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Huffington Post Plans To Cover Trump In Its Entertainment, Not Politics, Section
TPM ^ | 6-17-2015 | Caitlin Cruz

Posted on 07/17/2015 7:51:57 AM PDT by tcrlaf

The Huffington Post said on Friday it will no longer cover the presidential campaign of real estate mogul and former reality TV star Donald Trump as politics, but rather, as entertainment.

"Our reason is simple: Trump's campaign is a sideshow," read a post bylined by the site's Washington bureau chief Ryan Grim and editorial director Danny Shea.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: huffingtonpost; huffpo; liberalmedia; propaganda; puffho; puffingtonhost; trump; trump2016; yellow
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“After watching and listening to Donald Trump since he announced his candidacy for president, we have decided we won’t report on Trump’s campaign as part of The Huffington Post’s political coverage.

Instead, we will cover his campaign as part of our Entertainment section. Our reason is simple: Trump’s campaign is a sideshow.

We won’t take the bait. If you are interested in what The Donald has to say, you’ll find it next to our stories on the Kardashians and The Bachelorette.”

- Huffpo


21 posted on 07/17/2015 8:11:13 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: tcrlaf
He's destroying Hillary, publicly and loudly, and this simply cannot be allowed to happen!

In matchup polling Trump fares far worse against Hillary than pretty much any other GOP candidate.

3/4th of the electorate don't take his campaign seriously.

In the 2012 cycle Herman Cain was leading the field by a large margin for a couple weeks. No serious politically learned person thought Cain was going to be the GOP nominee or had any shot at the White House, yet some in the conservative grass roots were excited about him for awhile.

Trump will implode like Cain. These are not real candidates that won't be able to stand the test of time through a campaign.

Saying that, Trump is a GOP candidate and is leading the field in some polls, so the liberal Huffington Post's judgement here is seriously flawed. Trump, for now at least, deserves the coverage of a top tier candidate.

22 posted on 07/17/2015 8:11:46 AM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: tcrlaf

I don’t think it will matter much. Trump will still get exposure.

It’s just HuffPo being “Huffy”


23 posted on 07/17/2015 8:17:26 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: tcrlaf

Does anyone care what those people do? It’s an insider extreme leftist group... this is a yawn.


24 posted on 07/17/2015 8:20:30 AM PDT by GOPJ (They are not undocumented and they are not immigrants. They are illegal aliens. Lurkinnamloomin)
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To: tcrlaf

Good. More of their readership will read about him.


25 posted on 07/17/2015 8:23:06 AM PDT by ZULU (Democrats are paleosocialists)
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To: SmokingJoe

Huff-Poo — are the writers there still getting shafted by their overlords? didn’t the founder of it sell for millions and the writers got nothing...


26 posted on 07/17/2015 8:25:52 AM PDT by HonkyTonkMan
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To: Longbow1969
Trump will implode like Cain

No he won't. Cain for some incomprehensible reason still had the gal pal and wasn't ready with an honest answer. Cain was a CEO of whatever (something small) compared to what Trump runs. Cain didn't have the "I'm a better negotiater" advantage.

hillary's lead? The wicked witch will melt when faced with honesty and determination.

27 posted on 07/17/2015 8:32:03 AM PDT by grania
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To: dforest
I suggest conservative media cover Mrs. Clinton in the obituaries.

That is scary - it was my first thought and I intended to comment - until I got to the second one. Evidently great minds DO think alike. :-)

28 posted on 07/17/2015 8:32:39 AM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate. [URL=http://media.photobucket.com/user/currencyjunkie/me)
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To: tcrlaf
The progressives, fresh off all their vic sicktories, want to keep conservatives demoralized and down...they know Trump is not a serious contender but they're afraid he'll revitalize Tea Party/others with his message of taking the country back, including unabashedly exposing all the stupidity and hypocrisy of the left and their propaganda/indoctrination machine.

Obviously it doesn't matter that Trump has a RINO(or worse)record from past statements, dealings, etc., he's a well known name with lot's of money...that has a lot of pull in Kardashian America, and the left knows it(after all, they wrote the book).

Conservative media should do their part, dump the PC cowardice sh t, and go to war against the S&M MSM and their commie comrades and other Alinsky-ites.

"Commence firing, fire at will! Commence firing, fire at will!"

29 posted on 07/17/2015 8:37:05 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo
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To: tcrlaf

I dont consider HuffPo to be a legit news source.


30 posted on 07/17/2015 8:39:54 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: VanDeKoik

Neither is “The Daily Show”, but that is where people do get their news these days.


31 posted on 07/17/2015 8:41:41 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Oatka

LOL. She is dead, Jim.


32 posted on 07/17/2015 8:57:16 AM PDT by dforest
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To: immadashell

No, the want ads.


33 posted on 07/17/2015 8:59:16 AM PDT by dforest
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To: tcrlaf

I think the Huff-a-Puff has discovered some Democrats like Trump too.
They are REALLY scared about loosing CO, NV, NH, OH and FL.


34 posted on 07/17/2015 9:21:00 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: tcrlaf
"Our reason is simple: Trump's campaign is a sideshow," read a post bylined by the site's Washington bureau chief Ryan Grim and editorial director Danny Shea.


35 posted on 07/17/2015 9:52:43 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (If you can't make a deal with a politician, you can't make a deal. --Donald Trump)
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To: Zathras

“I think the Huff-a-Puff has discovered some Democrats like Trump too.
They are REALLY scared about loosing CO, NV, NH, OH and FL.”

What the DailyKos/Huffpo Liberals did to Herman Cain, is what they are now going to try with Trump.

The liberals IGNORED Herman Cain until he began to gain traction with Democrat-voting blacks, by being WAY to truthy about what Democrats are doing to blacks, and started using the Radical Black Dem’s own plantation rhetoric, that they use to control “wayward” blacks) against them.

Then, GLORIA ALRED, the Hillary-connected Democrat celeb lawyer, popped out of the woodwork with tales of
“Cain and White Women!!!”.

All of that was later disproven, and dropped since it was just lies, but it served the intended purpose of turning blacks that were listening to what Cain was saying, away from him, ad back to safe Democrat Slave Voters.


36 posted on 07/17/2015 10:19:48 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: dforest

ahahahahaha Finely Tuned Observation!!


37 posted on 07/17/2015 10:37:18 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: dforest
File under "Horror."


38 posted on 07/17/2015 11:56:18 AM PDT by OddLane
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To: tcrlaf

Will they cover Hillary under “Lost and Found?”


39 posted on 07/17/2015 12:00:44 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: tcrlaf

The Huffers do a splendid job as propaganda ministers for the Left.


40 posted on 07/17/2015 12:04:19 PM PDT by windsorknot
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