{"id":37385,"date":"2017-03-05T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37385"},"modified":"2017-02-22T14:01:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T19:01:37","slug":"qotd-call-it-fifty-shades-of-orange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/03\/05\/qotd-call-it-fifty-shades-of-orange\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;Call it <em>Fifty Shades of Orange<\/em>&#8220;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The sequel to that stupid mommy porn bondage movie is now in theaters, giving naughty thrills to bored housewives whose liberal husbands can\u2019t cut it manwise, but the real festival of S&#038;M was in the White House as President Trump unleashed his iron discipline on the media. Call it <em>Fifty Shades of Orange<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t a press conference \u2013 it was a kinky dungeon session where masochistic journalists eagerly sought out the delicious pain Master T was dealing. Hack after hack stepped up, tried to play \u201cgotcha.\u201d and ended up whimpering in the fetal position. The best part was CNN\u2019s Jim Acosta, fresh from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2017\/02\/15\/cnns_jim_acosta_the_fix_is_in_trump_only_calls_on_conservative_questions.html\" target=\"_blank\">whining about how conservative outlets now get to ask questions<\/a> too, basically <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/16\/media\/jim-acosta-donald-trump-press-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\">handing Trump the cat-o-nine tails<\/a>. Dude, next time keep from talking yourself into more public humiliation by biting down on the ball gag.<\/p>\n<p>The media\u2019s safe word is \u201cObjectivity,\u201d but none of them uttered it.<\/p>\n<p>The wonderful thing about Trump \u2013 and the thing that sets the Fredocons and wusspublicans fussing \u2013 is that he gives exactly zero damns about the media\u2019s inflated and ridiculous self-image. He doesn\u2019t pay lip service to their lie that they are anything but what Instapundit calls \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic Party operatives with bylines<\/a>.\u201d Trump called them the \u201cthe enemy of the American People,\u201d to which normals responded with \u201cYeah, sounds about right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kurt Schlicter, <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2017\/02\/20\/president-trump-has-been-far-too-nice-to-the-mainstream-media-n2287759\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;President Trump Has Been Far Too Nice To The Mainstream Media&#8221;, <em>Townhall.com<\/em><\/a>, 2017-02-20.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sequel to that stupid mommy porn bondage movie is now in theaters, giving naughty thrills to bored housewives whose liberal husbands can\u2019t cut it manwise, but the real festival of S&#038;M was in the White House as President Trump unleashed his iron discipline on the media. Call it Fifty Shades of Orange. 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