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Trump's Debate Boycott Throws Fox News Into Chaos
New York Magazine ^ | January 27, 2016 | Gabriel Sherman

Posted on 01/27/2016 12:51:33 AM PST by monkapotamus

Trump said he would host his own Iowa town hall to raise money for veterans and let other networks cover it. One clear sign of the gravity of tonight's development is the sense of confusion that is swirling throughout Fox. The network is split between Kelly's allies like Brit Hume and conservative anchors that are furious that Kelly - who graces the cover of Vanity Fair this month - has become the face of the network. An anchor fumed that Kelly hosted Michael Moore on her program tonight and the lefty filmmaker defended her against Trump. "That would be like Rachel Maddow laughing along with Charles Koch as he trashed Hillary Clinton!" the anchor said. One producer speculated that Fox could go "National Review" on Trump and start attacking him...

No matter how loudly GOP candidates complained about Fox's loutish politics in private, none risked taking Ailes on in public for fear of losing access to this crucial constituency - until Trump, that is. Even if Trump's boycott backfires, he's already achieved a historic victory: Exploding the myth that a Republican candidate can't openly challenge Fox.

(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...


TOPICS: Iowa; New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cnn; debate; debates; election2016; fox; foxnetwork; foxnews; gabrielsherman; iowa; megynkelly; megynkellygraphic; megynkellyquote; newyork; newyorkmagazine; rogerailes; rupertmurdoch; trump; trumplessdebate
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To: wardaddy

No one tops Anna Kooiman for vulgar dress and behavior. Trying to look serious as she hikes up her two-inch skirt.


201 posted on 01/27/2016 9:23:28 AM PST by GoKnow
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To: AnthonySoprano

Of course she’s proud of it. That’s what her game is all about.

I predict she’ll have a gig at different news organization within a year’s time.


202 posted on 01/27/2016 9:23:28 AM PST by GoKnow
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To: GoKnow

It’s funny

I’m off FOX for now and flipped to another hottie I like

Robin Meade on HLN

LOL

Tight black dress and yellow 110 pumps and yellow wristband

Man if they got it they flaunt it

Whichever network

FOX leans towards blonde southern girls or Harris...a brown southern girl

Or Latinas....Guilfoyle and Banderas and weather nymph...the latter dresses down and professes virginity till marriage


203 posted on 01/27/2016 9:34:03 AM PST by wardaddy (Trump or Cruz.......its win win folks......so take a John Riggins pill .......lie on the carpet)
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To: CodeToad

>> Trump is polling high with normally democrat voters <<

You mean the guy who fires people on TV? Wait till these low info voters find out he’s a Republican.


204 posted on 01/27/2016 9:44:17 AM PST by Hawthorn
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To: CodeToad

>> Trump is polling high with normally democrat voters <<

You mean the guy who fires people on TV? Wait till these low info voters find out he’s a Republican.


205 posted on 01/27/2016 9:44:18 AM PST by Hawthorn
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To: CodeToad

>> Trump is polling high with normally democrat voters <<

You mean the guy who fires people on TV? Wait till these low info voters find out he’s a Republican.


206 posted on 01/27/2016 9:44:18 AM PST by Hawthorn
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To: Hostage

I remember but Reagan had class.


207 posted on 01/27/2016 9:47:02 AM PST by maddog55 (America Rising a new Civil War needs to happen.)
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To: maddog55

When RR was running in 1980, he was not known for class. He was painted as a B-Rated actor, dumb, dangerous war monger who would start WWIII with the Soviets.


208 posted on 01/27/2016 9:56:46 AM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Hawthorn

“You mean the guy who fires people on TV? Wait till these low info voters find out he’s a Republican.”

You are one terrible bigot. On one hand you criticize Trump for not being able to connect to voters but then you criticize him for connecting to voters.


209 posted on 01/27/2016 10:37:26 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: pepsionice

Kelly isn’t worth it.


210 posted on 01/27/2016 10:40:13 AM PST by Big Horn (Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
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To: Helicondelta

She likes pigs.


211 posted on 01/27/2016 10:41:06 AM PST by Big Horn (Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
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To: AnthonySoprano

I like Dana.


212 posted on 01/27/2016 10:43:38 AM PST by Big Horn (Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
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To: LowOiL

The point is that any two citizens can create a NBC. I.e.: two naturalized US citizens, even first generation immigrants, will have NBC children if they are born on US soil. Cruz stating that some believe only NBCs can have NBC children was dishonest and conniving. It would be like me saying, some radical geneticists believe the only way to create a unicorn is to breed a horse with a narwhal.

Great. Except it’s not true, and neither was Cruz comment. It was just a nasty way of dragging Trump’s mother into the debate. In a real debate, he’d have LOST points for interjecting such a creepy, baseless lie.


213 posted on 01/27/2016 10:47:06 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

That’s right.


214 posted on 01/27/2016 11:02:41 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Covenantor

Well said, with one quibble — Cruz has grasped it, but it’s clear some of his blindly zealous fans have not, nor will they.


215 posted on 01/27/2016 11:42:25 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ...
I'd add that, there's a timer minimum, after which the first game-show-style button press (like in Family Feud) turns on the microphone of the candidate who wishes to respond and the first microphone turns off. When the debate is over (2 hours is about all one could stand) everyone would be able to see how much time in seconds each participant used, and the audience reaction (decibels and duration) would rate their performance. Best performance in the least time would probably be the winner.

216 posted on 01/27/2016 12:57:07 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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217 posted on 01/27/2016 1:02:29 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

:’)


218 posted on 01/27/2016 1:04:31 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Hostage

Painted by who.. the left felt that way when he left office.


219 posted on 01/27/2016 1:38:29 PM PST by maddog55 (America Rising a new Civil War needs to happen.)
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To: Hugin

I think the transition of transferring the network over to two elitist lefties (Murdock’s pampered princes) explains a lot of what is going on.

Megan and her supporters at Fox are trying to please the new management by going tabloid left (MSNCB) in a big way.

Fox has lost it’s professional news polish now and is in the dirt with all the rest of the media Americans dislike. Tabloids are big in Britain...not so much in the US for news. See MSNBC.


220 posted on 01/27/2016 3:33:03 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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