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Trump's Debate Boycott Throws Fox News Into Chaos
New York Magazine ^ | January 27, 2016 | Gabriel Sherman

Posted on 01/27/2016 12:51:33 AM PST by monkapotamus

Trump said he would host his own Iowa town hall to raise money for veterans and let other networks cover it. One clear sign of the gravity of tonight's development is the sense of confusion that is swirling throughout Fox. The network is split between Kelly's allies like Brit Hume and conservative anchors that are furious that Kelly - who graces the cover of Vanity Fair this month - has become the face of the network. An anchor fumed that Kelly hosted Michael Moore on her program tonight and the lefty filmmaker defended her against Trump. "That would be like Rachel Maddow laughing along with Charles Koch as he trashed Hillary Clinton!" the anchor said. One producer speculated that Fox could go "National Review" on Trump and start attacking him...

No matter how loudly GOP candidates complained about Fox's loutish politics in private, none risked taking Ailes on in public for fear of losing access to this crucial constituency - until Trump, that is. Even if Trump's boycott backfires, he's already achieved a historic victory: Exploding the myth that a Republican candidate can't openly challenge Fox.

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


TOPICS: Iowa; New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cnn; debate; debates; election2016; fox; foxnetwork; foxnews; gabrielsherman; iowa; megynkelly; megynkellygraphic; megynkellyquote; newyork; newyorkmagazine; rogerailes; rupertmurdoch; trump; trumplessdebate
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To: LowOiL

Yeah, Cruz really hut Trump with the NY values thing in the last debate /s

It backfired and Cruz still hasn’t recovered


161 posted on 01/27/2016 5:32:23 AM PST by CottonBall
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To: Covenantor

That’s the reason why Islamics are becoming such a problem in Europe ... ‘hate speech’ laws ...

‘We told you so’, Eastern Europe tells Germany
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3382644/posts

[Anger directed not at the European people so much as at their Euro-Tyrant Establishment which suppresses free speech.]

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in his weekly radio interview that it was proof of a crisis of liberalism that reporting of the sexual assaults in Cologne had been suppressed in Germany, adding that the press in Hungary is much freer than that in western Europe.

Orban added that Hungary is in the right on the refugee issue and that migration into Europe must be completely stopped.

Hungarian media went even further in its criticism of the German government.

Orban ally Zsolt Bayer described the Cologne attackers as North African and Arabic animals - nothing but hyenas, in an article for Magyap Hirlap newspaper, Spiegel reports.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is letting her family and children get eaten by hyenas, he wrote.

‘There are no bastards on this earth more abominable and more destructive than these liberal pigs who are digging Europe’s grave,’ wrote another paper Magyar ...


162 posted on 01/27/2016 5:33:59 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Cruz and Trump FRiends strongest when we don't insult each other.)
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To: CottonBall

Remember all of those tricks used in ‘The Gladiator’? A pre-inflicted injury. Chained tigers. Scythed chariots. Etc. ...

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Trump’s suspicions were correct —

Google and Fox TV Invite Anti-Trump, Hitler-Citing, Muslim Advocate to Join Next GOP TV-Debate
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3389124/posts

SABOTAGE by FoxNews!

APPROVED by the RNC?

And Cruz was supposed to look like the sweet saint who didn’t agree with Trump about banning muslims.

Like Will Robertson and Jerry Falwell Jr. said, we need real-world experience right now.

Also note that Sheriff Joe Arpio also endorses Trump.


163 posted on 01/27/2016 5:39:01 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Cruz and Trump FRiends strongest when we don't insult each other.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Exactly.

A++


164 posted on 01/27/2016 5:44:23 AM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled..e.by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern - Chesterton)
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To: TexasCajun
With her love-in with Moore, Kelly added a new twist on "jumping the shark" called "jumping the whale."
165 posted on 01/27/2016 5:44:50 AM PST by drpix
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To: LowOiL
The real reason is Cruz chews him up one side and spits him out the other. This is just the only excuse he can come up with to hide from the big boys.

And the gloves are off now. Cruz will point out EVERY liberal aspect of Donald Duck, current and past.

166 posted on 01/27/2016 5:47:34 AM PST by kjam22 (America needs forgiveness from God..... even if Donald Trump doesn't)
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To: Helicondelta

According to the article, Ailes is going through health issues and Murdoch is attending meetings at Fox.
This explains a lot.


Inmates are running the asylum at Fox. Michael Moore? GMAFB.


167 posted on 01/27/2016 5:49:20 AM PST by lodi90 (TRUMP Force 1 lifting off)
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To: philman_36

“If that were the case then he just announced to the whole world that he isn’t qualified for the office and it didn’t even register to him that he did it.”

Almost, but not quite. His claim is that any child born abroad with a U.S. citizen parent is a natural born citizen of the U.S. That is a false claim, because he is a child born abroad with a U.S. citizen parent, his U.S. citizen mother (allegedly), which makes him a U.S. citizen naturalized at birth by the authority of the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952. Cruz supporters and Cruz are trying to claim that Ted Cruz was not naturalized at birth, instead claiming he was natural born because he acquired citizenship at birth. What they fail and often refuse to understand is such legal terminology is utilized to distinguish between usages that indicate naturalized citizens acquire citizenship at birth, whereas natural born citizens acquire citizenship by birth. This distinction appears in a variety of current and historical authorities ranging from the current U.S. Department of State Foreign Affairs Manual and backwards in history to Sir Edward Coke in Calvin’s Case 1608 talking about the distinction between a subject-made (datus), naturalization, versus a subject-born, natural born (natus). The distinctions can be carried further back into time to the multiple layers of citizenship in the Roman Empire and the Roman Republic.


168 posted on 01/27/2016 5:50:04 AM PST by WhiskeyX
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To: CottonBall
Yeah, Cruz really hut Trump with the NY values thing in the last debate

It was one of Trump's few shining points in that debate. Using 9/11 to his advantage. Too bad it was shown just to be another act, with his comments previously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WELYs3ns3Fs

169 posted on 01/27/2016 5:54:22 AM PST by LowOiL ("Let us do evil that good may come"? ....condemnation is just - Romans 3:8)
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To: Jim Robinson

Exactly


170 posted on 01/27/2016 5:55:11 AM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: onona

Good eye you have there.


171 posted on 01/27/2016 5:56:37 AM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: LowOiL

Hahaha. Trump bitch-slapped Teddy at the last debate. I was looking forward to more of the same but all for Trump dumping dopey Fox.


172 posted on 01/27/2016 6:06:43 AM PST by hey Bean
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To: LowOiL

You bleeding missed the entire point. How did you manage it? Not enough caffeine?

Take two:

‘Cruz said that some of the more extreme birthers think that, not that he does.’

The point is that what Cruz said is false. No birther, no matter how extreme, believes that only NBCs can produce a pNBC. And the simple reason they don’t believe it is that it’s an impossitble condition. The US is not an infinitely old country. Therefore, under Cruz’ strawman argument, there would be NOBODY qualified for the office of president. Nobody.

The point is not a hard one at all. It is that Cruz created a contrived and fictional class of birthers for the sole, boorish reason of dragging Trump’s mother into it. There can be no other explanation for what he did. That is the point.


173 posted on 01/27/2016 6:22:26 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: bigtoona

On this we wholeheartedly agree.


174 posted on 01/27/2016 6:24:16 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: hey Bean
Hahaha. Trump bitch-slapped Teddy at the last debate.

Trump had one and only one highlight. Where he wrapped himself up in 9/11 and said NY values were great (not mentioning the 1000s of dancing Muslims this time).

According to YouTube Views (close to 700k views). This was the highlight of the debate. You decide who got slapped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9L-prXogME

Now here is the NY city value section. (120k views)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u44UqeUBphY

Here is the video that Cruz hints to in the debate with Trump talking about NY values.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WELYs3ns3Fs

175 posted on 01/27/2016 6:27:46 AM PST by LowOiL ("Let us do evil that good may come"? ....condemnation is just - Romans 3:8)
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To: drpix
With her love-in with Moore, Kelly added a new twist on "jumping the shark" called "jumping the whale."

What is it with this year's bizarre primary race?

5 planets to make rare alignment in early morning sky

176 posted on 01/27/2016 6:30:14 AM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: Fantasywriter
You bleeding missed the entire point.

I don't know about you, but your point was to call me a liar. I proved I didn't lie.

Your side point may have value. But you don't start off calling someone a liar when they were not.

Second. when you say "The US is not an infinitely old country. Therefore, under Cruz’ strawman argument, there would be NOBODY qualified for the office of president. Nobody."

Actually when a country starts off and the starting citizens are considered citizens that are already there. It is not impossible.

177 posted on 01/27/2016 6:45:44 AM PST by LowOiL ("Let us do evil that good may come"? ....condemnation is just - Romans 3:8)
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To: LowOiL

Hmmmm....meanwhile the majority of the viewers witnessed CRuz’s painful self-neutering, live, on nat’l tee vee.

As another poster mentioned, maybe you saw what YOU wanted to see.


178 posted on 01/27/2016 6:45:48 AM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: Jane Long
Hmmmm....meanwhile the majority of the viewers witnessed CRuz’s painful self-neutering, live, on nat’l tee vee. As another poster mentioned, maybe you saw what YOU wanted to see.

Well perhaps you can help me, post more of those great Trump highlights you want me to watch. For some reason Trump supporters have been shy to post them. So enlighten me.

179 posted on 01/27/2016 7:03:22 AM PST by LowOiL ("Let us do evil that good may come"? ....condemnation is just - Romans 3:8)
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To: wardaddy

Yeah, I think Cruz is afraid of Rubio now.


180 posted on 01/27/2016 7:04:30 AM PST by Kenny (RED)
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