Earlier this evening, CNN’s Don Lemon interviewed Donald Trump about the debate on Fox News Channel last night, and set off another Trump-related tempest. After noting that Kelly pushed Trump during the debate, and that she “pushed a lot of people” besides Trump, Lemon asked, “What is it with you and Megyn Kelly?” Trump’s reply was, er … colorful, to say the least [emphasis mine]:
TRUMP: Well, I just don’t respect her as a journalist, I have no respect for her. I don’t think she’s very good, I think she’s highly overrated. But when I came out there, you know — what am I doing? I’m not getting paid for this. I go out there, and they start saying this stuff [garbled]. But you know, I didn’t know there’d be 24 million people. I knew it was going to be a big crowd because I get crowds, I get ratings. They call me the ratings machine. So I have, you know, she gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions, and you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her … wherever. But in my opinion, she was off base.
Kelly did ask Trump tough questions in last night’s debate, but she asked tough questions of Marco Rubio on abortion too, and of other candidates on stage as well. As the front-runner, Trump should have expected tough questions, especially given his track record of supporting nearly every progressive idea at one time or another, including Hillary Clinton being President. Kelly also asked Trump about his remarks about women, which appears to have particularly rankled him — and pushed him into validating Kelly’s premise in asking those questions in the first place. After all, it’s not often when a major party candidate takes a shot at a woman by reminding everyone of her menstrual cycle. I’m certain that will really impress women about their place in the Republican Party.
Trump was scheduled to speak at the Red State Gathering tomorrow, in the final slot at the event. Not long after these remarks, event organizer Erick Erickson announced that he had withdrawn the invitation:
I have rescinded my invitation to Mr.Trump.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
That will undoubtedly anger some Trump supporters, but after last night’s debate performance and his thin-skinned whining afterward, I wonder if that group wasn’t already in decline. This might fire up the die-hard Trump troops, but suggesting that a journalist went after his target-rich record only because she was menstruating should be a disqualifier for most voters. It’s vastly worse than anything Todd Akin said, and will almost certainly have media outlets demanding responses from the other Republican candidates. It’s practically tailor-made for Democrats to hoist up the Republican War On Women banner, especially Hillary Clinton.
Get ready for plenty of Team Trump dog-in-the-manger, sour-grapes quotes in the morning, if not overnight. There may be some legitimate anger among a small group of RSG15 attendees tomorrow who wanted to see Trump at this event, but Erick has a solid case for not wanting to have this overshadow the event tomorrow, with more presidential candidates on hand to make their pitches. Erick will almost certainly address this in the morning, and we’ll see what the fallout is over the rest of the day.
Update: Carly Fiorina appears to be the first Republican candidate to respond to Trump’s remarks, perhaps fittingly so (via Twitchy):
That’s interesting, because Fiorina actually deflected a Trump question at her presser today at RSG15 by asking why the media wasn’t calling out Obama for his offensive comments about opponents of the Iran deal. Not this time, apparently.
But I also think that while Mr. Trump resonates with a lot of people with his bluntness, including me to a degree, there are just real lines of decency a person running for President should not trust.
His comment was inappropriate. It is unfortunate to have to disinvite him. But I just don’t want someone on stage who gets a hostile question from a lady and his first inclination is to imply it was hormonal. It just was wrong.
I have invited Megyn Kelly to attend in Donald Trump’s place tomorrow night.
Well, that would be interesting. We’ll see if she can swing that.
Let's imagine how that might go. She attacks him for chummy phone calls with Bill Xlinton and for saying he might run third-party. He makes some angry retort about her tenure as HP CEO. She then says something acidic in return and finishes with, "I hope you don't think I'm bleeding from...somewhere like you said about Megan Kelly, you crude buffoon."
Yeah, something like that. Good projection. So IOW, Fiorina is THE perfect GOPe candidate to castrate Trump with impunity.
Fiorina's got an unsavory past. I'm sure The Donald's advisers are preparing for her cheap shots and position as the only woman aboard the GOPe Express. At the probable cost of his "Republican" standing. THIS is how low the GOPe and RNCe have stooped in order to shut down Trump and prevent him from exposing the establishment Republican treachory, stupidity, and treason. Oh well.
This political strategy of siccing Fiorina on Trump is not unlike the old NHL (hockey) strategy of sending out an expendable goon to goad the star player into a fight in order to remove them from the ice.
Donald made an unforced error, Fiorina swoops in to capitalize on it.
ONLY because she's a woman.
I saw a number of political consultants who think that Fiorina won both debates on Thursday. No one at the main debate had as good a night as she had in the 5pm debate.
The second tier debate was unfettered by the antics of Kelly and Wallace, and moderated professionally. Again, Fiorina should be commended for following her political advisers' script, her make-up artist, and new "conservative" pupa....and becoming a GOPe butterfly.
Reminds me of how Yukon used to spam LP threads with comments about how he "DGAS" about the thread's subject matter; to the point where the majority of comments on the thread were his "DGAS" comments. They seem to think alike. Perhaps that was how he was able to figure out Yukon's password?
Maybe we should recall what her question was about Trump's record of namecalling over the years.
ABC:
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump said Friday he can't recall using words such as "dog," ''fat" and "disgusting" to insult women he believes have slighted him, but such language litters his Twitter feed and other public comments he's made for years.
The issue took center stage at the first Republican debate of the 2016 campaign for president, when Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly asked Trump about his use of such language and whether it reflected the "temperament of a man we should elect as president."
Trump largely dismissed Kelly's question at the debate, but on Friday he went directly after her.
Before dawn, he had retweeted a post calling Kelly a "bimbo." The post was later deleted, but on Friday evening Trump called Kelly a "lightweight."
"She's not very tough and not very sharp," Trump said during a phone interview on CNN. "I don't respect her as a journalist."
Referring to Kelly's questions during the debate, Trump said, "There was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever."
Citing that remark, conservative commentator Erick Erickson said he was withdrawing his invitation for Trump to appear at his RedState Gathering in Atlanta on Saturday. "I just don't want someone on stage who gets a hostile question from a lady and his first inclination is to imply it was hormonal," Erickson wrote on the RedState website Friday night. "It just was wrong."
Trump's campaign responded: "This is just another example of weakness through being politically correct. For all of the people who were looking forward to Mr. Trump coming, we will miss you. Blame Erick Erickson, your weak and pathetic leader."
In a series of interviews earlier Friday on network television, the billionaire businessman questioned whether he had actually used the words as Kelly had alleged during the debate.
"You know, some of the statements she made about the women, I don't recognize those words whatsoever," Trump said on ABC's "Good Morning America." ''We're going to take a very serious look at it."
Trump has a long history of lobbing insults at those he feels have treated him unfairly, and advises those who buy his books to do the same.
"For many years I've said that if someone screws you, screw them back," he wrote in "Trump: How to Get Rich." ''When somebody hurts you, just go after them as viciously and as violently as you can."
When doing so, he has repeatedly targeted women and their physical appearance.
"Rosie O'Donnell's disgusting, I mean both inside and out. You take a look at her, she's a slob. She talks like a truck driver," he said in 2006 during an interview with "Entertainment Tonight." ''I'd look her right in that fat, ugly face of hers, I'd say, 'Rosie, you're fired'" from her television show, "The View."
During the debate, Trump acknowledged making such comments — but only about O'Donnell. When Kelly said Trump's comments had gone beyond O'Donnell and asked about his use of such insults on Twitter, Trump replied that he didn't "have time for total political correctness."
A review of Trump's writings, televised interviews and Twitter feed show he's long used harsh language to describe women — and occasionally men.
In tweets sent last year, Trump called Huffington Post editor Arianna Huffington "a dog who wrongfully comments on me" and said she is "ugly both inside and out!"
In 2012, Trump wrote on Twitter of singer Bette Midler: "But whenever she sees me, she kisses my ass. She's disgusting."
Trump has also said the same of men. "Little @MacMiller, I'm now going to teach you a big boy lesson about lawsuits and finance. You ungrateful dog!" he tweeted in 2013 at a rapper who wrote a song titled "Donald Trump."
And to former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank in 2011: "Barney Frank looked disgusting — nipples protruding — in his blue shirt before Congress. Very very disrespectful."
During the debate, Kelly also referenced a boardroom scene from Trump's NBC's realty show, "Celebrity Apprentice," in which Trump was told by one contestant that a female teammate had gotten down on her knees to beg.
"That must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees," Trump said in response.
In the book, Trump declared that, "All the women on 'The Apprentice' flirted with me — consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected."
And he had this to say about women's victories on the show: "It's certainly not groundbreaking news that the early victories by the women on 'The Apprentice' were, to a very large extent, dependent on their sex appeal."
On some occasions Trump appears to have recognized he's gone too far. In April, he retweeted, then deleted, a tweet that read, "If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America?"
Now Teh Donald says he must investigate whether he has ever said anything offensive.
Maybe he can hire the Sheriff Joe Posse to do that, just like he hired them to investigate Obama's birth certificate. That would be yuge and very classy. Just like Donald himself.
Christian women are being sold as sex slaves in the Middle East thanks to her boy Juan McCain's jihad against Assad.
Surprisingly, neither McStain, Hitlery, or Hoosane get ANY "credit" from the MSM or Congress :-(
Instead the REALLY HUGE news is Megyn Kelly being "abused" by Donlad Trump. and "The War on Womyn."
What messed up priorities this dopey nation has. We deserve to elect an albino transvestite tri-sexual tree-hugger from Africa -- preferably gender: UNKNOWN. UNDECLARED.
So IOW, Fiorina is THE perfect GOPe candidate to castrate Trump with impunity.
Obviously.
ONLY because she's a woman.
And the argument will be made that she is the perfect choice to go after Hitlery in the traditional VP attack dog role.
Her main competition for VP at this point is Kasich, reflecting a hope he would help carry Ohio. But she can unleash a lot of attacks no male candidate would dare to make. How better to prove it than by spit-roasting Trump right now, striking while the iron is hot and he made such an elementary error?
I'm surprised she didn't wangle an invite to Red State's confab but she probably has fundraisers to attend after her big debate performance.
I think she has prepared for and wants to be the new Palin, an attack dog that can defy the usual War On Women themes.
Christian women being sold as sex slaves in Syria is "War On Women;" and she supported one of the chief architects of the policy that made it happen. McCains pitch to the voters was "The illegals are never going home, the jobs are never coming back; and we'll be in Iraq for a hundred years." For some odd reason it did not resonate too well with the voters in 2008. The cuckservatives seem to think it will do better in 2016.
#61. To: Vicomte13, nativist nationalist (#51)(Edited)
Christian women have been sold as sex slaves in the MIddle East since the Roman Empire. If we really cared, we would use our massive foreign aid budget to buy all of them and free them.
But...but...ONLY in America is there a "War on Womyn." Haven't the Muzzies in Africa gotten that memo yet? Or is American intel SO bad THEY are clueless??
CHRISTIAN women and children are made slaves in Africa by Muzzies. OR their appendages lopped off BY THE THOUSANDS with nary a WORD of protest from the US State Dept.
IF we cared....we'd have already marched in DC with torches and pitchforks and cleaned the People's House of blood and its murderous demons.
The place is not fixable. You have to move out of this cesspool.
Where would/could you go?
I, myself, will go to France.
Why?
Well, because I'm a middle-aged man with a child.
So, I need universal education through college, paid for. And I also need universal health insurance that covers everything, for myself, and my wife, and my child. And I need the stability of a guaranteed pension, so that I can plan for the future, when I get old and sick and can no longer work.
Those are the three big economic structural needs of my life. Stable employment, where I can't be fired at a whim because some manager doesn't like me, is also a plus.
In France, can get these things for approximately 50% of my income, paid in taxes and returned to me as benefits. In America, I can't get the job security at all, and I can only secure college, health care and retirement my spending, in total about 66% of my income on those different parts. So in France I can get more reliable services of what I really NEED, for about 16% less of my income.
Also, in France, the actual costs of necessities - notably housing and health care - are lower, so I don't need to earn as much money.
Those are the basics. Protecting those basics is the need for physical security. France has a lower crime rate than we do. The country can't be invaded by anybody because of nuclear weapons.
So there's my answer to your question: I would move to France.
France is imperfect. Notably, they permit abortion, as in America. It's a lot more restrictive, but it's still a right. It's a very socially conscious country, so my cachet will not be as high there as here.
Unfortunately the abortion evil has dug in in all developed countries. It can only be avoided in the Muslim world, which is not an option, or in the Catholic world - Latin America and the Philippines.
There are parts of Lain America that would work, although unfortunately the faith is weakening there, so abortion law may come in someday.
The Philippines are lovely, but Filipina women are a moral hazard for me so moving there would probably imperil my soul.
France, either metropolitan or one of the overseas departments down in the Caribbean. That works for me.
Speaking of "Frauds," the only pols YOU support are indeed MAXIMUM Frauds.
Willie is a big fraud. In the early days of LP he routinely referred to Mexicans as Messicans. And now he's taking Ann Coulter to task for not welcoming rapists and murderers from Mexico with open arms.
McCains pitch to the voters was "The illegals are never going home, the jobs are never coming back; and we'll be in Iraq for a hundred years." For some odd reason it did not resonate too well with the voters in 2008.
To think -- this man was THE best the GOPe could offer as the Republican Candidate for President? He said and did ALL he could NOT to be elected President. He's insane.
God can't dump a large enough meteor on this planet as far as I'm concerned.
In the early days of LP he routinely referred to Mexicans as Messicans. And now he's taking Ann Coulter to task for not welcoming rapists and murderers from Mexico with open arms.
It's sad what's happened to Willie. And ALL radical leftists who have NO idea what the US Constitution is actually about.
[Fiorina] can unleash a lot of attacks no male candidate would dare to make. How better to prove it than by spit-roasting Trump right now, striking while the iron is hot and he made such an elementary error?
POLITICAlly, it's the perfect timing, and perfect VP candidate. She's auditioning....
I'm surprised she didn't wangle an invite to Red State's confab but she probably has fundraisers to attend after her big debate performance.
Doors will start opening for her, no doubt. The GOPe has always rewarded their own with power, position, and great press...the NYT. Remember when McStain was their darling for FUBARing the conservative agenda?
Based on WHAT info, Yoda? Trump sez our politicians are "stupid liars." Do you disagree with that assessment?
Based on Trump deliberately undermining that assessment with his crude and unprofessional demeanor. Trump is a businessman... and more so than that, he's a showman, just like PT Barnum... he is well aware of the negative image he generates with his crass/unpresidential attitude... and he does it solely so dupes like you will swallow his act lock, stock & barrel until it's too late for any other option except yet another Bush.
Sucker... root for Trump, you'll get another Bush.
Carly is just the ticket for cuckservative RINO's. I'm certain the average vter is just itching to have another president who embraces outsourcing of jobs to Red China, importing more cheap labor.
The targeted voters be wearing blinders. Fiorina's past...won't exist after her re-invention.
Whether it all comes out in the wash is in question. In due time, ALL conservatives will be out of money and running who WOULD expose her, leaving only the usual GOPe patsies or tools.
In the event the GOP tosses out Trump and his 25% of the electorate, I hope Trump runs 3rd Party...JUST to use it as a platform to expose the GOPe snakes. AND maybe even win in the ultimate %$#@! to the GOPe and Dems.
What Donald says does not offend me. Therefore, it is not offensive.
You're not the average voter these candidates are appealing to (GOP partisans and indy voters).
So you aren't important at all. Surely you see this starts to create a major problem even for a notorious blowhard like Trump.
At some point, his opponents will use the full dossier they've already compiled of all this bile he's spit out over the years and running ads against him.
F we cared....we'd have already marched in DC with torches and pitchforks and cleaned the People's House of blood and its murderous demons.
I care.
I love peace, so I'd offer cash to stop it with verification.
If the cash were not accepted, I would declare war and conquer, and bring missionaries to convert in the aftermath, and I would target Islam, specifically, in the conquered lands, for de-Islamification, just like de-Nazification.
If the cash were accepted, I'd give all of the freed women, and whatever families they had to go back to, and their children by their captors, if they had any, asylum in the US with a path to citizenship: abused foreign Christians who were rescued by America are EXACTLY what we need as voting citizens, ASAP. Which is why we should be handing out green cards to the abused Orthodox Christians everywhere in the Middle East. If you're a Middle Eastern Christian, and you want to come to America, the visa and green card should be as automatic as it was for Russian Jews. This should apply to Israeli Christians as well. We're propping up Israel anyway, so give the Israeli Christians the choice of emigrating to America. Let the Arab Israeli think truly be a Jewish Muslim fight,. Get the Christians out from in- between.
And if the countries take the money, free the slaves, but then go back to enslaving Christians, war, conquest, slaughter, de-Islamification.
The answer to slavery is war and Reconstruction, at the point of a gun.
She'd have to be brain-dead not to jump all over this and ride the storm front of the raging Twitter thunderstorm raining down on Trump.
Her aim had better be awfully good.
FWIW -- much of that Twitter "thunderstorm" is BS. BUT perception (and reporting by the MSM and liberal blogs) is everything. I *knew* Megyn Kelly would be using her debate platform to self-promote AND front for....the Dems. She's an attention-whore. People are so naive and/or stupid. (yes, hedging again.)
You're not the average voter these candidates are appealing to (GOP partisans and indy voters).
So you aren't important at all. Surely you see this starts to create a major problem even for a notorious blowhard like Trump.
At some point, his opponents will use the full dossier they've already compiled of all this bile he's spit out over the years and running ads against him.
I sure hope the Democrats pick Biden, because if you take Donald out of the mix, the Republicans have nobody who can win, so the Dem will win. Biden would be all right. Hillary. Brrrrrrr. (Though at least she probably doesn't bleed every month anymore.) Megyn Kelly for President. The statistical probability of nuclear war will ebb and flow with the Moon cycle. Yeah, that's it. I have a monthly cycle myself. If some brazen bastard did something on the full moon, the chances that the US would send in the SEALS to blow off his head would shoot WAY up. So I DO understand, Megyn. It's just that the difference is that I recognize a guy who's a leader when I see him. But you're just a cunt.
LOL Ophra would not enter the same building as Trump.
"When Americans reach out for values of faith, family, and caring for the needy, they're saying, "We want the word of God. We want to face the future with the Bible.'"---Ronald Reagan
We are at only the beginning of the nomination cycle. Kind of has the feel of a new season of WWE. Culminating in the 2016 election akin to Wrestlemania.
Perhaps Hulk Hogan should get in the race.
"When Americans reach out for values of faith, family, and caring for the needy, they're saying, "We want the word of God. We want to face the future with the Bible.'"---Ronald Reagan
"When Americans reach out for values of faith, family, and caring for the needy, they're saying, "We want the word of God. We want to face the future with the Bible.'"---Ronald Reagan
I *knew* Megyn Kelly would be using her debate platform to self-promote AND front for....the Dems. She's an attention-whore.
Certainly, she self-promotes. (Like Trump doesn't?)
They knew they had a record audience (24 million).
A lot of insiders think that she was auditioning to become the main anchor at ABCNNBCBS. The salary for that is over $30 million.
And NBC lost Brian Williams and Stephanopoulos at ABC is tainted by his Xlinton connections. So there are obvious openings and Kelly's agent would be well aware of them.
So, yes, Kelly may have an agenda. A yuge paycheck and the power of being a network anchor, independent of Fox News.
Cuckservative Erick Erikson Disinvites Trump Because He’s Offended On Behalf Of Megyn Kelly. I'm not sure how Tim Groseclose and Scott Lincicome tie in Erick Erikson. I see that Scott Lincicome is a big time free traitor who shills for 0bamatrade, so Trump clearly threatens his rice bowl.
Yup -- dig a bit deeper below the hysterics of Trump's supposed "sexism" and the same entire maggot-infested rice-bowl of the GOPe and Dems are exposed. A lot on the plate there to contemplate for sure. Some great explanation of feminization, submissiveness and spinelessness of GOPe 'ers and RINOs -- referred to as "cuckservatives."
Whereas the term is painfully accurate, it is a bit too...vulgar for me to use regularly. Conservatives and conservatism have indeed been (and are being) castrated by the establishment Republican wing.
#84. To: TooConservative, Vicomte13, GarySpFc, liberator, CZ82, tomder55 (#25)
She is a much better prepared candidate now than she was in her 2010 race or in her role in 2012 as a highly placed Romney surrogate.
Given that she is appealing to the GOP party establishment, it's no surprise she's demoing her willingness to go on the attack yet again.
She will be the clear VP ticket choice of any governor GOP candidate who wins the primaries.
I think unless she performs poorly that is how it goes down. Because the GOPe believe the war on women meme and Fiorina on the ticket as a feisty, combative alternative to Hitlery.
Trump? He was right when he claimed the media would not be paying attention to illegals murdering Americans and the border issues without his voice. It is true his comments and also visits to the border put illegal immigration back on the issues "map." Regardless of his other unwise comments and flaws, Trump is correct that he made this a front and center issue again.
Trump also breathed some life into the primaries this early on. Love him or hate him, no Trump no 24m viewers. Most tuned in to watch what would happen when someone not beholden to special interest groups would say. They tuned in to see what happens when someone seeking office speaks his mind. And how the others around him reacted to such.
If Trump was not on stage I would gather the first debate would have had maybe 5-7m viewers and at this point we would not be talking about the debate. It would have been a usual low rating summer affair and very boring. Trump was the lightening rod and that allowed other candidates to crack from their shells earlier than we would expect. Except Bush of course who played his cards safe and stuck with the script.
"When Americans reach out for values of faith, family, and caring for the needy, they're saying, "We want the word of God. We want to face the future with the Bible.'"---Ronald Reagan
Let's imagine how that might go. She attacks him for chummy phone calls with Bill Xlinton and for saying he might run third-party. He makes some angry retort about her tenure as HP CEO. She then says something acidic in return and finishes with, "I hope you don't think I'm bleeding from...somewhere like you said about Megan Kelly, you crude buffoon."
LOL the type of "television" Trump usually produces:)
"When Americans reach out for values of faith, family, and caring for the needy, they're saying, "We want the word of God. We want to face the future with the Bible.'"---Ronald Reagan
The DNC is probably trying to figure out how they got upstaged with the "Trump plan." They probably see Trump in the race as a master stroke of RNC strategery:)
I heard they are now delaying their first debate. Wonder is Vasserman Sholtz is looking for a lightening rod:)
As it stands all the Dim candidates are boring. Not good "television."
"When Americans reach out for values of faith, family, and caring for the needy, they're saying, "We want the word of God. We want to face the future with the Bible.'"---Ronald Reagan
LOL Vic, "O" won't be in the same room as The Donald.
"When Americans reach out for values of faith, family, and caring for the needy, they're saying, "We want the word of God. We want to face the future with the Bible.'"---Ronald Reagan
We are at only the beginning of the nomination cycle. Kind of has the feel of a new season of WWE. Culminating in the 2016 election akin to Wrestlemania.
Hulk Hogan -- as a white male and symbol of male power -- was coincidentally singled out as ANOTHER political sacrificial victim on the altar of the "War on Womym."
The Hulkster: "take you vitamins, eat your veggies and pray!!" Lol...
I go back to the WWF -- the golden age of cartoonish "professional" wrestling. But, oh yeah; The feel is WWE/WWF-ish. It's time to remove the clown-cars, feathery boas, and mid-ring screeching from the political arena and resume 'adult" business as usual: IOW, the SAME EXACT stuff...only buried in the smokey backrooms and basement of the the elites' sanctuaries and out of view of the public.
Trump dares expose THAT stuff and blow the lid off of the mirage that politics is NOT the WWF. Except that it is, only wearing blue suits, referring to Tea Party conservatives as %$#@! expletives, and whoring out the blood American vets, servicemen, AND America. Neatly. Silently. In Private.
The DNC is probably trying to figure out how they got upstaged with the "Trump plan." They probably see Trump in the race as a master stroke of RNC strategery:)
You know they're trying to script up ways to tar the entire GOP with Trump.
Media to any GOP nominee: "Why did you not confront Donald Trump's hate speech toward Mexicans or even Megan Kelly? Aren't you part of the GOP's War On Womyn?"
I don't respect FOX news nor the main stream GOP party so this is no shock to me. The rest of the so called conservative (not you per say) have to deal with what you are witnessing.
