Sunday, August 9, 2015
Trump and FOX News
I watched both debates on Thursday (8/6/15).
By selecting a top tier of 10 candidates for its main show, even if for
practical necessity, Fox News also declared itself as the king maker of
Republican politics. But it had to do one more thing to be a credible king
maker: bring down Trump as the top candidate, whom no establishment Republican
wanted to see as the leader. Someone had to take the wind of Trump’s sails. So Roger
Ailes hand-picked Megan Kelly to achieve this.
Her first question was fair enough and Trump answered as (probably) expected.
That question could have been asked by any of the 3 moderators. Rather, it was intended merely to
introduce Kelly as the innocuous inquisitor, then as the trap setter. The second
question about women was the real trap. That one would be most effective if asked
by Kelly, especially if Trump jumped into it. So before
the debate even began, Trump was sanitized.
I just wonder what Roger Ailes or Megan Kelly would have done if, as I would
have, Trump replied to the second question with something like “Megan, my love,
are you worried I will not treat you right if you asked me for a date?” Such an
answer would have made Trump’s day, caused
raucous laughter, and trapped FOX in its own trap . . . no longer a king
maker, which a cable network news should never be . . . but in America. That was the real shame of the debate, as I see it.
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