Mercedes is Not Melania, But of Course

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Whenever someone says, "Can you believe what Trump said?" I have to go and dig a little further. There are specific things I am looking for. An element of humor. An element of sarcasm. Context. And of course, the totality of the comments. Not just carefully and often times, strategically edited bits and pieces to create a narrative. Take this example; "Trump forgot his wife's name and called her Mercedes." The truth? It's not true. I watched the CPAC speech. He was talking about his wife, but sitting in the front of the audience was his former White House director of strategic communications, Mercedes Schlapp. He called her out during his dialogue saying, "Well look, my wife, our great first lady, she was great, people love her. Oh look at that, wow. Mercedes, that's pretty good." He even looked at her when he said it and smiled at her, and anyone watching him would have been able to pick up immediately that he was distracted and speaking to a specific person in the crowd. But of course the news media picked it up instantly and edited it in a way to make it appear he had mistakenly called his wife by a different name. Folks, the point here is that in order to be informed, you have to start picking these things up and questioning what the aim is. Trusting the media is a bad idea and does no one any justice. Neither does being an idiot nor being lead around like a sheep.