re: #392 freetoken
Trump is playing the game that he is not anyone’s puppet. That is his whole schtick, not taking campaign donations, etc. He can’t be bought.
Today he basically said that the other candidates are wimps. They can’t be their own men (or woman, in one case).
It doesn’t matter that wingnuts are addicted to Fox as Trump has to get many more voters than are Fox watchers.
Polls already indicate that Trump’s strength is among the young and the old, the “moderate” Republicans, and of course the ethno-nationalists. Quite the coalition. Regardless, he has to show that no one can own him, and that include Roger Ailes.
Which is why in the press conference he explicitly called out Ailes by name, several times. Trump made it clear that he thinks Megyn Kelly is second rate, and that Ailes is childish (Trump used that word) for sending out that memo.
This goes back to the reports I linked a couple of weeks ago, about Ailes and Fox and Murdoch, about Ailes battling Murdoch’s children, etc. Trump knows these folk. Trump is playing this ultimate insider card - that he, not Roger Ailes, is Murdoch’s peer.
All good and well. We shall see. But Murdoch likes money and ratings more than anything…life itself.
Whatever happens…this will be great fun to watch from the sidelines.
By the way…this was put up a few minutes ago…
Washington Post - Fox News head lets Trump walk, keeps Megyn Kelly as debate moderator
Ailes told The Fix on Tuesday afternoon that if it came down to a choice between Trump or Kelly, he’d pick Kelly.
“Megyn Kelly is an excellent journalist, and the entire network stands behind her,” Ailes said in a statement. “She will absolutely be on the debate stage on Thursday night.”
So there.
And with that…later. I gotta get busy on some creative thinking for a new logo job.