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Questioning Trump like wrestling an eel
Chicago Sun Times Press Reader ^ | 8/26/2015 | Roger Simon

Posted on 08/27/2015 9:12:37 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist

On Sunday, ABC's George Stephanopoulos, an excellent interviewer, tried to break through the Trump persona and get some answers on something - anything! Stephanopoulos chose the sole plan listed under "Positions" on the official Trump website. It is Trump's plan for making Mexico pay for a wall on our southern border, deporting "criminal aliens" from the United States, and ending "birthright citizenship" among other complex, controversial and expensive programs. Stephanopoulos attempted to find out how Trump would carry out his plan. Specifically.

Did I say it was like wrestling an eel? It is more like punching a pillow.

"You have so many illegals. We don't even know how many," Trump said. "I hear 11 million. I hear 30 million. The government has no idea. We have lost control of our country." Specific enough for you? Stephanopoulos kept trying. He wanted fact's figures, hard numbers, real plans. Instead he got showmanship.

"George, its called management," Trump replied. The first thing we have to do is secure the border, but it's called management." ...

About six weeks ago, CNN's Anderson Cooper asked Trump whether President Obama was born in the United States. "I don't know. I really don't know," Trump replied. "I don't know why he wouldn't release his records." ...

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


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abcnews; andersoncooper; bencarson; birther; birthers; carlyfiorina; carson; cnn; cruz; donaldtrump; fiorina; naturalborncitizen; ptbarnum; scottwalker; tedcruz; thedonald; tms; trump; trumpmania; walker
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To: henkster

Oh yeah, another I don’t like the media (WaPo, ABC News, CNN, Reuters, and so on) except when they have good poll numbers for The Donald. Then you like them.

They are liberal when you don’t like them and trustworthy when you do like something that comes from them (as in their polls).

So, if they are so bad, and so liberal here, why are their polls then trustworthy?

On and on it goes...

Trump could say “Hope!” and the Trump crowd would rise.

“Change” and the Trump crowd would start screaming.

“Hope, change” and the Trump crowd would go fanatical...


21 posted on 08/27/2015 9:23:25 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Left-tard media is so pathetic. They won’t ask any tought questions about anything to a lefty-rat. But they sure try their best to make a republican look bad.


22 posted on 08/27/2015 9:24:21 AM PDT by vpintheak (Man up and bring it politicians!)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

I did?


23 posted on 08/27/2015 9:25:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Did any of the Democrat media get specifics from Obozo on his very vague plans of “hope” and “change”, how he was going to lower the sea levels, for pity’s sake? More currently, what specific plans have we heard from Mrs. Bill Clinton on how to save America’s Middle Class, when she assures us she will “fight for” it?

Republicans are required to dot every i and cross every t of what they will do for the country, while the Democrat media faithfully repeats the boiler plate blather of their candidates, with never a question as to how they will fulfill any of their promises.


24 posted on 08/27/2015 9:25:44 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist; Colonel_Flagg; Sam Gamgee

An excellent article.

The GOP hopefuls in 2016 running for election and reelection are sure going to love what The Donald said to CNN’s Anderson Cooper (the article points out what Anderson Cooper asked of him). /s.


25 posted on 08/27/2015 9:25:58 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Definitely a good article. That said, except for the elderly, I don’t think anybody even watches most of the programs Trump fans here are so outraged about. Most people get their news from Internet sites and a lot of opinion comes from that too.

Trump is almost 70, and while there’s nothing wrong with that, if you want to run for office, you have to stay current. He’s not, has no elected experience in the past to draw on, and is basically just a wealthy old man shooting his mouth off.
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26 posted on 08/27/2015 9:26:17 AM PDT by livius
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

More like wrestling a Boa Constrictor.


27 posted on 08/27/2015 9:26:20 AM PDT by refermech
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
George Stephanopoulos, an excellent interviewer, tried to break through the Trump persona and get some answers on something - anything!

They demand specifics from Trump.....yet with Obama they were perfectly content with his specifics which he dtailed as "Hope and Change".

28 posted on 08/27/2015 9:28:43 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist; South40; NoDRodee; SuzyQue

An excellent article.

Just wait until the media asks and keeps asking all of the GOP hopefuls in 2016 (after the primaries, that is) about what CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked of The Donald and the response (as laid out in this article).

Just what the GOP needs across this country in governorships, House of Reps races, Senate races....


29 posted on 08/27/2015 9:31:20 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Specifics………..yeah. Candidates ALWAYS get in the tall weeds with specifics…./s


30 posted on 08/27/2015 9:32:02 AM PDT by moehoward (depends-overload; delusional;)
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To: Starstruck

“I guess he doesn’t give them the answers they want.”
“His answers to me seem to be “Yada, Yada, Yada........We build a wall. “Yada, Yada, Yada........We get jobs back from China.”

If elected, do you think Trump will be like ALL the others, giving lip service to doing something, anything, about the invasion? Or do you think Trump would actually build a wall, start deporting illegals, and set up incentives to return jobs to America? Me, I think we’ll see actions geared towards making America great again that we haven’t seen since WW2. I think this scares the shit out of all the ruling class Uniparty elites because it goes in the exact opposite direction of their goal to destroy the United States, in an attempt to put us on an even playing field with every turd world shit hole out there. THAT’s why ‘they’ cannot allow him to win. Because he WILL be a president of action.


31 posted on 08/27/2015 9:33:27 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
"I don't know. I really don't know," Trump replied. "I don't know why he wouldn't release his records."

That's actually an excellent answer. Not the one Cooper wanted to hear, of course, but it uses the standard MSM/DNC tactic of turning the question back on the questioner (Cooper's real boss in the White House), which most GOPe types are too scared to do.

32 posted on 08/27/2015 9:37:48 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Trump doesn't accept premise behind the liberal reporters' questions. As such he doesn't leave them anything to get a handle on.

"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

33 posted on 08/27/2015 9:40:56 AM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Reading leftist fantasy. oped, is kind of what it must be like when a FBI agent interogates a clever serial killer? Or, more like a serial killer who thinks he is clever.


34 posted on 08/27/2015 9:41:20 AM PDT by Leep (Cut the crap!)
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To: BenLurkin

That is exactly what I thought about the article. George a good interviewer? He’s a wild eyed democrat so he is only “good” to another wild eyed democrat. Or a Liberal-tarian, maybe.


35 posted on 08/27/2015 9:44:33 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Eel wrestling...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCwz_LDL3T8


36 posted on 08/27/2015 9:44:49 AM PDT by Beagle8U
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
But you and others sure liked the polls from ABC news (where George is at)/WaPo in the past which gave good marks for Trump.

To Trump Mania people, ABC News, CNN, NYT, WaPo, and on and on are good when you want them to be and bad when you want them to be.

Liberal when you want them to be and not so liberal when you want them to be...

And here you like the Chicago Sun Times...Besides hypocrisy, What's you point?
37 posted on 08/27/2015 9:46:30 AM PDT by lewislynn (Meghan Kelley...#sand--Rosie, the Don was right-- Hillary, lipstick on a pig)
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To: Teacher317
When was Obama, Hillary, or Biden EVER pressed for the SPECIFICS of a plan? Hope and Change? ObamaCare? TPP? *crickets*

Forget the democrats for a moment.

With the exception of Ted Cruz, when has any other republican candidate been asked for the specifics of their plans?

38 posted on 08/27/2015 9:50:08 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of our Troops PRAY for their Victory!)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

My goodness, but you are insulting.


39 posted on 08/27/2015 9:50:39 AM PDT by erkelly
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

thanks for ping


40 posted on 08/27/2015 10:04:57 AM PDT by NoDRodee (U>S>M>C)
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