{"id":30395,"date":"2015-12-15T13:40:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T21:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=30395"},"modified":"2015-12-15T17:07:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T01:07:29","slug":"its-official-donald-trump-has-lost-his-freakin-mind-says-fox-news-is-not-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=30395","title":{"rendered":"IT’S OFFICIAL! Donald Trump Has Lost His Freakin’ Mind – Says Fox News Is Not Fair To Him"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning there is new evidence that Republican front-runner Donald Trump has lost all connection to reality. Of course, that’s not to say that Trump’s mental state was ever particularly stable. But he is now demonstrating with even more certainty that he’s sinking into an abyss of madness that is as deep as the Mariana Trench<\/a><\/p>\n

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First of all, Trump is reigniting his on-again, off-again feud with Fox News. Previously he has complained about the network’s coverage of him, even though Fox has been his biggest booster and a provider of tens of millions of dollars in free advertising and promotion. Media Matters has compiled data that shows that Trump has dominated<\/a> Fox\u2019s airtime despite the feuding. Nevertheless, he has bitterly maligned<\/a> many of their top presenters, executives and even owners. At the height of the Trump-Fox wars Trump declared that he would no longer appear on the network and advocated a viewer boycott<\/a>. Fox News, in a display of wholly unethical journalism, capitulated to Trump (what promises were made?) and they continued their shaky relationship. That is, until today.<\/p>\n

Upset that Megyn Kelly’s script miscalculated his lead in a new poll from Monmouth University, Trump went haywire on Twitter<\/a> saying that she’s “overrated,”<\/em> “dopey,”<\/em> and that she “lies.”<\/em> His rant went on to encompass the whole network which he slammed as “not fair.”<\/em> Well, they’re not balanced either but, so far as Trump is concerned, that’s been to his advantage. Also, it’s kinda cute that in his attack on Kelly and her colleagues over a typo, Trump’s tweet contained its own typo misaddressing the Twitter handle for “deadpan”<\/em> George Will. Georgina Williams<\/a> probably never got so much attention.<\/p>\n

What’s more, Trump’s focus on the poll from Monmouth has problems of its own. When the outlier poll came out Monday showing Trump far ahead of his rivals, he wrote a special note of thanks saying…<\/p>\n

“I wanted to be the first to share the latest national poll results from the highly respected Monmouth University.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, just three days earlier, a different poll from Monmouth showing Trump behind in Iowa produced this response:<\/p>\n

“There was one poll \u2014 Monmouth? I\u2019ve never heard of Monmouth. What the hell is Monmouth? Explain it. I don\u2019t like Monmouth.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In three days Trump went from never having heard of Monmouth to hailing it as highly respected. This, from the man with (according to him) “the world’s best memory.”<\/em> Trump has also described himself as the smartest, handsomest, most militaristic, least racist, and best circus clown (OK, I made up that last one, but it’s the most accurate). Now we can also add to his list of self-said superlatives that he is the healthiest candidate for president EVER! That’s according to his personal physician who, like his patient, has the unique ability to engage in communications through his prodigious ass.<\/p>\n

It will interesting to see if Fox News has any response to Trump’s latest broadside. Will they pull back on the non-stop coverage? Will Fox & Friends continue to take his regular phone-in interviews? Will Roger Ailes<\/a> and Rupert Murdoch<\/a> still act as if they are his bitches? If the past is any indication, Fox will continue to bend over and take it in order to keep cashing in on the ratings bonanza – journalism and democracy be damned.<\/p>\n

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How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Tonight there will be another Republican primary debate, offering America another chance to observe a field of candidates who will compete to see who is the most biased against Muslims, Latinos, and African Americans; the most anxious to wage perpetual war with other people’s children; the most insensitive to the poor; the most oblivious to the dangers of Climate Change; the most averse to the equal rights of women and gays; and the most likely to side with corporations to wreck the economy and corrupt democracy. It should be a barrel of laughs.<\/p>\n

And just for fun, here is the most accurate representation of Donald Trump I’ve yet to see:<\/p>\n