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The war is on between Trump and the conservative media
Business Insider ^ | September 24, 2015 | Rob Garver, The Fiscal Times

Posted on 09/24/2015 9:05:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Recent media coverage of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has noted that the loudmouthed billionaire currently leading the Republican field in public opinion polls has been increasingly eager to complain to his audiences about how the “dishonest” media is covering his campaign.

Floating theories about NBC suppressing coverage of its own polls in order to report on other findings less friendly to Trump and about the heat on the stage at CNN’s debate last week, the real estate mogul and former reality television star has come across as a little bit paranoid.

Of course, just because you’re paranoid doesn’t meant they aren’t out to get you....

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; media; msm; newyork; trump
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That's that famous impartial journalism I'm always searching for.
1 posted on 09/24/2015 9:05:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What conservative media?


2 posted on 09/24/2015 9:06:37 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Conservative Media? What is that?


3 posted on 09/24/2015 9:09:00 PM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: Jim Robinson

Faux News? LOL


4 posted on 09/24/2015 9:09:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What else is new. This has become a Minuet of Marionettes.


5 posted on 09/24/2015 9:13:04 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump can’t articulate the issues. I realize most Freepers can’t either, but the Republican nominee must have this ability. If he wants to be the nominee he needs to study so he can say more than “Food good, fire bad.”


6 posted on 09/24/2015 9:13:20 PM PDT by Cry if I Wanna (A)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh this is really rich. Well, Mr. Trump, with these “conservatives” after you you can sleep well tonight and every night.


7 posted on 09/24/2015 9:13:28 PM PDT by Lake Living
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

NEWSFLASH:: The *Media* Trump is warring with is NOT conservative.


8 posted on 09/24/2015 9:14:34 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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Conservative "media"? Aren't those the guys who came up with the line, "We can't defund Planned Parenthood because we can't win"?

Well, you definitely can't "win" if you don't suit up and get your ass out there on the field. The Democrats know that. They never say CAN'T.

9 posted on 09/24/2015 9:18:14 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't you wish the government would treat us the way it treats illegal alien "refugee" invaders?)
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To: Cry if I Wanna

....”Trump can’t articulate the issues”....

That’s correct....remember he said he’s a “closer”. But who did all the footwork for him before he closed these deals in his work?.....This one he’s got to sell himself, and do the footwork, as well as articulate the substance.....it’s just not happening.

He was great at rallying people....but he’s struggling now that most want a “ the package delivered” and one that is his and not ‘borrowed’ from whatever sounds good at the moment.


10 posted on 09/24/2015 9:18:22 PM PDT by caww
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To: Cry if I Wanna; Cringing Negativism Network

Yet he’s in first place in every poll, gets millions of dollars in free publicity every week, is polling at 25% with black voters, doing well with Hispanics, drives the narrative and is getting tons of crossover votes.


11 posted on 09/24/2015 9:19:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: Cry if I Wanna
"Trump can’t articulate the issues.….but the Republican nominee must have this ability."

I'm sick of listening to some politico wax on about their version of facts. In the end they say the same thing as Trump on any given subject, it just takes them a whole lot longer to get there.

12 posted on 09/24/2015 9:22:10 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: Cry if I Wanna

If the issues are illegal alien invasions, dead women in San Francisco, the 2nd Amendment, veterans, and glowbull warming, he can articulate them just fine.

Maybe you can’t understand plain English.


13 posted on 09/24/2015 9:23:40 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fox News has already surrendered. The war is over.

Trump will allow Roger Ailes to beg for forgivness at the Trump Tower next week.

Karl Rove, George Will and Rich Lowry should be fired before Trump should even consider returning to the network.


14 posted on 09/24/2015 9:24:47 PM PDT by Helicondelta
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To: Jim Robinson

15 posted on 09/24/2015 9:25:40 PM PDT by Bobalu (See my freep page for political images.)
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To: caww

I am pretty sure he is releasing a book in October that outlines his positions...


16 posted on 09/24/2015 9:25:48 PM PDT by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wonder if Lowry is projecting, in that he may be a Eunuch himself? This whole episode with Fox has been odd. But an interesting theory has been put forward. Trump daughter Ivanka is good friends with Murdoch’s ex wife. Murdoch hates that, so he gave orders through Ailes to savage Trump.


17 posted on 09/24/2015 9:26:56 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Congress will have blood on their hands if anything happens because of the Iran appeasement)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The media is biased, the debate moderators are biased, Republican candidates are physically ugly, too young, losers, okay doctors etc. Everybody is off base but Donald Trump.

The problem is Trump cannot blame his own pathetic debate performance on anyone but himself. The electorate has reacted to Trump's performance in the second debate just as I predicted they would do in the first debate.

My timing was off, Trump's standing in the polls did not taper off until he repeated his boorishness in the second debate but the analysis looks to have been correct. Donald Trump is an animal of the media who can live only so long as his momentum grows. His momentum has stopped and his standing might even be seriously declining. Once the Ponzi scheme runs out of new investors in the Donald Trump myth, the whole edifice comes down.

Will it crash on the way down or simply erode? That is difficult to predict and probably dependent on Trump's own behavior. But if past is prelude Trump will engage his mouth either in debates or otherwise and his hubris will ultimately bring him down.

The Republican establishment is trying to decide whether to back Fiorina or Rubio. I continue to support the only conservative with a chance to win, Ted Cruz.


18 posted on 09/24/2015 9:28:15 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: Helicondelta

I wish Faux would fire those three amigos. Louserly, at the very least.


19 posted on 09/24/2015 9:28:50 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: caww

Trump is a mile wide in rhetoric, but his depth of policy understanding is almost nonexistent. When the discussion at the last debate turned to specifics about foreign policy, he stood silently. Eventually the shouting and dramatics have to give way to serious debate about the issues that count.


20 posted on 09/24/2015 9:29:38 PM PDT by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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