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To: maggief

He wants only softball questions.


2 posted on 08/25/2015 12:05:18 PM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

How about relevant questions?


6 posted on 08/25/2015 12:09:18 PM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

Megyn debate questions included comments out of context. That’s BS!

Let’s see how she treats the democrats? Talk about powder puff. “Mrs. Clinton tell us about the time you held your first grandchild”, did it make all the sacrafices you’ve made for this nation worth it?”


37 posted on 08/25/2015 12:26:10 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
"He wants only softball questions."

No he doesn't Troll, he gets the toughest questions of any candidate I've ever seen.

He just doesn't like being accused of RAPING HIS WIFE on national television by some self-serving bimbo.

45 posted on 08/25/2015 12:27:50 PM PDT by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

yep ..hard questions come from mean people


97 posted on 08/25/2015 12:56:23 PM PDT by woofie
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

He wants only softball questions.


Post fail. He wants, and expects, better from Fox and other outlets/journalists that consider themselves to be professional news outlets.

Look at the questions CNN and other outlets throw at him. He might not like their questions, but he answers....and then compliments them for being relevant and professional. Something most of FNC/MeGYN is not.


101 posted on 08/25/2015 12:58:40 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

The guy is playing us like bass fiddles. I think the “bimbo” comment was gauche, but I think he’s deliberately stirring things up, to show people that he’s not beholding to any one network esp Fox.


135 posted on 08/25/2015 1:24:48 PM PDT by nikos1121 ("There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Thoreau)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
He wants only softball questions.
That is human nature, that is “Dog Bites Man." In fact, it is so much to be expected that we expect any journalist to object to any question at all being directed at him/her.
I like to think of it in reference to a basketball game I was playing, long ago, when I complained to the ref, “It’s getting a little rough in here.” That elicited no response from the ref, but a spontaneous groan from my opponent. I heard that groan, and I instantly knew that he had a good point. Why? Because I was bigger than anyone on the opposition team, which lacked its enforcer and was vulnerable under the boards. I knew instantly - trying to be objective - that I was undoubtedly giving as good as I got. But it is just human nature to be subjective.

Which is why it makes no sense at all to assume or expect that a journalist will be objective. No one who doesn’t have to, will naturally be objective. And journalists don’t have to be, because all journalists are in cahoots. That is not just resentment speaking, that is factually obvious, and the reasons are hiding in plain sight. Namely, that

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
And journalists talk to each other all the time. Not merely by reading each other’s output, but by being fellow members of the mutual admiration society known as the Associated Press.

The bottom line - which the First Amendment permits and empowers, and rightly so - is that journalism is propaganda. But what the First Amendment does not do, cannot do, is force the citizenry to accept journalism’s fatuous claims to objectivity. Donald Trump is throwing his weight around under the boards - and Megyn Kelly, propagandist, is complaining about Donald Trump, propagandist. Because of the unity of journalism, it takes some serious clout such as being a multi billionaire to make that a fair fight. Trump seems to be pulling it off . . .

I don’t know that I favor Trumponomics, which sounds more like mercantilism than it does like Adam Smith. But there it is; nobody I like any better has much of a shot. Without Trump, it would surely be Jeb. With Trump, it will probably be Trump. Interesting times. In reality Trump is running a kind of triangulation of sorts, tho differently than WJ Clinton.


148 posted on 08/25/2015 1:36:17 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

“He wants only softball questions.”

Stupid remark. He doesn’t want questions like “Any word from God?” type of childish sarcasm from Fox News bimbos.

He has answered all questions. To say he only wants softball questions is just liberal style propaganda intended to denigrate him.


154 posted on 08/25/2015 1:44:44 PM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

The questions he got were made up ambush junk and they didn’t talk to Cruz for 40 minutes either.
I am still not turning on Fox and not only due to Trump.


186 posted on 08/25/2015 2:30:38 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines; maggief

“He wants only softball questions.”

That is total BS, and you miss the point of this latest controversy. Megan, with the aid of Cris Stirewalt argued on Jeb’s side regarding comments Jeb said re Trump. This is not a journalist’s duty. She was totally wrong and used Cris to make her point. Kelly is way off base, and that is what Trump tweeted about her.

It has nothing to do with her way out of context 1st question to Trump about women, and Trump interrupted her before she finished the question/comment (she was arguing her question for Trump before she wanted him to answer) by saying Rosie O’Donnell. Rosie was all of those things and more that Trump said about her...she attacked Trump’s family. Rosie is a fat bitch, and Kelly is a pimp for Rosie and the GOPe. But Kelly is a leftist who cheered when O’Bumble Ears was elected.


199 posted on 08/25/2015 7:05:12 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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