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Title: MEGYN KELLY: THE FIRST CASUALTY IN DONALD TRUMP’S ‘ASYMMETRIC’ WAR ON FOX NEWS
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Breitbart
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-journa ... ps-asymmetric-war-on-fox-news/
Published: Aug 28, 2015
Author: Matthew Boyle
Post Date: 2015-08-28 18:37:59 by redleghunter
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She’s exposed as having a point of view, rather than being a purely impartial arbiter of news. Now he’s just having fun as a larger war between him and the network’s powers-that-be looms. In exposing Kelly, he’s employed at least parts of an unwritten playbook for political warfare his former, longtime aide–legendary GOP trickster Roger Stone–has laid out mostly informally over the years called “Stone’s Rules.” Stone hasn’t actually published the “Rules” anywhere, though some appear littered throughout his Twitter account and in a profile that the Weekly Standard’s Matt Labash wrote of him in 2007. Stone, ironically, is a Fox News Contributor. He left the Trump campaign operation a few weeks ago—Trump says he fired Stone, while Stone says he quit—but he’s become one of the Donald’s biggest supporters on the outside in no time at all appearing on virtually every television show he can to tout Trump’s candidacy. “Never miss the opportunity to have sex or be on television, as Gore Vidal said,” Stone told the New York Times for a fashion profile on him this week. Stone has worked in Republican politics for decades and helped Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan win elections. There’s no indication he’s involved in this Trump play against Kelly in any way, shape or form—he says he quit the Trump campaign because Trump insisted on this fight with Kelly—but his decades of influence on Trump, and his style, are clearly on display here. “Hit it from every angle. Open multiple fronts on your enemy. He must be confused, and feel besieged on every side,” probably the most important of “Stone’s Rules” reads, according to the Labash profile. That’s exactly what Trump has done to Kelly, and as she’s been “confused” amid a barrage of attacks, she’s made the critical mistake Trump had been hoping she’d make: she showed her hand, abandoning impartiality with people other than him. In the past two days, contrasts between her interviews with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Univision’s Jorge Ramos have thrust into public display a willingness on her part to allow a liberal narrative forward while crushing a conservative narrative. Technically speaking, most of the individual questions—with the exception of one to Cruz—she asked of both of them were all independently acceptable questions. However, the way she handled the interviews as a whole in the context of the political debate indicates she is a journalist who has made up her mind about the 2016 election, and that she has a decided and clear point of view about the presidential candidacy of Trump. Her point of view is one more fitting of a pundit, television personality, or opinion leader than that of a journalist or straight-down-the-middle news anchor or reporter—and she’s using her position on the Fox News Channel to further that point of view rather than acting as an impartial arbiter of the 2016 presidential race. There’s nothing wrong with that—opinion journalists exist everywhere in media from online outlets like this one to television stations of all stripes, including on the Fox News Channel in folks like Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity, among others. But it’s clear from the narrative she’s pushing on her show that Kelly wants to take Trump out. Kelly will do everything within her power to undermine Trump’s candidacy. In response, Trump has been taking his battle axe driving public opinion to chop Kelly’s carefully crafted impartial public image to pieces.
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#1. To: redleghunter (#0)
I still believe Trump is a stalking horse,working for the DNC in order to undermine any and all Republican campaigns and candidates by forcing them to take vocal or not take vocal stands that will turn off some voters. Meanwhile,Trump doesn't give a damn because he has no intention of staying in the race to start with. He will get his pay off in government grants and contracts even if the Dims don't win. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Megyn Kelly, The Donald, and Mathew Boyle are a well oiled machine, putting on a show for the suckers. Their goal is to get Rubio (or Jeb!) the GOP nomination to give Biden/Hillary an easy win. GOP, leading from behind. It is true that the GOP candidates would vastly prefer to take NO stands, on ANYTHING, so that then when they got in office they would not have to break their campaign promises when they do what Republicans in office ALWAYS do: which is cater directly to crony capitalist financial interests while screwing everybody else. But Trump isn't turning off the voters to the GOP. The GOP was always a minority party, and it's getting more minoritarian every year all on its own, not because of men like Trump, but because Republicans are loathsome liars and water-carriers for crony capitalists...AND EVERYBODY KNOWS IT (except for the droolin' rubes who STILL think of the Republican Party as some sort of "force for good").
So are the Dims. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
I don't think Kelly thinks Trump is that important. Or that Trump thinks that Kelly is that important. Breitbart is hyping a story that mostly exists in their own minds. As a news site, it has become appalling in the low quality of its reporting. It's less reliable at reporting the news than even WND is.
The Trump v Kelly feud is a somewhat interesting side show. My only comment on it is that his Twitter snipes at her are NOT Presidential .But they are good reality tv material .Expect soon he will be in an orchestrated Morton Downey Jr like shoving match .
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Dumb.
You gonna vote for Trump or some Demoshit?
I hope you're correct. Everything with him is orchestrated. See the video of him pounding on Vince McMahon's head and then shaving it.
You will have a rude awakening when you finally realize that Trump is a clown act for money and attention.
You had your head so far up Obama's ass that everything you say is a joke. Of course demoshits like yourself wouldn't vote for Trump. Now go wash your face it smells bad.
You are presuming that Trump will be the Repub standard bearer . 7 months before the first primary is way too early to make such presumptions . Remember the 2008 race between Evita and Rudy ? They were the presumptive leaders at this time in 2007 .
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
#2. To: redleghunter, Team Hillary Biden, *Neo-Lib Chickenhawk Wars* (#0)
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#3. To: sneakypete (#1)
I still believe Trump is a stalking horse,working for the DNC in order to undermine any and all Republican campaigns and candidates by forcing them to take vocal or not take vocal stands that will turn off some voters.
#4. To: Vicomte13 (#3)
Republicans are loathsome liars and water-carriers for crony capitalists.
#5. To: redleghunter (#0)
But it’s clear from the narrative she’s pushing on her show that Kelly wants to take Trump out. Kelly will do everything within her power to undermine Trump’s candidacy. In response, Trump has been taking his battle axe driving public opinion to chop Kelly’s carefully crafted impartial public image to pieces.
#6. To: redleghunter (#0)
#7. To: sneakypete (#1)
I still believe Trump is a stalking horse,working for the DNC
#8. To: tomder55 (#6)
#9. To: tomder55 (#6)
Expect soon he will be in an orchestrated Morton Downey Jr like shoving match.
#10. To: A K A Stone (#8)
You gonna vote for Trump or some Demoshit?
#11. To: Fred Mertz (#10)
#12. To: A K A Stone (#8)
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