THE HUFFINGTON POST’S PETTY DISS OF “THE DONALD”
|| By FITSNEWS || No, Kim Kardashian is not running for president … but if you want to learn about the campaign of the current GOP presidential frontrunner, you’ll have to navigate a bunch of articles about the famous socialite.
How come?
The Huffington Post – one of the largest media outlets in America – has decided to cover billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump‘s front-running 2016 presidential campaign as entertainment, not politics.
No really …
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.
Wow … and you thought FITSNews was “Unfair, Imbalanced.”
We get that Trump has been controversial, but HuffPo’s editorial decision is unwarranted, unfair and unbecoming of a legitimate news outlet. Worse, it’s petty – costing the outlet credibility not only in its coverage of Trump, but the rest of the presidential field as well.
Even Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post – who covers politics from the far left fringe of the media spectrum – agrees with us. Or rather we agree with him.
From his column …
Who are we to decide who’s serious and who’s not in an election? Trump’s polling suggests that, whether you like him or not and whether you think his campaign is a sideshow or not, plenty of people who identify as both Republicans and likely voters don’t see him that way. It’s not up to me, the Washington Post or the Huffington Post to decide the relative merits of people feeling that way. It’s our job to understand why they feel that way, analyze how long they might feel that way and figure out what it means for everyone else running for president that they feel that way.
Amen.
In fact Cillizza goes one better, saying that “while lumping Trump in with reality TV coverage will win HuffPo plenty of plaudits – including those rare ones from Republicans who want nothing more than to get Trump off the center of the national stage – it’s not the right decision.”
He goes on to accuse the outlet of engaging in the same sort of “publicity stunts that we tut-tut at Trump for.”
Again, he’s 100 percent correct (and we hate saying that about anything Cillizza writes).
As we noted in this piece assessing Trump’s ongoing ascent among the GOP electorate, we’re dealing with something bigger than any one candidate here. Just look at this text message we received today from a Republican in early voting South Carolina …
My brother said it best. “I’m not sure he’s a good person, not sure he’s ethical or moral but I’m voting for him cause these two parties have bullsh*tted us long enough. Screw ’em.”
That’s it … that’s what Trump is tapping into. And whatever happens to him, it’s not going anywhere anytime soon.
“Should Trump flame out that doesn’t necessarily mean the forces propelling his rise are going to evaporate,” we wrote.
Indeed … because those forces transcend Trump.
30 comments
“HuffPo’s editorial decision is unwarranted, unfair and unbecoming of a legitimate news outlet.”
No it isn’t. Trump running for president is even more of a joke than Stephen Colbert running for president.
That’s why FitsNews isn’t considered a legitimate news outlet. Because you’ll act like Trump is serious for a check from him.
Huff and Puffington Post isn’t considered a “serious” mag by a significant % of the population either, so it’s all a big “who cares”.
Beat me to it. They are only slightly more sober or less high than MSNBC, and Arianna Fake Zsa Zsa has tried as hard as possible to be Donald Trump.
Some are expressing the logic that more people go to HuffPo for for the entertainment than the news. So therefore, more people would be exposed to him on that website’s entertainment page.
I don’t know anything about the site, visited it years ago, never been back, and this is not enough to spur my curiosity for a return visit.
What’s ironic, I consider FITSNews entertainment, but I doubt its operators, or most of the Dumb-fucks who revere it, see it for what is is. That probably goes for CNN, MSNBC, CBS and ABC. It’s difficult to find serious news these days.
As for Kim, she’s likely smarter than the woman the Democrat Party is coronating for their presidential nominee. That should tell you a lot about how fucking stupid Hillary is.
But on the bright side, the standard for Democrats is pretty low.
At least Will can run a successful blog, something you’ve failed at.
Face it, fuck. The GOP have no chance.
HuffPo has a point…
Wait? FitsNews thinks he’s a serious candidate? Now that’s fucking funny!
Yeah, we shouldn’t call anybody a serious candidate who leads in polling a field of thirty candidates.
Is HuffPo anymore wrong than Faux News deciding who gets to debate? And BTW, Faux is making a ton off of candidates having to ‘buy’ their way into the debates with ads. So, FITS, slow your roll a bit and court your BFF in private.
Remember all that air time I got on Fox News? Wait, they practically ignored me!
And you would have made the best president in 50 years!!!!!
I told you you should have ran as an independent…
Not too late to save the country………………………………
“[M]aking a ton off of candidates having to ‘buy’ their way into the debates with ads.”
No!! You don’t say? A news agency that’s only in it for the money? I didn’t know such a thing existed.
Serious people will consider Trump a serious candidate when he designates staff to support his candidacy. Until then, he is a one-man sideshow getting free advertising.
“he is a one-man sideshow getting free advertising”
ding ding ding
Except he’s losing business left and right with this ‘advertising’. Not a good businessman.
Except he’s got so much money, he’s telling those Gestapo, mealy mouthed bastards to cram that money up their asses.
He’s untouchable, unlike the greedy son of a bitches that kowtow to the stupid ass liberal media, and hate squads.
No. He’s sweating the fact that his big mouth cost him millions. If he was so rich and powerful he would just buy politicians and control from the shadows. He’s just an insecure little prick that exaggerates nearly everything about his life.
He’s slapping the shit out of you, and the anti-American little bastards, like you. For that, I salute him.
No one else is telling you what a piece of shit you are. He is. It’s why you’re pissing all over yourselves. He makes you acknowledge the miserable little liberal assholes you are.
The BIG problem for YOU, is that Trump is calling attention to the MAJOR FUCK UP Obama has been on immigration, along w/ everything else.
And now you have Muslim Terrorists murdering our best, and illegals killing and raping.
Sucks to be a piece of shit, America Hating Democrat right now. And Trump is pointing the finger at you and Hillary, and the people are going WILD w/ approval.
Gotta love the guy for that. Nobody else would call you on it. He’s slapping the living crap out of you. And there is not a damn thing you can do about it, other than stand there with shit running down your leg, like the clueless Dumbass you are.
What do you call divesting stock and pulling himself from any and all conflicts of interest?
PRESIDENT … KARDASHIAN?
TBG, for one, welcomes our callipygian overlords.
Mental Note: re-up the Readers Digest Sub for the Word Power page. The only downside would be having her self delusional, “King of All Rock” dipshit husband of hers around. At least now he stays his ass in the corner like he is told. The WH may give him ideas.
Steatopygian overlords…
Vice President… it’s a pointless office anyway.
You Remembered!
Hooray for putting in a fact every now and then….
P. S. – “Callipygian” translates from the Greek as “beautiful buttocks” [no, Euwe, I think they mean the female variety].
“Steatopygian” translates as “plain ol’ Lard Ass.”
I think she is rather plain looking with a huge ass, I think it is gross. I wonder what that ass will look like in twenty years.
Has her rear been surgically altered?
As an old friend told me one time about his taste in women. “I don’t want a ‘toothpick,’ but on the other hand, I don’t want a ‘lumber yard.”
Good picture of Kim before she became the big-assed cow she is now
What a fucking waste!!!!!!!