A Note About Our Coverage Of Donald Trump's 'Campaign'

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  1. ballantine

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    He is making them look GOOD. At least himself that is. The immigrationists (Bush, Rubio, Graham, Flake) will always look bad. Sellouts.
     
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    Right on the money. Huffington Post is just demeaning themselves. And defining themselves, as the posting says > "money-losing clowns."
     
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    Yep. Game over. Trump 1, HuffPo 0.
     
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    LOL for a guy who the left thinks is a clown they sure are worried about taking him out.
    "DANGER Will Robinson DANGER!"
    In reality he is their worst nightmare. A guy who isn't ashamed to admit he wants to fix the country and this is the part that really scares them, HE HAS THE MONEY TO GET THERE TO DO IT.
    They must take him out of the election at all costs.
     
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    Serious media outlets have the same problem with the Trump as do serious Republican presidential candidates. "Ignore him, and he'll go away, because acknowledging him only demeans us."

    Yes, he's a buffoon, but as an obscenely rich media entertainer in this era when raw celebrity arrogantly demands attention and the political process is hobbled by money, he's an important buffoon.

    Indeed, he's a virtual mega-stink bomb that has detonated in the midst of an overcrowded GOP scrum for the party nomination. Demurely holding one's nose high in the air and sniffing at your perfumy Chantilly lace hankie until he minces off is a poltroonish dodge for reporters and candidate alike.

    Take a deep whiff, and if it makes you gag, gag, but don't pretend that there is nothing to get wind of.
     
  7. Aleksander Ulyanov

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    I have to agree. The real story here is that Trump is the front runner. And the implications of this as to the dangers to our freedoms this next election poses are definitely not something anyone should be calling "entertainment" HuffPo is purely wrong here. By being front runner Trump is showing everyone the TRUE face of the Republican Party, the bigotry and hatred that is Conservatism's BASE, not a sideshow. HuffPo is doing us all a true disservice by putting the REAL Republicans next to the Kardassians instead of the Nazis, where, Godwin be damned, most present day Republican leaders belong
     
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    Exactly, precisely. Hopefully, Trump has just lost Republicans the next election, but my major fear is that he has won it for them. Yes, I'm afraid of him. I fear racist swine will take over this country and run it as their own little de jure and then de facto slave state, just like they did from its very origins until 1964
     
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    I anticipate that the pantaloon will implode as the tightarsed GOP establishment flail their pom poms, but he does serve to smoke out a squalid element.

    I'm sure that what has the Turdblossoms and Turltes hyperventilating is the festering turd party threat. The Trump has the swollen head and bulging pockets for such a kamikaze self-indulgence, and the collateral damage to the White Man's Party would be devastating.
     
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    Yawn, snore, zzzzz. :yawn:

     
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    Yes, there is that reaction as well.

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    Alright Natty, I gotta say.....that pic of Trump made me laugh. :roflol:

     
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    He either makes folks laugh or cry.

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    Wall Street Journal is already anticipating the scavenger feeding frenzy:

     
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    C'mon PD......don't you know encouraging the likes of Bumpo on this site can be hazardous to your health? :roflol:

     
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    No worries. Natty is nothing but a misguided, lost soul.

    Besides, that chipmunk pic of Trump was funny. :roflol:

     
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    I don't want to hear from the Left, who is a qualified candidate on the Right.(Especially when I hold the Left in such pitiful intellectual wallows. For all time, you will have to live with the fact that you elected BHO not once, but twice). Jeb Bush "Immigration is an act of love", will simply NEVER win the nomination.

    Preliminary polls are meaningless, it's during the debates where campaigns are hashed out, positions are laid out and Jeb Bush(who has already flubbed several statements) will go down to the bottom. I still need to see a professionalism from Trump and if I don't see it by September, I'm going back to supporting Rand Paul's campaign, as a true anti-establishment candidate who can win the WH.
     
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    Other studies have shown that there is no media bias, so the 5-7% bump means nothing.

    But let's assume there is media bias. What's preventing Republicans from forming their own media and injecting their own bias? Certainly cash is not the issue, so that must mean they can't come up with the right viewership/readership projections.
     
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    I believe they put the Kissenger, Krauhthammer, and Shapiro items in the funny papers section because that is where readers expect to find them.
     
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    Of course there is media bias.

    Just ask Fox, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, The Weekly Standard, The New York Post, the National Review, The American Spectator, The New American, The American Conservative, Breitbart, The American Thinker, the Daily Caller, TownHall, Newsmax, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, Ann Coulter, Michael Reagan, Neal Boortz, Laura Ingraham, Michelle Malkin, G Gordon Liddy, Hugh Hewitt, Dana Loesch, Kevin Jackson, Dennis Prager, Monica Crowley, Brit Hume, Sarah Palin, Byron York, Elizabeth Hasslebeck, Charles Krauthammer, Michael Medved, David Frum, Joe Scarborough, Peggy Noonan, George Will, Kathleen Parker, Paul Gigot, etc., etc., etc.
     
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    I wasn't aware that right wing media had been banned in this country. My advice - create your own media bias, stop simpering, and stop losing in the marketplace of ideas. It's all about viewership.
     
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    Bias will go wherever it can find viewers. And here I was thinking that conservatives believed in supply and demand. Nah, I guess I never really did think that.
     
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    This would be the same Trump thingy that just disrespected American POWs as lesser men because they were captured?
    And Republicans are OK with this?

    You may not like John McCain's politics, but honestly, the guy can't even raise his arms above his shoulders because of the years
    of beatings he received as a POW.

    Trump does not deserve to serve as CIC if he is really this petty.
     
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    LMAO...You people can't say I didn't warn you. Trump just imploded with his disgusting attack on McCain.
    He didn't even last a month.
    Time to start scrounging around for the next right-wing folk hero, guys.
     
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    Lol...The only people qualified to speak as "we" are Siamese twins and people with worms.
     
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    Really? Do you have any poll numbers to back you up, or are you just blowing smoke?

    I think you're just blowing smoke. I think it boggles your mind that Trump is actually leading the Republican field right now.

    Your ridicule has so far propelled The Donald straight to the top, so by all means, keep it up.

    The more ridicule you heap on Donald, the more opportunity he's going to have to stand up and demonstrate gutsiness and sincerity.

    Trust me, America likes the idea of Trump going after a Neo-Con work like McCain. America likes that idea, very much. Even you like it! Amirite?
     

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