Posted on 09/22/2015 9:44:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
He was grumpy last night.
.@oreillyfactor was very negative to me in refusing to to post the great polls that came out today including NBC. @FoxNews not good for me!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2015
.@oreillyfactor, why don't you have some knowledgeable talking heads on your show for a change instead of the same old Trump haters. Boring!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2015
I am having a really hard time watching @FoxNews.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2015
"@seleti00: @realDonaldTrump @FoxNews They attack you more then CNN or MSNBC combined. Just a bunch of old Bush appointee Rhinos."
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2015
"@diannrr: @megynkelly Do you dream about @realDonaldTrump? He's in your head. Let it go." She is the worst – all anti-Trump! Terrible show.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2015
"@madscape: @realDonaldTrump @FoxNews and millions will agree with you! Most of us on twitter now view OAN network"
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2015
"@JodiL792: @FoxNews I have been since you started running & I noticed Meghan Kelly's attacks. Stopped watching. Only Hannity 4 sure." Yes!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2015
"@VickyBrush: Do what most of us are doing! Turn off @FoxNews! There is a major boycott going on with them, anyway. Problem solved!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2015
"@EdwardChelednik: @realDonaldTrump @FoxNews Hey Donald your not alone. I can't watch it at all. Used to be all i watched.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2015
"@glendabelle_11: @FoxNews Fox has become a supporter of Liberals!They are Not supporting the GOP candidates-especially Trump! Quit watching
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2015
"@IgnatiusGReilly: @charlescwcooke @realDonaldTrump @FoxNews will you cry when Marco Amnesty loses nomination?"
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2015
What set him off? Mostly it was NRO editor Rich Lowry ripping on him on Kelly’s show for matters various and sundry, but in particular for running a substance-less campaign on everything except immigration and, more recently, gun rights. “@RichLowry is truly one of the dumbest of the talking heads – he doesn’t have a clue!” tweeted Trump during the segment. To which Lowry replied:
.@realDonaldTrump I had a feeling the talking like an eighth-grader line would get to you
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) September 22, 2015
Watch the clip below from the, er, Birther Report to see which line he means. The eternal question with Trump recurs here: Is he calling Fox out as part of a deliberate strategy or is he calling them out because brawling with people is just sort of what he does? Gabe Malor thinks it’s the former. Trump lost the debate to Fiorina, then he bailed on the Heritage Forum, and he’s been stuck talking about Muslims in his interviews ever since. The past week is the first time he’s showed any vulnerability in the race. So he’s reverting to what worked for him last month, attacking Fox as a mouthpiece for the RINO powers-that-be to goose Trump fans a bit. The conventional wisdom among Trump critics is that his shtick will wear thin as Republican voters digest more of it, week after relentless week. Here’s a fine test of that theory. Nominate Trump and this sort of thing is what you’re signing up for, over and over, potentially until 2020. My own theory is that he’s not doing this as a matter of strategy, to re-create his August heyday, but out of sheer instinct to hit back whenever you’re hit and trust that doing so will always redound to your benefit. It’s worked out pretty well for him so far, no? America hasn’t gotten tired of Trump’s shtick after 35 years in the public limelight. Why would Republican voters get tired of him now?
Two other points worth noting. One: Despite Jindal taking hard shots at him repeatedly for the past 10 days or so, Trump hasn’t hit back hard at him once as far as I know. That suggests Gabe is right and I’m wrong about whether Trump is attacking strategically or instinctively. He knows that squabbling with Jindal will only raise Jindal’s profile; as much as he may want to hit back, he has enough self-discipline to refrain when doing so would actually empower his enemy. Two: The retweeted shot at “Marco Amnesty” from one of his fans maybe presages the next stage in the campaign now that Walker’s gone, namely, the emergence of Rubio as the great establishment hope. If Rubio passes Jeb, Trump will probably turn the rhetorical guns on him full force as the GOP’s ultimate sellout on amnesty. Which might not be so bad for Rubio, actually: The contrast between the young, sunny, pro-immigration Latino and the older, angry, anti-immigration white populist is exactly the sort of dynamic Rubio needs to elbow aside Jeb and frame the primaries for the donor class and the wider GOP electorate as a choice between “the party’s future and the party’s past” or whatever. I’m not the candidate of amnesty, Rubio will say, I’m the candidate of inclusiveness, and he embodies it in a way that Jeb simply doesn’t. Trump’s better off ignoring Rubio for as long as he can and staying focused on Bush, the charmisa-less dynast, as the true face of the establishment.
krauthammer is horrible I can’t watch that guy anymore”
“I seldom watch Fox News anymore. Strike one was when it became clear that they were not even mention Ted Cruz’s name. Strike two was when they hired Meghan McCain. Strike three was when they made the corporate decision to trash Trump.”
Murdoch has apparently ordered all Fox News people not to say “CRUZ” on the air. As for the rest of your post, you get an A.
Fox News is part of The Ministry Of Propaganda
Their job is to bamboozle us into voting for one of The Cheap Labor Express candidates
A condescending attitude trumps eye candy for me.
As her ratings go down, and they will go down, advertisers will either drop her show or pay much lower rates.
The only two shows worth watching on Fox right now are (1) Lou Dobbs, and (2) Hannity.
It truly is anti-Trump territory on every other show. O’Reilly was spinning like a top last night.
Although the most fun story I read was about Trump being interviewed by some NBC anchor-babe who kept citing the CNN poll, when NBC had just had the OWN poll come out that showed Trump far ahead.
Trump kept asking her why she didn’t use NBC’s own poll. It was funny. It sounds like she was going to ‘consider’ that.
These political parties and the media are such a joke. We’d have to have surgeon Ben Carson separate them at the brain. He’s a pretty good doctor, and I hear he’s excellent at separating conjoined twins.
Quick! Someone order a large shipment of Depends for Donny. He’s not going to outgrow this tendency to wet his britches.
You are so shallow. There are ladies on Fox who are much prettier and sexier than Megyn. Her hatred toward Trump is ruining her looks - she looks shrill and hard. Well - the last time I watched anyway which was well over a month ago after the first debate.
Proves Fox is not a news channel when they don’t give air time to a brilliant man like Cruz although if they did it would be to thrash him. I refuse to watch Fox so I don’t add to their viewership numbers I get real news on OAN.
LoL, sure, because Greta and Hannity are the two that slobber over Trump the most. He basically gets 2 hours of gushing, free prime time coverage every night from those two hosts.
Good on ya!
Megyn Kelly had been ripping Trump for not taking the bait on Muslims at the rally. Now that Breitbart has found that it was a plant and likely a Hillary plant, will Megyn Kelly apologize? Megyn Kelly needs to apologize to Trump, again.
It was the Saudis who bought some of Fox News and controls content, and forced O’R to use the Word “French” youths, instead of “Muslim” 10 years or more ago. I quit watching right then. Obscuring Truth is ejecting Truth.
Fox News was also using the sodomites’ terminology which allowed “homosexual” “marriage” (oxymoron) to be normalized and forced into a Vice System enshrined in our so-called “Justice” System.
Their irrationality on sodomy (and rejection of Biology and God’s Laws (Rule of Law))-—to actually promote the evil vile muslim, satanic ethics and Rule of Oligarchy is insanity-—as they cover up all the Man/Boy “Love” which is part of the homosexual culture always and our soldiers are FORCED to ignore as they are forced to take Pride in sodomy. It is pure Evil.
Control of Words, create the proper “perceptions” of the ignorant masses. They continue to use irrational Language, which obscures and warps the Truth. so Evil can flourish.
Truth will set us Free-—but Fox News is just a “dog and pony” show for distraction and addiction-—so we are kept from Truth. I quit TV 10 years ago because it was just a complete WASTE of precious time which artificially controlled emotions.
I control what goes into my head-—and all my emotions. I don’t let the perverted satanists control any of my “thinking”.
“I find reading a page full of Twitter posts extremely annoying.”
Just looking at that post makes my hair hurt. And I hate when I’m reading an article seeing the ever-lasting, god-forsaken # sign in front of half the words.
Same here. Haven’t watched any of FOX since the “debate”
I haven’t watched the Kelly file since the first debate and I haven’t listened to Erick Erickson (WSB radio is my local station) since the Red State Gathering.
“the ever-lasting, god-forsaken # sign “
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They are even using the #sign in ads-—I saw it in front of the name of new TV show that was being advertised.
Looked ridiculous.
I’m aging myself,I guess.
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Here is the problem with that bit of nonsense. Her ratings are NOT going down, they are going up and she is now beating O'Reilly fairly regularly (he had been the previous cable news ratings king).
Here is an article from only yesterday:
Friday Cable Ratings: Megyn Kelly #1 in Demo and Total for All Cable News
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/friday-cable-ratings-megyn-kelly-1-in-demo-and-total-for-all-cable-news/
The idea that Trumpster boycotts are hurting her ratings are laughable.
From September the 18th:
Thursday Cable Ratings: Megyn Kelly #1 in Demo for All Cable News
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/thursday-cable-ratings-megyn-kelly-1-in-demo-for-all-cable-news/
Here is another article from a couple weeks ago noting her trend upwards in the ratings:
Megyn Kelly's ratings soar despite Donald Trump's tweets
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-kelly-ratings-trump-20150825-story.html
Trump's rage tweeting and his followers whining and crying are having exactly no negative effect on Megyn's ratings. It only shows that "the Donald" and many of his fans are a bunch of crybabies. And Trump's flailing and blathering about O'Reilly won't have the slightest effect either.
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