Europeans here's what to look out for in
the homestretch of us election 2016 from
the makers of the August amnesia and the
September's pseudo scandal it's the
october surprise
what is an October Surprise well it's a
news event appearing deliberately or
spontaneously to influence the outcome
of an election 2012 it was Hurricane
sandy when even New York realized huh
climate changes a thing 2008 the
financial crisis when obama's opponent's
best response was this and in 2004 a
viral video by Osama bin Laden from
Pakistan somehow made America realized
that invading Iraq is a great idea in
2016 October began with a number of
trumps scandals and all at the same time
forget the fact that he's never paid
taxes. NO! this week Trump violated the
embargo with Cuba Trump broke sanctions
with Iran to make a deal with a bank
link to terror and Trump ditched us
steel workers for China what's
interesting is these stories are a total
secret they've kind of been out there
for a while so my question is why now
why does every newsroom decide to run
these stories at once
maybe it's just to make sure that no one
pays attention to the vice presidential
debate the vice presidential debate
between Democrat tim kaine and
Republican Mike Pence otherwise known as
annoying orange vs. the preacher from
Footloose tim kaine set a record for
firing off scripted lines at unscripted
moments
soundbite soundbite and apparently Mike
Pence definitely won the debate at least
according to the Republican website 90
minutes before the debate started
oops this is not the first time
Republicans have had issues with
premature exact election and in an
attempt to set the record straight
Donald Trump claimed Mike Pence won the
debate no question I mean it was like
Hillary didn't even show up
back to the october surprise why so many
trips candles all at once well it is on
the schedule you know the grand campaign
schedule just like screenwriters use a
story arc
plot their movies newsrooms they have a
kind of grand narrative for the
campaign's you can tell because the way
we're being shown the candidates fits so
perfectly with the standard movie
trailer meet Hillary Clinton the girl
most likely to succeed
everything was going according to her
plan but can she handle a man with no
plan and then there's Donald
Donald Trump a brash outsider who broke all the
rules is he qualified to join America's
most elite club one thing is for sure
when Trump is onstage
anything can happen now see if poll
numbers are like she's I he's low the
whole time it's boring not good for
ratings but when they meet and maybe
switch places
whoo that's an election now am I
suggesting that media outlets do this on
purpose
well I'm just pointing out that CBS les
Moonves said Trump might be bad for
America but he's great for business now
taking a look back at Hillary story arc
so far she was the top dog coming out of
july then she gets hit with all these
scandals back to underdog and now after
the first debate she's back to top dog
I know I shouldn't call Hillary a female
dog that's rush limbaugh's job taking a
look back at Trump story arc he was the
underdog then the media darling
now he's back to underdog so we can
predict that the grand narrative will
swing back to trump one more time at
least before election day eight November
all it takes is a pause on the negative
attention for Trump and a bit more
negative media attention on Hillary how
will they do it here are my three
predictions one Julian Assange might
reveal another bunch of potentially
damning Hillary emails but if it's
anything like the last one
it's just a bunch of people who are
angry to be up till three in the morning
to Hillary might be caught off camera
making insulting remarks again you
thought the basket of deplorable was bad
wait till you hear about the basket of
racist motherfuckers and three who knows
maybe one of the all right Hilary
conspiracy theories might prove to be
true maybe Hillary really does have aids
that she got from Bill Clinton who got
it from
Charlie Sheen maybe she is somehow being
controlled by any number of odd lumps in
her wardrobe and she definitely might
have brain damage especially when
balloons are dropping
but until then I say be a little careful
when you're consuming the news for
United States of Europe I'm Greg Shapiro
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