Donald Trump is boycotting Fox News

[cigaretteman]

Donald Trump. (Charlie Neibergall/Associated Press)

In what can only be a calamity for the folks at “Fox & Friends,” Donald Trump today signaled via Twitter that he’s not going on the network:

It’s unclear to what Trump is referring when he mentions the unfair treatment of the leading cable news network. What is clear is that the candidate on Monday night zipped off some absurd complaints about coverage of his candidacy on “The O’Reilly Factor.” Have a look:
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump


.@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.

11:02 AM - 23 Sep 2015

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Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump


.@oreillyfactor was very negative to me in refusing to to post the great polls that came out today including NBC. @FoxNews not good for me!

7:49 PM - 21 Sep 2015 · Manhattan, NY, United States

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Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump


.@oreillyfactor, why don't you have some knowledgeable talking heads on your show for a change instead of the same old Trump haters. Boring!

7:55 PM - 21 Sep 2015

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As we’ve noted, those complaints carried the usual Trump trifecta of baselessness, thin-skinnedness and narcissism. This back-and-forth between Trump and Fox News is entering another round — perhaps its third or fourth. It all started after Fox News host Megyn Kelly on Aug. 6 asked Trump an excellent question about his history of misogyny at the network’s touted Republican presidential debate. Trump went on the offensive, going so far as to suggest the following in a CNN interview: “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever.”

A truce was struck. Then it was broken later in August, when Trump couldn’t stop himself from attacking Kelly after she’d returned from a vacation. This, from the guy who boasts of his refined temperament. In any case, Fox News chief issued a statement blasting Trump for the social-media outburst.

Since then, the two sides appeared to settle back into a groove. Just moments before he slammed the “The O’Reilly Factor” the other night on Twitter, for example, Trump was being interviewed by Fox News host Greta Van Susteren on her show “On the Record.”

Now we’re back to the nonsense.

For a change, the Erik Wemple Blog feels bad for the folks on cable news’ very worst program, “Fox & Friends.” Every Monday morning for several years before Trump announced his candidacy, the show’s co-hosts — the latest team is Steve Doocy, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Brian Kilmeade — would caress the mogul with nice questions and a great deal of precious PR. Though the regular gig went away once Trump became a presidential candidate, “Fox & Friends” has still managed to secure occasional chats with the Republican front-runner. Just this past Monday, for example, “Fox & Friends” did a phoner with Trump that allowed him to mount an unchallenged defense over his failure last week to fact-check a man at a rally who’d alleged that President Obama was a Muslim.

Questions:

• “There’s a bit of good news for you today, a couple of polls out . . . the headline here is that [Ben] Carson has faded a bit since the debate on Thursday and [Carly] Fiorina is going up. Why do you think that is?” asked Doocy, neglecting to mention that Trump had faded in Monday’s CNN poll.
• Could you “emotionally” handle a drop in the polls? asked Kilmeade.
• “Can Dr. Ben Carson recover from [his] statement” about Muslims and the White House? asked Hasselbeck.
• “Regarding that [Muslim] question, shortly after Joe the Plumber asked that question of Barack Obama, everyone in the world knew who Joe the Plumber was, and they went completely through his background. Some people, I’m reading online, think that that guy may have been a plant to ask that question because then he just got the heck out of there. Do you know anything about that guy?”
• “It was 100 degrees out at the Emmys — 106 under some of the interview tenting. . . . The only thing hotter than that at the Emmys was you. Watch this montage of the celebrities just having a Donald Trump-fest,” said Hasselbeck before showing the clips.
• “Okay, so Donald Trump, do you think the president of the United States is going to stand and defend your character after Hollywood let you have it last night?” asked Doocy, apparently drawing some equivalence between some Emmys jokes and the guy who alleged the president was a Muslim.

Now, that’s unfair coverage of Donald Trump. Unfair, that is, to the public.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...23/big-news-donald-trump-boycotting-fox-news/

 

[Slenderson]

Its like in the movies when a scientist creates an evil robot and cannot find the off button on the robot. The evil robot tries to kill the scientist before it tries to kill the rest of the world.

 

[jscott78]

Its like in the movies when a scientist creates an evil robot and cannot find the off button on the robot. The evil robot tries to kill the scientist before it tries to kill the rest of the world.

He is simply playing to the Palin, Birther, the media is unfair to me crowd. Lot of conservatives will stick with him if he keeps it up.

 

[MitchL]

He is simply playing to the Palin, Birther, the media is unfair to me crowd. Lot of conservatives will stick with him if he keeps it up.

Only if they view him as the alternative to eight more years of the Dems.

 

[naturalmwa]

Only if they view him as the alternative to eight more years of the Dems.

Why would cons view him that way? His trade, labor and tax policy is all more liberal than Hillary, some even more liberal than Sanders. Those issues may be much bigger deals than how he feels about Mexican female Muslims without a visa.

 

[MitchL]

Why would cons view him that way? His trade, labor and tax policy is all more liberal than Hillary, some even more liberal than Sanders. Those issues may be much bigger deals than how he feels about Mexican female Muslims without a visa.

What I did a poor job of meaning was that the radicals will vote for whomever has an "R" behind their name on the election ballot.

 

[aflachawk]

As a watcher of FNC, I cannot tell you how happy this makes me. I cannot stand the man

 

[IMCC965]

I'm ok with this.

 

[ottumwan in tx]

Wait a minute. You liberals said fox news mattered not. Now they are absolutely needed for a political career?

 

[TexMichFan]

If he keeps his campaign going long enough he may run out of networks - not such a bad thing.

 

[hawkeye54545]

What I did a poor job of meaning was that the radicals will vote for whomever has an "R" behind their name on the election ballot.

Oh come on, like the whackos won't also vote for whoever has a "D" behind their name.

 

[MitchL]

Oh come on, like the whackos won't also vote for whoever has a "D" behind their name.

If you asked nearly anyone, if you had to pick the Party with the most extremists, more than 50% would say the GOP has more radicals, imo. The level of partisan politics increased quite considerably after the emergence of the Tea Party back a few years and has shown how a minority can influence policy stances from some. Would you not agree?

 

[Chewback]

Fox and Trump absolutely deserve each other.

 

[hawkland14]

If you asked nearly anyone, if you had to pick the Party with the most extremists, more than 50% would say the GOP has more radicals, imo. The level of partisan politics increased quite considerably after the emergence of the Tea Party back a few years and has shown how a minority can influence policy stances from some. Would you not agree?

Typical Mitch just making a ridiculous comment with absolutely no merit whatsoever

 

[hawkland14]

If you want to talk extremists look no further than the liberal darling Bernie Sanders. Stop with claiming cons are the only one who favor extremists.

 

[MitchL]

Typical Mitch just making a ridiculous comment with absolutely no merit whatsoever

Guess you didn't read the "imo"in that post.

 

[HawktimusPrime]

If you asked nearly anyone, if you had to pick the Party with the most extremists, more than 50% would say the GOP has more radicals, imo. The level of partisan politics increased quite considerably after the emergence of the Tea Party back a few years and has shown how a minority can influence policy stances from some. Would you not agree?

I seriously doubt that the GOP has anymore than the Liberals. Both sides of the coin are completely unrealistic about just how ridiculous you both are.

 

[MitchL]

I seriously doubt that the GOP has anymore than the Liberals. Both sides of the coin are completely unrealistic about just how ridiculous you both are.

So who, or what, would be the Dems equivalent to the Tea Party?

 

[Rifler]

Trump is getting so much air play in the liberal media that he doesn't need Fox. If you want to see the Donald just turn on MSNBC any time of day.....

 

[MitchL]

They certainly need the ratings. That's why I think FNC will figure out some sort of compromise to get him back on air. This political season is becoming even more "entertainment driven" than others in recent memory. The large field helped, but Trump is an absolute marketing genius.

 

[HawktimusPrime]

So who, or what, would be the Dems equivalent to the Tea Party?

Occupy Wall Street, the Feminist movement, the climate brigade, etc.

 

[MitchL]

Occupy Wall Street, the Feminist movement, the climate brigade, etc.

None of those mentioned have ever dictated to a political candidate a stance for an entire campaign.

Try again.

 

[ottumwan in tx]

So who, or what, would be the Dems equivalent to the Tea Party?

barak insane Obama, he's extremist and communist, and he has minions

 

[HawktimusPrime]

None of those mentioned have ever dictated to a political candidate a stance for an entire campaign.

Try again.

Ask a feminist whom she supports, and she's going to say Democrat. Ask occupy wall street whom they stood behind the most and they will say Democrat, ask the climate brigade whom they support and they will say DNC.

If you're going to play on one side and think that you're going to get ANYWHERE with me, you are sorely mistaken. Let's get real here, the Democrats have failed to prevent wars(voting for them doesn't help), this climate change you are all so afraid of isn't being handled, the world economy is literally falling apart at the moment, there is more racial disparity in this country, then what there has been in years. We still ridiculous amounts of turmoil in the Middle East, brought on by Obamas drone bombing, and Iran deal(which is meant to be the reason we go to war someday), NDAA, TPP, Freedom Act, etc.

I'm sorry, but your side is not more the answer, then what the GOP is. You're a sheep with blue hair dye, nothing more.