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NBC makes nice with Trump
The Hill ^ | January 13, 2016 | Judy Kurtz

Posted on 01/13/2016 11:58:43 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

Even though NBC ended its business relationship with Donald Trump last year, the network's chief is calling the GOP presidential front-runner "one of the most important political figures of our time."

"We had a couple businesses that we were doing with [Trump] - 'Apprentice' and the pageants - we got out of both of those businesses," NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt said Wednesday at the Television Critics Association press tour in California, according to Variety magazine. "That was June or July when most of us thought he would be sort of waltzing into the background of the political arena, and lo-and-behold, he's the frontrunner and the poll numbers are sort of astounding and he's everywhere...every news show, morning show, night show, cable show."

"I think that reconciles quite easily with we're not in business with him, but love it or not, he's one of the most important political figures of our time and he's on our shows," said Greenblatt.

The network parted ways with Trump last June, ending a business partnership the White House hopeful had with NBC as host of "Celebrity Apprentice" and as the then-co-owner and executive producer behind the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants, after he made controversial comments about immigrants during his presidential campaign kickoff.

At the time, Trump said NBC was "weak and foolish to not understand the serious illegal immigration problem in the United States."

But Trump has been a regular guest on NBC entertainment and news programs since the falling out. He appeared on "The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon" on Monday, and guest hosted "Saturday Night Live" in November.

"He was on the show and the Earth didn't fall on its axis," Variety quoted Greenblatt as saying Wednesday of Trump's "SNL" gig. "It was a highly rated show and that's always a good thing. At the end of the day, he's the frontrunner of the Republican nomination."

"If we were in the business of never having anyone guest on the network that had views that were different than our views, we would be out of business," Greenblatt said.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016; 2016election; election2016; msm; newyork; trump
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1 posted on 01/13/2016 11:58:43 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

For my purposes they ARE out of business.


2 posted on 01/13/2016 12:02:55 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The article indicates nothing of the sort of NBC “making nice” with Trump.

Evidence is lacking.


3 posted on 01/13/2016 12:06:19 PM PST by Resettozero
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Any proof there was any tension between them, not just “reality TV drama?”


4 posted on 01/13/2016 12:09:07 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Resettozero
Evidence is lacking.

Agreed. There seems to be a lot of speculating based on off-handed comments about smoking peace pipes with Trump or Cruz, but there is still a long way to go. Nikki Haley's speech yesterday, which was a tool of the GOPe, indicates no such truce with Trump.

5 posted on 01/13/2016 12:13:01 PM PST by 11th Commandment ("THOSE WHO TIRE LOSE")
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Of course ratings $$$$ has a lot to do with this but there is this to consider too:

Rush Limbaugh - EIB [Jan 12, 2016]

...The next Politico story. “Trump’s ‘Strange New Respect’ Moment - You saw it here first,” says The Politico. “The media is coming around to the mogul. Having survived public thrashings from his political foes and the press for his policy proposals, his increasingly outrageous speeches, and his personality, Donald Trump now finds himself receiving strange new respect from unexpected corners.

“If you’re not familiar with the ‘strange new respect’ trope, a short primer. The American Spectator’s Tom Bethell introduced the concept in a 1992 article to ridicule the practice of liberal journalists who would reward conservative politicians who migrated from right to left by commenting in print on how they were now commanding ‘strange new respect.’”

Another way of putting it was, this politician is showing growth. Why, he’s actually growing. That meant becoming liberal. Transferring from conservative to liberal. So what they’re now saying is that Trump is a recipient of strange new respect just like McCain had it. All of a sudden the media’s coming around now. They have a strange new respect for Trump. They’re trying to say it signals the end of the guy. Just like when they said McCain had it, you know, McCain did, McCain fell for it, he thought the media was his base. He thought the media would never abandon him.

There are those of us that tried to tell him, Senator McCain, the minute you have a Democrat opponent, this love affair is over and the media is gonna be all over you and hate you. (imitating McCain) “It’s not gonna happen, it’s not gonna happen, because I spent years and years building these relationships, isn’t gonna happen.” And it happened. So they’re trying to run the same shtick here on Trump. But they’re still amazed that all of a sudden the media is now treating Trump with newfound respect.


6 posted on 01/13/2016 12:14:30 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: 11th Commandment

“..Nikki Haley’s speech yesterday, which was a tool of the GOPe, indicates no such truce with Trump.”

http://www.redstate.com/2016/01/13/establishment-chooses-trump-cruz/

“........Why would the establishment prefer Trump, the man they have fought against so vociferously since the day he announced? Well, they know that, bluster aside, not much would probably change under a Trump presidency. Trump has no special interest in cutting spending or eliminating special interests. Given that he’s been the beneficiary of both throughout the entirety of his career in private industry, they have reason to believe that under a Trump presidency, the trough will only get wider and deeper while Trump is off chasing after a border wall they know they can prevent him from building. And ultimately, if Trump loses (as they expect him to do), then they can just fundraise off anti-Hillary angst for at least the next four years. Not the worst possible result, from the standpoint of a guy like Mitch McConnell.

On the other hand, they have reason to believe that if Cruz is elected President, he might actually try to do some of the things he is campaigning on. The history of their interaction with him shows that he means business about trying to cut spending, and actually overturning Obamacare - a proposition which scares them half to death.

In the end, they are not really bothered by the prospect of a guy who allegedly converted to conservatism five minutes ago and shows no real ideological mooring other than relentless self-promotion. They already swallowed that pill when they backed Romney in 2012 and McCain in 2008, after all.

So faced with a choice between the two, the establishment has clearly taken sides and their side is Trump’s.”


7 posted on 01/13/2016 12:16:20 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

translation: Oh, crap, he’s gonna win, and we’ll be frozen out of all the White House press conferences.


8 posted on 01/13/2016 12:19:14 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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CBS News - Jan 10, 2015: Trump and the media, like an addict and heroin

If you're watching television this morning, chances are Donald Trump will be in your face somewhere. He has been interviewed on some media outlet nearly every day for the last six months, often more than once.

He can be blustery, compelling, and of course, controversial. But Trump's abiding consistency is that he always delivers -- not substance, always eyeballs. He is box office personified, the broadcaster's deal with the devil.

This isn't to say that Trump has not tapped into a justifiable frustration among American voters. But his appeal to the Republican electorate exists separate from the spell he has cast upon the once-solemn gatekeepers of the Fourth Estate.

Think of the media as addicts, and Trump as its heroin. Or maybe it's the other way around -- Trump is the addict and attention is HIS heroin.

"The press is not an honest group of people. Look at all those cameras back there."

It is an unholy codependence either way. And like most codependencies, the arrangement is both comfortable and possibly quite unhealthy."..............................

9 posted on 01/13/2016 12:20:41 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Quit posting some Red Stater’s comments as news. You’re delusional.


10 posted on 01/13/2016 12:23:59 PM PST by McGruff (It's us against the Uniparty now.)
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/01/13/ted_cruz_donald_trump_running_neck_and_neck_in_iowa.html

“......Of the six state surveys taken in the new year, Cruz led three and Trump led three, with neither man posting an advantage of more than 4 points. The RealClearPolitics average of those polls, meanwhile, has Cruz with a scant, half-point lead on Trump, 26.7 percent to 26.2 percent-down from four points shortly before Christmas. (Rubio currently sits in a distant third place with 13 percent.) Based only on the state polls, Nate Silver and his FiveThirtyEight team peg Cruz’s current chances at winning the caucus at 42 percent, and Trump’s chances at winning at 40 percent.

Still, Cruz shouldn’t panic. The polls tell us much more about today than they do about Feb. 1, when Iowans will officially kick off the 2016 presidential nominating contest. With less than three weeks to go until then, more than half of the respondents in the Register poll said that they could still be persuaded to back a different candidate (though those backing either Trump or Cruz are the most likely to say their mind has been made up). That could create a serious opening for Cruz, who is the second-choice of 23 percent of Iowa Republicans, compared with 11 percent for Trump. The doom-saying senator also appears to have the advantage when it comes to ground-level organization in the state, something that has traditionally been integral in a contest that sees only about 1 in 5 registered Republicans show up to caucus. Meanwhile, when Silver and his team factor in endorsements and national polls, they see Cruz’s chance of an Iowa victory rising to 50 percent and Trump’s falling to 26 percent. (FiveThirtyEight has found some evidence it may actually be a bad thing in the long term to be doing better in national polls relative to early state surveys, which is one reason Trump’s prospects drop when you add other factors to the state poll numbers.)

In the end, Iowa might serve as a microcosm for the entire GOP campaign:................”


11 posted on 01/13/2016 12:26:51 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: McGruff

Is your comment to me “news?”


12 posted on 01/13/2016 12:27:58 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

He’s going to be getting some help from MSNBC now. They want the deal maker.


13 posted on 01/13/2016 12:28:06 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution. Go Cruz.)
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To: elhombrelibre

There’s “art” to those deals, I hear.


14 posted on 01/13/2016 12:30:03 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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More from the campaign trail:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/12/exclusive-mary-matalin-biden-has-a-roadmap-to-run/

“.....Veteran Republican political strategist Mary Matalin told Breitbart News that Biden could still get in, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)is still an option.

“Biden’s departure was more a roadmap to a potential run than a pull-out,” Matalin said. “Warren couldn’t or wouldn’t be permitted to resist a deep Draft Movement.”

“In my humble opinion, dictated by logic, the Democratic Party is with Hillary because she had big muscle, they owed her, and they had few better options who were willing to challenge her. And identity politics.”

“There doesn’t seem to be the kind of passion and energy usually evidenced by political crusaders,” Matalin said of the Clinton campaign. “It’s more just a lot of political professionals protecting and/or advancing their personal futures.”...


15 posted on 01/13/2016 12:36:24 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

There is art to it. And it always enriches. Look how the Clinton’s made out. Trump can do even better.


16 posted on 01/13/2016 12:37:38 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution. Go Cruz.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Of course they are. Reality shows make money and they want in on the next one once he’s done with his months-long commercial disguised as a campaign.


17 posted on 01/13/2016 12:40:50 PM PST by FourPeas (Chocolate, sugar and lots of caffeine. Hard to beat that.)
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http://blogs.rollcall.com/news/clinton-vulnerable-to-attack-ads-among-millennials/?dcz=

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton slips 5, 7, and 8 points with millennial voters in matchups against Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz when hit with just one attack ad, according to a Republican research firm that uses the same kind of randomized control groups that clinical drug trials do.

Younger voters were key to Barack Obama’s victories, of course, and Adam Schaeffer, chief science officer of Evolving Strategies, said Clinton appears to be surprisingly vulnerable with that demographic, especially given that the ad used in the test “was pretty lame and muddled in my opinion, but was the best thing out there.”

Control Attack Impact
Trump 34.6% 39.4% 4.8%
Cruz 37.7% 46.0% 8.4%
Rubio 43.8% 50.6% 6.8%

We already know that younger voters favor Clinton’s Democratic primary rival Sen. Bernard Sanders by large margins - and that millennials don’t reliably turn out to vote.

But Schaeffer argues that the findings should concern the Clinton campaign because she will need those voters to win. The attack ad used in the test, which was sponsored by the Stop Hillary PAC, focuses on Clinton’s handling of the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi - an issue that isn’t particularly potent with younger voters, who generally aren’t as concerned about terrorism as older voters.

The control group saw a Coke commercial “with cute little animals” - puffins and polar bears - cracking open a soda.

The 2012 GOP nominee, Mitt Romney, pulled in around 37.5 percent of voters aged 18 to 34, which means Cruz is at parity with Romney, Trump is behind where Romney was with those voters, and Rubio outperforms. Even with the impact of the ad taken into account, Trump barely exceeds Cruz’s baseline with younger voters, and falls well short of Rubio’s.

Trump’s numbers change the least, too, which is not terribly surprising since both the billionaire businessman and the criticism of him are already quite well known..........

The ad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5c0SX4Twvg


18 posted on 01/13/2016 12:54:58 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Resettozero
Evidence is lacking.

Nonsense.

Count up the air time he gets without them exploring the way his business hire illegals or the deals he had to make with the mob to survive in the casino business.

19 posted on 01/13/2016 1:47:37 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

They only attacked him half as much as they originally planned?


20 posted on 01/13/2016 2:06:17 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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