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The Huffington Post Has ‘Fired’ Donald Trump From its Political Coverage
Huffington Post
‘YOU’RE FIRED!’ read the familiar Trumpian catchphrase emblazoned across the Huffington Post’s homepage on Friday.
The news website, which ranks as the internet’s most popular only after Yahoo and Google News, made the announcement that it will no longer treat Donald Trump as a serious political candidate. Instead, the site has decided to classify his campaign as entertainment.
They explain:
“After watching and listening to Donald Trump since he announced his candidacy for president, we have decided we won’t report on Trump’s campaign as part of the Huffington Post’s political coverage. Instead, we will cover his campaign as part of our Entertainment section. Our reason is simple: Trump’s campaign is a sideshow. We won’t take the bait. If you are interested in what The Donald has to say, you’ll find it next to our stories on the Kardashians and The Bachelorette.”
On the other hand, as Mother Jones’ David Corn warns, “his bid isn’t a joke; it’s a return on the GOP’s investment in extreme politics.”
Corn notes:
It’s not that Trump is truly a statesman who ought to be regarded as such. But he is a political phenomenon that tell us much about a significant slice of the American public: Republican voters. It is indeed a drop-dead serious matter that a large bloc of GOPers—perhaps a plurality, depending on which poll you prefer—would entrust this nation to Trump. And the fact that Trump’s demagoguery is prevailing at this early stage of the Republican presidential race is a measure of how far the tea party shift in the party has gone—and how this ideological extremism has developed deep roots within the GOP.
Trump is not a problem for the Republicans because of his excessive, made-for-headlines, provocative (or racist) pronouncements. (He’s gone from birther to Mexican-basher.) He’s a problem because one out of six or so Republicans are exclaiming, “Yeah, what he said!” If Trump were polling at the same level of, say, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (2 percent), he certainly would deserve minimal notice. But his muscular showing in Republican voter surveys—which will land this media-savvy say-anything egomaniac on the GOP debate stage—is a sign that tea party extremism (which often comes with a racial component) still grips the Republican party. He’s not a carnival barker outside the tent. He holds sway over one of the rings of the GOP circus. The center ring? Maybe not. But for years, the Republicans have exploited and banked on paranoid, angry, and resentful tea party-ish voters. They played footsie with the irrational Obama-haters who believed in death panels and all the secret-Muslim-socialist-born-in-Kenyan-dictator-take-away-your-guns-let-illegals-in-and-destroy-America crap. This is how they gained control of the House and then the Senate.
Well, this crowd wants more red meat. And Mr. You’re Fired has identified this market and seeks to satisfy the demand.
To Arianna and all my wonderful friends at Huffington Post, I understand the impulse to say we won’t allow Trump to transform the race into a freak show—TrumpTV™—but I most respectfully submit that to exile Trump to the realm of the Kardashians is to let the Republican party off the hook too easily. Trump poses a crisis for his party. It may be entertaining for the Democrats to watch. But this crisis is not transpiring in TMZ-land. It’s what the GOP has brought upon itself. Here is the ROI on the GOP’s extreme politics.
Ultimately, the story is not Trump, but the Trumpers™ who were encouraged and used by the party—remember when House Speaker John Boehner held an anti-Obamacare rally at the Capitol and the tea party crowd chanted, “Nazis, Nazis” about the Democrats?—and who now crave more and will not settle for a Jeb Bush or Scott Walker. As of now, Trump, with all his bluster and bleating, is their celebrity champion, the contestant they embrace and root for. And that’s no sideshow.
However the media choose to categorize the fear-mongering tycoon, it looks like he won’t be disappearing from our newsfeeds anytime soon.
—Posted by Roisin Davis
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Source: http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/the_huffington_post_has_fired_donald_trump_from_its_political_coverage_2015/
Now that’s funny. Didn’t they just get rid of their founder because they’re flopping so badly?? CLICK
Notice it’s all the bankrupt liberal POORLY RUN outfits that are doing all the protesting.
Let’s be honest TRUMP is not the problem with the Republican Party. It is fact the other politicians who have proven themselves liars, con-artists, and flip flopper on everything important to America! These same liars said “:hey give us the House we will save you – so the American people did, but they refused to act, then they said “het give us the senate and we will get rid of obamacare and reign in his spending – so the American people did, but once again they refused to take action and in-fact gave into obamacare and gave Obama a free reign on his spending! THEY – THE REPUBLICAN PARTY PROVED FROM THE LEADERSHIP OF CORRUPT BOEHNER AND CORRUPT MCCONNEL THAT THEY ARE BEING BOUGHT! THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS PROVEN TO THE PARTY THAT THEY CANNOT BE TRUESTED!
This is the reason for Trump’s popularity! Trump is not known for speaking legalese, but straight forward facts! Trump is not known for taking bribes but being the one who has bribed these same politicians! Trump doesn’t have a stigma of being a LIAR, but he does have a history of speaking his mind and getting the job done rather than just saying he will like the others running for President!
It is the Republican Party that has let down the American People by becoming the same liberals they were suppose to differentiating themselves from! They refuse to represent INTEGRITY, MORALS, or even COMMON SENSE! They are in their positions to do nothing but fill there own pockets with money!
There needs to be a new law instituted that if any senator or congressman accepts any money from any lobbyists or foreigners that they lose their pay 170k+ from the American people! They refuse to represent the American people who put them in office so why should they be paid by the American People through their taxation!
If Trump is pissing people off, he is DOING SOMETHING CORRECTLY.