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Donald Trump is devouring Fox News
The Washington Post ^ | 10/6/2016 | Erik Wemple

Posted on 10/06/2016 2:33:35 PM PDT by tekrat

Any news outlet wishing to provide solid and comprehensive coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign cannot avoid mentioning Sean Hannity's promotion of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. "Hannity," which airs in the prime-time lineup of Fox News, is influential among conservatives and enjoys a substantial cable news audience, and its more interesting moments have a long tail on the Internet. In violation of any journalistic principle, Hannity has done a video promotion for Trump, hosted him for softball interviews too numerous to recount and even provided advice to the campaign.

BuzzFeed, the New York Times, The Washington Post and the rest of the field have reported extensively on this dynamic.

And last night, another important source of campaign news — Megyn Kelly’s own prime-time show on Fox News — covered it as well. “Donald Trump, with all due respect to my friend at 10:00, will go on ‘Hannity’ and pretty much only ‘Hannity’ and will not venture out to the unsafe spaces these days,” said the host in a segment with Stuart Stevens, a strategist who worked on the Mitt Romney campaign. Nor were those remarks an out-of-the-blue, impolitic slam on a colleague. Just before uttering that point, Kelly ripped into Hillary Clinton for pursuing a similar self-sheltering policy: “Now they’re both in their own version of a presidential protection program … They’ve designed her situation so she’s not in a place where she’s feels uncomfortable … which is why she sat for a half an hour with Mary J. Blige the singer, which is why she did Entertainment Tonight this evening, which is why we just found out that when she went on the ‘Steve Harvey’ show, she had every single question given to her in writing in advance and then she feigned surprise as the questions were asked.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bezosblog; clinton; foxnews; hannity; journoblogger; media; megyn; megynkelly; notajournalist; trump
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To: tekrat

The first five minutes of see BS is Clinton campaign central. You have to see it to believe how bad it is.


81 posted on 10/06/2016 5:09:33 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: Death, destruction, terrorism and weakness.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL!


82 posted on 10/06/2016 5:11:09 PM PDT by rb22982
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To: Parley Baer

“Megyn Kelly is irate that Trump will only go on the Hannity show and O’Reilly. “

Trump doesn’t need to do combative events any more with the media. He’s on a glide path to victory.


83 posted on 10/06/2016 5:22:40 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Jim Robinson
like they had any or even know what they are, feh...
84 posted on 10/06/2016 5:29:19 PM PDT by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING! ich bin ein Deplorable...)
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To: tekrat

Well you bad mouth and lie about a ratings king (trump) and someone probably more than half the country likes and well, he won’t come on your show or interview with your reporters. What’s so hard to figure out wapo?


85 posted on 10/06/2016 5:31:33 PM PDT by pangaea6
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To: Robert DeLong

Megyn is just worried she won’t be able to twirl across the stage and show some thigh like she did when Obama was announced the winner.


86 posted on 10/06/2016 5:57:32 PM PDT by Terry Mross (This country will fail to exist in my lifetime. And I'm gettin' up there in age.)
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To: tekrat
Erik "Wimpy" Wemple, journoblogger for Bezos' Blog, weighs in with his gnat-like whine.

If you'd like to trash Erik to his face, here's his Twitter feed:

https://twitter.com/ErikWemple

87 posted on 10/06/2016 6:09:18 PM PDT by kiryandil (George H. W. Bush: "Read my lips. I'm a Republican.")
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To: tekrat

That’s what happens when you treat a man like you did Donald Trump.. he isn’t easy prey for you like the rest.. he’s not going to take your crap!


88 posted on 10/06/2016 6:34:29 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: tekrat

Hannity isn’t a journalist. He’s paid to give his opinion. I know this is a difficult distinction for the Left to make but it should be made nonetheless.


89 posted on 10/06/2016 6:44:27 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state!)
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To: tekrat
“Donald Trump, with all due respect to my friend at 10:00, will go on ‘Hannity’ and pretty much only ‘Hannity’ and will not venture out to the unsafe spaces these days,”

That's rich.

Does anyone remember Megyn's much hyped primetime special a few months ago? Trump was under no obligation to participate, but he did. He summoned her to Trump Tower (oh I bet that stuck in her craw) where she could ask him anything she wanted. And after all the build-up, she asked him the same boring picked-over questions he'd been answering for a year. Her primetime special bombed.

Megyn had her chance and blew it.

Trump owes her nothing.

90 posted on 10/06/2016 7:06:41 PM PDT by silent_jonny ("When you get to the top of the hill, gonna be there yes I will")
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To: tekrat

We were warned early on the Wemple was going to be the Washington Post’s pitbull attack and smear artist re the Republicans/conservatives in this election.

The boy has not disappeared his leftist masters at the WaPo.

I guess he and Dana Milbank went to the same school of smears, and graduated with honors.


91 posted on 10/06/2016 7:10:35 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: tekrat

er, is this article sarcasm? or just OFF THE CHARTS ironic.


92 posted on 10/06/2016 7:13:01 PM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: tekrat
Erik Wemple

"...On August 8, 2000, Wemple, while a columnist for the Washington City Paper, wrote a column criticizing Peggy Cooper Cafritz, then a candidate for president of the District of Columbia Public Schools, opining that a white woman should not run for such a position in a city that was predominantly African-American. Cafritz is African-American...."

Wemple's opinions are suitable for the Washington Post. They like to hire imbeciles.

93 posted on 10/06/2016 7:15:53 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: DoughtyOne

Megyn “It’s amazing to think that by tomorrow night one of these candidates may be out of the race.”


94 posted on 10/06/2016 7:22:20 PM PDT by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is..." - Milton)
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To: teletech
Kelly has her panties in a wad because Trump won’t do her show.

Kelly doesn't wear panties - they get in the way of her being able to receive her "professional" instructions.

95 posted on 10/06/2016 7:34:02 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: tekrat

Megyn Kelly is a Clintonista who uses concern/negative reporting to attempt to cloak her attack program


96 posted on 10/06/2016 7:44:06 PM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: miss marmelstein
SO AGREE WITH YOU ON THE SIX P.M. ‘SPECIAL REPORT’

Use to never miss it...now I watch FOX BUSINESS NETWORK and wait faithfully for LOU DOBBS at 7pm.

Bret Baier has turned into a real pussy (can I say that? ) He has become so ‘controlled’ he is unwatchable.

Megyn is History on my TV. She is such a show off drama queen..can her dresses get any ‘snugger’? and her twins looks like fried eggs with broken yokes.

97 posted on 10/06/2016 7:50:00 PM PDT by haircutter
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To: moovova

98 posted on 10/06/2016 7:51:34 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Talisker
Kelly doesn't wear panties - they get in the way of her being able to receive her "professional" instructions.

Remember, she's a trained JOURNALIST.

99 posted on 10/06/2016 7:56:14 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: tekrat
Wemple is so idiotic. Whereas CNN & PMSNBC try to hide their liberal bias, Hannity proudly states where he stands.
100 posted on 10/06/2016 8:08:12 PM PDT by stratboy
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