Fox News Blinks – Roger Ailes declares defeat in his battle to oust Trump
Roger Ailes has called it quits, thereby clearing Trump’s path to the nomination. I have to say, I’m shocked. I guess I’m one of those old timers who continues to expect common sense and rationality to eventually prevail. When it comes to the GOP nomination this year, that type of thinking is clearly useless.
After he spent the weekend attacking Fox News host Megyn Kelly for the questions she posed at the Republican presidential debate, Donald Trump on Monday said that he has since spoken to Fox News president Roger Ailes.
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@realDonaldTrumpRoger Ailes just called. He is a great guy & assures me that “Trump” will be treated fairly on @FoxNews. His word is always good!
In related news, the insane people who would have supported Santorum are sticking with Trump.
“An NBC/Survey Monkey poll shows that extreme social conservative Rick Santorum’s support among Republicans declined from a solid 1% to a less-enthusiastic 0% after his performance in last Thursday’s presidential candidate debate on Fox News.”
Interesting, but I still expect a Trump crash and burn at any moment. Rabid and foaming with hatred Republican base or not the billionaires will not back Trump. Expect a coup of sorts in coming days, perhaps manufactured and perhaps not it will come.
Trump has the GOP by the balls. He’s basically holding it hostage.
If he goes third party it’s pretty much a guaranteed Hillary win.
I’m worried that he may be one of the few candidates that Hillary can actually beat.
I mean ,who do you vote for ? The sketchy, lying, possibly criminal, Hillary, who some people trust for some reason ,or Donald Trump? Ehh…it’s not definitive.
I mean ,who do you vote for ? The sketchy, lying, possibly criminal, Hillary, who some people trust for some reason…
Well you have to admit she is an improvement over the Kenyan Muslim socialist and his death panels and gun-grabbing programs. Hell, he would have taken over Texas and implemented sharia law, if not for some alert patriots.
Frankly, I suspect there is a great deal of theater here. Fox spent stupid amounts of time promoting the short-fingered vulgarian (h/t Spy Magazine), and now there is a highly publicized dust-up. So very Pro Wrestling of them.
The only thing holding the GOP hostage is the fact that Trump is the embodiment of everything they’ve catered to in order to support their agendas. They needed and need the lowest of the low. The people that buy into building more walls. Thinking the “others” are the problem and that cow tow to the industrialists that create jobs and we all should bow to their massive collaberative brain power.
The fact a multi billionaire TV personality is leading and continues to pull away shouldn’t be a shock to these people. They constantly attempt to prop up anti feminist, cavalier cowboy, TV stars, Actors. And when that guy doesn’t work, they prop up the CEO’s. Herman Cain, Carli Fiorina…the list goes on.
Trump is all the above. And now…now they don’t like the guy and he has them hostage? Give me a fucking break. He is the party, loud and proud. He’s everything they’ve been trying to prop up as their party and get elected.
When the GOP throws money at Tommy Thompson and the guy leads in the polls and the same happens to Herman Cain….none of this can be a surprise…if you have a fucking brain
“He is the party, loud and proud. He’s everything they’ve been trying to prop up as their party and get elected.”
Good point. Trump is hardly a fluke, or crazy lab experiment gone awry.
Donviti’s got it… The crashing and burning is a feature not a defect. As they’d say in the software testing world, it’s performing as designed. It was in the business requirements.
What Trump is actually doing is pretty clearly just taking this thing to its logically conclusion. If you make these people reality TV characters, with all the vile duplicity that demands, this is what you get. We watch Kitchen Nightmares to see Gordon Ramsay’s scream. We watch The Bachelor to see grown people have depressive breaks. No other democratic nation runs political campaigns this way. We’re exceptional! We want this so bad.
Trump is exposing 24-hour cable “news” and presidential campaigning in the United States for exactly what it is. We asked for it. We got it. Let’s not pretend we don’t understand it.
Who do you think is more likely to protect social security and medicare and have empathy for average people? Hillary or Donald?
^none of the above
@mediawatch The question wasn’t for whom would you vote. I take your point. I very likely won’t vote for HRC (although I may change my mind). I understand she is stained by the political dirt of the last 30 years. She’s in the game as well. Shady dealings. Corporate and foreign money, &c., &c…
But the question was who would be more likely to protect/support social programs. We don’t ourselves any favors by not facing the simple fact.
It’s like all the issues I have with Obama. I’m very disappointed, but let’s not pretend there isn’t a lesser of two evils. I’m not saying you should personally vote for the lesser of two. This doesn’t appeal to me either. I just accept the premise that there is a “better” choice if you care about social issues, women’s issues and so on.
who would you rather have picking Scalia and RBG’s replacements?
Again… I understand. Facts are facts. One quasi organized-crime syndicate does things I tend to agree with more than that other one. I comprehend the reality of the options.
sorry, DG i was trying to back up your argument. Our choices will be between Hillary and Bush (or Kasich). All my qualms with Hillary aside, she will not nominate conservatives to the SCOTUS. The congress wont flip in this election. Gerrymandering has seen to that. The best we can hope for, from whoever wins in 2016, is legislative gridlock and liberal supreme court appointments. HAPPY DAY
I’m not fond of Hillary’s personality or sincerity but she is clearly a better more competant candidate for average people in every measurable parameter.
I’m not fond of Hillary’s personality or sincerity but she is clearly a better more competant candidate for average people in every measurable parameter.
She’s a corporatist just like her husband and our current President. She’ll be the first female president to suck the corporate d. You know, the same d that MALE presidents have been sucking for decades. It used to be “what’s good for GM is good for America!” Now it’s “What’s good for the big banks and Wall St. is good for America”.
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
And I’d still vote for her over any Republican.
The least bad option is better than every other option.
I dislike the title. Would suggest “Trump declares victory.” With someone as flexible with the truth as Trump that is an important distinction.
I remember a moment in my life, driving home in a moving van from Manhattan on the LIE, 18 or 19, listening to Howard Stern. He was doing Amputee Dial A Date with a woman who had lost an eye. I won’t go into the details of the discourse, but I remember thinking “What the hell am I doing, I’m better than this.” and changing the station. I think that same moment happens individually with people currently propping Trump up in the polls. When the time comes to pull the lever, I don’t think he’ll get more than 4 or 5 %.
The thing is, none of the other GOP candidates is any better than Trump.
I heard Trump at a news conference last night. He sounded very appealing. If he can get past macho slogans about how great, tough and smart he is and and articulate a policy vision besides build a wall, I may look at him. I may need debugging
He’s better than any of them. The other’s you know what they are going to say before they answer