Earlier this evening, CNN’s Don Lemon interviewed Donald Trump about the debate on Fox News Channel last night, and set off another Trump-related tempest. After noting that Kelly pushed Trump during the debate, and that she “pushed a lot of people” besides Trump, Lemon asked, “What is it with you and Megyn Kelly?” Trump’s reply was, er … colorful, to say the least [emphasis mine]:
TRUMP: Well, I just don’t respect her as a journalist, I have no respect for her. I don’t think she’s very good, I think she’s highly overrated. But when I came out there, you know — what am I doing? I’m not getting paid for this. I go out there, and they start saying this stuff [garbled]. But you know, I didn’t know there’d be 24 million people. I knew it was going to be a big crowd because I get crowds, I get ratings. They call me the ratings machine. So I have, you know, she gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions, and you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her … wherever. But in my opinion, she was off base.
Kelly did ask Trump tough questions in last night’s debate, but she asked tough questions of Marco Rubio on abortion too, and of other candidates on stage as well. As the front-runner, Trump should have expected tough questions, especially given his track record of supporting nearly every progressive idea at one time or another, including Hillary Clinton being President. Kelly also asked Trump about his remarks about women, which appears to have particularly rankled him — and pushed him into validating Kelly’s premise in asking those questions in the first place. After all, it’s not often when a major party candidate takes a shot at a woman by reminding everyone of her menstrual cycle. I’m certain that will really impress women about their place in the Republican Party.
Trump was scheduled to speak at the Red State Gathering tomorrow, in the final slot at the event. Not long after these remarks, event organizer Erick Erickson announced that he had withdrawn the invitation:
I have rescinded my invitation to Mr.Trump. While I have tried to give him great latitude, his remark about Megyn Kelly was a bridge too far
That will undoubtedly anger some Trump supporters, but after last night’s debate performance and his thin-skinned whining afterward, I wonder if that group wasn’t already in decline. This might fire up the die-hard Trump troops, but suggesting that a journalist went after his target-rich record only because she was menstruating should be a disqualifier for most voters. It’s vastly worse than anything Todd Akin said, and will almost certainly have media outlets demanding responses from the other Republican candidates. It’s practically tailor-made for Democrats to hoist up the Republican War On Women banner, especially Hillary Clinton.
Get ready for plenty of Team Trump dog-in-the-manger, sour-grapes quotes in the morning, if not overnight. There may be some legitimate anger among a small group of RSG15 attendees tomorrow who wanted to see Trump at this event, but Erick has a solid case for not wanting to have this overshadow the event tomorrow, with more presidential candidates on hand to make their pitches. Erick will almost certainly address this in the morning, and we’ll see what the fallout is over the rest of the day.
Update: Carly Fiorina appears to be the first Republican candidate to respond to Trump’s remarks, perhaps fittingly so (via Twitchy):
That’s interesting, because Fiorina actually deflected a Trump question at her presser today at RSG15 by asking why the media wasn’t calling out Obama for his offensive comments about opponents of the Iran deal. Not this time, apparently.
But I also think that while Mr. Trump resonates with a lot of people with his bluntness, including me to a degree, there are just real lines of decency a person running for President should not trust.
His comment was inappropriate. It is unfortunate to have to disinvite him. But I just don’t want someone on stage who gets a hostile question from a lady and his first inclination is to imply it was hormonal. It just was wrong.
I have invited Megyn Kelly to attend in Donald Trump’s place tomorrow night.
Well, that would be interesting. We’ll see if she can swing that.
"Kelly did ask Trump tough questions in last night’s debate"
About the names he called some women, trying to resurrect the old "Republican War-on-Women" theme. Yeah. There's a hot issue.
Fox was trying to show how fair and balanced they were by putting Republican candidates on the spot. Does anyone think the MSM will show everyone how fair and balanced they are by putting Democrat candidates on the spot?
Carly Fiorina: "I'm the new rising star Lion-ess of GOP Presidential candidates!"
This broad Fiorina is a hologram. A fake. Wolf in sheeps' clothing. A hedge for Jeb. A totally manufactured candidate who is OBVIOUSLY following a script. She's just as manufactured a product as is the fake outrage against Trump. The Megyn Kelly-led "War on Women!" meme, and the un-holy matrimony of FOX News to the effete GOPe is now exposed to the world. How will Republican voters react to this manipulation?
Q: Is there ANYTHING that either FOX News or the GOPe do that isn't contrived, staged bullsh*t?? Their relationship isn't much different than the symbiosis of MSNBC and the Dem Party.
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His comment was inappropriate. It is unfortunate to have to disinvite him. But I just don’t want someone on stage who gets a hostile question from a lady and his first inclination is to imply it was hormonal. It just was wrong.
What utter horsebleep. "Hostile"?? Did these a-holes watch the first few minutes of the debate and FOX News's hit on Trump?? Whomever watched it won't soon forget what they saw and hear WITH THEIR OWN EYES AND EARS.
Megyn Kelly is a "lady"?? Since when? I thought she was...another female super-hero -- just like in the movies! She just demonstrated her own high-falootin' gun slinging "moderating", shooting up the saloon, aiming for Trump's head. But now suddenly she and Fiorina are delicate flowers WHEN it's convenient? And now they require "saving" by a White Knight like Erick Erickson??
Erickson is FOS. He's either a fake Pubbie and tool of GOPe, a Democrat(R), OR a homofascist. Or as I suspect, ALL of the above.
We're finding out not only are the two political PARTIES colluding and co-mingling, but so too are the media -- particularly FOX News.
Guess what? Trump *will* be running Third Party. Thanks to the un-masked FOX News MSNBC-lite and the GOPe, aka Dem-lite. And if the candidate for the GOP isn't Cruz or Walker, my vote goes to Trump. Hitlery or not, we're cratered.
Trump is a red herring.... this loosely scripted brouhaha with Megyn Kelly & Erick Erickson is intended to discredit populist concerns and make lackluster establishment candidates like Bush & Kasich appear more palatable.
" this loosely scripted brouhaha with Megyn Kelly & Erick Erickson is intended to discredit populist concerns and make lackluster establishment candidates like Bush & Kasich appear more palatable. "
Make Bush & Kasich appear more palatable? ROFLMAO! That is an epic failure!!
Blah, blah blah. Who gives a rat's ass? This nation is phucked no matter who is deemed captain at the helm to run this nation from any political party.
The place is not fixable. You have to move out of this cesspool.
About the names he called some women, trying to resurrect the old "Republican War-on-Women" theme. Yeah. There's a hot issue.
So "hot" I've got frostbite.
Fake issue. Fake meme. The whole d*** political scene is a fake hologram...and Matrix.
Fox was trying to show how fair and balanced they were by putting Republican candidates on the spot. Does anyone think the MSM will show everyone how fair and balanced they are by putting Democrat candidates on the spot?
Lol...We know what the answer to that question is. With "friends" like FOX News, who needs enemies?
FOX News is finally exposed as per their "faux news" moniker. It's a subversive Trojan Horse, just like the GOPe.
We're killing ourselves.
More like we've been fooled, betrayed, manipulated, hung out to dry, and lied to by those who've masked and been misrepresenting themselves and intentions.
Over HALF this country has no major mainstream media that represents the truth, OR constitutional law. If it was EVER time to embrace "Conspiracy Theories" and the notion that there indeed is but ONE agenda supported by BOTH parties -- as well as EVERY major media outlet, it's clearly NOW.
Donald Trump says he would ‘love to have Oprah’ Winfrey as his 2016 running mate; check it out: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-love-oprah-2016-running-mate-article-1.2260917
This nation is phucked no matter who is deemed captain at the helm to run this nation from any political party.
Still NOT necessarily. But you're now witness to THE mentality that "things CAN get worse." They did because with Hoosane as Prez, the Machine that was designed to destroy the US was even MORE oiled, MORE moled, MORE infested with subversives and saboteurs.
With a Cruz or Trump, SOME of the damage can be reversed with the right candidate, the rats eradicated, and the pendulum can swing the other way. Probable, no. Possible, yes. But it would take a miracle.
The place is not fixable. You have to move out of this cesspool.
Where would/could you go?
Look -- the odds to fixing anything don't look good, admittedly. Precisely becase The Fix has been in. Talk to Robert (RLK) about the Frankfurt School. Their agenda has been realized.
As long as the media is given license to remain THE Message, and lies are portrayed as the "truth," we ARE screwed totally. What happened during this debate, to Trump, and the ideological sabotage and games played by the moderators, Kelly, Wallace, and Baier was an eye-opener. Even to moderates. The game indicted FOX News -- conservatives' ONLY previous source of "truth" as a tool of the GOPe and a subversive element.
Taxed to death to pay for foreign intrigue that goes nowhere while the US borders are allowed to be infiltrated by the lowest scum on the planet and receive full citizenship? Are you out of your phuckin' mind?
A woman who gets offended by references to menstruation is too much of a pussy to be President.
HA! A two-fer. (Ain't it the truth??)
You see? ALL women are supposed to be soooo offended by Trump that it only reinforces the fake "War Against Women" (but what about the obvious war against Men -- white, Christian, straight in particular??)
This meme is designed to help catapult Mrs. Hitlery Satan into the White Hut.
Taxed to death to pay for foreign intrigue that goes nowhere while the US borders are allowed to be infiltrated by the lowest scum on the planet and receive full citizenship? Are you out of your phuckin' mind?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. What of it?? Who supports it?
HELLO. These are the issues of candidates to address what we're trying to support.
But on Wednesday, during a separate interview on Fox News Channel’s “Fox and Friends,” Trump rolled back his comments, saying he and Stephanopoulos were only joking.
“He said that as a joke,” Trump said. “All of a sudden, they say, Donald wants Oprah. Give me a break.”
From your link, bucky.
I guess Trump can flip-flop with the best of them.
Donald Trump says he would ‘love to have Oprah’ Winfrey as his 2016 running mate; check it out: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-love-oprah-2016-running-mate-article-1.2260917
This broad Fiorina is a hologram. A fake. Wolf in sheeps' clothing. A hedge for Jeb. A totally manufactured candidate who is OBVIOUSLY following a script.
Lib, you.re usually on target. but this time you are dead wrong.
And the words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined* in a furnace of clay, purified seven times. Psalm 12:6
Trump is a total fraud.... his only goal is to cram yet another Bush down your throat.
Based on WHAT info, Yoda? Trump sez our politicians are "stupid liars." Do you disagree with that assessment?
Only Trump's railing against the illegal invasion is getting the issue ANY attention at all, so much so that 'Kate's Law' (named after the young, pretty white girl who was brutally shot in the head by an illegal who was SUPPOSED To have been jettisoned back to Mexico) was proposed legislation.
Trump is indicting the Uniparty system of fake support for fake constituencies. Btw, it doesn't appear as though ol' Jeb is building an iota of momentum. Don't know what campaign you're paying attention to.
Speaking of "Frauds," the only pols YOU support are indeed MAXIMUM Frauds. Like Hitlery, 0buma, and any socialist, statist Dem you can hug and squeeze like a long-lost lover.
Lib, you.re usually on target. but this time you are dead wrong.
On Fiorina?
Gary, her past is subversive. Don't take my word for it, research it and the issues she's supported in the past. That she's already come out and dissed Trump was designed to portray her as the feminine voice of reason. She IS being supported behind the scenes as back up to Jeb.
Her NEW image, her NEW words of NEW wisdom are scripted and manufactured. Don't be fooled into buying the Fiorina Fenomenena. Yes, she sounds good...TOO good. Where's she been all this time?? She's a Trojan Horse.
A woman who gets offended by references to menstruation is too much of a pussy to be President.
How many women voters, GOP or indy, really want to support a guy who is making crude remarks about a woman interviewer "bleeding from...somewhere" just because she lobbed a few hard questions?
This is just Teh Donald, unscripted in all his glory.
That she's already come out and dissed Trump was designed to portray her as the feminine voice of reason. She IS being supported behind the scenes as back up to Jeb.
C'mon, she's in politics. She's raising money, cultivating party insider support.
Of course she will take advantage of such an egregious statement by Trump. And with an ego bigger than Manhattan, Trump won't apologize at all or will wait until his crude remarks make him even more toxic with voters.
Fiorina, as the lone woman candidate in the field, will exploit this to the max. Which is exactly what she is doing.
Even so, that happened two days ago so it is old news.
Red State Gathering invited candidates. Huckabee, Walker, Cruz, Bush and Trump.
The others are all coming. Trump is disinvited and his slot has been given to Megan Kelly to make a speech. Trump was the big evening speaker, the headliner really, and would have spoke in the College Football Hall of Fame (the others are at some lesser hall for the morning afternoon speeches).
You suppose she will show up on stage, bleeding from...somewhere?
In her rather miserable 2010 CA Senate campaign, she was adamantly pro-choice and on the global hotting side.
She was, in fairness, just recovering from surgery and breast cancer and had just lost an adopted daughter.
In fairness, why should her personal her problems have played into her life philosophy? In order to be "fair"?? What proof have we that she's sincerely suddenly changed her mind on those two hot-button issues that are traditionally DEM red meat requisites?
I think she has prepared for and wants to be the new Palin, an attack dog that can defy the usual War On Women themes.
That portrayal appears to be the narrative/script for the time being. But now she's just defied her defiance of the "War on Women" theme by going after Trump. That didn't take long.
She is a much better prepared candidate now than she was in her 2010 race or in her role in 2012 as a highly placed Romney surrogate.
Yup, I agree wholeheartedly. Fiorina polished inside and outside, and seems to have attended finishing school for GOPe Candidates.
Given that she is appealing to the GOP party establishment, it's no surprise she's demoing her willingness to go on the attack yet again.
But THIS time, her handlers have jumped on the "Destroy-Trump!" bandwagon, which undoubtedly endears her to the RNC. My impression: Fiorina seems...almost TOO polished, too smooth, too confident. And NOW she can play off and exploit the "War on Women" card and not be treated "meanly" during the campaign. How utterly reptilian AND brilliant!
