Trump attacking late night hosts this morning, saying he & GOP should be given "equal time"

[highplainsdem]

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Late Night host are dealing with the Democrats for their very "unfunny" & repetitive material, always anti-Trump! Should we get Equal Time?

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More and more people are suggesting that Republicans (and me) should be given Equal Time on T.V. when you look at the one-sided coverage?

[Ohiya]

1. there's this thing called Fox...

[yallerdawg]

5. This particular tweet came out...

just after "Fox and Friends" ran a segment on 'leftwing' late night talk show hosts.

Kimmel, Seth, Fallon all "base their unfunny material on leftwing talking points" which delegitimize the comedy.

Of course, Trump is suggesting 'equal time.'

So, who would be the other US president they would be bashing? Hillary?

[Generic Brad]

12. Left wing talking points? Ha!

Getting us to all say the same thing is like herding cats. We do not have someone churning out coordinated bullet points to mindlessly repeat through every outlet within a 24 hour news cycle. There is no way some shadowy Democratic group is telling comedians what to say about him. They have safely come to those conclusions themselves.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Sorry Chump, but St. Ronnie did away with "Equal Time" 30 years ago.

[highplainsdem]

3. Note that he isn't calling for equal time on talk radio...

[sharedvalues]

4. PLEASE bring back the Fairness Doctrine

That sounds amazing, Donald. Equal time is good. Tell your FCC to bring back the Fairness Doctrine!!!!

We'd love fairness on talk radio and cable news.

Did everyone here see the economics paper showing Fox is propanganda and MSNBC is just standard infotainment like CNN? https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/new-analysis-suggests-fox-news-is-working-shifting-votes-to-r-column/?amp=1
(We already knew that , but this is real rigorous data)

[NutmegYankee]

44. It would only apply to TV if they pass the law.

Fairness to them is silence of the left.

[HAB911]

6. Seth Meyers‏Verified account

We'd love to have you! Studio located at 15 Penguin Avenue, Antarctica.

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[spanone]

7. trump gets ALL the time....he wants positive coverage not equal time...

fuck you don

you whining little pissant

we didn't hear you crying when the media gave you $2BILLION dollars of free airtime, now did we donnie......

[dalton99a]

14. Exactly.

[malaise]

15. +1,000

Nothing like falling poll numbers to make the authoritarian want to control the press.

LOCK HIM UP!!

[spanone]

16. grrrrrrrrr

i hate the fucker

[malaise]

20. Join the line

[Orsino]

8. "More and more people" is and always has been code for "I."

So is "we."

[demmiblue]

11. Spot on. n/t

[malaise]

18. What is really scary is that he thinks he is more important than every single institution

This is psychopathic narcissism on steroids.

What the fool fails to acknowledge is that less and less people support him.

[Orsino]

23. He burns bridges everywhere he goes.

Some near him may profit, but nearly everyone who deals with him loses and is discarded.

[malaise]

25. Seriously he is the most despicable human being

in my lifetime.

[luvtheGWN]

27. ...as well as fewer and fewer.

[malaise]

29. Fewer may actually be a better choice of word here

[smirkymonkey]

37. Yep.

More and More people = All the voices inside my head.

[Atman]

9. Yeah, how's Dennis Miller's career doing?

Didn't Fox try a right-wing version of The Daily Show? Bottom line is, conservatives just aren't funny. They think 'funny' is being mean. There is no subtlety, no nuance, no introspection. Conservative 'humor' rarely amounts to anything more than schoolyard bullying.

[highplainsdem]

10. Miller's appearances on O'Reilly's show were always painfully UNfunny..

[MurrayDelph]

30. Dennis Miller is very funny

Oh, wait. That's a friend of mine who happens to have the same name (and once got very quick treatment at Kaiser when they thought it was the rightwing hack).

My Dennis is more of an Eisenhower Republican, and cleverer partially because his humor isn't based on punching down and showing how much smarter he is than everyone else.

[smirkymonkey]

38. Conservatives always punch down.

Only sociopaths find humor in that.

[WinkyDink]

13. "More and more people named Trump are suggesting....." FIXED.

[GusBob]

17. Equal time is not a proper noun

Pedantic me wants to know why every tweet he sends has grammar errors

[RKP5637]

22. Low IQ, crappy education and dementia. n/t

[RKP5637]

19. Trump gets lots of coverage! He's the best joke of the world going!!! n/t

[highplainsdem]

21. Last night Colbert ridiculed Trump's creepy line trying to pick up Brooke Shields in 1999 (video):

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And he not only showed the clip of Shields laughing about it, which has to have enraged Trump, but he suggested other stupid pickup lines Trump might've tried with other celebrities.

[demmiblue]

24. A couple of good replies:

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[NastyRiffraff]

33. Love Tom Shafer's 2nd tweet

"Who was that moron?"

[True Dough]

52. Excellent responses!

Entertaining, bigly!

[left-of-center2012]

26. "More and more people"

[HopeAgain]

28. This is what we want. Don't let him or America

get comfortable with this ridiculous situation. We need to take full advantage of the fact he is easily distracted.

[greatauntoftriplets]

31. That would just spawn more anti-drumpf jokes.

Of course, the marmalade shartcannon wouldn't think of the potential consequences.

[Wounded Bear]

32. So it's fake comedy?

[Sugar Smack]

34. He doesn't even realize how much power he just gave them.

18-carat gold-plated power. Trump's shtick is so predictable, bless his heart. He can't stop himself. And it kills him b/c talented people scare the bejesus out of him.

I worry about him. Old trump could just POP a BLOOD VESSEL any minute. Any guy that "fumes for 2 hrs" is going to be hearing so much worse about himself now that he's paying attention.

[C_U_L8R]

35. There was this thing called The Fairness Doctrine

that Republicans killed. Just sayin'

[beachbum bob]

36. lol...when foxnews and talk radio allows the same for democrats, then we can talk

what a moron

[smirkymonkey]

39. Fat Bastard doesn't like it when people tell the truth about who he is.

He might throw a tantrum if everyone isn't lavishing him with praise.

[workinclasszero]

41. Well he is a special snowflake...bless his heart

[workinclasszero]

40. Fox "news"..Rush Limpballs..Sean Handjob...Alex Jones...

Breitbart...Drudge...the rest of the legions of nazis on hate radio...Putin's online army...90% mega/republican/money grubbing con/Dominionism AKA "Christian Sharia" churches...the NRA... etc

I demand equal time!!!!

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

42. Wouldn't pro-Trump humor be sarcasm?

[Caliman73]

43. All the Late Night comedians ever do is talk about Republicans and Trump.

They monopolize the time on television. Now, the fact that the stupidity, mendacity, and plain evil of conservatives and Republicans is the subject of many a Late Night comedian's rants; well that is on the conservatives.

Stop doing stupid shit ALL THE TIME and there won't be anything for Late Night comedians to talk about regarding your party.

Anthony Wiener, Bill Clinton, Jon Edwards...they were all skewered by comedians in their time. Problem is that Democratic politicians are often too busy trying to make people's lives better to be doing stupid shit like Republicans, especially Donald Trump, seem to have all the time in the world to do.

[Paladin]

45. Does anybody remember Obama demanding a 1st Amendment suspension.....

....when trump was making headlines and hogging TV time with all that "Birther" bullshit? Yeah, me neither. That was long ago, back when we had a sane, intelligent, even-tempered gentleman in the White House.

Every time I think trump can't be more of a humiliation, he proves me wrong. The sooner he's gone, the better.

[kskiska]

46. Anyone remember their failed attempts at Republican political humor?

I recall one attempt called "Fridays." The problem was that they had no sense of humor. How many "conservative" comedians can you name?

[July]

47. Translation:

"More and more people" = "Me, myself, and I" (who together pulled this unsubstantiated assertion out of our asses).

[Initech]

48. The fucking GOP owns all the media and now they want to silence the opposition?

Fucking great. Oh and I notice the Russian bots are out in full force attacking Jimmy Kimmel.

[maveric]

49. Like The Fairness Doctrine?

[Grammy23]

50. Is he serious? He already has the bully pulpit.

Virtually every word, every tweet, every utterance that spews forth from his ugly mouth and short fingers gets catapulted out. And he wants MORE time? Just one more piece of evidence that his mind is consumed with narcissism. All about ME, ME, MEEE!

Screw him and his ugly thought processes. He can’t be removed fast enough. In case the Republican Party hasn’t realized this: he is destroying the party. It won’t just be him thst gets destroyed in the end. As the people that enabled him, you will be held accountable for what you did. AND failed to do. You have the power to remove him and you are dragging your feet for your own selfish reasons. And YOU will pay. Enjoy your power —

[MFM008]

51. We see his ugly bloated fat face

To much as it is.

[kacekwl]

53. Tell your fellow abusers at Fox entertainment to

start their own late nite show. Should be a hoot with all the RW talent.

[ThoughtCriminal]

54. Snowflake with the melting point of helium

Want it to stop? Resign.

[fierywoman]

55. So, as per the Weinstein revelations, Trump's ladies get to speak out? Popcorn time.

[Vinca]

56. Don and the GOP get most of the coverage. Unfortunately, they never do anything good

so it's all bad.

[4now]

57. Trump is a moron

Just ask those who know him.