Trump's impending defeat is leading to a chorus of media speculation about his post-election plans. The two most oft-cited assumptions are:
Trump will not quietly fade into the background.
Trump will eventually launch a "Trump TV" media venture.
After speaking with a well-informed Trump insider (name asked to be withheld), I can confirm that both assumptions are true.
Hah! I knew it!
And what will be the focus of "Trump TV?"
"Trump's new aim: Poison a Clinton presidency."
So essentially Trump is planning to start peeing in Fox's backyard.
Which brings up the question, will Trump simply try to out Right Wing the current Right Wing news outlet?
And in response will Fox News become more CNN-like and reach for the more moderate viewers?
Or will they just double down on crazy and give Sarah Palin her own show along with David Duke, Alex Jones, and Matt Drudge?
It would seem to me that Fox is between a rock and a hard place, and if they do not evolve in one direction of the other they could cease to exist entirely.
Really the best thing they have going for them is that everything Trump touches eventually turns to shit, so if they can just wait Trump out they might survive to report lies about the Clinton presidency another day.
They aren't the only ones who must evolve or cease to exist. This blog has been on life support for a long time now.
ReplyDeleteYou seem to keep coming back and reading this blog, jerk!
DeleteI've been reading this blog since its inception and am one of many that does not miss reading it on a daily basis.
IM saved the majority in Alaska from Sarah Palin!
@4:33, BWAHAHAHAHAHA your stupid ass is always here stalking Gryphen. You are the first to post a comment. Stalking is hard work, eh? Are you posting from the local library again? At least Gryphen has his own abode to post from frequently.
DeleteIs that you Gina M?
DeleteLife support for over 8 years at least. Right. Just check the traffic feed. Lively as usual.
DeleteMaybe you're the one that's in a coma.
Im saved Alaska. Lmaoooo. He isn't even a serious person. He has ruined a dumb redknecks life though.
DeleteAnd what will be the focus of "Trump TV?"
DeleteFinally Sarah will be off life support and she can die with a piece.
Track Palin will have his own show teaching others about martial Bliss
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and child rearing and fetus love, Rip.
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If, and that's a BIG if, he loses, I wish the media would quit seeking his opinion on anything. Who cares what he thinks? Just like LOSER QUITTER Palin.
ReplyDeleteHe can't wait to make the movie about the real Barack Obama. First the Clinton Chronicles or a remake if there is one. Trump must do a great one.
ReplyDeleteTrump only makes the best, the greatest movies. The greatest movies, so great you wouldn't believe. Believe me.
DeleteThey are busy rewriting history. The good wars. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq. Oliver North can return. It will be so entertaining and informative. Ailes is helping the Don as we go to vote.
DeleteDid anyone check out this place? Fascinating Alaska.
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If he loses his bid as POTUS (which I think he will) and becomes a full fledged LOSER again, why do they think a network put together afterwards would be a success?
ReplyDeleteMost are already so sick of hearing from and about the obese asshole, why would they want to keep enduring the pain?
I can hardly wait not to see or ever hear again from the egomaniac, liar and fraud!
He has a built in audience that will follow him, whatever he does. They'll even stay in Trump Tower Hotels, oh wait, they can't afford to travel.
DeleteBut, if Hillary wins, they will be happy to sit on their fat butts in their broken-down off-brand lazy boys to relive all of his campaign grievances over and over through his various shows, and Trump will show up as a pundit every so often and bash everyone and everything, saying how if he was POTUS things would be much, much different. These people will eat it up with a spoon, anything Trump serves them.
Fortunately that audience is dying off a lot faster than it can be replaced, just like Fox's is.
DeleteWhen Hillary becomes President she needs to bring back the fairness doctrine so no station can only blast their biased opinions 24/7.
ReplyDeleteIt would have to be expanded because it only covers a narrow range of media. A lot of the current types media, not in existence when the doctrine was written, are not covered under it at all.
DeleteIt is just not possible, however, that "The Donald" will give his media empire away for free. He will devise a way to have folks pay for it---like Trump Water, Trump University, etc.. I find it hard to believe that his devout supporters will be willing to PAY for his opinions. It's fine to eat up all the racist rhetoric when it's FREE and quite another to have to pay for it.
ReplyDeleteThere will always be people that will watch and eat up with a fork. Wants to be the Faux, does he?
DeleteCase in point, the pee pond. They could not stand him until their golden calf Queen Heifer endorsed him, and now he is the SH*T with them.
I just do not understand that mindset.
It's a mindset that sounds like this.
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Why are the polls suddenly saying that Trump is now leading Clinton? Don't be so smug to think that Trump is going to lose and lose spectacularly.
ReplyDeleteIf you have no grasp of logic then that's your own problem. You have no basis on which to call others 'smug'.
DeleteI just took a poll of my neighbors. Want to know what the results were? They're whatever I say they are. That's how polls work.
Perhaps you ought to enroll in a statistics class instead of mouthing off, Boring Little Troll.
Polling is a lot more than just calling random people. And pollsters can skew things by choosing the people they call (e.g., % of R, D and I). They try to guess what % of each category will show up to vote. The recent poll that showed Trump ahead apparently polled more Rs than Ds.
DeleteONE poll of 1100 people working in Trump Towers gave Trump the benefit of the doubt. He's carrying his unpaid/underpaid employees the way Gore carried Tennessee.
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DeleteYou are a jerk. I think that 5:23 was only making a point that it is important to get out and vote in this election and not take for granted that Hillary will win. Gryphen makes the same point here regularly. Why are you attacking someone as a "troll" with "not grasp on logic"?. People like you are what drives others away from here. You're the only troll that I see.
Does 7.01 speak for 5.23 like Kellyanne Conway speaks for Drumpf or is it a less formal self-appointed mouthpiece arrangement?
DeleteMy statistician friend says you can manipulate statistics pretty much anyway you like.
DeleteThe media of course is going to say ANYthing that makes elections seems like a cage match. I think a lot of the polls are all about ratings so I don't follow them closely.
Thank you, 7:01. That's exactly what I was saying. I'm a life-long Democrat; have never ever voted for a Republican. Never will. However, that being said, Democrats unfortunately have a history of being a bit lazy on voting day. I want to reintegrate that we need not get complacent and make sure we get out and vote. Make sure your elderly neighbors and family members are properly registered and have access to their precincts.
DeleteMy gosh. Stop the hurling of insults at a fellow Democrat/liberal. Get active in the voting process and don't let the bastards win!
This blog has gotten bad. The trolls are taking over; it used to be a place of comaradarie: like minds coexisting and enjoying the posts. Not now. Ugly trolls have been fed too much. Their things must be huge. Sad.
DeleteTrump has Breitbart and Ailes and Coulter- and he can't shake off Sarah Palin- which will make a suitable nest of snakes on which to found a TV channel.
ReplyDeleteBut Trump and Ailes are old men- Ailes looks like he won't last much longer and Trump clearly has mental problems. A big new venture could finish them both off.
This is going to make a star and a TV winner. Ask the military consultant. There is always new blood. Rip Bliss
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So, do you think that Drumpf TV will pick up Scarah's court show? Probably the reason why she keeps supporting him.
ReplyDeleteAC from NJ
CNN already is Fox-like.
ReplyDeleteI think he'll probably just step right in at Fox, slap his name all over everything, and call it a network.
ReplyDeleteFox seems to be a shambles...they are just waiting for him to lose the election, so that Assface TV can rise from the ashes of the smoldering ruin left by Ailes. All the equipment and other technicalities are in place; they just need to hire a few new bimbo news readers, and get a bunch of lawyers to draw up the paperwork.
Easy peasy.
hey Gryph! The vaguely-bearded on is back in the game.
ReplyDeletehttp://midnightsunak.com/2016/09/06/lisa-murkowski-now-faces-joe-miller/
TrumpTV. His seventh bankruptcy?
ReplyDeleteO/T: (M)Ann Coulter has gone completely off her rocker:
ReplyDeletehttp://dailycurrant.com/2013/01/29/ann-coulter-refuses-board-airplane-black-pilot/
Satire site, not real.
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@10:29 Yeah, it's a satire site. But it sure sounded like something she's say. It was the articles on the right side "Trump in critical condition as he chokes on his own bullshit", "Native American council to grant amnesty to 220 million illegal White immigrants" that was the tip-off. It's sad when you can't tell satire from the real article, because the real article is already satire.
DeleteFox is going to be less nutty, now that Rupert will not be in charge and Rupert's sons will be.
ReplyDeleteNate Silver, who has a v g track record (but not a perfect one) also sees Hillary's lead diminishing. V scary.
Trump TV will get its funding from ads. And from Putin's pals.
It's an interesting election, that's for sure. A commentator on NPR today said that it's the first election in history where both candidates have such low favorability ratings.
DeleteHe said basically that most people will be voting against the candidate they dislike more rather than voting for a candidate they like.
So neither of the candidates has it locked up totally, at this point.
Trump TV will be funded by the plethora of far right advertisers that ran from Rush and Beck; cheap stuff, gold, and medicare-provided toys for old people.
OT, but your blogroll is seriously messed up.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you mean by "messed up"? It looks the same to me as it does every day. Maybe you better check your electronic device.
DeleteIt's got stuff on it from a year ago and is outdated o all the machines in my house, tablet, phone and PC.
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DeleteI have noticed that too, but it isn't consistent. Sometimes it's normal. Then Malia's ends up several below a 7 years old post of "Who's not your mama?"
I was sure surprised to see Mercede's blog pop up again after all these years.
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ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/catbirdx/status/773206437421985792
Still hiding.
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How J Loewe got knocked up and how Britta protected Kyla from 2 pervs.
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The video that had to go.
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Oh yeah....
https://twitter.com/coopah/status/693895506540408836
Too bad, so sad. RIP bliss.
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Good luck with that.
ReplyDeleteHe'll either have to buy an existing network or he'll have to build from scratch and buy him some bandwidth.
Good luck with that.
So he creates a cable network. Who is going to watch it?
Will he get as many viewers as OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network? I'm thinking not.
So he has a small core of right wing nutters watch his venom. So what?
More and more people are cutting their cable every day. I'm one of them. I have an antenna and HULU, HBO and Amazon Prime. I doubt I'll be bothered with anything Trump spews on any of those.
So every year he'll become less relevant and reach fewer people.
Not to mention, he'll never get the financing. No one is going to lend him money. And I doubt he'll be able to skim enough from his PAC and his donors to float the whole thing outright.
So whatever. Trump is history. After he loses his brand is forever tarnished and his businesses will go belly up one by one. He'll be lucky to keep his little castle at the top of what will eventually be called J. P. Morgan Chase Tower, Bridgeport Tower or maybe Nayef Tower or Rybolovlev Tower.
Every year his audience will shrink (if he eve gets one) due to dying out. It will not be replaced.
DeleteI agree. This venture will be about as successful as Palin's silly channel was.
DeleteTrump will use more sex and mostly naked women than Fox ever could. Great porn and how he would restore the great military that is now a mess because_______.
DeleteHe will sell sex, TRUMP SEX. No one else could do it. Sex with the Trump logo and a corporation that treats women employees so well. Lies and cover ups to surpass anything at Fox.
I LOVE the shadow on the paper showing his hair and bushy eyebrows.
ReplyDeleteI doubt Fox will stand by and let him compete unchallenged.
ReplyDelete"Name asked to be withheld"
ReplyDeleteWhat else is new? "Anonymous source" "A source close to the campaign" "A neighbor" "A cousin" "A fucking little bird told me"
Anyone can write anything these days, claim it as truth, and watch people gobble it up and spread it far and wide.
And before you go calling me a Palinbot, pull your head out of your ass and admit that what I say is true.
Either cite your source or consider yourself less than the National Enquirer.