Posted on 09/23/2015 9:59:14 AM PDT by blam
Colin Campbell
September 23, 2015
Real-estate tycoon Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he will no longer do interviews on Fox News shows because the network has been treating him "unfairly."
".@FoxNews has been treating me very unfairly & I have therefore decided that I won't be doing any more Fox shows for the foreseeable future," the Republican presidential front-runner wrote on Twitter.
It wasn't immediately clear what caused Trump to announce the boycott, but he has repeatedly feuded with the network in recent days and weeks.
On Monday night and Tuesday morning, Trump released a lengthy tweetstorm attacking hosts Bill O'Reilly and Megyn Kelly, as well as the "Trump haters" they have on their shows.
He called Kelly "the worst" and labeled her show "terrible." He said O'Reilly "was very negative to me in refusing to post the great polls that came out today including NBC."
He also said he had a hard time watching Fox News, while retweeting multiple supporters trashing Fox and calling for a boycott of the network because of its supposed bias against him.
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Good to know.
Now I know how to rate your opinion.
I always suspected you're a big MSM supporter. They're very popular with the blue haired coffee clatch crowd. ☺
From reading other people’s posts, it appears they haven’t been as negative for him. Why not go there?
If he’s hawking good policy, he should get it out on any network that will have him, providing they don’t spend all the rest of the time trashing him, like FoxNews has of late.
He sure doesn’t.
There goes their ratings, and they haven’t been doing so well of late anyway.
I love that gif.
Shows that Trump is “one of us”....BOR....meh.
Fox News seeks to undermine Trump = Falling ratings for Fox News.
Does he think the other networks love him?
“The problem is that the others are even worse. FOX at least has Jeanine Pirro and several others have been reasonably fair as far as I can tell.”
Not any more. Lou Dobbs who was always good to Trump and gave him a fair shake, turned on him last night, out of nowhere. BOR just turned on Trump big time this week also. And Trump thought BOR was his friend. A most fair weather friend indeed. Hannity pretty much just avoids talking about Trump much at all anymore. Poor Hannity, he doesn’t want to say anything bad because he likes Trump, so he has just stopped talking about The Donald.
Of course, Megyn Kelly has been overtly snide and subtly vicious. She is now on my permanent sh*tlist. The Five are all hostile to Trump with the exception of Eric Bolling who just says mostly nothing. Gutfeld is a little slimeball, constantly mouthing off against Trump. Juan Williams is always a disgusting propagandist and lies about Trump (and everything else, for that matter) constantly, and Kimberly just sits there. Dane Perino is a Bushbot of longstanding, and trashes Trump every chance she can get away with it and that’s all the time now.
Geraldo Rivera who once was a longstanding friend of Trump and competed on his Apprentice show and even came in 2nd to the winner, has turned on the guy who treated him like gold and put him on The Apprentice. Paid him to boot. Ingrate. The memo went out to them all, and they are all bowing to their Big Kahuna and trashing Trump in unison on every show with regularity.
By the way, guess where Bob Beckel is now. He’s on CNN as a political consultant. He’s on Michael Smerkonish’(sp?) show on the weekends, around 4 or 5 on Saturday afternoons (maybe Sunday too, not sure). After being inflicted with Juan Williams or Geraldo Rivera on The Five now all the time, it was a total relief to find Beckel (never thought I’d say that) on CNN.
I will now watch that show on CNN rather than anything on Fox. At least I know what they really believe and think on the liberal channels and can work around it in my mind as they shoot from the hip and it’s obvious what their bias is. Whereas on Fox, we all had some expectation of them being fair and giving both sides of any equation, but they aren’t anymore.
Fox now lies, obfuscates, commits the sin of omission, and the discordance is just too great between what my expectations of Fox used to be, and what they have become. I will also watch Morning Joe on PMSNBC in the morning rather than Fox & Friends, a program that Trump used to call into every Monday morning until he decided to run for the Presidency. It’s too bad, because Brian Kilmeade and Steve Doocy both like Trump and this must be making the two of them just sick.
I reiterate, I hope Fox sinks like lead to the bottom of the ratings sea.
“It is impossible to think of a man with these behavioral impediments being President of the United States.”
‘That’s the bottom line, isn’t it?’
This is Trump hatred to the point of insanity. Obama is a sociopathic Malignant Narcissist, pathological liar, not to mention a heavy drug user—including cocaine—an alcohol abuser, a raging Addictive Dysfunctional personality who gets his jollies by watching his personal hit list carried out [”I’m very good at killing people”—Obama]...but Trump has worse “behavioral impediments.”
Love how the two of you have made FR a site on which, in an election cycle, Obamas comes off as more qualified for president than the leading GOP candidate. /s
Rate it anyway you want. I couldn’t care less.
Drag, you’re old enough to be my mother.
Maybe grandmother.
Do you like Trumping at the bingo parlor?
I want better than Obama. While Trump’s positions on illegal immigration sound good and his 2nd Amendment stand is good, he sounds like a Democrat when he wants to tax the rich.
You didn’t answer my question.
Why does Obama’s narcissism matter in relation to Trump’s? Obama isn’t running. Trump is.
You can try to muddy the issue with your clumsy straw men all you like, but I think you should probably have higher standards.
It IS, as you said, a conservative site.
You run for the tall grass really fast Cathy. Ya ask all kinds of questions and make ludicrous comments and then flat out refuse to answer any questions? What’s up with that Missy?
LMAO!
I know... such petulance. Why can’t they just treat him for the deity that we all know he is? Genuflecting in his presence would be a good start. More training is obviously needed.
There ya go again Cathy. You have no idea who I am.
LOL!
You just involuntarily burp up comments without thought!
Go away Jackball. Find someone who might buy your groupie clique crap.
I’m simply noting that some claim Trump has more serious ‘behavioral impediments’ than Obama. It’s a bizarre claim, and that’s the absolute nicest thing I can say about it.
Classic Rob Ford, former mayor of Toronto, tactic. All he wants is head lines.
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