@MontereyJack,
MontereyJack wrote:
Finn quotes approvingly Jazz Shaw, who tries to trash someone who admits he has no professional training in determining craziness, just his own opinion, in calling Trump crazy. Are Shaw and Finn equally willing to trash Trump for having no, that's ZERO ;professional qualification in determining craziness either, yet he has repeatedly called people he disagrees with crazy, nuts, wacko? Just the first few hits in Google of people that Trump has called crazy include Glen Beck, Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders, Lindsey Graham, and Hilary Clinton " She is a totally unhinged person. She's unbalanced," Seems to me that the person who really deserves the condemnation is in fact Donald Trump.,
I'm right here Jack you can ask me these questions directly. It's a little creepy doing it your way.
Well, it
would seem to you that Trump really deserves the condemnation since you're
crazy with hate for him (and that's my professional opinion as a non-doctor).
Trump constantly calling people crazy, unhinged, nuts etc is childish and unbecoming of the president of the United States. If you want to condemn him, have at it, but while you're at it, save some of your ire for Robinson's bull-shite.
Shaw
criticized Robinson (I
trashed him), and he did it because while Trump is acting like a child, Robinson is trying to act like a psychologist which he admits he's not. He wasn't simply calling Trump a name he was seriously opining that the man has psychological problems that can be dangerous for the nation. And based on what? Watching video's of him from the past and the present? Speaking with people who have known him for decades and say he's changed? Are these people anything like the ones who claim to be
familiar with all of these matters and keep giving WaPo bogus information that they run with?
Shaw could have written that he spoke with unidentified people who have known Robinson for decades and say he's
changed...he's become even more obsessed with having sex with minors. It's unlikely you would believe that (and rightly so) and yet you believe Robinson. What's the difference?
One is something you want to believe.
If you are a journalist you don't render medical opinions about someone unless you are also a doctor, have examined the person (not simply talked to people who may or may not actually know him well enough to be a source of reliable information)
and you are willing to flagrantly violate your code of professional ethics. Robinson can't provide his readers with the medical opinion they would devour like a chocolate sundae because he can't find any doctor who has actually been in a position to render a diagnosis of whatever condition Trump may or may not have
AND completely dump all over his or her professional ethics by talking to him about it.
Robinson's also not going to find a doctor qualified to render an opinion based on training, credentials
AND actually examining the man who will tell him that Trump is
not suffering from a psychological condition
unless Trump gives him permission to speak with him and why would he do that?
So, faced with the inability to report on a psychological assessment of Trump that is worth anything at all, what does Robinson do? He provides his readers with his own and pathetically attempts to give it credence while admitting it deserves none.
His line about it being
uncomfortable discussing the president's mental health but
irresponsible not to, is a particularly weaselly way of creating the illusion that a) There
is something wrong with the man since talking about him being sane as rain wouldn't be uncomfortable, and b) That somehow Robinson is in a position of professional authority whereby his talking or not talking about Trump's mental health is a matter of
his responsibility.
It would be like me suggesting that our nuclear arsenal is hopelessly obsolete and completely non-functional, something I have absolutely no qualifications to assess, but that I have a
professional responsibility to do so. You and many others here would be immediately calling bull-shite and giving me not an inch of slack because I admitted to my lack of qualifications...
and you would all be 100% correct! Yet here you are willing to accept the same sort of bull-shite from Robinson because you want to believe Trump is mentally ill.
That I have to explain this you and that you are almost assuredly still not going to buy it demonstrates just how
crazy in hate you are for Trump