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Is the Media Protecting Donald Trump?
Fox Business News ^ | 2016 March 04 | Julia Limitone

Posted on 03/07/2016 9:27:25 PM PST by CutePuppy

During an interview on the FOX Business Network's Mornings with Maria, Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay lashed out against the media for protecting Donald Trump.

"The media won't report what's really happening on the ground... They will not investigate Donald Trump. When have you seen a story written about Donald Trump's sleazy business practices? There's plenty of stories out there about that. The media is protecting Donald Trump either because they want him to be the nominee against Hillary Clinton or they're big buddies of his. Most of the media comes from New York and they are buddies," he said. ..... < snip >

..... DeLay argued that the lack of detail on waste-fraud and abuse, spending and foreign policy was "very embarrassing for Donald Trump in the last Fox News debate and hasn't resonated with his core followers.

"Thirty-five percent are going with Trump... There's 64 percent that aren't going with Trump and the media refuses to speak up and talk to the 65 percent that are not voting for Trump," he said. ..... < snip >

..... So are Republicans handing over the election to Clinton? DeLay says, it's a ploy by Democrats to cover up their flawed candidate.

"Clinton is a flawed candidate, the Democrats are voting in our primaries because they want a flawed candidate to run against — and there is no bigger flawed candidate than Donald Trump. His character, his business practices, he's not a conservative. They would just love to run against Donald Trump because that will cover up the fact that they have a flawed candidate," he said. ..... < snip >

(Excerpt) Read more at foxbusiness.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: central_va

Well, we’ll see.

It needs to end soon if anyone is going to get enough delegates to prevent Bush or Romney from winning a floor fight at the convention.


81 posted on 03/08/2016 8:44:15 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: DaveA37
He can’t be serious, the media “protecting Trump?”

When Mika and Joe tell him they are going to ask him questions, and his reply is, "No, nothing too hard".

Their response to his request? "OK".

Is that evidence of the media giving him a pass?

82 posted on 03/08/2016 8:47:22 AM PST by Stegall Tx (If Republicans choose a liberal candidate, they have chosen to lose my vote.)
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To: moehoward

These guys are shameless.

Why if you’re concerned about illegal immigration you’re just too fixated on it. Nobody else is.

I was in a group of five adults the other day. Four were Hispanic.

One of them brought up Trump, and three chimed in that they supported Trump because of his stance on illegal immigration.

I would never have brought it up.

On the way home my Hispanic friend explained TO ME what illegal immigration had done to our region.

He was right on the money too.


83 posted on 03/08/2016 8:56:03 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: arl295
John Q Public does not care about a Tower that Trump leases his name to

Yes, you are correct. But I am not talking about John Q Public. I'm talking to fellow conservatives who are politically up-to-speed.

A consistent person would not trade investments in a project for visas when he himself is against those corrupt immigration practices.

And a discerning voter would not support a politician who claims to be against a corrupted immigration process yet joins in those corrupt practices to turn a buck.

"I play to people's fantasies," he writes. "People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That's why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular." Donald J. Trump The Art of the Deal

84 posted on 03/08/2016 8:56:41 AM PST by Stegall Tx (If Republicans choose a liberal candidate, they have chosen to lose my vote.)
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To: Stegall Tx

Sorry

People like us don’t decide elections

John Q Public does


85 posted on 03/08/2016 9:04:41 AM PST by arl295
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To: DoughtyOne

It’s because immigrants understand more than any other demo the impact illegal immigration has. It’s why Trump took those heavy latino counties in Texas along the border.

There are exceptions like the article from the NYT yesterday about “mexican immigrants” applying for citizenship so they can “vote against Trump”. But digging in the article you find one single Denver family is featured to support the assertion. The father was an anchor baby, his wife is listed as a “legal immigrant”, and they have a few kids. Now dad owns a small construction company. Want to take a guess the status of his employees ? No mention of dad’s parents current status either. Regardless, the reasons this family are voting Dem is obvious.


86 posted on 03/08/2016 9:30:05 AM PST by moehoward
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To: arl295

Yes, but people like us do determine the candidates that are presented to John Q Public. And the polls consistently indicate that the JQP voter elect Hillary or Bernie over Mr. Trump.


87 posted on 03/08/2016 9:35:38 AM PST by Stegall Tx (If Republicans choose a liberal candidate, they have chosen to lose my vote.)
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To: moehoward

I agree with your take on it.


88 posted on 03/08/2016 9:51:18 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: CutePuppy
"Those who want to hurt or punish others more than they want to help themselves usually fail to do either." —CutePuppy
89 posted on 03/08/2016 9:56:36 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Who can actually defeat the Democrats in 2016? -- the most important thing about all candidates.)
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To: DoughtyOne

I share your sentiment.

I was proud of DeLay’s mugshot. That smile was telling Ronnie Earle to GTH.

Very sad to hear of this.


90 posted on 03/08/2016 10:11:09 AM PST by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: sauropod

Exactly.


91 posted on 03/08/2016 10:15:33 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: timestax
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92 posted on 03/08/2016 10:46:18 AM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: Byron_the_Aussie

Tell them Valdez is coming!


93 posted on 03/08/2016 7:38:25 PM PST by LachlanMinnesota
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To: DoughtyOne

Actually go to tedcruz.com. Its funny.


94 posted on 03/08/2016 8:16:00 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: CutePuppy

Try this thought experiment: If FoxNews was really out for Trump, why didn’t they sic experienced and objective investigative reporters like Jennifer Griffen and Katherine Herridge to dig up dirt on him? Instead, they give him GOBS of air time to say whatever he wants unchallenged.


95 posted on 03/08/2016 11:36:43 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: livius; Carry_Okie

There is no question that the media and Trump have been having a symbiotic relationship. He used them to get the free feel-good "celebrity ads" focused on personality and slogans and mostly devoid of issues, while sucking the media oxygen from issues-oriented and policy-minded candidates, and the media loved the circus atmosphere and didn't mind denying serious discussions by other Republican candidates, many of which were far from the "establishment" in this cycle.

But the media also didn't mind having a chance to show cartoonishly "dirty and inarticulate" Trump as a proxy for "a Republican" and have him define / "expose" the Republicans as crude, rude, insulting, narcissistic, divisive, intolerant, unsophisticated, ignorant of issues bullies and single-issue or "he can win" voters, unserious loud-mouth braggarts with low social morals and business ethics and celebrity-starstruck rubes who fill the rallies' venues, and who will, in knee-jerk fashion, defend shady "billionaire or millionaire" with an (R) because he is by definition "successful" and thus his multiple faults (including making promises with no intention to keep them, bold exaggerations, outright lies, personal issues and [lack of] ideology) can be overlooked or ignored.

It's a win-win for them, real loss for us. Imagine how Republicans in all those down ticket (Senate and House) races are going to feel when tied to Trump if he is the nominee. And they will be asked the "Trump questions," without being able to be "flexible" (depending on the place, crowd and time of day) like Donald. Or explain the "magic" phony BBB faxes re TrumpU or faux Trump steaks, water, magazine etc.

In U.S. politics it pays (at least for a while) to be "a cross between P.T. Barnum and the Kardashians." That's why I don't dismiss out of hand Kanye West saying he wants to run for President. Actually, if Hillary were to pick him for VP ticket, she would swing a lot of certain "demographics" to her camp and would win very easily. IMHO... as sad as it sounds, but keeping with the themes of current election cycle.

Money + Celebrity = Power.* (*Ideology and reason not included.)

96 posted on 03/09/2016 7:07:44 PM PST by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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