He can't do that. Can he?
Posted on 01/27/2016 7:06:34 AM PST by HarleyLady27
Many broadcast hours and column inches are sure to be used today and tomorrow regarding the decision by Donald Trump to skip the Fox News debate in Iowa.
Predicatively 90% of those reports will most likely circle around a Donald Trump -vs- Megyn Kelly narrative. Obviously that aspect will be the preferred hook used by Fox News to avoid sunlight; it is also profoundly wrong.
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
There is only one leader running for President, TRUMP.
Must see video montage of Me-again Kelly on Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmslyK_JDhk&feature=youtu.be
I gotta say—this dust up just cements my admiration of Trump’s skills. I may not like the guy’s personality in terms of what I want for a friend (but maybe not—we never get to see the “real” Trump), but I sure as hell like how he handled those Fox creeps and see it as a forecast of how he will handle the government of the United States of America which is rife with lying, double-crossing, cheating vermin. He see’s right through them all. Then squishes them.
He can't do that. Can he?
So much fun for kids in political science classes today.
Do you know what a “conservative” is????
Doesn’t seem like you do......
That montage was played on competing networks today.
After the RNC looked at their debate schedule they thought they would add more, this is one of the ‘added’ ones....
Rand Paul didn’t go to the last one, and he’s back in this one...
However, it's also more than a little hypocritical for the same republican voices who were shouting at republican nominees in 2011/2012, for walking into traps with CNN's Candy Crowley and ABC's George Stephanopolous, to now be clutching their pearls when 2016 republican frontrunner Donald Trump recognizes the construct in Fox News and avoids it.
Chris Stirewalt is the advance guy, the Fox political debate contractor/producer who is in Iowa setting up the parameters. He's the scout organizing the Muslim activist to confront Donald Trump. He's the guy organizing the Mexican immigrant to question/antagonize the intended target, trump. Stirewalt puts the agenda script together and Ms. Kelly, Mr. Wallace and Mr. Baier execute the production.
The problem is Stirewalt and Kelly are so full of themselves, they've become too transparent. They were also transparent before the August 5th 2015 debate, but there wasn't enough history to provide any context for Trump to avoid it. He just dealt with it.
The "paint-Trump-as sexist" scheme didn't work, it actually backfired, and Fox found themselves facing a hostile reaction from their own viewership.
Unfortunately, when the globalist financial goals of the company owner are driving the decision-making, a strong back lash won't stop the employees from setting up round #2.
Remember too, this Iowa/Fox debate was never on the original list, the damage was to have been done by the previous debates leading up to the Fox Business Network debate in North Charleston; held during national RNC Committee Convention.
There's two story-lines to this overall "Get Trump" narrative. One is a corporate Fox media set-up (so ridiculously obvious the intended target saw it coming a mile away); the other is the reason for the Fox corporate need to get Trump out of the way. The former deals with the petty instructions from Rupert Murdoch and his band of fools; the latter deals with Murdochs own political agendas: Open Borders/Amnesty and Asian Trade-Deals (TPP).
Julia Hahn does a great job outlining the Fox Amnesty Agenda -HERE. We've also previously outlined the specifics of how they were going about it HERE.
To make ideological matters worse, Fox News President Roger Ailes has been very sick, and not at the helm of Fox News for the past several months. Instead, Mr. Wall Street, Rupert Murdoch, has been personally meeting with the program executives and formatting their objectives.
Fox News President Roger Ailes would never allow his team to send out a press release like this:
FOX NEWS: "We learned from a secret back channel that the Ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump unfairly when they meet with him if he becomes president. A nefarious source tells us that Trump has his own secret plan to replace the Cabinet with his Twitter followers to see if he should even go to those meetings."Â
Obviously, such non-professional snark was a gift to Donald Trump providing him just the excuse he needed to avoid the entire second debate set-up. That over-the-top media release actually sounds like it was written by a zealous Murdoch acolyte (executive) vying for the job of Ailes as soon as he resigns his post.
As embarrassing as that release was, the ridiculous reasoning/justification provided by Fox AFTER Donald Trump pulled out is even worse.
Fox News, through this last release, attempt to make themselves the victim; and this media release reeks like the scribble of a college-aged social justice warrior, not a billion dollar network empire:
"As many of our viewers know, FOX News is hosting a sanctioned debate in Des Moines, Iowa on Thursday night, three days before the first votes of the 2016 election are cast in the Iowa Caucus,"Â Fox News said in the statement. "Donald Trump is refusing to debate seven of his fellow presidential candidates on stage that night, which is near unprecedented.
We're not sure how Iowans are going to feel about him walking away from them at the last minute, but it should be clear to the American public by now that this is rooted in one thing Megyn Kelly, whom he has viciously attacked since August and has now spent four days demanding be removed from the debate stage.
Capitulating to politician's ultimatums about a debate moderator violates all journalistic standards, as do threats, including the one leveled by Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski toward Megyn Kelly.
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. Trump is still welcome at Thursday night's debate and will be treated fairly, just as he has been during his 132 appearances on FOX News & FOX Business, but he can't dictate the moderators or the questions."
"Terrorizations" oh my.
However, Donald Trump knows enough about Roger Ailes to know this is not a public release approved by a normally-minded Ailes. No, this has the doofus Murdoch boys, his leftist children who are being groomed to take over, written all over it.
But you can be absolutely guaranteed Rupert Murdoch does not want to be dragged into the sunlight of this battle with Donald Trump.
The Corporate/Wall Street Murdoch has way too much to lose. If millions of viewers begin to see articles about Rupert"s corporate agendas toward amnesty, open borders and Trans-Pacific Trade the Fox ruse would be exposed.
In addition the scars of the UK Daily Mirror scandal are not yet healed.
It will be interesting to see where this goes.
Wow....the hate is strong with that one.
I haven’t watched Me-again (lol...love that) in so long...I didn’t realize she chopped her hair off. Yet another bad move, by Me-again.
I never watch TV during the day but I think I will have to make an exception today :)
From Breitbart last night:
Everybody now knows that the new partner Google had a special surprise for the candidates, aimed particularly at Trump.
Good move Trump and Fox News has a mole, IMHO.
Google had invited three YouTube personalities to ask questions at the Jan. 28 GOP debate - including a Muslim advocate who describes Donald Trump as a bigot and who visually portrayed him as being in agreement with national socialist Adolf Hitler.’
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/01/26/2868743/
WOW. Fox was really going to bring out the long knives by way of youtuber surrogates. Republicans do not want to hear these questions. This is why these debates are a joke and why it is so important that Trump is not doing this debate. The liberal media (including Fox and all of the morning programs, not just the usual suspects like CNN) should not be running the Republican nomination process.
In fact, if/when Trump gets the nomination, the RNC i.e. Trump needs to ensure that no liberal media gets to run the debate. We should have no more acting like the moderators are neutral. When they are not. Instead, they rehearse and share the questions ahead of time with their candidate of choice.
Good for Trump. The charade of these debates finally has had the curtain pulled back. Why should the liberal hacks living in NYC, DC and VA get to manipulate how the candidates are viewed.
So tired of the lies and manipulations of the liberal press against conservatives.
Go Trump Go!
The plant liberal you tubers are probably going to be so upset after having rehearsed their attack lines against Trump, or their pro Rino candidate lines for Bush, et al.
1,104 posted on 1/26/2016, 7:38:50 PM by E20erer
Excellent!
I don't think it's Aile's, who's very sick, it's Rupert Murdoch.
Thank you for ‘cleaning that up’ I ran it thru this program that is suppose to do that, but it didn’t work to well...
Very interesting about Ailes beind sick, and not calling the shots, because I expected better of him. This is the work of someone whose career at FNC is probably numbered in days.
Also very interesting, the Stirewalt connection. and how the more hostile news networks did not take it upon themselves to arrange for such antagonistic elements of the production.
The article also underscores a point that is lost on many who have never been associated with the broadcast medium - at this level there is a distinct line between those who produce the content, and the “talent” that delivers it. Kelly’s style is glib and flippant which is part of the issue with Trump, but there are others behind-the-scenes who set the strategy and do most of the thinking.
I am glad he stood up to them. But I understand what the Republicans hate him. AA Republican with balls cannot be allowed. With the exception of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, Hillary Clinton has more balls than all the other Republican candidates combined.
Been clamoring for that for years, and now?.....depends on which candidate is doing the refusal.
These “debates” are such a joke to begin with. They are not debates at all, just “gotcha” opportunities for these would-be “journalists”. These journalists have interjected themselves into these “debates” and made the debate about them and their agenda, rather than helping the American people know what the ideologies and positions of the candidates are on the important issues of the times.
I haven’t watched a complete debate in over 20 years because you really don’t find out what a candidate believes from a debate. You only find out how they do on TV and how well they can fend off jabs from the “moderators”.
A real debate would present the compelling issues of the time and allow each candidate to speak to how they would deal with that issue. Each candidate could then truly debate the merits of each others position. But, unfortunately, that never happens in these circuses called debates.
Will this hurt Trump? No. It will interesting to see how many people don’t watch the debate because Trump isn’t there.
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