Posted on 01/27/2016 6:38:25 AM PST by WhiskeyX
As many of our viewers know, FOX News is hosting a sanctioned debate in Des Moines, Iowa on Thursday night, three days before the first votes of the 2016 election are cast in the Iowa Caucus. Donald Trump is refusing to debate seven of his fellow presidential candidates on stage that night, which is near unprecedented.
We’re not sure how Iowans are going to feel about him walking away from them at the last minute, but it should be clear to the American public by now that this is rooted in one thing – Megyn Kelly, whom he has viciously attacked since August and has now spent four days demanding be removed from the debate stage. Capitulating to politicians’ ultimatums about a debate moderator violates all journalistic standards, as do threats, including the one leveled by Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski toward Megyn Kelly.
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They’re not admitting to the ambush they had planned. Trump’s people should let everyone know about THAT part of the debate
You got that right. Very astute.
“We’re not sure how Iowans are going to feel about him walking away from them at the last minute...”
That is superfluous and not professional or appropriate for such a statement.
Illiterate and not relevant to their interests.
Or at least shouldn’t be.
Michael Savage interviewed Trump yesterday and advised him not to participate in the debate.
Fox News is DONE. Even Britt Hume is drinking the Kool Aid in that video. Wasn’t he the guy Megyn Kelley was rumored to have had an affair with that led to her rise in fame on Fox?
Does this mean the center podium will be empty or will Cruz be put in it?
I want Cruz first, but kudo’s to Trump for taking a stand. FOX can deny all they want that Kelly did not show her bias, but we all saw it and it makes FOX lose more viewers, including me.
Fox has no journalistic standards the way they are acting.
They send out a petulant statement comparing dealing with Kelly is like dealing with Putin and an Ayatollah, then they ask an anti-Trump Muslim to participate in the debate and then have the audacity to say that Lewandowski threatened Kelly by saying she had a rough couple of days after the last debate, hope it doesn't happen again.
There is no threat there! That's ridiculous, ludicrous and absolutely false reporting.
Nice journalistic standards FNC!
Glad I turned you off when you hired Whorealdo.
Full on propaganda. 100%. The entire MSM, can now be accurately abbreviated as such. With FOX bailing on their viewers to jump ship for lefter waters millions of Americans no longer doubt, but now KNOW the American media has an agenda. For sure.
Fox News is DONE. Even Britt Hume is drinking the Kool Aid in that video. Wasn’t he the guy Megyn Kelley was rumored to have had an affair with that led to her rise in fame on Fox?
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That rumor has been around for years..She followed the usual career path for a bleached blonde with little else to offer.
Typical Trump! What’s the fuss? Is he chicken? Is it to hot in the kitchen? What kind of precedent is he setting? I want to hear what he says, the vetting process is what the debates are for? Now he is backing out? Do you think he ever backed out of a business deal because the opposing lawyer was biased?
“So Michael Moore is on the GOPe team now.”
Baaaaaant, wrong, GOPe is on the Michael Moore team and has
been since Papa Bush was forced on Reagan to be VP. The
Bush family has been the leader of the Visigoths when it
came to infiltration and the takeover of the republican
party by stealth liberals pretending to be republicans.
Ol cockeyed Junior (Jeb) was to be the first to win without
their conservative base. The only way to do that is to be
a liberal.
If they were following their motto of "We report, you decide", the statement (if there even was one at all) would simply say, Donald Trump has declined to attend the upcoming debate.
The rest of the statement is opinion and advocacy.
And the fact being that the deep end is very very deep. Ailes’ work and perseverance in making this network GREAT all now crumbled into dust in only a few months time after turning over the reigns to the idiot sons of the high mucky muck. Everything changed the night of the first TRUMP debate way back when —EVERYTHING! If Fox wanted to do a bang up job of destroying their loyal viewer base they could not have done a better job even if they had studied for their Master’s
FR not respecting the huge Tony Perkins endorsement of Cruz, they dont want it on the front page, not given the same respect that the Falwell for Trump was given.
Well I agree with all of that. I’ve been talking about leftist infiltration of the GOP on FR for a couple of years at least. It’s just that apparently they are feeling strong enough in their takeover to openly admit to their leftist affiliations now.
What???
This actually came from FOX news???..
Not some blog???
What a pathetic piece of whining....
Total loss of any remaining respect for the network
Sadly for Cavuto, Lou Dobbs and Stuart Varney, all of whom I respect
Exactly.
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