Posted on 03/21/2016 8:24:04 PM PDT by Pinkbell
Donald Trump will no longer be allowed to call into NBC's signature Sunday news show "Meet The Press," according to a Sunday report in The New York Times.
"Meet The Press" moderator Chuck Todd told the Times on Friday that the frontrunner will have to appear in-person.
From the Times:
On Friday, Chuck Todd, the moderator of Meet the Press, told me he had only grudgingly allowed Mr. Trump to call in to his show earlier in the campaign, determining that he would rather have Mr. Trump take questions via phone than not at all.
Now, Mr. Todd said, he will no longer allow Mr. Trump to do prescheduled interviews by phone on the NBC program.
In the same report, Chris Wallace, host of Fox News' "Fox News Sunday," defended his decision to not allow Trump to make call-in interviews on his program. Wallace said he thought a potential "ratings hit" would be "a line worth holding."
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I agree. I suspect a revision policy will be forthcoming.
Trump can’t make every show in person.
In case you haven’t noticed, he does tons of interviews in person. Generally at Trump Tower - in the lobby near the fountain.
He should tell Chuck Todd to take a flying leap. Todd needs him, Trump doesn’t need that balding little man with the dyed fringe on his forehead.
“why would you want to show up on Meet Depress?”
I always called it “Press the Meat!”
Getting one third of Republican votes isn’t exactly a tidal wave for Trump.
Trump will go over their heads.
Chris Wallace is a TWIT!! Todd looks like a child molester.
I*m probably as old as you, and thought the same. But as I look back, I realize that the media has been Left-biased for my entire lifetime.
I only realized this during the Bush-(Bill) Clinton campaign in 1992.
I saw the subtle tricks of words and images the media used to make Bush look bad and Clinton good.
Then I look back at Pres Eisenhower and realize that the as the media portrayed Ike, he did nothing but play golf 24 hours a day. And they made Mamie look like a deranged old hag.
I am sure it goes back much further than my life experiences,
When the media became this way, I can not say.
In the general he WILL get the Tidal Wave because he is already getting enormous crossover votes. It was heatbreaking to see the number of INDEPENDENTS who came to vote in our Closed Primary only to be told they couldn’t vote until the general Election.
Does posting by portable device not allow editing or proofing before hitting send?
Comic gold in lots-and-lots of postings due to auto-suggest and auto-spell check!
“orifice” is a Rushism.
Indeed!
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