive onslaught for decades....long before Donald Trump made the decision to enter the 2016 primaries. He....President Trump....with his multiple and egregious missteps....and serious character flaws....is given a pass in no small degree because he represents our side of this battle. The approval polls have held....not because of who Donald Trump is....because we do not know who he really is....and have not been given the full story from our only information source on what has actually transpired over the past year and a half....and are not aware that he is not really one of us....but the polls have held because of who opposes him....Mueller and the media and late night talk show hosts and various celebrities and Chuck Schumer and the socialist wave in the Democrat Party and Antifa and Stalinist type attacks on men like Brett Kavanaugh and conservatives being run out of restaurants...and on and on.
          If we would read some of these books on what life in the White House has been in the Trump administration....and who President Trumps really is....his approval ratings would not be where they are....we would still fight the deluded enemies of America but no longer unconditionally support this man who happens to be President in our cause....but we have been indoctrinated not to read anything beyond the prescribed syllabus. We may read Newt Gingrich's Understanding Trump but not Woodward Fear. We'll read Gregg Jarrett's The Russia Hoax but not Craig Unger's House Of Trump, House Of Putin. Christians will take Jonathan Cahn's The Paradigm almost as Scripture but will not apply Scripture's warnings of false prophets and grand delusions and trusting in princes to the news of today. Donald Trump is just such a false prophet....and just such a delusion....and just such a prince who we have placed our trust in.

Answer: If you listen to President Trump you would believe that he got rid of the Johnson Amendment just as he promised in his campaign that he would do. He did not. The Johnson Amendment would need legislation from Congress to get rid of it. What President Trump did was issue an Executive Order essentially telling his Treasury Department to ignore it. The issue I'm bringing up here is not the Johnson Amendment itself.....it is President Trump's continuous telling of lies. He knows very well that he is leading on his supporters to believe something that is not the case. As for us? We don't care....he can lie to all that he wants....we like him. Amanda Carpenter's....(former staffer for both Jim DeMint and Ted Cruz).....recent book Gaslighting America....Why We Love When Trump Lies To Us....takes on this issue in depth. I mentioned her book in a July 25th post titled Gaslighting if you are interested.