{"id":11515,"date":"2015-11-05T13:50:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T13:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11515"},"modified":"2015-11-05T13:50:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T13:50:41","slug":"trump-vs-kelly-round-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11515","title":{"rendered":"Trump vs. Kelly: Round Two"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/donald1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11035\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/donald1.jpg\" alt=\"donald\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/donald1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/donald1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It fascinates me to no end to watch Donald Trump lash out at the media.<\/p>\n<p>The leading Republican presidential candidate (depending on whose poll you believe) is going after Fox News&#8217;s Megyn Kelly yet again.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s chiding her for not citing a poll she once cited when his poll standing was slipping. Now that he&#8217;s back up again &#8212; for the life of me, I don&#8217;t understand this &#8212; he&#8217;s calling out Kelly for ignoring the survey data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/11\/megyn-kelly-donald-trump-215514\">This begs the question<\/a>\u00a0about how Trump might react to media criticism in the event <em>hell freezes actually over<\/em> and he gets elected president of the United States a year from now.<\/p>\n<p>What on God&#8217;s Earth is he going to do when the heat gets really, really hot and he makes a serious blunder and insults the wrong individual here at home or abroad?<\/p>\n<p>And as every president since the beginning of poll-taking has observed, their approval ratings go up and down. President George H.W. Bush was at 90-plus percent approval &#8212; remember? &#8212; when he launched the Persian Gulf War and our troops kicked the invading Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.<\/p>\n<p>That was in early 1991; the president lost his bid for re-election the following year.<\/p>\n<p>This is a strange political season. The kinds of insults and personal attacks that used to scar candidates for life now have\u00a0 become the preferred method of campaigning &#8230; or so it appears.<\/p>\n<p>What has become of us?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It fascinates me to no end to watch Donald Trump lash out at the media. The leading Republican presidential candidate (depending on whose poll you believe) is going after Fox News&#8217;s Megyn Kelly yet again. He&#8217;s chiding her for not citing a poll she once cited when his poll standing was slipping. Now that he&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11515\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump vs. Kelly: Round Two<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,14],"tags":[1424,1788,1890,2978,2993,3555,3661],"class_list":["post-11515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-george-h-w-bush","tag-media","tag-megyn-kelly","tag-persian-gulf-war","tag-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11516,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11515\/revisions\/11516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}