Posted on 01/26/2016 8:29:01 PM PST by springwater13
In a rapidly intensifying back-and-forth between Fox News Channel and the campaign of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, the network Tuesday night accused Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski of threatening FNC host and debate moderator Megyn Kelly.
In a statement, a Fox News spokesperson said "in a call on Saturday with a Fox News executive, Lewandowski stated that Megyn had a 'rough couple of days after that last debate' and he 'would hate to have her go through that again.' Lewandowski was warned not to level any more threats, but he continued to do so. We can't give in to terrorizations toward any of our employees."
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Trump’s poll numbers will go up again.
Fox childish? Isn’t that a “pot and kettle” moment?
I just hope Trump doesn’t over play his hand. We need someone who can stand up to a bullying media and run the USA in our nation’s interest and not for the anti-sovereignty globalist corporations.
The politicians don’ t like him, the elite don’t like him, the democrats don’t like him, the establishment republicans don’t like him, liberals don’t like him, illegals don’t like him, news media don’t like him. He literally has no support from anyone. EXCEPT THE PEOPLE who happen to agree with him and rejoice in the fact that none of the regular players can play him or buy him off. He’s pissing the right people off, and every time one of these establishment drones or ‘elites’ pop off about it his support grows. He is absolutely the right man for the job. I’ve found my candidate.
“She had an interview with Brit Hume where he commiserated with her. It was awkward watching since I’ve learned of their rumored affair. “
Perhaps she has used her feminine charms and embedded herself with other powerful figures at the network as well. Now they would not be able to cut her loose, for fear of her talking.
There is a syndrome where girls who were involved in incestuous relationships when young, seek to seduce future power figures in their, because they want the power of having them wrapped around their finger. The power of the secret holder.
Yes, I did and later apologized.
I'll ping you to it, when I see it again.
In the immortal word of Jed Clampett, “ Pitiful”.
Cruzboys defending the channel of Cheap Labor Whores, why am I not surprised?
“Fox has jumped two sharks”
They suck. Fox always has sucked. Trump is just demonstrating that for the latecomers.
Trump and FOX News are in Cahoots? Really?
How does that work?
Let’s see ... Donald Trump ditches the FOX News Debate; and as, a result, Fox News takes a massive loss in advertising dollars ... While their ratings go in the toilet ... Yup, that sure sounds like Trump and Murdoch cooked up a winning plan! Got any more bright ideas? Or was that your shining moment of “brilliance?”
Thanks for the details on how the “on your knees” lore got started. Sickening things going on at Fox News with their news honcho, Bill Sammon, leaking details of private conversations with the Trump campaign, when his daughter is Rubio’s press secretary! Time to blow it up and start over.
1. The remark is inoffensive because Trump was merely seeking humor out of an incongruous situation in which someone is on his/her knees.
2. The remark is offensive because Trump was seeking humor at the expense of another person placed in the humiliating position in order to keep her job. In this context the references not offensive because it is sexual, it is offensive because it is insensitive and cruel.
3. The remark is offensive because it has a sexual connotation of a woman committing fellatio and it is all the more offensive because it is made in front of millions of people.
The question becomes whether it is appropriate for Megan Kelly to ask the question in the way she did. First, Kelly did not accuse Trump in her question of committing an inappropriate remark because it was sexual in nature. However, given that Trump has a history of such remarks it would not have been inappropriate had she done so. Here is one such remark:
"You know, it doesn't really matter what [the media] write as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass." from an interview with Esquire, 1991
But Kelly introduced this remark not in a sexual context but in a context in which women had been described as ugly etc. The fact that many people took this to be a sexual remark indicates that options 3 above is perhaps a perfectly logical conclusion.
In any event, Trump was given the opportunity to deny the remark or to explain the context and he simply failed to do so. Kelly would certainly have been at fault had she not granted Trump this opportunity, but she gave him every opportunity which he neglected.
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