So now again, the GOP think it has its smoking gun. They are outraged about Trump insulting Megyn Kelly. I'm sure they'd be just as offended if he had made those comments about Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama.
Indeed, there is a real history of Rush Limbaugh and friends saying things as bad or worse about not just Hillary but her daughter who clearly on any fair-minded basis should be left out of it.
"Rival Republican presidential candidates piled on Donald Trump on Saturday for his caustic remarks about a female debate moderator, and the billionaire celebrity candidate backpedaled in an effort to keep his campaign from unraveling."
"Trump blasted Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly during a debate in Cleveland on Thursday when she questioned him about insulting comments he had made about women. The backlash to his exchange with Kelly has threatened to knock the wheels off the bandwagon of support that had Trump leading early polls in the race for the Republican nomination for the 2016 election."
Asked about Kelly on a CNN interview on Friday, Trump said: "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever."
"Trump was promptly dumped from a keynote speaking role on Saturday night in Atlanta at an important gathering of conservative activists put together by the RedState organization. Republican candidates Carly Fiorina, Scott Walker, Lindsey Graham, Rick Perry and George Pataki denounced the comments on Twitter or in statements."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-drawing-fire-from-all-corners-of-gop_55c668dde4b0f73b20b9937e?od8ia4i
This is nothing but pure politics. The GOP has no respect for women and are totally hostile to their reporductive rights-and as Jeb's recent 'misspeaking' shows, their healthcare needs.
This is something that has to be understood: the attack on Planned Parenthood is about mroe than just an attack on a women's right to choose, though it is that of course. It's more fundanetally an attack on women's healthcare and their ability to have control of their own heatlhcare decisions.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/attacking-donald-trump-insulting-rosie.html
Just understand this move here for what it is. Naked politics. They wanted to sandbag Trump and now they think they have. Again, obviously I have my own Machiavellian Democratic reasons for being a fan of Trumps' candidacy much like Bill Clinton. But in all honesty. if I'm a Republican I think I'd still have reason to be angry.
It's pure hypocrisy. The message to the GOP base is clear: shut up and get behind Jeb already. Shut up and sing. Maybe they're tired of voting for Bushes.
Errickson's phony sanctimony hits new levels here:
"Erickson, who invited Kelly to replace Trump at the conference, said he revoked Trump's invitation because he did not "want someone on stage who gets a hostile question from a lady and his first inclination is to imply it was hormonal."
"Erickson read aloud some of the emails he had been getting from Trump supporters to protest his move, saying it appeared the Trump campaign had made his email address available to them."
"In some of the emails, according to Erickson, the writers used a racial epithet to refer to President Barack Obama and made other inflammatory comments."
"I've got to tell you guys, I made the right decision," said Erickson. "These are the people I don't ever want at a RedState event." (Writing and reporting by Bill Trott; Additional reporting by Steve Holland; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)"
In other words he never wanted Trump there in the first place.
Bear in mind that this is the man who called Michelle Obama a Marxist harpie and yet he's criticizing these emails for slurs against the President?
"Erickson himself, however, has a long history of making disparaging remarks about women, including calling first lady Michelle Obama a “marxist harpy” and Texas politician Wendy Davis “abortion Barbie”.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/08/redstate-hypocrisy-donald-trump-critic-erick-erickson
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/08/08/3689587/erick-erickson-donald-trump/
Indeed, there is a real history of Rush Limbaugh and friends saying things as bad or worse about not just Hillary but her daughter who clearly on any fair-minded basis should be left out of it.
"Rival Republican presidential candidates piled on Donald Trump on Saturday for his caustic remarks about a female debate moderator, and the billionaire celebrity candidate backpedaled in an effort to keep his campaign from unraveling."
"Trump blasted Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly during a debate in Cleveland on Thursday when she questioned him about insulting comments he had made about women. The backlash to his exchange with Kelly has threatened to knock the wheels off the bandwagon of support that had Trump leading early polls in the race for the Republican nomination for the 2016 election."
Asked about Kelly on a CNN interview on Friday, Trump said: "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever."
"Trump was promptly dumped from a keynote speaking role on Saturday night in Atlanta at an important gathering of conservative activists put together by the RedState organization. Republican candidates Carly Fiorina, Scott Walker, Lindsey Graham, Rick Perry and George Pataki denounced the comments on Twitter or in statements."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-drawing-fire-from-all-corners-of-gop_55c668dde4b0f73b20b9937e?od8ia4i
This is nothing but pure politics. The GOP has no respect for women and are totally hostile to their reporductive rights-and as Jeb's recent 'misspeaking' shows, their healthcare needs.
This is something that has to be understood: the attack on Planned Parenthood is about mroe than just an attack on a women's right to choose, though it is that of course. It's more fundanetally an attack on women's healthcare and their ability to have control of their own heatlhcare decisions.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/attacking-donald-trump-insulting-rosie.html
Just understand this move here for what it is. Naked politics. They wanted to sandbag Trump and now they think they have. Again, obviously I have my own Machiavellian Democratic reasons for being a fan of Trumps' candidacy much like Bill Clinton. But in all honesty. if I'm a Republican I think I'd still have reason to be angry.
It's pure hypocrisy. The message to the GOP base is clear: shut up and get behind Jeb already. Shut up and sing. Maybe they're tired of voting for Bushes.
Errickson's phony sanctimony hits new levels here:
"Erickson, who invited Kelly to replace Trump at the conference, said he revoked Trump's invitation because he did not "want someone on stage who gets a hostile question from a lady and his first inclination is to imply it was hormonal."
"Erickson read aloud some of the emails he had been getting from Trump supporters to protest his move, saying it appeared the Trump campaign had made his email address available to them."
"In some of the emails, according to Erickson, the writers used a racial epithet to refer to President Barack Obama and made other inflammatory comments."
"I've got to tell you guys, I made the right decision," said Erickson. "These are the people I don't ever want at a RedState event." (Writing and reporting by Bill Trott; Additional reporting by Steve Holland; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)"
In other words he never wanted Trump there in the first place.
Bear in mind that this is the man who called Michelle Obama a Marxist harpie and yet he's criticizing these emails for slurs against the President?
"Erickson himself, however, has a long history of making disparaging remarks about women, including calling first lady Michelle Obama a “marxist harpy” and Texas politician Wendy Davis “abortion Barbie”.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/08/redstate-hypocrisy-donald-trump-critic-erick-erickson
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/08/08/3689587/erick-erickson-donald-trump/
Well Limbaugh will have all weekend to judge which way the wind is blowing before unveiling is "bold, principled and PC-free" opinion. Lol... needless to say I hope he doubles down on Trump and gets into a row with Erickson.
ReplyDeleteWill Fox host any further debates? I hope so... they'll be highly incentivized to keep Trump in the field, based on the ratings the last go around received.
ReplyDeleteBut financial incentives in this case may not be their highest incentives. However, no need to worry as the next debate will be on CNN.
ReplyDeleteThis will probably be good for Trump as Fox clearly no matter what they say meant to clip his wings a little.
Maybe financial incentives are not the primary motivator for Roger Ailes, but I have a hard time believing that's the cases for his boss (Murdoch).
DeleteWell it's academic as the next debate is at CNN. Ailes and Murdoch have actually argued about this recently
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