Cry me a river, Donnie. You jump into the race, lie your ass off, attack everybody else in the coarsest ways imaginable, yet somehow zoom to the top of the meaningless national GOP primary polls, with your personal and ideological and business background - aka more baggage than a Samsonite warehouse - and have the temerity to whine about being challenged on all of it, as any front-runner can expect?
C'mon, folks, were you expecting any other reaction?:
Donald Trump on Friday slammed Fox News for his treatment during the Republican presidential debate on Thursday, accusing moderators Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace of "having an agenda" and even attacking the pollster who oversaw a focus group of Americans watching the debate on the cable network.
"I am very disappointed in Fox News," the candidate told Don Lemon on CNN. "I think they had an agenda.
Even though none of them did anything unusual or out of bounds for a primary debate. Because whining and "slamming" is just what Donald Trump does.
"I don't have a lot of respect for Megyn Kelly, she came out, reading her script, trying to be tough and sharp," Trump added.
And succeeding, Donnie.
"When you meet her you realize she is not very tough or very sharp. She is zippo."
Not a very common opinion of those who have met her. On what do you base your contrarian opinion, Donnie? Oh, I'm sorry, am I being unfair to you? Reasonable questions that you walk into like an endless series of rakes seem to fit your definition of that term, for some baffling reason.
At least he didn't call her a "bowlegged bottle blonde".
When asked further about Kelly, who asked the billionaire developer about his previously disparaging comments about women, Trump said: "I just don't respect her as a journalist. I don't think she is very good. I think she is highly overrated.
But she did nail your ass, Donnie.
"She gets out," he continued. "Starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions.
How are they ridiculous? I will grant you that that sort of question isn't typically asked at a GOP debate, but then the Republican field doesn't typically include bellicose, Clintonesque scoundrels either. Surely you can't claim to have been surprised by Mrs. Kelly's line of inquiry.
And then there was this:
You can see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever — but in my opinion, she was off base."... [emphasis added]
Come on, Donnie, you can say "twat" on CNN. It's not like anybody was watching. Just like you can say that you'd nail Megyn Kelly in a New York minute, but her gully isn't worthy of "Trump Tower". Or are you possibly saving those lines for MSNBC?
"She has been very badly criticized," Trump said of Kelly. "She is a lightweight. I couldn't care less about her."
Sure. That's why you spent ten minutes "slamming" her in precisely the fashion that prompted her to ask that question in the first place.
Acknowledging, however, that "she is somebody who's pretty tough," Trump added that Kelly "is just somebody I didn't have a lot of respect for. I don't think she has major talent. I don't think she has much talent at all."
And you know how Megyn can expand her reservoir of talent overnight? By asking Trump in the next debate how it feels to be a bigger genetic jackhammer than Vince McMahon. Or what would qualify as a "fair question" in Trump World.
After comparing Chris Wallace unfavorably to his father and indulging in his blood fixation again, Trump turned to Bret Baier:
Trump then turned his attention to Baier, who led the debate by asking the candidates to pledge — via a show of hands — whether they would not back the ultimate Republican nominee or mount an independent challenge.
The businessman was the only debater to raise his hand.
"I lost all respect for Bret Baier," Trump said. "I didn't have any respect for him anymore, the way he handled the situation.
Because he nailed your ass even worse than Megyn Kelly did. Trump is the one who keeps bringing up how "so many people on the campaign trail" want him to be the Ross Perot of 2016 (Somebody at the next debate should ask him how many of those people are Democrats). Trump is the one who refuses to commit to endorsing the eventual GOP nominee when it isn't him. No journalist worthy of the name could possibly NOT ask Baier's question, just as Trump can't possibly have been blindsided by it.
And, of course, he wasn't. Donald Trump is the real-life Al Czervik, but he's no fool. He knew that he'd be asked all of these things, and he used them to keep right on doing what he's been doing for a month and a half: effortlessly manipulate and bamboozle the idiot Tea Partiers who persist in worshiping him.
Hey, peeps, I've gotta call it as I see it. Besides, they wasted no time in proudly, loudly, and preemptively corroborating my assessment:
Fox News is facing a backlash from conservatives after critics felt the network was biased and unfair in the manner it approached the forum for the Republican presidential candidates' debate Thursday, and namely, Donald Trump.
"This was shameful. You and Fox News did not treat the candidates fairly. You tried to make Donald J. Trump look foolish. All you did was make Fox News look foolish."
Trump has been making himself look foolish for thirty years. He main-evented Wrestlemania XXIII, for heaven's sake.
Fox News can hardly take credit for any of it. Otherwise, that tweet looks like it was clipboarded from Trump's Twitter account. Which is funny, because there is this thing called "re-Tweeting".
"Donald J. Trump still has my vote," said one post which appeared on the network's Facebook page and received over 2,200 "likes" just two hours after it was posted.
Why? Why does he have it in the first place? Something tells me if he drops F-bombs at the next debate, this chowderhead will volunteer to have Trump's baby, no doubt thinking that Megyn Kelly would be SOOOOOO jealous.
Another post representative of the sentiment was addressed to Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly and Fox News. It said the two "should be ashamed of themselves for their unfair demeanor towards Donald Trump. They apparently had their own agenda. Trump still did his thing though! #Trump2016"
And you're the reason why, fool.
"Megyn, you're an embarrassment to journalism. I wanted to watch a presidential debate, not a hit job by you and Fox," another observer wrote.
Is THAT what this was supposed to be? A presidential debate? I thought it was supposed to be ten hours of Donald Trump insults.
Admit it, TPTsters, this is the only format that you would have considered "fair" to your "Don't sweat the details,Who needs substance or a platform?" hero. How that would have remotely resembled a "presidential debate" is anybody's guess.
Twitter was also flooded with criticism of Kelly and Fox.
"Tonight's debate loser: Fox News," said one post.
Au contraire, mon crétin, twenty-four million viewers - the biggest non-sports audience in cable television history - says otherwise. Was that because of Trump? Mostly. But don't you have to think that it was also because Fox News didn't kowtow to Trump and treated him like any other candidate? When the Democrat debates start, all of you are going to be "slamming" the non-Fox network moderators for not asking Hillary about Benghazi, her greed and corruption, her crappy treatment of the press, her email scandal, etc., etc., etc. Your guy has as much baggage in his own way as the Clintons do - why should he be treated with such kid gloves? Why aren't his background and vapidity and highly questionable loyalties fair game?
"#GOPDebate NOT A DEBATE! It's @FoxNews vs @realDonaldTrump! What a disgrace! @magynkelly & @BretBaier shameful! #tcot," said another.
"WTF @FoxNews ???????? THIS DEBATE IS A SETUP TO SLAM EVERYBODY EXCEPT JEB BUSH. YOU SHOULD ALL BE ASHAMED AT THIS JOURNALISTIC DISHONESTY," yet another poster commented.
You know, I have a Twitter account. Had it for years. But I've never used it much, other than to promote my podcasts and blog posts. That last Tweet ought to help explain why, and why I prefer blogging to Tweeting: It is impossible for anybody to sound intelligent in 140-or-fewer-character bursts, but it is almost obligatory that the IQ of porridge EXPRESS ITSELF IN THAT FORMAT!!!!!!!! Social media shitstorms like this make it feel like Trump is less running for president than promoting the main event of Wrestlemania XXXIII: Trump vs Kelly, Wallace, and Baier in a handicap "blood coming out of her whatever on a pole" match. To be held at Trump Plaza, of course.
I know there's no point in posing this exit question, but I'm going to do it anyway: All you Tea Party Trump lovers think that your guy is going to make an AWESOME!!!!!!!! president because he's going to spend four years "kicking asses and taking names," right? But in politics, in foreign policy, the other side gets to kick back. And when you're the president of the United States, you can't make fun of, say, Angela Merkel's menstrual flow, or challenge Vladimir Putin to a penis-measuring contest, or blow off Xi Jinping as a "slant-eyed gook" when they refuse to be impressed or cowed by Trump's Trumpiness because boorish bluster can have consequences. Not least of which is making Barack Obama look like the epitome of seriousness and statesmanship by comparison.
Put another way, if Donald Trump can't even hang with Megyn Kelly in a serious conversation without throwing a temper tantrum, how's he going to clean up the godawful mess Barack Obama leaves behind (assuming that he ever leaves)?
UPDATE: Trump has been disinvited....from Red State Gathering '15:
I have rescinded my invitation to Mr.Trump. While I have tried to give him great latitude, his remark about Megyn Kelly was a bridge too far
There is no more fratricidal anti-"establishment" Tea Partier than Erick Erickson, TPTers. Are you seriously now going to start bashing him as a "sellout," or are you finally going to admit that you made a big mistake by impulsively jumping on the Trump bandwagon? At what point does this endless, wearisome, juvenile "combativeness" start wearing thin?
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