Posted on 01/27/2016 10:58:06 AM PST by Jim Noble
MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa - Donald J. Trump and Fox News, the candidate who has reordered the Republican presidential race and the cable network of choice for many of the party's voters, stared each other down on Tuesday over his demand that the news anchor Megyn Kelly be dumped from moderating Thursday's debate, the last before Monday's caucuses.
The network did not blink. So Mr. Trump walked.
Mr. Trump's announcement here that he would "probably," or would "most likely," or was "pretty close to" irrevocably planning to skip the debate - an aide put it more directly - created a gaping uncertainty at the center of the Republican nominating contest just as it was formally about to begin in Iowa.
It was the most intense confrontation yet between two mutually dependent but increasingly antagonistic powerhouses of media and politics. Mr. Trump, who has made the presidential race into a riveting television spectacle' was overtly exploiting the ratings leverage his candidacy has created to try to bend Fox News to his will...
Fox News said Mr. Trump's refusal to debate his rivals was "near unprecedented."
"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," the network said in a statement.
On her program Tuesday night, Ms. Kelly observed that "what's interesting here is Trump is not used to not controlling things, as the chief executive of a large organization."
"But the truth is, he doesn't get to control the media," she added...
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Well, that's A truth, I suppose. What's also true is that it was NEVER the intention of the Founders that the choosing of Presidential electors would become captive to a group of media people, consultants, pollsters, and donors. Things have gone so far that people like Murdoch and his staffers believe, deep down, that they are part of the process BY RIGHT, and that somebody who won't play their game by their rules is somehow damaged.
The 4th grader throws another tantrum!
You're referring the the media correct? The only tantrum throwing is from FOX and Ailes - as RUSH said, he was shocked they didn't just report the news and move on, their tantrum was revealing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcUCLwWCihE
Trump continues to go where no one dares. Well maybe Reagan because he did skip the last debate before Iowa as is Trump.
Roger Ailes has called Trump’s wife and daughter begging them to get “The Donald” to reconsider. They’ve never had individuals except Bill Clinton and Zero control them before.
“The 4th grader throws another tantrum!”
Yeah, but it’s not Trump, its Ailes!
Heres what Meg had planned for Trump at the Fox/Google debate.
Google had invited three YouTube personalities to ask questions at the Jan. 28 GOP debate including a Muslim advocate who describes Donald Trump as a bigot and who visually portrayed him as being in agreement with national socialist Adolf Hitler.
Why show up for that ambush?
“NEVER the intention of the Founders that the choosing of Presidential electors would become captive to a group of media people, consultants, pollsters, and donors.”
Especially a consolidated national group of them. That was an anathema they designed the Constitution to prevent.
But they did not foresee national television networks.
But the truth is, he doesn’t get to control the media
You do realize “’fraid of a girl” is a taunt a 4th grader would make?
Trump isn't running away and Trump isn't scared.
A pox on all of them-Trump/Kelly/Ailes. I’m sick of hearing about these attention-seeking hogs. We’re about to get a Commie or a Criminal running for Prez, and all I see on FR is silliness.
..”But the truth is, he doesn’t get to control the media...
But, he got to control this, didn’t he?
Fox News is making all the right enemies. liberals, socialists, Islamists, Trump and his Trumpies....
Trump shot fox news in the middle of Fifth Avenue.
Trump is not running a an evangelical. That would be Cruz who is campaigning with a certified lunatic Glen Beck.
Trump’s only stated fear was specifically about Megyn Kelly being at the debate. Not anyone else he is afraid to face.
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