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Conservative viewers last night were very offended at Megyn Kelly’s antics during the Republican FOX News debate. Twitter exploded with attacks on Kelly and FOX News for the constant attacks on the Republican candidates. Here is just one example: Twitter quote at link. Now there is an online petition to bar Megyn Kelly from future GOP debates. Here is the petition to News Corp: “ Dears News Corps., Megyn Kelly apparently finds the state of our union amusing and “fun”, whereas the viewers (our fellow citizens) deserve a much more serious moderator. In addition, she had a clear agenda to...

“There’s very few moments occurring on the network that Ailes doesn’t have a hand in–times that by 100 for a GOP presidential debate,” network insider tells TheWrap. Donald Trump is no longer sure if “Fox is fair” and network chairman Roger Ailes is certainly listening. Spurned by the network debate moderators’ tough line of questioning, which included Megyn Kelly asking Trump to defend previous comments about women being “fat pigs, dogs and disgusting animals,” the real estate mogul went on the offensive after the debate. “I’m not sure that Fox is fair necessarily,” he said, claiming the other candidates told...

It’s still all the Donald. He was the big man on stage. They challenged him in that first question about supporting the eventual nominee — whomever it may be — and he was right to refuse. The issues he represents cannot be subordinated to party. One wishes he had hammered the immigration point in that first question, by saying: “Any candidate who doesn’t respond to the threat of uncontrolled immigration cannot represent me.” He’d better understand that’s his signature issue. Other than that, he sounds informed, smart, and presidential. Brilliant on Obamacare. Brilliant on giving money to politicians. Brilliant on...

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Overnight on Twitter, Trump said that Kelly “bombed” as a moderator. “Wow, @megynkelly really bombed tonight. People are going wild on twitter! Funny to watch,” Trump tweeted. Trump added that Kelly, along with moderators Bret Baier and Chris Wallace, were not very professional. “I really enjoyed the debate tonight even though the @FoxNews trio, especially @megynkelly, was not very good or professional!” he stated. Trump even retweeted a post that referred to Kelly as a “bimbo.” The billionaire also lashed out at Luntz after getting a poor review from a focus group following the debate. Trump referred to Luntz as...

Meanwhile, avalanche of conservative complaints overwhelm network’s social media accounts. With its big debate night in the can, the good news for Fox is that its usual enemies on the left hate it quite a bit less, at least for the moment. The unfortunate side effect: an avalanche of complaints from very angry conservatives who thought they might have been watching MSNBC by mistake. Many are longtime viewers who are now feeling betrayed. -snip- On the conservative side, however, it’s exactly the opposite, with an overwhelming sense that questions were designed more to weed out certain candidates rather than merely...

The Fox News Prime Time debate was the best presidential debate I've ever seen. Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace asked excellent tough questions, gave the candidates appropriate time to weigh in and the candidates, mostly, responded in kind. It's a very difficult task to moderate a ten-candidate debate and it's hard to imagine that anyone could ever do a better job of it than the three Fox News anchors tonight. Big moments included (1) Donald Trump's hands-up declaration that he isn't ruling out running as a third-party candidate. (2) The fierce argument over surveillance between Rand Paul and...

The first GOP 2016 presidential debate was substantive, fast-paced, informative and fun, of all things. A big reason for the fun was that TV celebrity and businessman Donald Trump was on stage. He brought his normal Trump persona to the stage and was brash and occasionally funny. He started off strong, in his own way. But he followed up these flashes with some amazingly tone-deaf, illogical, stupid and bizarre statements. Here are 10 of the worst. 1) Didn’t rule out a third-party run Bret Baier asked the candidates, “Is there anyone on stage, and can I see hands, who is...

Last night the debate made a few things very clear to me. First: The Fox News moderators were on one of several missions, and the first was to try and make Trump as uncomfortable as possible and try and make a point of it to the people watching the debate. The second, IMHO, was to not give or allow much time to a few of the other candidates. They seemed to want to focus on Trump, give Bush plenty of time, and to then focus on disagreements and infighting like that occurred between Christie and Paul the bulk of...

The unwritten rule in monster movies is not to show the whole monster until at least halfway in — so the audience feels a growing sense of dread. It didn’t work that way Thursday night. Donald Trump appeared onstage the second the debate started. He stumbled out of the gate, refusing to pledge to support the Republican nominee — and leaving open the door that he might run as an independent in the general election. He didn’t just say it; he said it with his patented obnoxious, egotistic high-school swagger. When Megyn Kelly threw at him a half-dozen insulting things...

From the very beginning you could tell that Trump on a debate stage was going to play much differently than Trump has the last several weeks. It’s one thing to flirt with a third-party run in statements to the press and another to say you’re considering it while participating in a Republican presidential debate. Same with bragging about buying off politicians, and taking advantage of bankruptcy procedures. He, of course, couldn’t answer about his evidence that the Mexican government is pushing people over the border. And his slap at Megyn Kelly was a classic case of not knowing your audience....

The only big news from last night’s debate is that we can confirm that we should not trust the news media to run a Presidential debate. To begin with, this was a question and answer period, not a debate. A debate would have been more substantive and would have given people some idea about a candidate’s position on issues rather than their ability to produce a sound bite on command. The questions were controlled in a way that demonstrated the bias of the media personalities asking them, and there was no effort to even pretend to give each candidate an...

Why did Fox News decide to schedule two Republican presidential debates rather than one? Simple arithmetic: 90 minutes divided by 17 candidates equals 5 minutes and 29 seconds apiece. That's scarcely enough time for the oral equivalent of a few tweets. There won't be a similar problem for the Democratic debates, with only five declared candidates, three of whom languish at 1 or 2 percent in the polls. Why do Republicans have so many candidates and Democrats so few? That's directly contrary to the conventional wisdom that Republicans nominate the next guy in line, while Democrats tend to have multi-candidate...

Seventeen GOP candidates for president of the United States paraded in front of us in Cleveland on August 6th. The establishment media crowed enthusiastically to the viewers about the import of this gathering to our lives as Americans. Chris Wallace and his fellow questioners milked the affair for all the drama they could squeeze from it. Unfortunately this two-tiered debate was just one more exercise in the miserable irrelevancy of the media’s handling of “political affairs” in America today. With each passing year the nation drifts deeper into economic ineptitude, a macabre government intervenes further into all the nooks and...

GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump and his supporters are crying foul over what they consider to be tough treatment by Fox News and in particular Megyn Kelly at Thursday night's debate. They are calling for a ban on Kelly at future GOP showdowns. For anyone who watched even the first few minutes of the first 2016 Republican presidential candidate debate Thursday night, it was clear that Fox News was out to sandbag Trump. Taking to social media after the debate, it was clear that "The Donald" was far from pleased with the conservative news network. When the highly anticipated debate...

But the person who really summoned the forces on Thursday was by far Carly Fiorina, who appeared in the earlier debate for also-rans. She was so good her ghost hung over the second debate. She was even cited at the top of the overcard debate by Megyn Kelly and later they replayed Fiorina’s forceful response on Iran for comment from the top ten. Watching that replay, she easily looked more impressive than any of them. After the five o’clock debate, Fiorina trucked over to MSNBC (talking about going anywhere, anytime) to appear on Hardball with Chris Matthews, then proceeded to...

Fox News Channel tried two different approaches to political debate moderation yesterday: a rather straightforward approach by Bill Hemmer and Martha MacCallum in the second-tier candidates’ debate and a far more pointed and combative approach to the first-tier candidates. Evaluating which was the better approach depends on the criteria being applied. From the standpoint of entertaining, memorable moments, the work of Bret Baier, Chris Wallace, and especially Megyn Kelly in the prime-time debate triumphed. It was far livelier and more entertaining than I expected. Many respected conservative commentators were upset. The first-round debate was a snoozer by comparison, though it...

We might have had a different president, America would be far better off. However one feels about the Republican Party, the multitude of candidates for president, and Donald Trump, last night’s debate was an example of how journalism should be practiced. The Washington Post’s James Hohmann has a round-up of key points made last night – and they were blows against the Donald.  But they were blows based on his own words and history: He started the debate on the defensive over his refusal to rule out an independent bid. Megyn Kelly, one of three moderators, then memorably pushed...

NO APOLOGIESTRUMP DOMINATES DEBATE; DRUDGE POLLFOXNEWS SCORES RECORD RATINGS If Roger Ailes' employees don’t wind up picking the party’s nominee, it won’t be for lack of trying.