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The Republican Party is falling apart at the seams as more than 10,000 people have signed a petition calling for Fox News Megyn Kelly to be banned from future Republican presidential debates.
The Change.org petition states:
Megyn Kelly finds the state of our union amusing and fun, whereas the viewers (our fellow citizens) deserve a much more serious moderator.
In addition, she had a clear agenda to attack Donald Trump, by tenaciously clinging to his past rather than his vision for the future. She focused on Trump personally, rather than politically. Ultimately, she did not live up to the fair and balanced slogan at Fox News and News Corporation.
While her disdain for Mr. Trump was evident, this petition is a call for truly fair and balanced coverage of ALL candidates. Thus, Megyn Kelly should be barred from hosting or moderating all future Republican Presidential Debates.
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http://www.politicususa.com/2015/08/08/chaos-gop-10000-call-foxs-megyn-kelly-banned-debates.html
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UPDATE @ 2:04 p.m.
Number of signatures is up to 26,309 supporters, with 8,691 needed to reach 35,000
Zambero
(8,962 posts)Make it a GOP "reality" series. and assure that Kelly is on every debate panel.
diabeticman
(3,121 posts)nerve with certain Americans and that fringe could be dangerous
Zambero
(8,962 posts)who goes on and on bragging about his wealth is seen by many as some sort of populist hero.
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)because you're trying to credit lunatics with the capability of rational thought?
diabeticman
(3,121 posts)internationally.
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)Get no argument from me, on that point.
sub.theory
(652 posts)To some, especially on the right, being wealthy means you are superior. It is Ayn Rand thinking. Since Trump is a billionaire, it's even better because he is ultra wealthy which must mean he's even more superior. That's a fundamental difference in worldview from many on the left, so I can appreciate if it makes no sense, but for these guys it's their reality. Part of why they like Trump is that he's rich, so he must be John Galt.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)progressoid
(49,928 posts)And fucked things up pretty well. Including shutting down the govt.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)riversedge
(70,033 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)(2:30 p.m. yesterday). It wouldn't surprise me if some people signing on to this petition were Democrats or, at least, folks interested in creating a little mischief for Fox.
Brother Buzz
(36,361 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)and the reason I gave for signing was this:
"I think all FOX employees should be banned from the debates. If we need to start with just one, then so be it."
I wonder if anyone actually reads that part.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)but it will be on Fox!
Fox just proved why they should be banned from hosting "debates", the motive is not on discussing any issues, it is advancing RW propaganda.
Kelly playing the delicate flower posing as victim against Trump playing the racist billionaire victim....who does not hate them both equally along with the Fox propaganda they both rode into town on?
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)RKP5637
(67,083 posts)restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)but it was not her agenda. she had her orders. the establishment gop is scared of trump and their puppet walker is not getting much traction. roger ailes speaks for establishment gop.
it is a pretty straight line. and it will backfire, as we now see. trumps supporters are going to dig in further.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)and water is wet. Too funny.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)WHAT !!!!
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PatrickforO
(14,556 posts)It may be the 'establishment' side of each party has seriously misread the mood of the American people. Trump is the anti-establishment candidate of the right, and Bernie the anti-establishment candidate of the left. Bernie, is gaining ground too - a public policy poll done July 31 has him at 32% to Hillary's 50%.
And look what the establishment is doing. On the right, the Faux people tried a hatchet job on Trump in that debate and it didn't work. On the left, the mainstream corporate propaganda organs have been ignoring Bernie for the most part and are only now beginning to talk about him in terms of 'far left' and 'socialist.' And, though some of you may disagree, in my opinion, the Clinton campaign's surrogates are stepping up attacks against Bernie (consider the tweets from BLM after disrupting him in Seattle), but he's still surging. The smart money said 'he'd level out at maybe 20%,' but he hit that and kept on going. Maybe this time the Rove strategy of making a perceived strength into a weakness isn't going to work; maybe the ol' tried and true divide and conquer strategy won't work either.
Americans are fed up. We're maybe 2-5 years away from pitchforks and the oligarchs just keep screwing away. It's no wonder the candidates perceived as anti-establishment are gaining in popularity. Maybe instead of lamenting that he needs MORE power to influence politics, Charles Koch should be encouraging the establishment to throw Americans some bones, just make things a LITTLE better. I think they did that with gay marriage, but that doesn't affect enough Americans to assuage the anger we're all feeling at being nickel and dimed, at having the game stacked against us, at never really being able to get ahead.
This is why the establishment is trying its best to overturn the new Iran deal; they mistakenly think that a new war will buy them some more time. But the millenial generation has ALREADY fought a stupid, unjust, immoral war that we got them into based on lies, and now Bernie is in the process of waking them up to the real issues. Once that happens, the millenials will be even more activist, and more effective, than the boomers were, because they will have been educated to the REAL issues that need to be resolved.
In the end, power will be forced to concede...
Sigh...
Well, it is a nice thought anyway.
Initech
(100,027 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)This is Idiocracy.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)They'll throw him under the same bus where they're throwing Megan now.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)when Megan Kelly, one of the reich-wings darlings, gets marched to the stake to be burnt, that shows there is absolutely NO LOW TOO LOW TO GO.