Posted on 09/04/2015 12:53:55 PM PDT by Sontagged
...Thus two weeks ago we dispatched a warning about Hugh Hewitt specifically:
Politics as an industry – Salem Communications [radio talk show (Hewitt), Red State (Erickson), now also Twitchy (Malkin), Hot Air (McCain), NRO, Townhall, Human Events, Bearing Arms etc.] has the same general ideological world view as Jeb Bush, George Will, Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal, etc.
UPDATE: As if on cue – Salem Communications, Via Hot Air, publishes a “compare and contrast” article pushing the GOPe Carly Fiorina – as savior angle. LINK HERE
Salem Communications owns both Hot Air and Hugh Hewitt. See how they roll?
Shorter: “the betters”, the “elites”. Or those who feel superior enough to tell others what they should or must think. You’ll note these Salem groups rarely research, present raw data, or offer unfiltered information; it’s almost always Op-Ed.
We, the proud vulgarian team, without financial considerations to skew our perspectives and viewpoints, do not like the “financial media class” and the skewered perspectives that come with financial dependency. We are able to research, watch, describe and discuss through clear-eyed glasses. Hence, we can transmit the warning above.
The gathering of the opposition research includes trying to record Donald Trump for use in later campaigns, ie. the lead to the debate. Hence again, the warning above.
They, all of them, want Trump stumbling and stammering. Desperately seeking to create the “Park Row Narrative” – inept, inexperienced, incompetent, et al.
Just like Bloomberg’s John Heilemann and Mark Halperin with the “what’s your favorite bible passage” question (ie. prove you’re a christian); or Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin asking Ted Cruz his favorite “Hispanic food or Hispanic singer” in essence prove you’re Hispanic bona fides questions:
Today’s questions from Hugh Hewitt are no less strategic or strategically motivated. Hugh Hewitt has a plan. Hewitt is also part of the Salem Op-Ed machine who are trying to provide the soundbites for the upcoming assault.
Within seconds of Hewitt providing the fuel, the RNC industrial machine jumped to action. This is only going to get worse by infinite magnitudes. Prepare for it.
(New York Times) […] Mr. Trump, a real estate developer and brand manager who has never worked in government, has relatively little experience dealing with foreign governments. But he has boasted of his global reach and international experience as a businessman. Mr. Hewitt said he was not interested in “gotcha” questions but wanted to be sure Mr. Trump had a baseline of knowledge about foreign leaders. “On the front of Islamist terrorism, I’m looking for the next commander in chief to know who Hassan Nasrallah is, and Zawahiri, and al-Julani, and al-Baghdadi. Do you know the players without a scorecard, yet, Donald Trump?” Mr. Hewitt asked. There is one goal in all of this – DESTROY DONALD TRUMP ! It’s simply what they do, every election, every time, when the industrial political machine doesn’t like the candidate.
And the intel/optics will be used as fuel injected into the debate while GOPe co-horts (Carly Fiorina) will continue the Megyn Kelly approach.
The RNC/GOPe machine, through the various Wall Street funded Super-PACs will also fund liberal groups (Hispanics, La Raza, and Black Lives Matter as examples) and labor organizations (remember the SEIU orcs?) to campaign against Trump visibly based on “racist” and divisive accusations.
Yes, that is correct. The same party who just presented a loyalty pledge is now empowered, with full plausible deniability of course, to fund Trump’s removal at all costs.
This is going to get even more UGLY as the political power brokers grow increasingly more anxious.
GOPe Republicans are just as vicious as Democrats when it comes to attacking their adversaries. Unfortunately, GOPe Republicans don’t view Democrats as their opposition (see Mitt Romney ’12), they only view conservatives as their adversaries. 
How dare people ask questions.
Only Trump supporters should ask questions!
“How awesome are you”
“If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be..”
How dare we figure out the GOPe was setting up Trump?
LOL. Grow up.
Hewitt is a flea.
Every time the Donald opens his mouth he proves that he is “inept, inexperienced, incompetent”.
Interesting.
Don’t you get tired of posting the same things over and over again?
Great post!
HH should be off the air.
I recall the MSM did the same questioning of both Palin and W on similar topics with similar gotchas.
Leaving the problems with W aside, this is an Establishment putsch against Trump, who is soaring at about forty percent now.
The sea change for the Establishment attackers is that we, the conservative vulgarians, know the game now.
Tough luck for them.
We need to start asking the questions that WE want the answers to. Not THEIR questions. OUR questions. Done with the MSM B.S.
It’s fine to post this on FR, but is the Trump campaign aware of this? If not, they should be. I knew when carly came out with the right answers that this was a setup. Maybe Donald needs to be a little more selective in who he gives interviews to from now on.
GeronL supports the Corker Bill, just like Cruz!
See, they ALL have issues, don't they..
It’s an Establishment putsch against Trump.
Trump’s Tucson is happening now.
I have no idea. Maybe someone should call Roger Stone and ask him to sneak in a call to his old friend.
Hugh Hewitt is George Will disguised with a microphone.
Hewitt better settle down if he wants to continue to be a part of the debate. It he goes too far with Trump, Trump will be justified in withdrawing from the debate based on moderator fairness, and CNN has already been selling lots of debate ads. CNN for all their leftists bluster wants to make money on ads, and if it is a choice between a hack moderator and Trump, guess who wins?
Nobody is perfect
Trump is about 9% to Ted’s 100%
You should ask a trump supporter that
Do you notice how these people never ask these gotcha questions to Democrats or liberals?
When is the last time a Democrat has ever been asked to answer a trivia question or any other question with the purpose of embarrassing him or her?
Or someone with a twitter account can post the link to Donald. He lives twitter.
Hewitt did not ask gotcha questions. They were simple questions that I expect a candidate to be able to answer.
Step back, take a deep breath, and look at Trump again. He is remarkably either uninformed or ill-informed.
It was said of FDR that he had a third-rate mind but a first-rate temperament. Trump is third-rate in both.
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