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Challenge to Donald Trump: Buy a TV Network
Self ^ | September 17, 2015 | MeshugeMikey

Posted on 09/17/2015 7:41:06 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey

Dear Mr Trump,

America desperately needs a truly common sense conservative Cable TV News Channel

You have the funds.

You want to nail down the Election?

Put your money where your mouth is.

Respecfully.

M.M.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: notsocrazy
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To: MeshugeMikey

I can think of several.

We have several more or less conservative news channels — Newsmax, The Blaze, One America. We need an over-the-air presence.


21 posted on 09/17/2015 8:26:15 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: hole_n_one

How rude. Nothing wrong with the suggestion or the post. If you don’t like it don’t read or comment.


22 posted on 09/17/2015 8:26:46 PM PDT by madison10 (If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter)
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To: MeshugeMikey
Several things run thru my mind on this.

Trump is getting ‘free’ coverage, why would he pay to build a T.V. station when he doesn't have to...when he is POTUS, all the channels will be covering him anyway...

Trump is repeating himself on these rallies to see how decidcated his supporters are, if we stick with him, he'll know what he has to do.

Each rally he speaks at he drops a dab here and a dab there, just to see if we are behind him...

It's still early in the campaign and he is still putting little things out there and the other candidates are falling into the trap...look at where bush is today...

Carson isn't the guy now, snarly carly is, but sometime between now and the next debate, she's going to be shoveling dirt right along with the rest of them.

We are seeing a lot, we are hearing a lot, Trump is gathering a lot...so be patient, you'll see what he is doing and why he is doing it...

23 posted on 09/17/2015 8:30:07 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ("Go TRUMP 2016!!! All the Way to the White House!!!)
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To: TBP
We have several more or less conservative news channels — Newsmax, The Blaze, One America. We need an over-the-air presence.

Right. Which all serve niche markets. A Trump network would be more of the same. And yet the suggestion is Trump devote millions of dollars to establishing such a network. A network, which would need to be, "all Trump all the time" in order for it to succeed in the brief moment it was on the air before Trump saturation sets in and people tune out.

Like I said, these are the pet political fantasies of the unsatisfied conservative.

24 posted on 09/17/2015 8:34:14 PM PDT by JPX2011
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To: madison10
If you don’t like it don’t read or comment.

oh, ok.....

my mistake.

I wasn't fully informed as to the rules.

Thanks for your help.

It is greatly appreciated.

25 posted on 09/17/2015 8:37:12 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: HarleyLady27
.........so be patient, you'll see what he is doing and why he is doing it.

The very same thing can be said about the OP of this thread.

26 posted on 09/17/2015 8:40:58 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: MeshugeMikey
That is an excellent idea. The only problem I see with it is whether or not Trump really wants to improve the country or is only interested in further pumping up his ego through this Presidential run.

I am suspicious of Trumps commitment to conservative ideas, and worry that he is merely an opportunist.

I notice he made much noise about the Obama birth certificate, but never actually seemed to put out any effort to do anything about it.

I suspected at the time he was just pandering to us "birthers" because he realized it cost nothing to ask the questions, show a little support for the idea, and then walk away from it. He would gain the support of us people who are considered "the fringe" and it really didn't cost him much effort.

But yeah, if Trump is for real, getting him to buy a network and staff it with Conservatives would be a really good idea for helping the country.

27 posted on 09/17/2015 9:17:10 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: hole_n_one

LOL no rules, but common courtesy. Maybe the smoky back room here would be more to your liking. :)


28 posted on 09/17/2015 9:24:59 PM PDT by madison10 (If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter)
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To: MeshugeMikey
A better approach would be to win, get control of the FCC, and then impose regulations unbundle cable and other forms of distribution so that consumers need only pay for the programming they want. That would fracture the financial underpinnings of the networks and cable systems and put consumers in charge of their TV entertainment and educational choices. Today's network news shows would have to be drastically revised to appeal to public taste and would tend to become versions of Fox News.
29 posted on 09/18/2015 12:16:51 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: MeshugeMikey

No secret you don’t like Trump, but the idea would have merits except for the obvious conflict of interest issue with a Presidential Candidate heading up a News Network...Is this a set-up because you know he can’t do what “you wish he would do”?


30 posted on 09/18/2015 3:55:19 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: trebb

It is what it is.


31 posted on 09/18/2015 7:54:40 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: DiogenesLamp

“I am suspicious of Trumps commitment to conservative ideas, and worry that he is merely an opportunist.”

thus was in large part my inspiration for setting forth the “challenge:”

Thank you.


32 posted on 09/18/2015 8:07:28 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: HarleyLady27

The letter while framed as a suggestion ..”put your money where your mouth is” was more or less a challenge.


33 posted on 09/18/2015 8:15:01 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: hole_n_one

isnt that special

thanks for sharing


34 posted on 09/18/2015 8:16:29 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey
What's Trump going to do with a network?

He's a Real Estate developer.

35 posted on 09/18/2015 8:16:36 AM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: MeshugeMikey
Interesting proposition. What's the one Sarah Palin was on recently?
36 posted on 09/18/2015 8:18:04 AM PDT by McGruff (The angry majority has awoken.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

He needs to buy a wall building company. Buy a construction that specializes in building walls. Pay some architects to start making plans. Show those plans to the american people. Make the engineers and architects available for interviews. That’s the ticket that gets him in the white house.


37 posted on 09/18/2015 8:20:46 AM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: McGruff

I dint know I dont have a television anymore


38 posted on 09/18/2015 8:22:07 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: gogeo

A televison network if managed properly....could I suppose..BE a money maker?


39 posted on 09/18/2015 8:22:53 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I didn’t mean to suggest that you weren’t right, I think your idea was great...I read what other people were saying to you and I didn’t like it...

Please forgive me if you thought I was hammering you, I wasn’t, I understood what you were saying...

My reply was he gets free coverage now and will when he get into the White House, and he is funding his own campaign and running a company at the same time...


40 posted on 09/18/2015 8:25:50 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ("Go TRUMP 2016!!! All the Way to the White House!!!)
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