Rupert Murdoch needs to pick up the phone and call Donald Trump. FOX News CRASHED last night, as the announcers tryed to explain why Donald Trump won't attend the GOP Presidential debate, it was a long night trying their best to protect Megyn Kelly and persuade Donald Trump at the same time. Fox News CEO
Roger Ailes had been trying to contact both Ivanka and Melania Trump hoping
they could convince Trump to change his mind, but that Trump would only speak
to Rupert Murdoch.
The GOP presidential debate on FOX News tonight should be interesting as the front runner provoked this media storm by refusing to answer any questions from Megyn Kelly as she struggled last night to make it seem easy. FOX News knows that Megyn Kelly has value but nothing close to Donald Trump so they struggle not to turn away from her to protect their millions in profits.
The big rub is that Rupert Murdock loves all those illegal aliens roaming around and wants millions more, blue and white collar. Donald Trump wants to deport all the little welfare creatures and turn off the roman bath of tax payer money. Rupert Murdock funds a lot of illegal alien adventures so he and Trump won't agree and the media has been trying to knock Trump down, using bimbo's like Megyn Kelly, who is not a journalist at all but a long legged fake blonde that's easy to look at. She was a street reporter for ABC and fell out of grace that Santa Clause was White just like Jesus. Megyn Kelly is just another announcer so her defense shield won't hold up for long. She's not that hard to replace as she found out during her divorce. Her mistake is that the Kelly File on FOX is a great watch for Trump supporters, but they're moving down the road now.
Donald Trump is not teasing and FOX News is worried. Millions of FOX News viewers are Donald Trump supporters as they gasp and laugh at FOX News.
Those of us who obsessively observe the media never
thought we would see a day like yesterday, a day when someone finally got the
better of Fox News and Roger Ailes. The infallible network proved itself
fallible with two of the biggest strategic errors in the history of its
existence. First, The Mighty Fox fired off a snarky but strategically stupid
press release that played directly into Donald Trump’s hands. Then, an
obviously rattled Megyn Kelly seeking solace from Trump’s withering spotlight,
sought that solace in no less than anti-American filmmaker Michael Moore.
To understand just how big of a blunder this is, we
have to step back a few months.
Ever since the first Fox News Republican primary
debate took place back in August, Trump has been pounding the cable news
network for what he felt was a gang tackle from the three moderators, Kelly,
Bret Baier, and Chris Wallace, and there is no shortage of those on the
political right who agree with him. Trump’s primary complaint was directed at
Kelly, who didn’t so much ask a question as much as she attempted to paint the
billionaire businessman and reality TV star as a degenerate sexist.
To put it mildly, Trump took umbrage with the
question and for the past six months the two have been feuding. To his credit,
Trump has been openly attacking Kelly. Via Twitter and various interviews, he
has criticized her directly. Kelly’s and Fox News’s response has been subtler,
and some might say dishonest. “The Kelly File,” a primetime cable news
juggernaut, is seen by many as a Anti-Trump Organ for Establishment
Republicans.
In the lead up to Thursday night’s debate, the
final one before actual voting begins in Iowa, Trump has used every opportunity
to again express his concerns about Kelly’s return as moderator. Fox News
refused to budge on the issue. But Trump obviously found his way into Ailes’s
head because Tuesday night the network made an unprecedented strategic blunder
by releasing this statement:
We learned from a secret back channel that the
Ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump unfairly when they meet
with him if he becomes president — a nefarious source tells us that Trump has
his own secret plan to replace the Cabinet with his Twitter followers to see if
he should even go to those meetings.
When a major presidential candidate is accusing
your network of bias, unless you want to prove him 100% correct, this is about
as tone-deaf and dumb as it gets.
Knowing he had Fox by the short hairs, Trump waved
the snarky press release and further burnished his brand as a leader and
fighter by announcing his withdrawal from the debate.
In short: Trump spent a half-year carefully
crafting and building the Narrative that Fox News was out to get him, and with
one press release, Roger Ailes blundered right into it.
The benefits for Trump are obvious. 1) Just 5 days
before Iowa, he will own the news cycle at least through the Sunday shows. 2)
The controversy will overwhelm any opportunity his opponents might have had to
get their message out. 3) Trump has completely upset any gameplan his rivals
had planned, not only for the debate, but as a closing argument in Iowa. 4) The
Fox News debate has been diminished into an undercard event because Trump’s
competing event will dominate the news cycle.
5) Beating up on Fox News will hardly hurt Trump in a general election.
6) Trump looks like a badass who refuses to jump through the media’s hoops —
which is exactly the type of candidate the GOP base has been praying for.
As though the gods smile on The Donald, just a few
hours after the world came crashing down on The Mighty Fox, left-wing filmmaker
Michael Moore made an already-scheduled appearance on “The Kelly File,” and it
was an unmitigated disaster.
After the August debate, I actually defended
Kelly’s questioning of Trump. My rationale was that Kelly, unlike the rest of
the mainstream media, is tough on everyone — right and left alike. Presidential
candidates should be asked tough questions. As long as the questioner isn’t
biased in favor of one side or another, nothing should be off-limits. As Kelly played kissy-face with Moore last
night, I started to feel like a fool for defending her.
Moore isn’t some run-of-the-mill celebrity pitching
his latest blockbuster. He is an anti-American propagandist, a fabulously
wealthy hypocrite, and a degenerate liar. Under normal circumstances, it would
be nauseating to watch Kelly giggle, joke, softball, and get all chummy with
this cretin. The fact that she did so in the wake of Trump’s charges of bias
showed an extraordinary lack of judgment.
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