I wish the media would do some homework on Sam Nunberg.
From New York Magazine, Operation Trump, by Gabriel Sherman April 3, 2016
Throughout 2014, the three (Roger Stone, Michael Cohen, and Sam Nunberg) fed Trump strategy memos and political intelligence. “I listened to thousands of hours of talk radio, and he was getting reports from me,” Nunberg recalled. What those reports said was that the GOP base was frothing over a handful of issues including immigration, Obamacare, and Common Core.
They studied talk radio to get form their strategy for the primaries, at least.
Limbaugh helped Trump in the primaries by attacking the GOP ‘establishment’ big money candidates Bush, Rubio, etc. He regularly made excuses for Trump. That’s why Trump beat the big money. He is still making excuses for Trump, every day. Limbaugh keeps all the other radio blowhards in line. And together they keep the GOP in line.
Who told Trump to pay Nunberg to listen to “1000s” of hours of talk radio? Who would be able to tell city boy Trump to pay for that?
Most of the most effective Russian trolling piggybacked months and years of talk radio bullshit aimed at Clinton. Some of it was repeated here by trolls and even by regulars.
What better way to coordinate with Kremlin trolling without regular coaching and coordination than to just follow the talk radio scripts that have worked for years before social media? If they were going to steal the over-50 Republican teabag base from the GOP establishment they would use talk radio, not social media.
Where would a bunch of Russians who didn’t know American politics get their best material from? Why would they just throw a bunch of crap on the social media landscape and hope some of it would stick? What would troll team leaders use to guide their work?
And did the Kremlin figure out years ago how to feed Limbaugh?
Someone needs to ask Nunberg about studying talk radio in 2014 — that would certainly put the Trump presidential bid back to that point in time, at least.
Here was a previous diary on this: Hey, MSNBC! Next time you have Sam Nunberg on, ask about when he studied talk radio for Trump.