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.
You know what? Everyone is out of step except the Donald.
FOX is open war on Trump
Whatever the substance of the media complaints Trump is keeping his name on the Marque Lights, he is taking them for all their worth, he turned their own tables on them, they are trapped in their own murky mire.
Maris- I saw that show also and removed him from my record list that night. Hannity and Greta have Cruz on and at times Cavuto.Guess they didn’t get the Ailes memo.
Okay so what is Roku? :^)
I LOVE the way he turns the tables on the media. The media are the gate keepers of our politics and culture.
So happy to learn that you saw that too.
I thought I was going batty. At the time, my jaw dropped open and I was startled.
I think he believes Cruz did damage to the party by his filibuster, but in reality, the following election said something else.
If he did think that, I figured, he was too dumb to watch!
Thanks, nurse-rn.
Like Apple TV or FireTV keeps me from being tied to cable..
Kelly has plans:
Kelly has begun moving into other areas of media, Deadline reports, including a producing partnership with actor Kevin Spacey on a scripted series about the White House called “The Residence.” It is based on a book by Kate Andersen Brower.
Well, well, well...thanks for the link, donna.
So, Ms Meh-Gyn has a new gig...
Sounds about right. She could be a technical advisor, on the set...no doubt. She’s got all the right “credentials”.
Bad press gets overridden eventually by good press, and bad press slips down the memory hole.
That's why Trump will win the Primary and the General elections. He will dominate the news cycle until then...and then forever after.;-)
On elections days, voters will ask "Is there anyone but Trump running?"
As a follow-on point, I saw a poll the other day which asked potential voters "Do you know this candidate?"
Only 1% of respondents did not know Trump. Snarly was in the 30% range IIRC.
Dobbs is very positive toward Trump
So do I. They are hard to follow and make little sense.
Megyn Kelly had been ripping Trump for not taking the bait on Muslims at the rally.
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Why should Trump have to defend Obama’s “honor” when the latter never had anything good to say about the U.S?
Trump could have simply stated
"I do not know any of the President's past affiliations as he has spent millions having his transcripts/medical/passport/personal records sealed in 2007/2008".
Wait a few minutes and he’ll change his mind.
When I watched him regularly, I found him to run both hot and cold for a person or a cause. I thought he might be in the early stages of.....I don’t know what. It was hard for me to figure what he consistently felt.
Maybe he has decided to be loyal to Trump. Just can’t predict.
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