Posted on 08/07/2015 8:45:00 AM PDT by conservativejoy
Whatever you might think about how well Donald Trump did in Thursday night’s Republican Primary debate, there is no question the billionaire businessman is winning the most important part of the process: the post-debate spin. The Narrative on almost all the morning shows centered primarily around how Fox News was gunning to take out Trump. If anything, debate co-moderator Megyn Kelly is taking on the most damaging post-debate water.
The very first debate question, asked by Bret Baier, was obviously aimed directly at Trump. For weeks, Trump has refused to dismiss the idea of running as a third party candidate should he lose the GOP nomination. When Baier asked the field of ten to raise their hand if they would not agree here and now to support whoever won the nomination, regardless of what you might think of the question, the whole world knew a target was being placed on Trump’s back.
Although all the initial questions to all 10 candidates focused like a laser on their primary weak spots, Kelly grilling Trump over tweets calling women “pigs” and “slobs” is being singled out Friday morning as a hatchet job. This spin is obviously going to work in Trump’s favor in a primary where voters are thoroughly and rightly disgusted with both the media and the Republican establishment.
Using the enormous power of his Twitter feed (3.52 million followers), Trump is hammering away at Kelly (one of his retweets referred to Kelly as a “bimbo”)already this morning, but also at Frank Luntz and his Fox News focus group. The focus group of GOP primary voters not only declared Trump the loser but a big loser who fatally damaged himself.
” Trump gave Luntz the now-famous Trump treatment and accused Luntz of stacking the focus group deck against him:
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Obstruction has been our holding pattern, we are totally ready to move past that.
What about that ass Juan williams? No one but colmbes be that stupidly sickening. Talk about obama colostomy bag. You know he’s had about 45 sexual harrassment suits against him.
Juan Cosby.
Washington has been a bit like a runaway car. The electorate has been trying to slow (voting for lesser evils) or stop it (voting for obstruction), but at the end of the day when polls say consistently and overwhelmingly that the country is headed in the wrong direction, the thing people want is to go in the RIGHT direction, not simply to slow down going in the WRONG direction.
I can’t stand Juan Williams or Geraldo for that matter. Both of them are just utterly annoying.
But Holder takes the cake for me.
She ought to have STUPID tattooed to her forehead in big red letters.
If she’s a lib she doesn’t need the tattoo.
How many of the others on Stage were asked to account for their previous “out of context” comments about anything?
Rosie attacked Trump way back when and he replied in kind. Big Deal. Next thing you know, it’s a War on Women and Megyn is the new Stephanopolis. Agenda, what agenda?
If you think that Trump was not Targeted by Democrats Megyn and Wallace, you explain why any of the other Candidates weren’t attacked for the many comments from their past?
I’m a Cruz guy. Mrs. KC is for Trump. She couldn’t believe the obvious contempt and vitriol towards Trump from Megyn. Up till now, Mrs. KC has been as Apoliitical as they come.
Notice how NOT ONE of the supposed Trump “supporters” in the Focus Group made any comments about Megyn’s below the belt attack questions?
If I was a Trump supporter, I would have raised my hand and asked Luntz WTF was that?
I didn’t say he wasn’t targeted. He clearly was—the questions were harsh, certainly harsher for Trump than for others. What I said was that the Trump questions were not below the belt or out of bounds.
And, by the way, other candidates were asked about comments from their past. Two that jump to mind were when Bush was asked about his inability to answer the Iraq War question, and when Walker was asked about his statements re: life-of-the-mother exceptions to abortion laws.
Lol, that she is.
I would just personally love to see it.
I’d be happy to do the tattoo for her too. I have zero experience with tattoos, so it should work out very well.
How anybody could ever believe those FNC focus groups were legitimately open minded , unbiased and not staged is beyond me.
It's not just "part" of his schtick, it's a significant (he might say YUUUGE) part of his schtick, and of his appeal to his supporters. Trump's supporters see the name calling as "taking it to 'em." Others see it as name calling, even bullying at times.
The problem, for Trump, is that while he currently holds a large lead in a large field, 25% is not nearly enough to win him the nomination. Does Trump's name calling (or, heck, his performance last night) appeal to anyone not currently in the 25%? Will it appeal to the supporters of other candidates, once those other candidates drop out? I think not, which is why I think his ceiling is not much higher than his current level of support.
You wouldn’t even have to spell it right.
I really smell fear coming from the leadership of both parties....Trump may or may not win but the American people have had enough...even many Dem’s!
Many of the Rats I know are fed up yes, but they don’t seem to be able to connect their dissatisfaction with the Rats. Somehow its still Republicans bad, rats good. They can’t see that both parties are the real enemy.
didn’t a person from FR once get on the luntz group? Luntz was in shock as in “how did you sneak in.”
they are not focus groups, they are push groups.
Yes, they are most definitely push groups. When the anchors opinion alone isn’t working, bring in the “peer pressure”.
....”He really might want to tone down the name calling”...
He’s on the defensive 24/7 because the public is enjoying “the fighter”....regardless if he’s put on the defensive or incites his own demise his stance remains in fight mode....and the public is eating this up.
On the other hand...he needs to fight with “substance” not just name calling.
The public WANTS a fight....they’ve been primed for it via all Obamas moves to set them up. He’s divided the country in all aspects and people are mad so a stage fight lets off steam.
Lunz is truly a joke.
His contrived questions elicit the answers the "Washington criminal enterprise" expects to hear, as criticism of Trump.
AMAZINGLY, THEY STILL DON'T GET IT!!
Trump was accused of being, mean, combative and lacking "specific proposals."
Are you freaking kidding me??
We are suffering in a political universe replete with "specifics" during campaigns and elections, and promptly forgotten by the Demoblican Party!
Neither the Donkeys nor the Elephants have actually, when they controlled everything, solved ANYTHING.
That is Trump's redeeming grace. He acknowledges that empty promises or "specifics" mean nothing.
What has changed for the better in the last 15 years?
If actions speak louder than words, we continue deluding ourselves in the total action silence... I have nothing to lose by giving Trump a shot. Can't be any worse.
Perhaps true, but missing one descriptor :
The question was trite and totally irrelevant in my existence universe.
All other persons who mattered in that event apparently felt the same. The lack of bimbo support was deafening.
Whose hair is worse, Luntz’ dead squirrel rug or The Donald’s tri-layer combover?
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