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26 Jan 2016, 8:39 pm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/pos ... ge%2Fstory
Trump will skip the next debate because Megyn Kelly has an agenda against him and Fox News will not replace her.
That means I will not watch it. It'll be full of low energy!! !

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26 Jan 2016, 8:53 pm

I think he made the right decision.

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26 Jan 2016, 9:53 pm

Mr. Trump seems to have an agenda of contempt for intelligent people he can not control - Megyn Kelly being one of them.

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27 Jan 2016, 10:43 am

I wonder what % of the debate will be spent talking about Trump even tho he isn't there

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27 Jan 2016, 11:21 am

I was up SUPER late last night watching all of this and they started to say that the "real" deal was that Fox was planning to hammer him with infidelity questions. He's had some affairs with married ladies or something? I don't know, it all moves too fast for me sometimes. But supposedly he was going to be asked if he was going to apologize to the kids of the marriages he broke up and to the people who suffered from his indiscretions. I don't know why that would bother him, but that's what they said.

*I* kind thought it was looking as thought the media is getting sick of him, or is afraid he's about to win and is trying to take him down because his opponents aren't getting to the hard negative campaigning quickly enough. I saw some Cruz ad where he was using Trump's "I'm all for abortions all the time no matter what" stance from some years ago and saying that people from Iowa are stupid. Other than that I haven't seen any hard hits.

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27 Jan 2016, 11:30 am

SocOfAutism wrote:

if that is what they were going to ask him then he's more than justified skipping it, they'd never ask those questions to another candidate its ridiculous

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27 Jan 2016, 12:05 pm

They are inviting some whackjob "Trump's a Nazi" youtuber to ask questions.
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-president ... 6/2868743/
I don't know why they even involve youtube in these debates. They clearly can't come up with questions on issues themselves so they get a bunch of entertainers to ask them things irrelevant to the problems facing the US.

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27 Jan 2016, 5:00 pm

It is usually smart political strategy for a front runner with a commanding lead to try avoid debating as much as possible.

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27 Jan 2016, 5:47 pm

Jacoby wrote:

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if that is what they were going to ask him then he's more than justified skipping it, they'd never ask those questions to another candidate its ridiculous

I second that. We are having problems with terrorism, possible war, the economy and what not and that's what they want to ask a presidential candidate at a debate? Fox News has really went down the tubes. I don't even watch them anymore. I would trust Anderson Cooper and CNN to run a more serious debate. For a professional journalist, Megyn Kelly made a farce out of the last Fox debate. Iowa is just too important to let her do it again. Thing is, Trump better carry through with not showing up, otherwise, the media will continue to have the upper hand - the media needs to be put in their place.

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27 Jan 2016, 5:58 pm

Trump is great because he is destroying the narrative of Fox News as a trustworthy "conservative" news outlet, they are the establishment and now people are starting to wake up to the scale of the manipulation that goes into controlling the American people. The media is just but one head of this beast, there is no such thing as an independent press or unbiased press.

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27 Jan 2016, 6:58 pm

Jacoby wrote:

SocOfAutism wrote:

I was up SUPER late last night watching all of this and they started to say that the "real" deal was that Fox was planning to hammer him with infidelity questions.

if that is what they were going to ask him then he's more than justified skipping it, they'd never ask those questions to another candidate its ridiculous

I agree!!

People (elsewhere, on the Internet / TV) are trying to make-out like he's being a cry-baby, or whatever; but, it seems this Megyn Kelly is out for Trump blood, for some reason!

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27 Jan 2016, 7:04 pm

As a lifelong Democrat and hardcore progressive, he really ought to take part in the Dem debate instead. He'd fit in better there.

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27 Jan 2016, 7:05 pm

Big, bad Donald is scared of little Megyn Kelly! What a wuss!

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27 Jan 2016, 7:28 pm

Do you have anything important to contribute to the conversation (cause the name calling is getting old)? But then I don't really expect a lot more from the Left these days - name calling seems to be your only strong suit. :roll:

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27 Jan 2016, 7:32 pm

Campin_Cat wrote:

... it seems this Megyn Kelly is out for Trump blood, for some reason!

VegetableMan wrote:

Big, bad Donald is scared of little Megyn Kelly! What a wuss!

He seems to be afraid of something - every bully fears an even bigger bully, and the Fox network is about as big as they come. Ms. Kelly just puts a face on it.

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27 Jan 2016, 10:08 pm

Nurseangela, you need to stop being so grumpy and serious all the time, and take a factitious, tongue-in-cheek comment for what it's worth. I don't take Trump seriously, so why would I waste my time making serious comments about him? Sheesh!

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