Trump vs. Megyn Kelly *UPDATE* Trump disinvited from RedState gathering

[eric82oslo]

I have doubts about his sanity.

If he has problems with Frank Luntz and Megyn Kelly -- think of the trouble that he will have with Rachel Maddow.  

Loool. Rachel Maddow can be a pain in the ass, even to me, and I basically agree with her about everything, because of her unique style, where she repeats everything she says at least five or ten times. Pretty much more annoying than that you can't get. On the other hand, they do have a lot in common, as Trump also repeats everything he says 5-10-15-20 times. Unlike Maddow though, he doesn't do it within an hour, but instead in every interview and stump speech over days and weeks, which seems less threatening and insane to people.

[eric82oslo]

Frank Luntz does have some pretty stupid people on his panels, but bashing him and Kelly is just not presidential.

As for Megyn Kelly, look, let's get real here. Megyn Kelly is smart, articulate, and very attractive. Trump married a woman who modeled, but really isn't that hot and she's kinda dumb. Trump's wife has no real talent, anyone can pose for photos. Kelly is a talented commentator and news person. So, maybe there is some jealousy going on here.

FOX News is Unfair and Unbalanced.  The way they run their GOP Presidential Debates brings this out into the open.  In 2008, the FOX panel would ask their favored candidates questions about policy to display their greater knowledge of foreign policy, but not all the candidates would get to answer that question.  Then, they'd come to Ron Paul and ask him about whether or not he believed in the doctrines of 9/11 "Truthers" (which Paul called them on).  It was their way of putting a candidate on the defensive with questions that had nothing to do with public policy that served no purpose but to reinforce a negative perception of a candidate FOX didn't like that had nothing to do with public policy or governing.

Megyn Kelly did the same thing with Donald Trump last night, and got called on it by Trump.  Actually, she got exposed as a stooge, which she is.  Trump is, of course, who he is, and he did what he had to do.  He's not the first candidate FOX has deliberately tried to set up to look bad.  And I get it; that's part of the game.  But don't start telling me that Megyn Kelly is a "journalist" or FOX News is "unbiased".  

Lol. Really? Who are you to tell that Megyn Kelly isn't a journalist? You're starting to sound just as misogynist as Donald Trump (or Romney for that matter who had "folders full of women" lol). If you read a few comments and opinion pieces on CNN, the big story of the night was exactly how misogynist it all was (including Rubio's refusal to rule out women's rights over their own bodies in case of rape + Huckabee's willingness to override a Supreme Court decision, Roe vs Wade, with executive orders or what not, etcetera), and Trump in particular as he used supression tecniques and sexual harassment, generally not seen for decades in public life, in order to knock down one of the media's strongest women. Just cringeworthy to say the least.

[eric82oslo]

If you watched Morning Joe (again a good gauge of beltway conventional wisdom), the theme was that Fox was out to get Trump and treated others with softballs. I think I actually agree. When I saw that first question about hands up if you wont pledge to run third party. I immediately imagined Admiral Akhbar yelling to Donald "It's a trap!" 

What softballs exactly? They were cruel, to some extent at least, with every single one of them. The only exception might have been Christie, since they didn't mention Bridgegate one single time. I've never read such unanimously raving reviews of any debate hosts before for the entire press corps, who thought all three hosts were phenomenal for delivering such tricky, weak spot questions to almost every single one of them. Bridgegate was the only elephant in the room which didn't get mentioned I think.