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TRUMP: I'm Boycotting Fox News
BI ^ | 9-23-2015 | Colin Campbell

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: Marcella

You didn’t allude to the primary field. You said you couldn’t imagine a person with Trump’s behavioral impediments being POTUS. You said that despite the fact that Obama is the current POTUS. There is no other way to read your comment than that Trump has worse behavioral impediments than Obama.

Which is false.


441 posted on 09/23/2015 4:57:51 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter

They both show signs of narcissism. To be honest, if you strive for power like they both have, most will have those tendencies. They both have a “Burn it down!” attitude if they don’t get what they want, and both will use half truths to further their agenda if needed. Both give a lot of time to their narrative, and not as much to their actions.

The biggest difference is that Trump is/was a business man. That means you have to face the fact that you can’t get what you want all the time, and you MUST find a way to deal with that.

So in the end, Trump is much more of a functional narcissist that Obama will ever be. Trump has had many times in his life that he had to admit “I can’t win”, and dealt with that. Obama has had very few, and has never dealt with it constructively.


442 posted on 09/23/2015 4:58:13 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: bigtoona

Pretty much what I want to do here. The problem is, here is too far back in the boonies. Well, too far back in the mountains exactly. Add to that the closest over-the-air stations are in Atlanta is approx. 80 miles away. Is there anything new out there that will help people who live in places like I do without using a 100 ft. mast?


443 posted on 09/23/2015 4:58:22 PM PDT by snuffy smiff (Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.)
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To: RKBA Democrat

OMG ,I was channel surfing and O’Reilly has that pope stuff going AND HE COULD HAVE HAD TRUMP!! All he had to do was to show the other polls.!! Madness!!


444 posted on 09/23/2015 5:00:32 PM PDT by WENDLE (FOX LIED!! Trump increased to 33% in two polls after the second debate!!!!)
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To: theoilpainter
Fox won’t join the Trump adoration movement. Trump cannot handle anything with a hint of critical analysis of his positions or hard questions about the merits of his candidacy, which is something all candidates get. Every hard question is considered a hit piece, to be “countered” by some belittling tweet. His attitude will not play well in the election coverage should he get the nomination.
I am stunned how much he is like BHO in this regard.

Sadly.........very sadly..... I have to agree!

445 posted on 09/23/2015 5:01:23 PM PDT by pollywog ( " O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: redgolum

Good points. A book—a very big book—could be written about the differences psychologically between Obama and Trump. Not having time to write a book, I’ll just note that Obama is a Malignant Narcissist. That is one of the worst and most destructive Personality Disorders known to man. If you’ve never read about it, you might want to take a look sometime. It is scary stuff.


446 posted on 09/23/2015 5:04:03 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: onyx

Watching (the replay?) on CSpan, now. Very good format. Yuge crowd, lots of (loud) support.


447 posted on 09/23/2015 5:13:11 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: blam
Fox certainly has a RINO problem. That said CNN and MSNBC are worse. Seems strange that Trump and CNN/MSNBC are getting along with each other.

Or maybe it isn't.

448 posted on 09/23/2015 5:15:10 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Will88

“The data is output via an audio cable, video cable or both signals over an HDMI cable. The device can be connected to any television set.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roku


449 posted on 09/23/2015 5:25:32 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: blam

You know, I was wondering why so many of the Trump bashers picked this thread. Then it occurred to me: they understand the import of this. If Trump is able to pull off an effective boycott, or better, convince folks to cut the cable, he will have helped deliver a very grave wound to the enemedia.

The enemedia lives and dies by number of eyeballs and the cable subsidies they get. Enough people cut the cable and go to live streaming, and you can whistle Taps for the enemedia.


450 posted on 09/23/2015 5:25:35 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Voting is like choosing whether you'd prefer the crips or MS-13 to take over your neighborhood.)
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To: Will88

An internet connection, wired or Wi-Fi, is it. You don’t even need a computer for a Roku, because it is its own computer


451 posted on 09/23/2015 5:27:31 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: ru4liberty
If he doesn't have the gonads to stand up to the American media

WTF do you think he just did? Trump just detonated their ratings. ☺

Wasn't the Fox/Kelly gotcha game show not enough for you? You must be be suffering from "Battered MSM syndrome". You just can't get enough of their lies and malicious slander.

452 posted on 09/23/2015 5:32:01 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: blam

Trump’s petulance reminds me of Obama...it’s getting old.


453 posted on 09/23/2015 5:34:10 PM PDT by Dawn53Fl
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To: ilgipper

If you recall, they did this (not quite as bad) in ‘12 with Gingrich, due to Brit Hume’s longstanding animosity towards Gingrich and his Fox News friends’ loyalty to Hume.


454 posted on 09/23/2015 5:48:13 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: weston
Fox News does that well enough on its own:

[Bong] “FOX News Alert! 0bama bends over to pick up piece of paper!”
[Bong] “FOX News Alert! Hillary Clinton arrives in the US!”
[Bong] “FOX News Alert! Global warming study says global warming is real!”

You get something like that, every 15 minutes of every hour, and you can't bear watching one more minute. I dropped our cable package because of that.

455 posted on 09/23/2015 5:49:57 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: blam

Trump is no different than Obama, ‘you do not want to play with me fairly I will pull my toys out of your sandbox and go elsewhere. Yes Trump is a big baby, get him a pacifier!


456 posted on 09/23/2015 6:02:00 PM PDT by hondact200 (politicians and diapers are similiar. They both have to be changed often for the very same reason)
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To: onyx

Actually, I though Greta, Hannity, and O’Reilly were fair to Trump. But overall there’s a definite dumpTrump mentality on all stations.


457 posted on 09/23/2015 6:10:19 PM PDT by Kenny
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To: envisio
I wish people would quit ‘announcing’ things on idiotic social websites. I’ve never even seen a twitter. Some people don’t have a little screen attached to their face all day long.

AMEN. I still have a flip phone and it is seldom turned on.
458 posted on 09/23/2015 6:10:36 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Company Man; blam; COUNTrecount; RKBA Democrat; ConservativeMind

Thanks for the replies. I’ll be investigating Roku further. I downloaded Sling TV and it looks good for football season, but one big drawback is that it can only be played on one device at a time. Not good when viewers are interested in more than one game at the same time.


459 posted on 09/23/2015 6:10:54 PM PDT by Will88
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To: blam

Good grief, Charlie Brown!


460 posted on 09/23/2015 6:11:28 PM PDT by luvie (Cruz or Lose!)
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