Posted on 09/22/2015 10:39:11 AM PDT by upchuck
... moment in the political life of every big-personality, more-sizzle-than-steak candidate when they step across the line of legitimacy, or illegitimacy (depending on your perspective), even for media addicted to the high ratings these candidate-entertainers provide. That moment for Sarah Palin was her Katie Couric interview in 2008 -- the hockey-mom-has-no-clothes revealing from which she, and the McCain campaign, never recovered. In Donald Trump's candidacy -- which The Huffington Post is appropriately covering in our Entertainment section -- the equivalent moment might have just happened.
It was not the moment in the second Republican debate when Carly Fiorina carved him up like an Easter ham with her withering "I think women all over this country heard very clearly what Mr. Trump said" zinger. That drew blood (as did the dramatic 12 seconds she remained silent after her response), but it wasn't fatal. No, historians looking back will peg the beginning of the end of the Trump show to his New Hampshire moment last week. Taking questions at a town hall event in Rochester, Trump listened as an audience member asserted that President Obama is a Muslim, "not even an American." Trump looked the man square in the eye, and declared: "No ... He's a decent family man [and] a citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that's what this campaign's all about. He's not [an Arab]."
Just kidding. That was actually what John McCain -- the one Trump said is "not a war hero" -- said to a woman at a campaign rally in 2008 who claimed that President Obama was an Arab. What Trump really said was, well, pretty much nothing: "We are going to be looking at a lot of different things and, you know, a lot of people are saying that."
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
It’s all over Trump , you’ve crossed the line.
No,now it’s all over Trump , you’ve crossed the line.
No,no NOW it’s all over Trump , you’ve crossed the line.
You have definitely alienated the voters it’s all over Trump , you’ve crossed the line.
I am positive that this time it’s all over Trump , you’ve crossed the line.
And then she chooses a horse as her code name. Opened up all sorts of horse face type jokes. Out to pasture soon. Enough time at the trough. ......
If it was not for Palin, McCain would have had the most embarrassing defeat ever.
He really owes her, it is not the other way around!
Arianna Huffington....is she the millionairess who refused to pay the people who wrote for her web site?
Like the old Robin Williams routine about Kadaffy.
“This is the ‘Line of Death’....you cross it, you die!”
“Okay, you cross this line, you die.”
“This line, you die.”
“Okay, you’re knocking on my door, I’m not coming out. Naaaaah”
McLame endorsing Obama for President in October of 2008 was perhaps the most embarrassing political moment ever...
Did you know that Trump has reinstated his “Feud” with FOX because FOX keeps saying that Trumps numbers are falling.
IT’S A LIE, LIE, LIE.
It’s the same thing the media did to Sarah Palin. They made her out to be the evil of the world; because she simply believed in the truth.
If he was a plant (and it’s very possible) I still agree with him!!!
I don’t even like Trump as a candidate (I enjoy him as a curmudgeon television character), but anybody who thinks Arianna Huffington knows anything about anything is a dimb bulb.
I gave up the perky one so long ago that I didn’t see it. what did Sarah say that sunk her? Refresh my memory.
I agree. No, you are not a moron;)
LOL thanks. It’s all in fun. I don’t take FR nearly as seriously as a lot of folks.
I found it on a link from google news.
Thought y’all would enjoy it.
So in the eyes of this establishment shill, Trump is disqualified because a liberal plant asked a nonsense question? Okay. I’ll move on to real news. Trump is not my top choice, but with Walker out of the race he’s a close second place. This silly non-issue does not change anything.
I don’t know. I followed a link from Google to get there.
No, actually I didn’t.
I never considered it over. LOL (not giving you a hard time)
FoxNews can’t help itself. It’s done.
Interesting, everyone I know is very suspicious of Trump. They are waiting and watching before they support him.
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