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Jimmy Fallon lost all credibility with Donald Trump interview (spittle alert)
Philly.com ^ | 9/17/2016 | Sonia Saraiya, Variety TV Critic

Posted on 09/17/2016 6:39:04 AM PDT by dirtboy

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - If Jimmy Fallon had any credibility left as a thinking comedian with a point-of-view, he lost the last shred of it Thursday night. Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump appeared on "The Tonight Show" for a few minutes to talk up his campaign, in the midst of one of the mendacious and evasive 24-hour periods of his political career to date.

Yesterday, Trump ended a slimy two-day news cycle by finally admitting that President Barack Obama was born in the United States -- but in the process, re-stoked the controversy, waffled on the topic, and manipulated media coverage to focus on the opening of his new hotel (just hours after he gloated that that same press pool was stranded on the tarmac and therefore couldn't come to his rally).

During this particularly maddening news cycle, Trump stopped by "The Tonight Show" to tape last night's episode. And Fallon -- either unaware or indifferent to the racist overtones of Trump's birtherism or the "reveal" of his medical records on "Dr. Oz" -- chose to fawn all over the candidate. In the episode's metaphorical money shot, Fallon asked Trump if he could muss his orange coiffure. In an acquiescence that felt rehearsed, Trump let him have at it. Trump's combover deflated in long, cotton-candy-like wisps. As Fallon stood to bid him farewell, the candidate nervously patted it back into place.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fallon; rabid; spittle; tds; trump
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To: Donglalinger

Guilty!


41 posted on 09/17/2016 7:18:44 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: dirtboy
People on the left think comedians need "credibility?"

How laughable!

42 posted on 09/17/2016 7:19:26 AM PDT by lonestar (Texan for Trump)
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To: dirtboy

Comedians prefer President Trump because they can joke about him and Trump doesn’t mind at all. They can’t joke about a pathetic, gasping old woman who is having seizures.


43 posted on 09/17/2016 7:19:42 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: dirtboy
They're going to have to start freebasing their blood pressure meds at this rate.

LMAO!

44 posted on 09/17/2016 7:22:04 AM PDT by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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To: Sacajaweau

And it is sooooo entertaining to watch!!!
As many a FReeper has noted:
Best. Election. Ever.


45 posted on 09/17/2016 7:23:42 AM PDT by karatemom
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To: Kirkwood
They can’t joke about a pathetic, gasping old woman who is having seizures.

No, but we can.

46 posted on 09/17/2016 7:24:08 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs......same thing.)
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To: dirtboy

“.....Fallon could have, as it is his job, made fun of his easily mockable guest.....”

My favorite part of the article.

Tousling Trumps hair is a perfect way to make fun of him. But not vicious enough for the left, apparently.

Remember the petition that was circulating a few months ago to demand that NBC not let Trump host SNL? Are these people really that cut off from reality? Who do they think they are? It’s the very definition of group-think.


47 posted on 09/17/2016 7:24:56 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Kirkwood; dirtboy
I guess you all missed it, but the REASON they are attacking FALLON is not because of what he did to Trump, but what he did to HILLARY.

When HILLARY appeared on his show he was wearing a medical mask.


48 posted on 09/17/2016 7:26:05 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: dirtboy
The media is going scorched earth against it's own. With the abandonment of all pretenses of objectivity and lawful behavior, we're either going to get Trump and the destruction of the progressive deep state or a full on communist dictatorship under Hillary and Tim Kane.

This is not an election to sit out.

49 posted on 09/17/2016 7:30:06 AM PDT by RedWulf (Trump:Front Lines. Obama: Back Nine. Hillary:Nap Time.)
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To: Drew68

It’s surprising how many of my friends love Fallon for his whimsical approach. I would classify us as the “over 40 but still amazingly bodacious” demographic.


50 posted on 09/17/2016 7:30:30 AM PDT by karatemom
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To: karatemom

Fallon laughing all the way to the bank....his ratings probably shot up for just the Trump night. Whose gonna take the time to watch scripted unfunny what’s her name.


51 posted on 09/17/2016 7:32:24 AM PDT by fingers_crossed
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To: dirtboy

Trump should of brought a pickle jar and opened it with a loud pop.


52 posted on 09/17/2016 7:35:39 AM PDT by dancusa (Media is so far up hillary butt, they can taste her hair spray.)
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To: fingers_crossed

And I’m sure the sponsors and The networks are paying attention too


53 posted on 09/17/2016 7:36:01 AM PDT by karatemom
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To: Bubba_Leroy
This is why most media websites are eliminating their comments section. Deplorable[s] keep leaving comments.

Our comments outnumber, outclass, are more articulate, and make more sense than those of Leftists.

In short, we beat them on their own turf.

Perhaps if Liberals could intelligently discuss the issues and prevail with their arguments, which they can't, the comment sections would remain.

54 posted on 09/17/2016 7:36:24 AM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: dancusa

That would have been masterful!! Maybe the vast deplorables can bring them to his rallies!!!


55 posted on 09/17/2016 7:37:20 AM PDT by karatemom
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To: Liz

She going to have spend millions on busing people to the polls you know how the democrats like to vote OFTEN.


56 posted on 09/17/2016 7:38:36 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Yes, but wasn’t she the one who brought and handed it to him?


57 posted on 09/17/2016 7:39:56 AM PDT by nfldgirl
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To: Donglalinger

Remember the true purpose of Feminism is to get jobs for all those ugly (physically and spiritually) women who can’t get husbands!


58 posted on 09/17/2016 7:46:17 AM PDT by EarlT357
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To: dirtboy

Liberals are unable to lighten up. They have no sense of humor unless they are insulting conservatives.


59 posted on 09/17/2016 7:48:19 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Guess she hasn’t figured that out.....yet (smirk).


60 posted on 09/17/2016 7:51:27 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
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