The country's liberal media is being accused of ignoring Donald Trump's alleged business scandals and past support for liberal policy positions and giving far more time to his events than those of his rivals.
When CNN moderator Wolf Blitzer appeared to help Trump in CNN's GOP debate by interrupting to move to other questions when it got rough for the Republican frontrunner more than a couple times on Thursday night, it was seen as an attempt to bail out Trump. ..... < snip >
During the post-debate session, Trump was interviewed twice. And on Saturday, CNN covered Trump events most of the afternoon, while giving hardly a few seconds to Marco Rubio.
It's not just CNN, MSNBC also had a town hall with just one GOP candidate, Trump.
"As of Friday, Trump's seven-month-old candidacy has been the focus of an incredible 684 minutes of coverage on ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts, far more than any of his GOP rivals — more than four times as much as the next-most-covered candidate, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush (151 minutes), and more than five times as much as Texas Senator Ted Cruz (122 minutes), currently Trump's leading rival in the polls," pointed out Media Research Center's NewsBusters on Jan. 28.
"But amid that sea of Trump news, the networks have spent only about nine minutes (1.3% of Trump's overall coverage) discussing the candidate's clearly documented past support for liberal policy positions (i.e., pro-abortion, single-payer health care) and his praise of leading Democrats, including Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton." ..... < snip >
..... The New York Times, which ran an article about Rubio's speeding tickets, didn't write about Trump's alleged business scandals until it was brought up at the debate Thursday night. ..... < snip >
..... On CBS News "This Morning," Rubio said: "If any other candidate in this race had his record, there would be nonstop reporting on it. But, unfortunately, he is being pumped up because many the in the media with a bias know he'll be easy to beat in the general election." ..... < snip >
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Other recent articles that that may be of interest but didn't see posted here (feel free to post them in a separate thread):
Trump as CEO and commander in chief? - CNBC, by Robert Frank, 2016 February 25 (potential conflicts of interests and 'Trump brand')
Vast Majority Of Hispanic Voters Have Unfavorable View Of Trump - RTT News, 2016 February 25 (results of WaPo and Univision poll)
Some Trump Charities Waiting on Funds - FBN, by Charlie Gasparino, 2016 February 26 (update on Trump's charity event for veterans, that "coincided" with January 28 Fox News debate)
Trump vs. Clinton: The election no one wants - CNBC, by Bruce Abramson and Jeff Ballabon, 2016 February 26 (some very astute observations on the power, or lack of it, of the political parties)
Checkered Past of Now-Defunct Trump University Comes Back to Haunt Candidate - CNBC / NYT, by Stephanie Saul, 2016 February 27 (many details that have not been covered in other coverage of TrumpU saga)
Trump Says Judge in University Case Biased Because He's Hispanic - BL, by Michael Hytha and Ben Brody, 2016 February 27 (more details about intimidation of plaintiff witnesses and attorneys by Trump)
Trump's Debate Was a Disaster. If Voters Notice. - BLV, by Jonathan Bernstein, 2016 February 26 (Jonathan Berstein is a San Antonio-based liberal columnist who has written for BLV, WaPo, Salon, and New Republic)
The Most Baffling Republican Super Tuesday Ever - BLV, by Jonathan Bernstein, 2016 March 02 (Jonathan Berstein is a San Antonio-based liberal columnist who has written for BLV, WaPo, Salon, and New Republic)
The Die-Hard Republicans Who Say #NeverTrump - BLV, by Megan McArdle, 2016 February 29 (Megan McArdle is a New York-based conservative columnist who writes on economics, business and public policy. She is the author of "The Up Side of Down")
I voted for Trump to destroy the GOP - CNBC, by Bruce Bartlett, 2016 March 04 (somewhat different take on the GOP and the reasons from what you might expect just looking at the title) (Bruce Bartlett, who served as domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and a Treasury Department official under George H.W.Bush. He also worked on Capitol Hill for the late Rep. Jack Kemp.)
Interesting read, if only that we get other, fuller information (which may play a big role in general elections and affect down-ticket candidates) and points of view and are not just stewing in the juices of Drudge and internet insta-polls and "red states" political bloggers and selective anecdotal stories of relatives, friends, neighbours and coworkers. Now, we can reflect on it, ignore it, dismiss the author[s], facts or opinions presented, or attack the messenger[s]... but at least we would less likely be the "low information voters" like some of our opponents...
Obviously, You can’t only hear what you want in life, and ignore things you’d rather not hear about.
Over the years I've been in DeLay's corner supporting him against charges I thought were politically motivated bordering on criminality.
Now he comes out with this, and I have to say I am very sad to see it.
Tom is all in too. What a pitty.
Folks, at some point don't you think the GOPe is telling us who we need to vote for?
The powers that be are so over the top, it's very clear there is something they fear that they are not telling us, and I think it's North American Union related.
Right now we have the European Union open borders thing going on here with no intent on stopping it.
Trump is going to stop that.
This is what is driving them, and that being the case, I won't vote for anyone but Trump.
So now the enemy is just resorting to naked slander.
Well, as they say in law, when you don’t have the argument, and you don’t have the evidence, pound on the table.
Now we get to listen to how many people have a friend who knows an uncle who overheard a babysitter talking about how she heard that someone on Oprah say that Trump was mean.
LOL, pathetic.
I am so sick of the anti-Trump trolling of this site.
This is not Ted Cruz dot com.
Wow add Tom Delay to the list of opportunists
Not buying it
The media has been hitting Trump since he announced in June
The problem for them is Trump is “Teflon” their attacks don’t work on him. Heck he usually flips it around on them and that angers them even more
Any other candidate would have been down and out by now, but not Trump. They threw everything they had at him, the KKK/racist, war on women/sexist, hates Muslims, Hitler, crook, mob connections, IRS, “eminent domain”, bad business deals, bankruptcy, stooge debates, secret tapes that don’t exist, moderators turned instigators, etc and he still wins primaries. Any other candidate would have been done and out by now. But not Trump, sometimes their attacks end up energizing his support even more.
Tom DeLay: Cruz Has Problem on Citizenship Issue
So who is he supporting, Marco Rubio?
Possibly. Trump is underperforming the polling repeatedly, and badly.
Iowa was a 4.7 point win for Trump just days before the vote... and he lost by 3.3 (8 pt drop at the actual vote)
OKL was a 11.4 point win for Trump just days before the vote... and he lost by 6.1 (17.5 pt drop)
SC was a 17.1 point win for Trump just days before the vote... and he won by "only" 9.9 (7.2 pt drop)
Alaska was a 4.1 point win for Trump just days before the vote... and he lost by 2.9 (7 pt drop)
KS was a 6.1 point win for Trump just days before the vote... and he lost by 24.9 (31 pt drop)
Texas was a 9.0 point win for Cruz just days before the vote... and Cruz won by 17.1 (8.1 pt drop)
VA was a 14.5 point win for Trump just days before the vote... and he won by 2.8 (11.7 pt drop)
TN was a 18.0 point win for Trump just days before the vote... and he won by "only" 14.2 (3.8 pt drop)
VT was a 15.0 point win for Trump just days before the vote... and he won by 2.3 (12.7 pt drop)
Caucus states and primaries, before and after candidates drop out, liberal and conservative states, all with one common theme... Trump isn't pulling as many actual votes as poll votes... and the polls have him behind Hillary head-to-head (most recently: Trump down 8 to Hillary, 52-44, Cruz up 1, 49-48 - March 1 CNN poll)
The media does not want to get the shit kicked out of them by Trump.We just need to ask the bleeder about her ratings to find out all we need to know the reason.
Don't worry they will unload everything they have and even make some up soon.
Once he is running against "The Screech" they will bring up the bankruptcies that left the little guy hanging, eminent domain, support for planned parenthood, partial birth abortion, faux marriage, gun control, illegal immigrants...
The rubber mallet foolishly looking for a nail to hit.
You obviously have a lot of free time on your hands. I hope you’re diligently seeking out potentially harmful stories about Cruz, Rubio, and Kasich, not to mention doing opposition research on Bernie and Hillary, our real enemies.
The media? Lol.. He spends his time at MSNBC.. Not my media type.. I don’t even like Fox. Nah, Trump was selected by the GOPE long before the very first primary.. He has a record of supporting Single Payor, crony capitalism... He is everything a democrat could desire in a republican. I am not thrilled about this KKK mess either. He’s prob gonna haul me off, or punch me in the mouth, cause that’s the classy coward he is. Never trump.
I think they just started by seeing him as amusing and, following the old adage that “if it bleeds, it leads,” covered him heavily for the entertainment value.
But it turned out they were doing free advertising for him. Trump has gotten almost 1,000 minutes of airtime, while Cruz has gotten about 300 and Rubio only about 150.
It was, in a sense, the media that turned him into the thing Americans love the best, a celebrity. And it seems to be a media agreement that celebrities are beyond reproach and beyond questioning. You’d think that when he started threatening them if the dared to ask questions, they would have fought back, but I think they waited too long to get serious.
While I do think there’s media and Dem hope that he’ll be the candidate so that Hillary can win, mostly I think it was just the American media’s automatic celebration of trash and cheesiness that got him started.
If ignorance really is bliss, you must be having 24 hour-a-day orgasms.
Does anybody think they don’t have anything on this guy?
They’re saving the attacks on him for when he is the nominee. Then they will DESTROY him, and in walks another Clinton
bttt