Jim Bakker Show - Trump, Twitter and the True Power of Media - Dr. William Forstchen
Aired: 2018-01-09
Duration: 01:41


=== The Internet's Political Decider (01:40) ===

[00:00:00]  I heard President Obama say that this was years ago, but he said that the Internet got him elected.
[00:00:11]  Right.
[00:00:11]  That he utilized it so mightily that he got   ⁇  but Trump can't use it, they say, because he's doing things on it they don't like.
[00:00:22]  I think it shows his personality and he bypasses all the writers.
[00:00:29]  But I hate it when journalism is so corrupted that it has the power to destroy.
[00:00:37]  Because they're thrashing in a new age that they don't know how to work in.
[00:00:42]  You mentioned Obama's statement, which was prophetic, how the Internet has become the crucial political decider.
[00:00:50]  Abraham Lincoln, telegraphy was crucial in getting out his famous debates with Douglas that made him a national candidate.
[00:00:59]  1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and then the fireside talks.
[00:01:05]  It became radio.
[00:01:06]  1960, Jack Kennedy knew how to work a camera, Richard Nixon did not.
[00:01:12]  2016, 2017, the Internet is now the way we communicate and reach to each other.
[00:01:19]  So, of course, he's going to drive them crazy when it's, okay, I'm no longer going to do a press conference with you people.
[00:01:28]  Or I should actually look off and make believe that you're all the journalists.
[00:01:32]  I don't need that anymore.
[00:01:33]  I can go straight through the Internet here and I can reach every American in a matter of seconds.