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NBC has jumped the shark (maybe again for the 47th time) when they say, “I don’t think somebody who is running for president and might possibly be the next leader of the free world should be banned from activity with NBC,”
I know who can be the next host. Someone who will never ever have any viable political career. A big, noisy personality. Sarah Palin!
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Nonsense. It’s how DT will choose his running mate. YUUUUUGE ratings.
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I disagree that they’ve jumped the shark by saying NBC won’t ban all activity involving Trump. The NBC/MSNBC News arms are part of NBC. They can’t nor should they ban a presidential candidate, one who is leading in the polls, from appearing on any of their news broadcasts. They would be an especially big mistake if somehow Trump were to get the nomination.
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Aww, Poor Trump…he got FIRED!!
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Trump wasn’t “banned”. He just can’t host “the Apprentice”.
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" might possibly be the next leader of the free world"
The Crazy has come full circle, that fact we are reading these words only proves it.
We can already envision him telling the next great Obstruction Congress, “YOU’RE FIRED!!!”
and thinking he actually has the authority…
I have wondered, too, who at NBC got the great pleasure of telling that blowhard, “YOU’RE FIRED!!!”
They could have auctioned off the rights to that moment to the highest bidder.
Hmmmm… I wonder what is going on with Donald Trump today? Think I will give Trump Points Memo a read.
(But of course I fully admit to reading every frigging Trump article posted so I guess TPM is really just giving me what I want…)
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“Greenblatt.” Hmmm. That’s a communist name, isn’t it? Figures.
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It’s kind of weird behavior, right? Mea culpa.
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You’re thinking of Greenglass, the brother from hell.
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Who is seriously rich and could actually do that show? Most seriously rich people are not good on camera.
Steve Jobs is dead, btw.
Uh…I wouldn’t base much on the word of an NBC executive.
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Oh NBC will have Trump on when he is “newsworthy”, make no mistake about that, but that is why they are jumping the shark. They are using him, like Fox News, to gin up ratings and nothing more.
And if he becomes the nominee, God help use all.
Kind of a day late and a dollar short Mr. Muckety-Muck, but eh, I’ll play along…
Only watched that pitiful show the first season of The Apprentice and not regularly either. That’s the one with Omarosa, right?
Celebrity Apprentice…Even the title is an oxymoron.
I don’t even think it’s necessarily about ratings. No matter how ridiculous and shocking it may be, and no matter how much of a buffoon and a joke he quite obviously is, the guy is leading in all state and national polling for the presidential nomination of one of the two major parties of this country. For those reasons, no media outlet can simply ignore him. They have to cover him and, as journalists, it’s their duty to seek access.
This is just such an otherworldly, insane situation for all of us and for the media. With Trump leading in all the polls and pulling in big crowds, do you treat him like clown that he is and risk alienating a potential presidential nominee, or do you ignore him? Do you treat him like a serious presidential contender, or do you treat him like the clown he is? These are uncharted waters.
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This will only help Trump in his “the media is out to silence a truth-talker like me” argument with the GOP voters. They already think of NBC/MSNBC as the Che Guevara network.
Love it.
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