Trump dumped from conservative event in Atlanta over 'inappropriate' comments

[TexasTowelie]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was dumped from a prime speaking role to an important gathering of conservative activists on Friday for his criticism of Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly after a combustible debate performance.

Trump was scheduled to deliver the keynote address on Saturday night at a conference in Atlanta organized by Red State, an influential conservative group.

Red State chief Erick Erickson said he had disinvited Trump from the event because of what he described as "demeaning" remarks about Kelly who was one of three moderators during the first major Republican debate on Thursday night in Cleveland.

"While I have tried to give him great latitude, his remark about Megyn Kelly was a bridge too far," Erickson said, adding he had invited Kelly, one of Fox's highest profile anchors, to attend his conference in Trump's place.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/trump-dumped-conservative-event-atlanta-over-inappropriate-comments-045238667.html

[truthisfreedom]

1. Delish!!!

Ahh, it feels soooo good.

[haikugal]

2. Ah, tRump pulled a Palin and went rogue...whodathunkit?

Easy out for him now. Does that mean he got fired?

[TexasTowelie]

3. Rogue is one thing,

but commando scares the ba-jeezus out of me!

[haikugal]

4. Oh gawd, my eyes!!

[Skittles]

5. SHEDULING TEXASTOWELIE FOR ASS KICKING

EGREGIOUS

[TexasTowelie]

7. I didn't even need a bong hit for that one!

Although it might alleviate the pain somewhat.

[awoke_in_2003]

40. Maybe that thing on his head isn't a toupee...

maybe it is a merkin. I am now expecting Skittles to kick my ass.

[Vinca]

6. If the righties piss him off it's going to be a third party run. Yippee!

[Cal33]

14. Exactly my thought. This might be the first step to Trump's starting his 3rd Party.

[left-of-center2012]

15. This might be the first step to Trump's starting his 3rd Party.

Please please please

[RKP5637]

28. K&R!!! Yippee!!! The GOP does not know WTF to do with/about him.

I love it. Trump the master of bullies!!! Attacking the GOP bullies!!! Go Trump!!! Go 3rd Party!!!

[riversedge]

8. uumm Fox and/ or Kellly did not get outraged when Donald called Mexicans rapists

Both comments were wrong.

[RKP5637]

29. Yep! Exactly! n/t

[mercuryblues]

9. Trump

files lawsuit in 3-2-1

[My Good Babushka]

10. Boy, the Republican Party

wants to get Trump out of the running really really badly!

[Scarsdale]

11. Kelly

In the clips I saw, those fake eyelashes she wore were very distracting. So FAKE.

[TexasTowelie]

12. From Crooks & Liars:

I know, I'm shocked too. While speaking to CNN's Don Lemon Friday night about Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly, Trump told Lemon that "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever."

[Red Knight]

18. This is why I don't think Trump is serious

She was mean because she had her period?

What serious presidential candidate would suggest such a thing?

[Botany]

19. +1

I am thinking that "the Donald" might be mentally ill or maybe just an
asshole but the bottom line is he said that Kelly was "on her rag" so she
was nasty too him.

Maybe after he gets dumped by the GOP he can start his 3rd party run for
POTUS.

[William Seger]

37. I can believe that he dwells in an environment where that's acceptable (n/t)

[tavernier]

41. Nah, no Trump fan but that's not what he meant

about the blood in her eyes and wherever. The msm cut the last part of his comments when he said Chris Wallace also had blood in his eyes. That's an old, old saying, "Blood in the eye". It means that someone is spitting mad at you and out for blood. But of course the repugs are spinning it, as though they are the party of feminism.

[cynzke]

13. BRAVO!

One of the rare times I would say that to a conservative GOPer! UNLESS it was sarcastic!

HP reports he was on MSNBC complaining about FOX.

[George II]

16. I agree with a conservative? Good job Erick. No doubt Trump will attack him now, too.

[davidpdx]

17. Trump's comments are too misogynistic for Erick Erickson

I've always thought Erickson was a prick. He has said some pretty nasty things himself.

[47of74]

31. Yeah Erickson wouldn't have had a problem if...

...Trump had said the same words about a liberal woman, such as Elizabeth Warren, Mrs. Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and so on.

[Paladin]

20. Wow---Trump getting humiliated by a right-wing shithook like Erickson.

That's gotta burn.

[Mz Pip]

48. Erickson says outrageous things himself.

Kind of ironic that it's his group that is pulling the plug on a Trump. But I guess IRS okay to be a right wing provocateur when you yammerings are directed at Dems.

[yuiyoshida]

21. IDK..its seems like Kabuki theatre to me...

The GOP wants Trump out of the picture, and seems to have made that their first priority, as I am sure the Koch Brothers have ordered.

[starroute]

22. You mean this Erick Erickson? And this Megyn Kelly?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/31/megyn-kelly-erick-erickson-lou-dobbs_n_3367571.html

Posted: 05/31/2013

Megyn Kelly methodically tore fellow Fox News pundits Erick Erickson and Lou Dobbs to shreds on Friday for their instantly infamous comments about women in the workplace.

Both men had a near meltdown about a study which showed that more women than ever were the sole or primary breadwinners in their households. They agreed that it signalled a terrible new trend for civilization itself. Erickson even brought the animal kingdom up, saying, "When you look at biology, look at the natural world, the roles of a male and a female in society, and other animals, the male typically is the dominant role." . . .

Kelly was loaded for bear when Dobbs and Erickson joined her on her Friday show, and she let both men have it. "What makes you dominant and me submissive and who died and made you scientist-in-chief?" was her first question to Erickson. Try as he might, he failed to convince her.

When he said that many in the Pew study agreed with his discomfort about the role of women, she shot back, "Just because you have people who agree with you doesn't mean it's not offensive."

[Rozlee]

36. Yeah, it sorta looks like a coordinated attack on Trump to me.

Fox and the rest of the right-wing media were fawning on Trump just a week before the debates and suddenly, like computers, changed their programs to ABORT. The masters of the Republican Matrix have spoken. But, it's a question of whether it'll take with the conspiracy minded 'reality' fighters on the extreme right-wing, whose befuddled minds will churn with a multitude of questionable theories about why the kingmakers in the establishment want their beloved bigot ousted.

[starroute]

39. Maybe because he gave the game away

https://www.popularresistance.org/trump-exposed-corruption-of-the-us-political-system/

“Most of the people on this stage I’ve given to, just so you understand, a lot of money. . . I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And do you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me. And that’s a broken system.”

Last night’s FOX News GOP Presidential Debate Extravaganza featured the most riveting two minute political exchange ever heard on national television. During a brief colloquy between Republican frontrunner Donald Trump and Fox moderator Brett Baier, the pugnacious casino magnate revealed the appalling truth about the American political system, that the big money guys like Trump own the whole crooked contraption lock, stock, and barrel, and that, the nation’s fake political leaders do whatever they’re told to do. Without question, it was most illuminating commentary to ever cross the airwaves.

[Rozlee]

42. Well, actually, they were hitting him hard the moment he came on stage before

he made that comment. But, it didn't score points for him with the establishment either. They know he's too egotistic to be someone they can control. He thinks he's god and won't kowtow to anyone. And it was very illuminating on how both parties are bought and sold and the cynicism Trump displays in using the system to his advantage and then having the nerve to complain about how it's wrong for him to do it. He really knows how to manipulate people with this self-denigration and pretense at honesty. I'm sure it's how he got many of his investors to sign on the dotted line to buy into his bankrupt schemes. This faux outrage at the corruption of the system that he readily admits he abuses just flies over the heads of too many low-information voters. They think of him as being 'honest' and 'speaking his mind,' when he's just manipulating them.

[47of74]

46. Yeah, that Erick Erickson.

The same Erick Erickson who...

...has said males should be "dominant" over females, claimed women should be "at home" while men bring "home the bacon," labeled Michelle Obama a "marxist harpy wife" and Justice David Souter a "goat fucking child molester," argued LGBT people are "on the road to hell," and wondered when Americans would raid legislators' houses and beat them to "a bloody pulp."

[Doingto]

23. Good

The GOP should dump him, period.

[Rozlee]

43. Looks like they're trying.

And it looks like he's going to make them regret it if they do. He's ego is too massive to take that kind of rejection without retaliation.

Welcome to DU!

[Heather MC]

24. Dear Conservatives, I am glad you are beginning to realize Trump is a classless Dick!!

Keep up the good work!
It's a shame it took you so long

Sincerely,

The Rest of Planet Earth

[bucolic_frolic]

25. GOP BIG TENT EVENT

can't tolerate media bashing

Like Bush the Elder did to Dan Rather, 1988

INTOLERANCE: Now More Than Ever

[47of74]

26. Of course if Trump had said the same about a Democratic Woman...

...Erickson would be praising him and saying what a genius Trump is. It's only because Trump was mean to a Faux News person that he's being disinvited - not because of his demeaning remarks towards Kelly.

[restorefreedom]

27. i think the gop is circling its wagons

as much as they are terrified of Trump starting a third-party run, there just as terrified of him actually becoming nominee of their party. After the debate, it was very interesting to hear all the GOP representatives say how crappy job trump did, and yet some of the "regular" people actually were happy with his performance.

establishment on both sides is getting very very nervous. it seems to be that this is becoming a lot less of a democratic versus republican fight then it is becoming a establishment versus the people fight. On the left you see it with Bernie, on the right you see it with Trump. The establishment oligarchs see the rising revolution and they are getting shitting their pants scared.

[reflection]

44. I think you may be on to something.

Good observations.

[restorefreedom]

45. thx. i do not think

it is a coincidence that this is happening on both the left and the right and for that matter even in the middle to some degree. The people have had it.

[HFRN]

30. was Trump reaching for the parachute?

sabotaging his way out of something he's beginning to fear he could actually win?

[colorado_ufo]

32. Ding! Ding! Ding!

We have a winner!

There can be all kinds of speculation about why Trump is running, ranging from "free" publicity and ego to conspiracy theories, but I believe it is pretty certain that he is becoming seriously worried about his success. He tried to dismantle his "campaign" with the McCain remarks, which backfired. So he doubled-down by grossly insulting the Fox News Princess. Trump can bully all he wants on the offensive, but he is easy to read when he goes on the defensive. When Kelly didn't get rattled but instead skewered him with questions such as, "When did you become a Republican?" it was easy to see through his veneer of hubris. His tone weakened, his face changed.

Trump should never play poker.

[Doingto]

34. Trump tweeted that he was referring to her nose

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3190341/I-talking-Megyn-Kelly-s-NOSE-Trump-declares-war-politically-correct-fools-banned-Republican-conference-sexist-attack-Fox-host-says-ll-hold-event.html

[valerief]

35. A bunch of crazy people don't want to hear another crazy person. All delusional assholes. nt

[LiberalLovinLug]

38. You can go after Mexicans..

You can go after birth certificates
You can go after pro-choicers
You can go after sensible gun laws
You can even go after a lot of other women (like Rosie O'Donnell)


But NOBODY says nuthin 'bout our queen of the blonde oracles on the Fox News Network!

[Tarheel_Dem]

47. I'll take Erickson seriously when they disinvite the a**holes who keep trying to defund PP. Megyn..

is not the only woman who'll be hurt by such a move.