“Why was Donald Trump's decision not to participate in the Fox debate such a big deal?” Quote by Michel Martin
“These are party-sanctioned debates. This is a presidential election, you show up at the debates. These are the rules. We have a series of unwritten rules of how campaigns are run, and everybody has followed those rules consistently over the decades. And no one has really even seriously thought about breaking them.” ShowsRunningPartyElectionSeriesDecadesCampaignsDebatePresidentialConsistentlyPresidential ElectionUnwrittenUnwritten Rules Author:Ryan Grim
“One was Donald Trump said he didn't think Megyn Kelly had been fair to him. But he also talked about Fox's response to this. And multiple sources have said that this was authored by Roger Ailes himself.” ThinkingSaidSourceTrumpFairsResponseMultipleFoxesRoger Author:Ryan Grim
“Roger Ailes said, we learned from a secret back channel that the ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump unfairly when they meet with him if he becomes president.” IfsSaidPresidentSecretTrumpTreatsPutinRoger Author:Michel Martin
“Donald Trump said he didn't think Megyn Kelly had been fair to him. But he also talked about Fox's response to this.” ThinkingSaidTrumpFairsResponseFoxes Author:Michel Martin
“Note to our readers - Donald Trump is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist, birther and bully who was repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims - 1.6 million members of an entire religion - from entering the U.S.” MillionsTrumpReaderMembersNotesRacistLiarsEnteringBullyBansSerials Author:Ryan Grim
“Let's have some boilerplate language that accurately describes the candidate that we're talking about. If readers are unfamiliar, here are the descriptions of his behavior and here are the links to that behavior that is described.” IfsLanguageTalkingReaderBehaviorCandidatesDescriptionLinksUnfamiliar Author:Ryan Grim
“I do think there is a strange idea that the media has that if you tell the public what you think, they can no longer think for themselves.” IfsThinkingIdeasMediaStrange Author:Ryan Grim
“One of the reasons I think that Donald Trump has been a popular figure, he's very available to the media. But he also has a reputation for and has a history of attacking people when he thinks they're not sufficiently deferential to him. I think that's clear.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensReasonClearMediaFiguresTrumpAvailableReputationAttacking Author:Michel Martin