I like Max, true enough, but he's not a patch on Prof Steve Keen or Prof Yanis Varoufakis when it comes to economics
But this is about politics and power, not economics. Economic policy is decided by politicians, not the other way around.
So he 'owned Fox' by not appearing at the debate?
Absolutely. Pure genius. The way Trump has played the entire campaign will be studied for decades to come at Oxford PPE classes as the world's next generation of politically correct politicians study how someone broke all the rules of their spin doctors, took on the entire Establishment of his on party and Fox News (which is the most powerful cable news channel in
America and hence in the world) and scared the bejeezus of political classes and elites across the planet.
You have to stop listening to the BBC and Cahnnel 4 News who tend to portray Trump as a buffoon, a joke or mad. He is the shrewdest manipulator of the media that there is and he is so confident and fearless that he is challenging every power institution that there is and running rings around them. It is a brilliant operation. There are teams of whizzkids, teenage ones, flown in from top universities across the planet trying to stop Trump and help the elites, but he and his team (who deserve enormous credit and who will be studied on PPE courses for decades to come) are wiping the floor with every whizzkid that is thrown against them.
Here is the Guardian
"Trump just proved: it's possible to win a debate you didn't attend"
The clear winner of the final Republican debate, just four days before the first votes are cast in Iowa, was the Macavity candidate.
Just like the mystery cat, Donald Trump was nowhere near the scene of the crime at the Fox News debate. You could find him on rival news channels, but the damage was already done to poor Ted Cruz: the only candidate who could come close to beating him in Iowa."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/29/donald-trump-republican-debate-winning
Here is Vox News
"Donald Trump won the debate."
www.vox.com/2016/1/28/10866312/donald-trump-won-the-debate
The headlines keep coming and coming about how Trump trounced the lot of them and the elite are waking up this morning with headaches and they are throwing mobile phones around the room as they demand another extra strong coffee to clear their muddled heads. It's not a pleasant sight this morning in elite HQ, reports are that they are like bears with sore heads and are refusing to read any more newspapers this mmorning.
I'd say that Fox was largely behind him, given who owns the 'news'
channel
You've got to stop listening to Channel 4 News and the BBC and understand what is going on. Fox is part of the Establishment. Trump is anti-establishment (which is why Trumpites love him) and the Establishment want to take him down and let a safe pair of hands win.
The original Megyn Kelly question 5 months ago was a question intended to harm Trump - a typical politically correct question that the Clinton campaign would use against Trump. Trump knows the entire Establishment wants to stop him, he understands the game. The reality is that there are probably some secret Trumpites at Fox, even possibly very high up, and there were reports of some leaks from Fox meetings etc. Trump possibly knows in advance what Fox wil do in debates etc. In this debate Fox showed teh candidates on video flip-flopping positions. Trump is on video over the past 30 years supporting lots of liberal positions. He wasn't going to stand on stage and let Fox play all that so that the Establishment candidates (the phoney conservatives) could take hits at him just days before the Iowa caucus. He outsmarted them, skipped the debate and took all the edia coverage off them and humiliated them.
Here is an article in the New York Magazine on how Murdoch and the boos of Fox New, Roger Ailes, are handling the Trump crisis.
"Rupert Murdoch Is Leaving Roger Ailes Alone to Handle the Trump Crisis
...
Rupert Murdoch and his two sons, Lachlan and James, are making sure people know that this crisis is on Roger Ailes. “Rupert is letting Roger handle this,” a source close to Murdoch said earlier on Thursday. Murdoch, according to another source close to the company, is "really upset about this."
What this means is that, at least publicly, the Murdochs seem to want to isolate the PR nightmare to Ailes and Fox. The surreal spectacle of Fox's feud with the GOP front-runner is becoming a test of Ailes’s management abilities at a moment when Fox executives and anchors have noted the Fox chief’s diminished presence at the network.
...
Inside Fox, Ailes’s handling of the Trump battle has left some senior executives questioning his judgment"
nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/01/murdoch-is-leaving-ailes-to-handle-trump-crisis.html#
I'd also say Trump was poorly advised, as Murdoch owns so much mass media that if it's used against him he'll be trounced
That is why what Trump has done is so enormous and why A Fox host (who likes trump) said that "Trump has rolled the dice". Fox is supposed to be a conservative network, but real conservatives (not modernisers and not politically correct) think that Fox has some phoney conservatives on there who are politically correct. Fox viewers (real conservatives) by and large love Trumpbecause he is anti-establishment and politically correct and the danger for Fox is that those millions of good, decent conservatives will turn against Fox and see them as phoney conservatives who are part of the Establishment. It is bad news for Fox because they want to influence minds and keep the conservative base on their side. Real conservatives may start getting their information from other right wing news sources. Imagine if Trump opened a news channel himself - Trump News. Real conservatives would be watching that instead and elites would be in pieces.
"Meanwhile, as Ailes battles Trump, he's also facing insurgent attacks from the far right. Fox’s standing on the right has been a focus for Ailes because he built the network for conservatives. When Trump’s feud with Kelly first broke out in August, Ailes called Breitbart News executive chairman Stephen Bannon and lobbied Bannon to keep Ailes’s name off Breitbart. That effort has failed. This morning, Breitbart ran a series of anti-Ailes headlines (“How Trump Beat Roger Ailes at His Own Game,” “Pride Goeth Before the Fall: Ailes Calls Trump’s Wife and Daughter,” “Roger Ailes Put Megyn Kelly’s Interest Ahead of the Country’s”).
For Ailes, the next 24 hours will be critical."
nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/01/murdoch-is-leaving-ailes-to-handle-trump-crisis.html#
Trump is tough as nails and tends to double down. He restarted the twitter feud with the Saudi prince again yesterday by retweeting a tweet which exaggeratedly said that the prince owns lots of Fox.
He also retweeted a twet about Megyn Kelly. He won't cave in to Fox and they know it.
"This morning, senior executives including Clemente and senior VPs Suzanne Scott and Jay Wallace held emergency discussions after Trump retweeted a supporter who had posted a racy photo shoot of Kelly along with the caption “Criticizes Trump for objectifying women…poses like this for GQ Magazine.”
Ailes, according to the source, seemed unsure how to respond. “He’s really upset and doesn’t know what to do,” the source said. “They see those pictures as a big wound to Megyn. They’re putting it out there that she’s this serious journalist, and then she poses like that. Can you imagine a picture of Maureen Dowd doing that? Maureen knows not to do that.”
nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/01/murdoch-is-leaving-ailes-to-handle-trump-crisis.html#
I suggest if you want a populist politician who actually will fight for change you get behind Sanders
No because I am a conservative, I believe in capitalism and low taxes just like Max Keiser, i agree with Trump that "this global warming BULLSHIT has got to stop" and I like politicians who are not politically correct. I am a Trump fan.
Trump has no respect for the political class, he calls them "losers" and "puppets". He intends to beat them. He outplayed them yesterday and the brilliant Stump for Trump sisters were at Trump's event for verterans last night. They were brilliant, speaking from the heart without any scripts written by teenage whizzkid spin doctors, just the way Trump fan like it.
Excellent speech by the Stump for Trump sisters before Trump spoke
and Trump brought them on again near the end of the show and they were the final guests to appear on the show.