In decades of watching politics I never saw a news station execute a political hit on one candidate.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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First Brett Baier suggests Donald Trump is a spoiler, then Megyn Kelly suggests he's a misogynist, and then Chris Wallace asks him about his bankruptcies. And then the coup de grace when Frank Luntz's panel says he sucks.

[rurallib]

1. but --- but--- they're fair 'n' balanced

Wonder if they realize that if they succeed in knocking him out of the GOP race, he very well may go independent.
They might want to be careful what they wish for, they may get it.

[jberryhill]

2. It'll probably backfire on them

It's like the horror movie where the more weapons are directed at the monster, the stronger it gets.

Dr. Frankenstein's monster has left the laboratory.

[ericson00]

3. when Republican blogs are attacking Fox, and Limbaugh prob will too today,

I think it shows a little bit of mind control overreach. I can't wait to see Trump shoot up some more points in the polls

[leveymg]

4. Faux isn't news. It's Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes' mouthpiece, funded by Kingdom Holdings

I've seen them do a number on many individual candidates, most of them Democrats. Trump is an outlier, and he makes the rest of the GOP field look like wimps. So, off with his head and comb-over.

"News station" - that's funny.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. I dislike Trump, of course, but FOX are bullies...

One can argue that Trump is a bully so it's poetic justice. But it his incumbent on his opponents to cut him down to size, not an entire news organization.

[1939]

5. I can think of a few torn down by the media in general

Gary Hart
Mitt Romney
Michael Dukakis

[ladjf]

12. Don't forget about the "Dean Scream." nt

[Journeyman]

13. Muskie's tears . . .

[HipChick]

6. Faux a news station?

[DFW]

7. John Hlinko of Left Action commented

He said that he had been on Megyn Kelly's show and found her intelligent and (when he was on) fair.

Which means in the case of the "debate," she did as she was told. Par for the course on Fox Noise. Say what Ailes tells you to say, and you keep your well-paid job. It appears she didn't do anything to endanger her job security last night.

[C_U_L8R]

8. Uber Ailes

Fox's strategy is showing but it's pretty doubtful
Republican suckers are gonna suddenly wake up
and realize they've been manipulated all along.

[Deny and Shred]

10. Certainly not the first political hit job by the media

Howard Dean's scream on an endless loop, the first question to Dennis Kucinich in a debate to explain his UFO sighting while with Shirley McLaine, the first debate question to Dukakis about desiring the death penalty for having his family raped by some Willie Horton-like boogeyman. Just a few that come to mind. Oh, and Fox's daily take on anything Democrat for its entire existence.

[randome]

11. Bush, Palin, Romney, Trump. Anyone see a pattern?

The GOP is dead. We just need to kick it out the door but it's holding onto the carpet for dear life.
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[Downwinder]

14. Think any of those things will bother the Tea Party?

[still_one]

15. First, is fox a "news station"? Second, what the MSM did to Kerry by giving the swift boaters free

advertising time by letting their ads be covered as a "news" story, was as bad as it gets. I remember these ads playing over and over on CNN and other networks as news stories, which meant they were NOT paying for it as a political ad. Then the illustrious news media thought it clever to bring the swift boat clowns on as many interview shows to spew their bullshit unchallenged.

What the MSM did with regard to the "Howard Dean yell", is another example of the MSM doing a political hit on one candidate.

There are many more instances I can name also