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HuffPo Removes Trump Coverage From Entertainment Section: ‘We Are No Longer Entertained’
Mediaite ^ | 8 Dec 2015 | Ken Meyer |

Posted on 12/08/2015 7:10:26 AM PST by mandaladon

Ever since the early stages of his controversial campaign, the Huffington Post has denounced Donald Trump’s politics as a “sideshow” and banished its coverage of him to their entertainment section. In a Monday night post, however, Arianna Huffington announced that Trump would be moved to the politics section as his continuing lead shows he is a legitimate contender for the presidency.

Following his announcement that he would ban all Muslims from entering the U.S., Huffington wrote that Trump’s campaign is no longer entertaining, but has “morphed into something else: an ugly and dangerous force in American politics.” Though she confirmed the re-assignment of Trump’s categorization, Huffington impressed that their coverage of his campaign would reflect his political abnormalities, and how it changed the 2016 landscape:

There was certainly no shortage of ugly comments from the beginning, as he kicked off his campaign with outrageous comments about Mexicans. But at first, this over-the-top xenophobia, though disgusting, played as the sour shtick of a washed-up insult comic. Now that Trump, aided by the media, has doubled down on the cruelty and know-nothingness that defined his campaign’s early days, the ‘can you believe he said that?’ novelty has curdled and congealed into something repellent and threatening — laying bare a disturbing aspect of American politics

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; immigration; trump; trumpwasright
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To: Lorianne

I agree.


21 posted on 12/08/2015 8:14:01 AM PST by Jane Austen (Those who welcome Syrian refugees are enabling ISIS.)
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To: goldstategop

He’s bigger than the republican party. He is appealing to everyone now. Everyone else are amateurs.


22 posted on 12/08/2015 9:02:30 AM PST by nikos1121 ("Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us."-- Golda Meir)
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To: Logical me

HuffPO = Huffington Post

It is a left wing blog that was founded by two women, Arianna Huffington and Carol Ann Burger.

Arianna Huffington is a woman so nasty and vile she turned her Conservative Republican husband gay.

Carol Ann Burger, another woman so nasty and vile, after writing an article on how women should keep their daughters away from Sarah Palin because she is a bad influence, stabbed her lesbian wife 222 times with a Philips head screwdriver and hid the body in the truck of her Mercedes, then days later as the police closed in she offed herself.

Not surprisingly Liberals love to read this blog and find it a credible source of information.


23 posted on 12/08/2015 9:09:17 AM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: mandaladon

Wimps. Can’t play with the big dawgs.


24 posted on 12/08/2015 9:27:29 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: mandaladon

actually, huffpo doesn’t matter

it is a trivial nothingness


25 posted on 12/08/2015 9:29:11 AM PST by Thibodeaux (this time really is different)
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To: mandaladon

“Another win for Trump “

I hope he continues to deny HuffPo press credentials to his events, though.


26 posted on 12/08/2015 9:43:02 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: mandaladon

“We’re moving Trump from the Entertainment section to Politics because we no longer find him entertaining.”

Clever way to walk back their idiotic initial decision.

It beats, “We’re Leftist hacks who thought we could run him out of the race with our smarmy attempts at ridicule, but it didn’t work”.


27 posted on 12/08/2015 11:11:56 AM PST by mbrfl (fightingmad)
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