Trump: Megyn Kelly should apologize to me

The Hill ^ | August 10, 2015 | Jesse Byrnes

[Biggirl]

Businessman Donald Trump on Monday tried to move beyond his controversial remark that Fox News host Megyn Kelly had "blood coming out of her ... wherever," saying he was not the one who should apologize. "The fact is she asked me a very inappropriate question. She should really be apologizing to me," the Republican presidential candidate said Monday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

[9YearLurker]

Sorry, but that’s not really me and I’m not really wishing that.

[Artcore]

The more he bashes Megan Kelly the more he taints whatever legitimacy he had acquired for plain talk about hard issues. Now it’s just gutter talk about personalities.

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Yeah, sure thing Nate. I mean, you folks have been so dead on accurate up to this point.

[TNMOUTH]

He appears to be leading is the key phrase...

Unlike past polling, however, where his number was so high that all the candidate combined couldn’t match it, shows that this time, Cruz and Carson have numbers that would tie his.

[cymbeline]

“When it comes to Trump, stop thinking about what a politician would do. That’s not a criticism. It’s crazy like a fox. Enough to get him the nomination? Who cares!
The media and GOPe are getting punk’d.”

My feelings also. I’d say also to stop worrying about how it will all end up. We can’t know that now. Meawhile, sit back and enjoy Trump churning the excrement.

[TWhiteBear]

‘The rats set the bar that low. Trump can just step over it. Hillary can limbo under it.’

EEEuuuu
The image of Mz Clinton doing the limbo is horrifying.
Mr. Trump won the debate.
Live with it.
And he is doing great in the polls.
Mr. Trump did not have to get up twelve hours early to defend his record as poor Mr Baird had to do this morning at 6AM with his own show scheduled at 6PM>
Run, Liberals, Run
If you mess with the bull, you get the horn.
Now, as Mr. Trump wants, lets discuss illegal immigrant rape and murder, our Marines being murdered here in America,
shabby treatment of Veterans, taxes and real, not prissy political correctness diversions.
TWB

[kjam22]

I pretty sure you could take the song, “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown,” by Jim Croce, and re-write it to include Trump and Kelly.

And if you go down there, you better just beware, of a man named Donald Trump????

[kjam22]

These ladies were hilarious.

[henkster]

Whether you agree with Trump’s candidacy or not (and Nathan, I know you disagree, vehemently) I do admire his tactics. He will not allow himself to go on the defensive against the media. He will attack at every turn. At some point, it may turn out to be a Banzai tactic, but for now it is working. It is certainly working better than covering up in the fetal position, begging and groveling for forgiveness for a transgression of a politically correct doctrine that has just been created to fit the moment. To many GOP candidates do that, and in so doing they cede sovereignty over their campaign to the democrat/communist media complex, who then gets to decide who is nominated for the Republican Party.

I have said I favor Walker or Cruz as a candidate over Trump, and the more I see of Trump the less I like because he is too over the top, and not likely to be a credible President. But there are things about his campaign that should be noticed.

[Kickass Conservative]

28,000 People turned out to hear Bernie Sanders in Portland yesterday. Why aren’t we hearing about that, Trump.

[kabar]

Well that is the tactic used by the media to destroy someone. The media is not going to let this story die. The media will ask about it day after day after day. Trump’s best counter tactic is to simply ignore the question and refuse to answer it. I’ve said all I have to say on that topic. Next Question”

He will when it stops benefiting him. He knows how to handle the MSM better than any of the other candidates. He understands their Alinsky tactics. Namely,

Rule 5:“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.

Rule 13: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.

Trump is using Rule 7 against the MSM:

Rule 7: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Don’t become old news.

[kjam22]

One good thing to come out of this debacle: Fox viewers have now been disabused of any notion that it is a conservative oriented network.

Fox has severely damaged its brand image and credibility.

Absolutely

[nathanbedford]

I think my Joel Chandler Harris reference is far more apt.

I knowof only one scientific poll that has come out since the debate which shows Donald Trump gaining one point. That tells me that Donald Trump's rate of ascent has decreased and may even now be negative. Once the upward ascent of Trump's media bubble stalls it will begin a rapid decent.

In the past Trump is always enjoyed a big bump by playing the "coarse and vulgar" candidate (George Will's description) but not this time. If Trump has crossed the line, his unrelenting and low road attacks on Megan Kelly will indeed look like punching a tar baby.

We will need another couple of polls to establish a trend. Meanwhile your guess is just as good as mine.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Trump has come into a situation of empowerment that he has shown no signs of having planned.

Everyone seems to be looking at this as though it was all within Trump. But all the signs are that something larger than Trump is playing out.

[ScottinVA]

Good God, let it go already, Trump.

[ScottinVA]

I couldn’t agree more.

[bray]

Megyn needs to apologize to the country for wasting our time.

Pray America is waking

[nathanbedford]

I agree with your sentiments entirely, in fact I have written years ago in my about page that the pusillanimous handwringing of conservatives when under attack is to be deplored. I believe the conservatives should fight back and fight back hard.

But they should not fight back like gutter Snipes, they should fight back with reason and with facts. In other words, they should fight back while acting presidential.

It is important to fight back over the right issues and a woman's appearance or her capacity to bleed from one or another orifice is not the right issue to preoccupy a man wants to be president of the United States.

I think more and more people are sharing your experience of being turned off more and more by Donald Trump the more of him they see.

[henkster]

Trump has tapped into a reservoir of unrest in America, where a formerly prosperous middle class is being extinguished just like the kulaks were in Stalin’s USSR. And it is as deliberate here as it was there.

Trump didn’t fill that reservoir, the democrat/bolsheviks did that, along with a lot of help from their ruling coalition GOP-e/menshevik allies. But he figured out how to tap into it.

I believe Ted Cruz has too, which is why I support him. But Cruz isn’t as irrationally over the top about it. And I believe Cruz would pilot a more consistent and rational course in dealing with the problem. I also believe the same of Walker, who has actually taken on the sacred cows and slaughtered them.

[ScottinVA]

“Yeah...but he will take all NY’s electorial votes.”

Did he switch back to the dems again? I must’ve missed that one.

[timestax]