Posted on 07/25/2015 11:06:02 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
It's time for someone on TV to step up and take Donald Trump down — or, at least, put him in his place.
The situation has not risen to the level of Edward R. Murrow and Sen. Joseph McCarthy. But it's definitely in a league with Katie Couric and Sarah Palin.
And every day that Trump gets away with driving the vast majority of political coverage on network and cable TV with his reckless, tabloid-style attacks and unsubstantiated claims is another day that the nation loses having an informed discussion about where it wants to go in terms of leadership after Barack Obama.
Coarsening the conversation of democracy hardly starts to describe a candidate for president collectively characterizing Mexican immigrants as rapists and drug dealers, or questioning the war record of Sen. John McCain, who spent five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Compared to those ignorant and ugly acts, Trump calling South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham a "stiff" while giving out his cellphone number seems like mere high school bully-boy stuff. But is this really the tabloid, reality-TV level at which we want our most important civic pageant to play?
Trump drags almost every part of the presidential selection process down to his level. Graham, one of the most thoughtful and civil national leaders I have ever encountered, responded to Trump by calling him a "jackass" and appearing in a video that featured him destroying his cellphone with everything from a meat cleaver to a golf club.
It was kind of pathetic, but what else could Graham do? Trump laughs in the face of civility. He's like McCarthy in that respect.
Two big-name, prime-time TV interviewers had a shot at Trump last week: Bill O'Reilly of Fox News and Anderson Cooper of CNN.
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LMAO
They are joking, right? After the way MSM kisses Obama’s butt. The way MSM allows Hillary to actually coral them and when they do get to ask a question they ask, "What's your favorite color? Please, STFU MSM.
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