Fox News slams Trump, says he has an ‘extreme, sick obsession’ with Megyn Kelly
Source: Washington Post
"The top-rated cable news channel issued the following statement Friday evening in response to yet another series of nasty and personal remarks by the GOP presidential front-runner:"
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/18/fox-news-slams-donald-trump-over-latest-megyn-kelly-attacks/
They aren't kidding. They include one tweet after another from Trump about Kelly. I can see one or two (I have never watched her myself and have no opinion), but Trump just goes on and on. He really is crazy as a loon.
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)Personally I don't wish them luck but for Megyn I would.
question everything
(47,263 posts)to show his rallies, one after the other, day after day.
I know that Chris Matthews was driving me crazy, and I rediscovered to excellent quiet PBS NewsHour.
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)except the Kochs have their noses in it... is generally accepted as the most trusted news source. Oddly having the Koch's noses in it they don't need to spend alot of $$ to clock Donald because it's already built in.
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)To think that Fox won't back Trump because of Kelly is absurd. To think that Kelly won't back Trump out of principles is absurd too.
Does anyone here think that GOP TV will not back Trump over the Democrat?
I didn't think so.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)Never is, and is always only about power and profit.
Uhmercan Irishman
(16 posts)I don't agree, but Trump's fixation on her is sick.
840high
(17,196 posts)it's a game they both enjoy playing.
TomCADem
(17,378 posts)Also, it is not just Trump. In the debate that he skipped, Fox then proceeded to try to take out Cruz. It was fun to watch, but it also shows that Fox is hardly being objective. It is trying to handpick an establishment choice.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Found this gem in the comments section.
Maynar
(769 posts)AllyCat
(16,031 posts)flamingdem
(39,303 posts)elljay
(1,178 posts)I have been cured of this. Thank you Republican Party.
rockfordfile
(8,682 posts)This is something you would see on Inside Edition.
flamingdem
(39,303 posts)has been erased with Donald Trump.
EileenFB
(360 posts)I'm sure she is overjoyed that Donald is obsessed with another woman.
tanyev
(42,354 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)A year ago they were falling all over themselves praising her and her ratings. Now, there are 100s of comments about how she's sold out, she hates Trump, "I'll never watch again", etc etc
I really dont get these people. Kelly is the EXACT same as she has always been. I've watched her many times. But HE gets a "hard" question and they all go totally apeshit about it. I really think theres some kind of Scientology-type shit going on here
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)They are angry because only Trump was given hard questions. Kelly was doing the dirty work for the republican establishment.
And if you've watched Kelly many times, that says something about you.
7962
(11,841 posts)You obviously didnt watch the debates and see the questions she asked Cruz, Rubio, carson, etc. And if you think asking about statements he actually made is really a "hard" question, it says something about YOU.
She even framed it properly; if you get the nomination, you KNOW Hillary is going to bring up these statements. She's right. HRC & her staff are licking their chops at the ads they can run on this doofus.
What she was doing was her JOB, which most people here never expected. And neither did the GOP "base". They all hate Fox now, since what they thought would be a lovefest debate turned into actual questions with some substance.
ZX86
(1,428 posts)To suggest that anything Fox News does is somehow related to legitimate journalism is insane.
7962
(11,841 posts)I guess he really thought he was going to have it easy because he's such a rich and famous guy. And he also doesnt seem to have many professional campaign workers either, so maybe no one ever warned him about what to expect. And I guess he likely thought Fox would be an easy deal since its Fox. Well, he should have known better. I dont see it as being sandbagged at all.
if this was any other network, everyone would be cheering them on. The fascination with fox has always amazed me. It sounds just like the RWers going on and on about the "liberal media"
To a lot of people, myself included, their debates have been the best ones to watch this election cycle. I would have loved to have seen them have one for the Dems. I know Sanders wouldnt have had any problem with it; he's even done O'Reilly live a couple times.
If kelly hadnt asked him that question in the first debate, do you really think no one else would have asked it during any of the other debates on the other networks?
ZX86
(1,428 posts)It's what they do. It's all they do. They are that way by design. Any and everything excreted from Fox News is beyond suspect. It is propaganda. Full stop. End of story.
BTW does anybody really need Fox News to figure out Trump is an asshole?
snooper2
(30,151 posts)BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)Strange inference there.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)are you really BeelZEBub?
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"that says something about you..."
You should then enlighten us as to specifically what you deduce.
Or simply cower behind implication. Either one is fine...
truthisfreedom
(23,113 posts)All of the repukes deserve each other. They're all so radioactive that their proximity is leading to critical mass... fission of the party.
Nobel_Twaddle_III
(323 posts)Old Vet
(2,001 posts)AxionExcel
(755 posts)Drumph could totally spoil the Republican War on Women by making it's sick, twisted character screamingly BALD.
Gotta laugh at the gross hypocrisy of Fox (R, Inc.)pretending to play the role of Knight in Shining Armor.
AxionExcel
(755 posts)It's a freaking digital wedgie to the primary Repube propaganda spout.
houston16revival
(953 posts)Trump draws in voters and creates political energy, then becomes a monster.
Faux plays good cop.
Dump Trump becomes the party's main obsession.
America breathes a giant sigh of relief when it happens.
The wannabes are worse, so the Establishment, operating in the back
room all along, emerges with a new ticket:
Ryan-Kasich '16
New conservative ideas for America. Romney stumps all over for them.
And lest you think I'm daft, Ryan-Kasich '16 is an electoral NIGHTMARE
for Democrats whether they nominate Clinton, Sanders, Clinton-Sanders, or
Sanders-Clinton because it strikes at their Electoral College strength and hope,
the heartland.
We are being played big time.
7962
(11,841 posts)If trump gets the most delegates and they pull him, millions of his whiny little followers will stay home and pout instead of voting for the party. They'd still lose. Thats the big difference between the Dems & the GOP, most Sanders supporters WILL vote for Hillary if she wins it & vice versa. The GOP is too much like a spoiled child; if they dont get their way a lot of them just stay home. They did it with Romney, because you know he wasnt a "true conservative". Whatever the hell that even means
houston16revival
(953 posts)But some Trump supporters are Dems, and the Fundamentalists &
Evangelicals (are they the same?) will be motivated by the Supreme
Court vacancy and stonewall. I'm sure political operatives have contingency
plans for a lot of things. McConnell sure knew what to do from the get go.
Hate to sound like a birther, truther, conspirator, but Scalia's passing
seems too convenient from that angle of thought.
MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)Depaysement
(1,835 posts)And the rest you can imagine yourself.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,773 posts)When in the first debate in 2015 Kelly dared to ask Trump about his misogynistic remarks against women, Trump made gross sexist remarks about menstrual blood, saying she had "blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her whatever".
Later in the campaign, Trump was insecure enough to try to reassure his supporters about his penis size.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)public admitted to have multiple personalities, and u now think he may be a little sick? geeez
Javaman
(62,435 posts)are you all so gullible to fall for this contrived bullshit?
this has been beautifully orchestrated by fucks news to suck you all in on one of the biggest right wing cons yet.
kelly makes all sorts of proclamations about how she's going to stand up to trump. and trump fires back with his usual insults.
and what happens? the bubbled headed bleach blonde kelly gains "street cred" among the reported "left".
and trump gets all the free air time he could ever want to show off to his right wing moron mouth breathers that "he will stand up to "uppity" women".
you are all being played in via a stupid passion play completely orchestrated by roger ailes, tRump and kelly.
this is the ultimate reality show stupidity, because the morons out there feeding on this shit sandwich believe it.
and here is the very best part, kelly proclaims that "I don't need to interview trump for the sake of ratings", which means, she will interview trump for...wait for it...the sake of ratings.
never once did she say that she WASN'T going to interview trump.
because she will and it will be probably one of the highest rated moments on fucks news because americans are that stupid and gullible.
please don't fall for this modern snake oil passion play.
but alas, we as americans love ourselves to car wreck to drive slowly past to hope to see some gore or bodies.
we are a nation of played fools.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)If Trump is the nominee, fake news and "Everyone knows Santa Claus is white" Kelly will kiss and make up. It will be ratings gold!
People on the left defending Kelly make me sick.
senseandsensibility
(16,712 posts)is all I have to say!
highoverheadspace
(307 posts)On both sides. The powers that be have the American people propagandized and manipulated. No one knows what is real anymore. We are all being played.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)And fox used him for ratings. But I think fox news underestimated him and went for the ratings instead of taking him down a peg because they are arrogant. Trump used fox news and attended all those "debates" for the exposure he needed to secure his delegates, and then boogied. Hence, the reason why he ditched the last debate. Fox and the Republican establishment have just been incredibly arrogant and stupid in underestimating this blowhard.
Quite honestly, what I can't figure out is why the media hasn't taken him down. They have taken down plenty of presidential hopefuls in the past. It seems to me they have treated him with kid gloves. Trump is vulgar. But I have faith that, of all the media outlets out there, that fox news can get trumptastically vulgar as well. It's not like they have professional or ethical standards. So why haven't they?
Javaman
(62,435 posts)Because what I stated is true. it's not in their best interests to "take him down".
he's a money maker for them ratings-wise.
I maintain and always will maintain that this "feud" has always been a set up since it first began.
AND more so, isn't it very interesting that trump keeps having these meetings with ailes to "iron things out".
nothing more than them getting together and planning their next ratings boost/trump coverage.
we are, I maintain, so very gullible.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)kimbutgar
(20,871 posts)Or Megyn rejected his sexual advances.
bigworld
(1,807 posts)I can't suspect he's her type.
yellerpup
(12,249 posts)without subscribing to the Washington Post. Any other way to see these tweets?
Turborama
(22,109 posts)It works with several news sites that have a limited amount of views per month, which might be what you're coming across.
yellerpup
(12,249 posts)I'm sure I don't have chrome, though. Technologically deficient.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,079 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,153 posts)Faux News will be compelled to not only endorse Trump, but to carry his water. To go on air and repeat over and over how much better a choice he is than the Democrat running against him.
And like another up thread, I can see the penultimate moment in the future when Kelly and Trump have their big smooch on air. "I'm sorry Megyn, some things were said in the heat of the battle, I apologize if I may have offended you, but I want you to know that I think you are the best! You are what will make this country GREAT again!". "Well thanks Donald, it takes a great man to apologize and take his lumps. I have the greatest respect for you and so lets put this all behind us....now lets talk about Hillary's emails"
The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)and Hillary Clinton. Like a certain bunch of bros.
forest444
(5,902 posts)Zira
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