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 Not long after these remarks, event organizer Erick Erickson announced that he had withdrawn the invitation:
I have rescinded my invitation to Mr.Trump.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.
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.
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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.
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.
Is Trump the tar on the GOP or is the GOP the tar on Trump?
Trump is just Trump, same as ever. He has always been only about himself.
Being a New Yorker, he considers the GOP just a line among a few dozen others on the NY state ballot, probably has no idea it isn't like that elsewhere in the country.
I think Trump is actually pretty naive about America generally, probably the worst in either field. Donald Trump's life is all about excluding the 99% entirely.
"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 think Trump is actually pretty naive about America generally, probably the worst in either field. Donald Trump's life is all about excluding the 99% entirely.
Talking like a Democrat there, Hoss!
The GOP is a failed ideological party. I say this as a former Republican.
Most party supporters kind of know this. Why? 8 years of Clinton prosperity in contrast to what went on in the Bush 8 years showed - at least subliminally - many Republicans probably had their political "faith" shaken by what happened.
Of course these very same GOP members they have been saying all these talking points for years and are stuck in the faith but deep down inside they view their ideology like a failed religion. Sort of how pagans must have felt in the late Roman empire. They still sacrificed at the altar out of habit and tradition but deep down inside they know it is an empty faith.
Trump is just Trump, same as ever. He has always been only about himself.
Assume Trump is about Trump. But even if true, his legit words and anger over the illegal invasion and Sanctuary Cities did MORE to bring attention and address the problem than the last 6 1/2 years of GOP under Boehner and McConnell. Speaking of which -- are both Boehner and McConnell representing their own selfish interests, OR just the interests of their pimps?
Don't tell me Jeb has ever been about anything BUT himself. Same of both Dubya and Poppy. Proof is in the pudding.
I think Trump is actually pretty naive about America generally, probably the worst in either field. Donald Trump's life is all about excluding the 99% entirely.
So naive that he's hit on the hot-button of many Americans, trouncing the GOP field in the polls before the GOPe colluded with FOX News to shut him down.
Trump has demonstrated in word that he IS in tune with the world -- the 99% -- and not as naive or informed as you'd like to believe.
Ruperts RINO babes remind me of the line from the Don Henly song "Dirty Laundry:"
We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blond who Comes on at five She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam In her eye It's interesting when people die Give us dirty laundry...
Most party supporters kind of know this. Why? 8 years of Clinton prosperity in contrast to what went on in the Bush 8 years showed - at least subliminally - many Republicans probably had their political "faith" shaken by what happened.
When Clinton was President the economy was still running on Reagans fumes left in the gas tank. By the time Bush became President the Clinton Stench was already taking hold.
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?"
Very crude but an accurate assessment.
His comments on attractive women winning on his show is also accurate. Do you think Meg Kelly would have a plum job at Fox and her time slot if she was smart, accomplished and homely? Not.
Perhaps that is what sets Trump off when Kelly asks him questions. He knows.
"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
Certainly, she self-promotes. (Like Trump doesn't?)
Kelly -- like most of these "news reporters" are NOT supposed to BE the "news." She -- like they -- are supposed to REPORT it.
A lot of insiders think that she was auditioning to become the main anchor at ABCNNBCBS. The salary for that is over $30 million....there are obvious openings and Kelly's agent would be well aware of them.
Hadn't heard of that theory, but now...it ALL makes sense, doesn't it?
So, yes, Kelly may have an agenda. A yuge paycheck and the power of being a network anchor, independent of Fox News.
I'm sooo glad that Kelly's fortune and stock will rise on the ashes of an America she helped burn to the ground. This bimbo (who's used her ass-ets as...ASSETS) has ZERO integrity. She crossed several lines while whoring her way into Babylon.
Her condescending "What does God say to you" line of questioning to select candidates will never be forgotten by people like me. Of course THAT attitude and question must have gotten all the secular, homofascist, atheist alphabet execs into a orgasmic tizzy.
The GOP is a failed ideological party. I say this as a former Republican.
They're going the way of the Whigs. The Whigs cucked themselves to the democrats, who wanted cheap labor, and the political advantage. They made a habit of betraying Whig voters, and Whig voters found a new party. That's how the GOP rose, and that why it is falling now. It has ignored the lessons of history, and is now being damned to repeat history. Whatever else; it is nice to see the suffering of RINO's and cuckservatives.
When Clinton was President the economy was still running on Reagans fumes left in the gas tank. By the time Bush became President the Clinton Stench was already taking hold.
No, that is bullshit and a wilful forgetting of history. The fact that Bush was president in between Clinton and Reagan is forgotten by you? What engine do you know that runs on fumes for 4 years?
In any case, Clinton era economy showed that raising taxes has zero effect on an economy. Gingrich and most Republicans screamed that the raising of taxes would tank the economy and that did not happen. Bush came in and cut taxes and the economy sank regardless.
Trump has demonstrated in word that he IS in tune with the world -- the 99% -- and not as naive or informed as you'd like to believe.
Seems like he has established a game plan based upon Angelo Codevilla's "Country Party." GOP thought they could keep selling anti-freeze labeled as wine and never lose market share.
hey're going the way of the Whigs. The Whigs cucked themselves to the democrats, who wanted cheap labor, and the political advantage. They made a habit of betraying Whig voters, and Whig voters found a new party. That's how the GOP rose, and that why it is falling now. It has ignored the lessons of history, and is now being damned to repeat history. Whatever else; it is nice to see the suffering of RINO's and cuckservatives.
Good observation but I would say the GOP died as a party when the Great Depression happened.
The American people of that time blamed the Republicans both for Prohibition and for the Great Depression. By the early 20th century the two party system was cemented into place. That one called itself Democratic and Republican was just an identifier of one of the two parties. So even though the GOP died, it lived on as being the "other" party on the ballot as part of our two party system.
After WW2, the GOP won again by being Democrat light with Eisenhower, but lost big time again. The racial politics of the south allowed Nixon to steal white Dixiecrat votes and Reagan continued that via Reagan Democrats but that is about it. The GOP kind of clawed itself back but it won the Congress via gerrymandering - Less people voted for Republicans over all than Democrats.
The Republicans still sound like it's a party arguing over things I see in 1970s reruns of Archie Bunker. It is like they got fixated on issues that were all the rage in the 1970s and like some crazy homeless person just keeps repeating the same argument they had with someone over 40 years ago and continue arguing with this imaginary person while they collect cans.
It is 2014 and the Republican talk radio just sounds like it is arguing some right vs left issue from a 1970s Archie Bunker episode.
