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Trump announces boycott; Fox News doubles down on insults
GOP USA/AP ^ | 9/24/2015 | AP Staff

Posted on 09/25/2015 5:17:53 AM PDT by HomerBohn

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To: HomerBohn
Trump only announced his boycott after the channel canceled a scheduled Trump appearance on "The O'Reilly Factor" Thursday.

The same O'Reilly who is always complaining about adversaries who won't come on his show.

21 posted on 09/25/2015 5:48:38 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: HomerBohn
Lowry's graphic comments on Megyn's show were over the top (there have been some calls for him to be suspended). Trump has been appearing on the other cable shows & it's putting pressure on FOX. Did Trump cave & call Ailes? Doubtful.

Here we go: Roger Ailes to meet with Trump next week to resolve “differences of opinion” over Fox’s coverage

22 posted on 09/25/2015 5:53:40 AM PDT by Qiviut (Stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the cross; lift high his royal banner, it must not loss)
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To: HomerBohn

I’m a Cruz supporter but the way FOX has treated Trump ticks me off. I cant stand to watch FOX anymore (except Hannity) and have switched over to One America.


23 posted on 09/25/2015 5:55:05 AM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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To: Arm_Bears

“FAUX News appears to have realized that it’s pi$$ing away its conservative audience, so the suck-up to the Left has begun.”

I listened to Hannity on the radio for a little while yesterday. I didn’t hear any of the appreciative Conservative callers that used to be so common in the call-in session. It was only Liberal attackers. Maybe it’s just me but something has changed. Maybe I’m not the only one that has given up on Fox completely. I used to be a die hard fan.


24 posted on 09/25/2015 5:58:58 AM PDT by Aleya2Fairlie
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To: HomerBohn

The way Baier and Kelly were smirking when rippping Trump during FOX debate was disgusting.


25 posted on 09/25/2015 6:00:42 AM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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To: Java4Jay

Same here I want Cruz, but will vote for Carson or Trump and the way FOX , especially Megyn I would have got no where unless I had my looks and flirting has treated him has been disgusting.

I too have switched over to One America News and make sure none of my TV’s are ever on FOX, especially when Kelly;s show is on.


26 posted on 09/25/2015 6:04:05 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: HomerBohn

No, I don’t think Kelly Maygun is the Fox News spokeswoman at this time.


27 posted on 09/25/2015 6:07:50 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: HomerBohn

The GOP is a self serving closed fraternity that ultimately cares about its own survival more then it cares about the survival of the America we envision.


28 posted on 09/25/2015 6:08:17 AM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: HomerBohn

Reminder: Why Trump Battles The Fox News Machine…

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Anyone who is viewing the battle between Donald Trump and Fox News as a representative battle of thin-skinned ego is entirely missing the point.

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Trump is not just taking on the construct of progressive ideology that has undermined the essence of American exceptionalism; Trump is not just exposing the immense number of faux-conservatives in media and political punditry;  Trump is not just allowing us to see the scope of anti-American interest; no, he’s taking on the very selfish foundation they’ve used to sell out our country. Heck, he’s taking on all the “Decepticons” simultaneously.

In many ways Fox’s Roger Ailes and Republican Mitch McConnell carry the same ideological character trait, deception. For McConnell his deceptive ways allow him to retain power inside the DC construct. For Roger Ailes manipulation benefits his media dominance and political interests.

Neither McConnell nor Ailes can actually be trusted.  However, we are only just beginning to understand the enormity and scope of the previously hidden betrayal.

It all boils down to a very familiar problem. Would you rather rid yourself of the schemer, manipulator and deceiver who claims to be your friend – and as a consequence face a visible enemy in their stead. Or do you chose to be associated within the camp of a person you can never fully trust.

The 2014 re-election of Mitch McConnell was a case study in choosing between the lesser of these two evils. If you don’t re-elect him your team may not win control of the Senate; but if you do elect him your team may win control – but you’ll never be able to trust him to do what he says.

We are all witnessing the 2015 reality of McConnell’s untrustworthy legislative behavior; he lied to get re-elected, and he’s only working on the priorities of Tom Donohue, Wall Street, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Our Co-Dependent Behavior:

♦ If, in the spring of 2014, anyone had tried to convince the electorate that the National Republican Senatorial Committee would pay for racist attack ads, and pay for Democrats to vote in the Mississippi Senate Primary against a republican candidate, the same electorate would have said ‘you’re nuts’.

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♦ If, prior to the fall election of 2014, anyone had tried to convince the electorate that Mitch McConnell would NEVER repeal Obamacare, because his handlers wanted Obamacare to remain in place, the voting electorate would say “you’re nuts”.

♦ If, in the dawn of 2015, anyone had tried to convince the electorate the now Republican Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, would change the senate rules to pass Obama trade agreements with only 51 votes, destroying the construct of the Senate oversight simply to give Obama more power -because McConnell’s handlers wanted it- again more people would have said “you’re nuts”. Perhaps even the same people.

♦ If, in the summer of 2015, anyone had tried to convince the electorate that the RNC and DC-based GOPe, had constructed a specific and intentional plan to elect Jeb Bush with 20% of the voting base, those same voices say “you’re nuts”.

Some people just refuse to accept what is. The rest of us -who do accept- are called “nuts”…. or Whacko-birds, or Hobbits, or Crazies, or… well, you get the point.

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The bottom line is Donald Trump is advocating for us; he’s representing the interests of all of us who are sick and tired of being lied to and manipulated by the Mitch McConnells of the world. So while campaigning, he’s taking them head on.

What value lies within victory, if the reason for being victorious is open to interpretation? A fancy way of saying “bold contrasts, not pale pastels”. When Trump shows up to the White House, there won’t be anyone in DC who doesn’t know exactly why he’s there.

If victorious, Trump will carry the biggest and boldest mandate EVER.

Candidate Donald Trump has now taken enough positions for us to clearly identify that he is indeed our friend, and as a consequence their enemy. Just look at what he has exposed in the two months since he announced. He’s done this simply by putting sunlight on issues and taking firm stances that all others in/around the same issues have apparently lied about for years.

Donald Trump, a serious student of the entire decades long game, is waging a 360° war against the entire GOPe apparatus, on every single level of its construct. And yes, that also means the monolithic media empire which facilitates all of the aforementioned usurpations.

Donald Trump is campaigning against EVERY ADVERSE INTEREST to the U.S.A. This is the essential underpinning of the “Make America Great Again” campaign.

Those adverse interests are both outside and inside our borders. He’s intent on tearing down the machine, all of it. By now that should be obvious to everyone.

Candidate Jeb Bush attends Chamber of Commerce dinner with Fox's Rupert Murdoch and Valerie Jarrett (December 2014)
Candidate Jeb Bush attends Chamber of Commerce dinner with Fox’s Rupert Murdoch and Valerie Jarrett (December 2014)

In that regard, Rupert Murdoch FOX owner is part of the problem. So too Roger Ailes Fox News President is also part of the problem…. again, their interests – i.e., elect Jeb Bush- are antithetical to those of a restored, strong, free and independent U.S.

Mitch McConnell, Rupert Murdoch, The RNC, Roger Ailes, Tom Donohue, Wall Street et al, are all part of the apparatus simultaneously being confronted.

Trump is talking about, and, well, actually he’s doing more than talking about it, he’s taking on BIG ideological entities that have embedded themselves inside the body politic.

It’s often a painful exhibition to watch a surgeon cut clear margins out of an infected patient. And it definitely ain’t pretty when you have to do it on a battlefield in the midst of an ideological war.

This is the backdrop for Donald Trump taking on Fox News, and as a consequence Rupert Murdoch through Roger Ailes and Murdoch’s princess, Megyn Kelly.

Just like exposing the real motivation behind the RNC, or Mitch McConnell, or the NRSC in 2014’s Mississippi primary, Trump is exposing the sordid and corrupt world of the U.S. legacy media.

However, better than merely exposing them, he’s taking them head-on.

Trump would rather face an enemy who genuinely opposes him, MSNBC and CNN, than deal with the likes of a enemy who puts on the mask of being favorable toward him while simultaneously working diligently to eliminate him. (Remember Brutus?)

Trump respects the honest opponent, he does not respect the dishonest manipulator. Obviously, a level of media dishonesty was dragged front and center, in front of 24 million viewers, during the Fox News RNC/GOP debate.

Megyn Kelly Debate

It was the severity of the dishonesty, the deceptive intent and the scope of the planning and forethought, that triggered the response. ENOUGH !

I mean c’mon, seriously. While initially many didn’t want to believe what we were saying, we saw the deceptive sneak attack coming a week before it took place. It was transparently obvious that Megyn ‘too-cute-by-half’ Kelly had a specific agenda she was intent on delivering. [ June 30th Warning To Donald Trump ]

Lil Miss Condescending was so pissed that Trump avoided her initial pre-debate set up on August 4th she took it out on Ted Cruz

As a consequence of the specific forethought, and after deciding it’s better to have an honest enemy, Mr. Trump is now in the position of tearing down the pillars of Roger Ailes creation. And, as evidence of Trumps’ strength therein, Roger Ailes’ responses reflect a reality that Ailes views this ENEMY, unlike any other enemy, because Trump holds Samson-like capabilities.

It’s not about Megyn Kelly per se’. It’s about taking the strongest most valuable part of Ailes organization, the one he has invested the most time, effort, energy and emotion with, and confronting that ‘golden goose’ first. Ailes would surely never respond the same way if it were a less valuable part of his business. Trump hits em’ where it hurts.

Appearances on CNN, MSNBC or the alphabets might seem antithetical to most GOP candidates who view Fox as a more direct channel to a specific audience. But Trump is saying he’d rather confront an honest opponent who he knows hates him, than walk into a dishonest interview unsure of their masked ‘angle’.

Trump is also showing the approach he would take if he is able to achieve victory and win the White House. Mitch McConnell will never be accepted as a representative leader, nor would John Boehner, neither could/would be trusted. Trump would dispatch their self-serving interests to the land of irrelevance and work around them.

Yes, that implies he’d use the bully pulpit against his own Republican leadership, if that was what’s needed to “Make America Great Again”. Prepare for it.

If the hierarchy within the republican party loses an election to Democrats it’s only a lost election; they are still there, and still comfortable even in the minority.

However, if the hierarchy within the republican party loses an election to Conservatives, they are out of a job.

Donald Trump’s greatest weapon is not his money, his wealth, or his keen and astute business acumen, those are all simply tools he’s developed over a lifetime. No, his greatest weapon against these ideological foes is something we shared on the very first day of his candidacy….

… US !

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29 posted on 09/25/2015 6:10:42 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: Awgie
The GOP is a self serving closed fraternity that ultimately cares about its own survival more then it cares about the survival of the America we envision.

That statement has been proven beyond all doubt time and time again in a multitude of ways.
30 posted on 09/25/2015 6:11:52 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: HomerBohn

Extinction burst


31 posted on 09/25/2015 6:12:12 AM PDT by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S. Feel the Trump-mentum!(insert ireally.supportCruzdisclaimerhere/))
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To: silverleaf
And that wraps-up The Kelly File for tonight. Megyn will be back....er, well, we're not sure when she will be back. Stay tuned for a Fox News special featuring GOP Presidential Candidate Donald Trump: Ow, My Balls; Extreme Edition"



32 posted on 09/25/2015 6:16:14 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: HomerBohn

Am I the only one who is sick and tired of this Trump/Fox soap opera? It’s about the level of the middle school playground:

“Hey, Donnie, Ricky said that Carly cut off your You-know-what’s

Oh yeah well Carly’s an ugly sourpuss

I’m not playing with Megyn anymore, ‘cause mean girls suck”

I’m a proud supporter of Ted Cruz, by far the best candidate (I mention that so the Trump supporters know who to insult)

And remember, when Trump passes gas his supporters hear a symphony


33 posted on 09/25/2015 6:24:59 AM PDT by almcbean
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I’m a proud supporter of Ted Cruz, by far the best candidate (I mention that so the Trump supporters know who to insult)

If you can only see that Trump is bulldozing the way through the brambles for himself AND Cruz, you will see things differently than you do now regarding Trump "supporters".

(Trump is self-funded for the most part. Putting his money where his mouth is.)
34 posted on 09/25/2015 6:29:03 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: almcbean
I’m a proud supporter of Ted Cruz, by far the best candidate (I mention that so the Trump supporters know who to insult)

And remember, when Trump passes gas his supporters hear a symphony


*YAWN*
35 posted on 09/25/2015 6:36:35 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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It’s still hilarious to see some of the biggest TDS FReaks allege to support Cruz.


36 posted on 09/25/2015 6:38:00 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: HomerBohn

Bookmarks for The Blaze and Lucanne.com deleted. Fox News Channel ignored. Who wants to be next?


37 posted on 09/25/2015 6:54:29 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative
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To: Fiji Hill

The same O’Reilly who owns a $3M estate in Manhasset, NY (north shore of Long Island), who doesn’t think that you and I should be allowed to drive pickup trucks and large SUVs that we “don’t need”? Bill O’Reilly is a pompous, self-righteous dumbass who resorts to “bap, bap, bap” when he runs out of vocabulary, which is often.


38 posted on 09/25/2015 6:57:53 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: Bushbacker1

Yes, I watched Fox News last night and it was great not to hear Trump spout his banal trivial pronouncements. Trump has done Fox a favor.


39 posted on 09/25/2015 7:08:08 AM PDT by glabbe
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To: HomerBohn
Trump is showing us how ‘in bed together’ the media, the government, super pacs, and the ‘money bags’ like Soros, Murdock and others are twisting and infiltrating the news to get the voters to vote their way...

He is doing this the same way with the candidates, he's has been proving this with how they attack him, because the people with money behind the candidates have been told to attack him....

Normally, when this happens, the person will not talk or walk away, this time it isn't happening that way, Trump is fighting back, and all these people that want you to vote ‘their’ way don't know what to do...

They put up Perry to take Trump out, didn't work; they put up the faux debate team to take him out, didn't work; they put up Bush to take him out, didn't work; you can go down the line and see what they are doing...

Faux started talking crap again and Trump called it on them, now we find out that faux wants a meeting, of course they want a meeting, their ratings are going in the toilet...

If Trump wanted to, he could buy a network T.V. program, he doesn't want to, yet...

They have yelled and screamed that his tone was this and that, they put a plant in one of his speaking engagements and tried to get him out that way, that didn't work; Ben Carson came out and announced his opinions and they tried to bring Trump into it, that didn't work...

Be on guard, you haven't seen anything yet, this is politics and it's a dirty, nasty game but something that Trump works in all day and has done...he wouldn't be going after this if he didn't want it, and he doesn't need to have ‘handlers’ and ‘money bags’ telling him what to do, he tells them what they are going to be doing...

He's not the only one standing up for us. Cruz is in the Senate doing the same thing, apparently it is working, Boehner is going to retire....he better after this last mess of not holding onto what we voted him in office to do...They say you can't do this or that without Ohio's vote, well if that is what they are voting to represent us to our government, I wouldn't put my horse on that cart...

And then you got McConnell who is the most yellowed bellied idiot I have ever seen...and Kentucky should be very proud to put in another idiot like him....shows you what money can buy you...

Ben Carson came out and said he didn't think a Muslim could be POTUS because of their beliefs and Our Constitution, which is correct...this is still America, and we still do have freedom of speech, and that's his opinions on the subject...I have opinions just as all the rest of the people, but to be hammered the way these people are being hammered is stupid, because ‘oh my gawd, you can't say that’ THAT folks is what is wrong with America today: If you don't have a spine to stand up and say what you think, then get the heck out of the way, because there are a lot of us that can and will say it...

40 posted on 09/25/2015 7:13:36 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, and hope you do to!)
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