Posted on 08/07/2015 8:18:12 AM PDT by GoneSalt
Having spent the past six weeks rhetorically slashing at his Republican rivals, it makes perfect sense that Donald Trump would eventually run out of targets and find himself in a war with the party’s media arm: Fox News. At the GOP primary debate Thursday night in Cleveland, Trump’s onstage clashes with the Fox moderators, and his postdebate complaints about the network’s treatment of him, were among the most talked-about story lines to emerge from the Quicken Loans Arena. What makes the confrontation all the more dramatic was that Fox News chairman Roger Ailes has, until this point, been a booster of the Trump candidacy, even to the chagrin of his boss, Rupert Murdoch. Whether Murdoch succeeded in turning Ailes against Trump, or not, the two-hour debate leaves little doubt that the relationship between the improbable front-runner and Fox has been upended.
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Megyn Kelly is not his friend and did not attempt to hide it.
What if the media had treated Barack Obama as Fox journalists treated Donald Trump?
Replace Megan Kelly with Laura Ingraham. Still pretty but with brains and a conservative heart and soul.
Boycott the Blonde Bimbo. Sink her ratings to the toilet.
New York Magazine gives the sicko lefty view.
Fox has a Karl Rove viewpoint and the debate showed it. All their reporting shows it.
Since this debate got good ratings they will continue on this path.
Knowing Trump, Ms. Kelly will be doing something else in the future, it might be with Fox, but not like it is now....
People have been around long enough to know that when you attack someone, they are going to attack back, so be ready for it, it’s coming...
I;m boycotting the bimbo and FOX News of which I've been a viewer for years. No more. Fox can go to hell for that stunt last night.
I think Martha McCallum did a better job in the first round of debates than Megan did in the second round. To me Martha looked more professional, whereas Megan acted too cutesy.
I think I’d say something like “You seem a now very-accomplished journalist “of a sort.”
“Why then did you feel it necessary to show what clearly had nothing to do with your brains in GQ?”
I’ve have lost all respect for Fox News.
Fox News gave soft ball questions to GOPe 2016 candidate Jeb Bush, and attacked Trump all night.
Fox News is clearly bought off for the Bush team, and went soft on all the RINOs.
All this tough talk reminded me of many of the Republicans before the November 2014 election.
And we all know what was happened since November 2014. Instead of the blocking the Administration they have ENABLED the Administration.
I’m only voting for Trump or Cruz.
There is no way I can ever support Bush, Walker, etc...
Interesting. Trump is vindictive and going forward, I’d like to know the consequences. :-)
Fixed it.
FLASHBACK:
Megyn Kelly: “Candy Crowley interrupted Gov. Romney and, according to some, went from objective moderator to active participant by actually defending the president, ...”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyo5B3ugg-8
Oct 18, 2012
Kevin McCullough joins the panel on Fox News with host Megyn Kelly on Wednesday after to debate the motives behind moderator Candy Crowley’s performance and instant fact checking briefly stunning Governor Romney by undermining his claim that President Barack Obama had not initially referred to the recent attacks in Libya as “acts of terror.”
“Candy Crowley interrupted Gov. Romney and, according to some, went from objective moderator to active participant by actually defending the president,” the Fox News host explained, adding that Crowley had later tried to “walk back” her fact check — even though she has said she did not backtrack.
You know, there was only one question that needed to be asked last night and it could have been asked by the assistant cameraman.
“Today is the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima. Obama has just inked a deal giving Iran permission to nuke Israel as soon as they have a bomb. Why would the only country ever to use a weapon of mass destruction of this caliber and kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people allow a country like Iran, hellbent on destroying Israel and America to create a weapon like this?”
Then just sit back and listen to the debate.
FoxNews is less subtle than it was in 2010-12, when it was greasing the skids for Romney... back when it quickly dropped all references to the tea-party movement after the 2010 mid-terms after initially covering and celebrating it, when it began ignoring all border/illegals issues and social issues, and suddenly turned on a dime and started treating Palin with quiet disdain. It was subtle back then, but it was there. Karl Rove and the beltway GOP elites manipulating things at FoxNews for Romney’s benefit.
Lot less subtle now. More like “in-your-face, you grassroots conservative jerks.”
They had a Secret Plan to use against Trump and it was by loading up the audience with Trump haters from what I could tell to insure Boos! It seems the Donors who wanted Trump taken out by the other candidates also sent the same message to FOX news!
In the last Republican Primary, the Media and the GOPe went after one frontrunner after another: Cain, Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry, Gingrich, until we were left with Romney. DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN AGAIN.
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