Delegate count to date: Cruz 8, Trump 7, Rubio 7, Carson 3, Bush 1, Paul 1
Boycott Fox, send Murdoch packing back to where he came from! Murdoch, take MGYN with him to Oz.
Posted on 02/03/2016 5:47:59 AM PST by Kaslin
The results in the Iowa caucuses are a rebuke to the notion that the national media have all the influence over America's voters. Donald Trump has been the overwhelmingly dominant figure on television news. Even his decision to duck a debate was treated as bigger news than the actual event, and he almost fell to third place in Iowa.
On the Democratic side, when Hillary Clinton entered the race last April, she was presented as an unstoppable colossus, the American royal family returning to its natural place of power and adoration. Time magazine published a nauseating tribute from Laurene Powell Jobs, wife of the late Apple computer genius Steve Jobs, as "one of America's greatest modern creations ... she represents new realities and possibilities."
Team Clinton was left with trying to win Iowa by flipping coins, finally squeezing out a pyrrhic victory. So much for her inevitability. It must be said that while the media have noticed the polling trend of Clinton's decline and Sanders' ascent, they are wholly unable -- or unwilling -- to focus on the desperate nature of this candidacy.
Left unsaid: Her terrible numbers on being honest and trustworthy, worsened by the ongoing FBI inquiry into her private email server, are giving Democrats serious electoral indigestion. Also left unsaid: Trump's undaunted rebuke of her husband's record of crudely exploiting women (dismissed by reporters as "alleged misbehavior") may have made a mark among young voters who missed the scandals the first time around.
Try as they do to project the power and impact of Bill Clinton's presence, as they've done for years, he has become notorious for not electing candidates. And now the public sees him at her side, and remembers.
When Hillary Clinton first campaigned, the media made fools of themselves gushing over the fascinating novelty of Clinton buying a burrito at Chipotle and running after her "Scooby van" like a flock of Grateful Dead groupies.
Journalists have a very overwrought impression of Clinton's experience in office. Last April, Bloomberg TV's John Heilemann saw a terrible mismatch for Republicans. "It's going to be hard for any of these people ... to come up and be at the same threshold [on foreign policy] as Hillary Clinton, given her huge resume at least in this area, whatever you think about the policies."
"Morning Joe" sidekick Mika Brzezinski sneered the Republicans were toddlers compared to their heroine. "This is not even a conversation. She eats him for lunch ... Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio. There is no comparison. Maybe this is my ideology, but I'm sorry -- that's a little boy, and that's an experienced, accomplished woman."
"Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd even suggested to Hugh Hewitt that it was futile for Republicans to bother opposing the Clintons. "You know, I look at sort of an obsession on the right of beating Obama and beating Clinton, Bill Clinton, over the years, and I think, they're zero for four. Is there a point where you do this too much?"
Now as reporters describe a Clinton "meltdown" over the collapse of her polling advantage, all of their predictions about the coming cakewalk look just plain silly. Almost none of this descent has to do with the media's coverage of her dishonesty and her scandals. The networks have labored to cover almost anything else. And even when forced to notice it, they have dismissed it with Clinton's right-wing-conspiracy sound bites.
Hillary Clinton is not an inevitable winner in this campaign, not in the primaries and certainly not in the general election. America's "royal family" has no guarantee of returning to the White House. That's in part because the long-standing conservative critique of the Clintons still has more influence over the American people than it will ever have in the blindfolded liberal media.
Tens of millions in attack ads, Fox, CNN, etc., Paul Ryan, MSM, and everyone else bashing Trump.
He got 5000 less votes than Cruz and had the 2nd most votes ever in a Republican primary in Iowa.
But I keep hearing, as we have the last year, that Trump is finished....
Trump got ONE less delegate. This is the problem with politics and why we need a businessman. If this was a sales office, and Joe got $8000 in commissions and Pete got $7000 in commissions, would everybody be saying that Pete was defeated and completely humiliated by Joe? It is absurd. Who the hell is Brent Bozell anyway, and despite making millions off ‘Don’t believe The liberal media’ shirts and stickers, what has he really achieved?
Agreed.
I’ve never seen a group of such unhappy winners in my life.
Then we find out they lied to get God knows how many (and He does!) votes from Dr. Carson. It wasn’t one tweet either. It was an email from the campaign, “Big news is coming soon.” That’s from the top.
Cruz doesn’t have Carson’s phone number? His campaign manager doesn’t know Carson’s campaign manager? Instead of calling they spread the lie.
Regardless, it was one state (Huckabee and Santorum won as well) and it’s on to N.H.
Will Cruz folks even visit this site if they lose there?
Tucker Carson had a good article on the ‘vulgar Trump’ this week. He pointed out about 40 BILLION had been spent on conservative think tanks giving us ... 8 years of Obama.
Republicans seem to be headed the way of Libertarian party. Principled but permanent losers.
2nd place is the 1st loser.
It is like it was all planned - pour millions to make Trump loose in Iowa - a state which holds some weird state fair kind of town hall election - and make Cruz win there because he appeals to the rube/hicks (sorry) and then sabotage Cruz in favor of the establishment candidate afterwards to knock out Trump.
Delegate count to date: Cruz 8, Trump 7, Rubio 7, Carson 3, Bush 1, Paul 1
Boycott Fox, send Murdoch packing back to where he came from! Murdoch, take MGYN with him to Oz.
Cruz cheated, for all we know his win was because of the stolen Carson votes, the same applies to Rubio.
Trump also demonstrated he can compete for evangelical voters even if they don't share his values.
Fully agree with you...Trump got the 2nd most votes ever in an Iowa Republican Caucus...!
And now that Cruz has admitted his workers used vote total lies, the size of Cruz’s victory is in question.
See: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3392188/posts
Exactly. The gloating is over the top and not based in a real honest look at events. I say let them gloat, show their hand and when they go all in for Rubio, I’ll lmao.
ONE delegate, ONE. Pretty damn good for the the man who withstood attacks from ALL sides, including our ‘own’, which I no longer believe exists.
I find it interesting that anyone wants to claim the media is dead - really? How many have chipped and chirped that Trump was ‘afraid’ of Megyn? That line of parroting revealed everything I need to know.
bkmk
Trump has handled it well.
Trump needs to pivot s bit. Lower key. I’m here to fix things. Not a politician. If everyone agrees with me on the issues I can go back to my life.
Trump is dominating he issues. Everyone is repeating build a wall now.
But I keep hearing, as we have the last year, that Trump is finished....
Where is that in the article?
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This gloating on media is designed to shake people's attraction to Trump. It is as simple as that.
Thanks. Reality versus the hype.
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