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'HANNITY': Trump says media 'poison the voters' by publishing allegations

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump lashed out Friday at coverage of his campaign, saying that the press was attempting to "poison the voters" by publishing allegations that he had sexually assaulted women in the past.
WATCH: TRUMP SAYS MEDIA 'POISON THE VOTERS'
"Just so you understand, all that stuff it was fabricated, made up, never happened," Trump told Fox News' Sean Hannity on 'Hannity'. "It never happened. It’s not like a question of it may have, none of it ever happened."
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Multiple women have come forward in recent weeks to accuse the real estate mogul of sexual misconduct. The allegations date as far back as 1979 and up through 2007.
Trump tied the accusations back to emails linked by Wikileaks that showed close professional ties between members of the media and high-ranking Clinton campaign officials.

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"Look at what came out today about the New York Times where they have reporters that are soft or safe or something," Trump said. "I have those same reporters and they are brutal. They’re not brutal, they’re dishonest."
"This is all stuff that doesn’t exist," Trump added. "This is dirty, disgusting stuff. And it’ll be revealed at some point ... And you know what, it’s no way that it should be. We’re supposed to be a great democracy."
The GOP nominee also weighed on secretly recorded footage showing Democratic operatives appearing to brag about inciting violence at Republican rallies.
"When you look at those tapes, it’s disgusting," Trump said, discussing a Chicago rally that was canceled due to a riot March 11 "They’re real thugs, by the way. Real thugs and they injured policemen, they injured people and they should be put in jail ... And who got blamed for it? Our rally people. Us. Me. We all got blamed for it and it had nothing to do with us."

Hannity Surges to #1 Rated Show on Fox News, KellyFile Plummets to a Dismal 5th (4 Days ago)

WOW…this is really bad news for Megyn Kelly and shows where Fox News viewers are in terms of what type of coverage they are looking for.

Donald Trump as GOP nominee has caused a Catch-22 for Fox from the start. On one hand, their viewers are over 90% right leaning, but on the other they are an “establishment” network channel and had no interest in an outsider like Donald Trump taking over the GOP party like he did.

Now, they have hedged, by allowing Sean Hannity to have a fair Trump coverage show and going forward with Kelly-file as a non-stop Trump bash-a-thon with the type of biased programming any Hillary Clinton SuperPac would salivate over.

As a result, Hannity has surged to first place and Megyn Kelly has PLUMMETED to a dismal 5th place.Once considered “the future of Fox News” by some, “Kellyfile”(2.104) was ranked BELOW

1. Hannity (2.471)
2. O’Reilly (2.231)
3. Bret Baier (2.168)
4. TheFive (2.155)

A pretty dismal 5th place when you consider she is the “darling” of Rupert Murdoch.Along with her OBSESSIVE HATE for Trump, Kelly may not admit it openly, but is clearly a Hillary fan and uses the same type of insulting verbiage to attack Trump supporters as Clinton did when she called us a “Basket of Deplorables”

Rush Limbaugh And Michelle Malkin Lead Conservative Attack Against Fox News (1st published Jan. 16th 2016)

If you’ve noticed Fox News becoming more of a shill for establishment candidates and liberal causes lately, well, you’re not alone. After a major shakeup at the network, several major conservative pundits — including Rush Limbaugh and Michelle Malkin — have started to push back against the network’s leftward drift.
In an article published earlier this week by New York Magazine, Fox News insiders said that the conservative network’s architect, Roger Ailes, was being slowly pushed out of the picture.
“(Ailes) seems detached and removed,” an unnamed Fox News personality was quoted as saying.
“He’s not around as much,” a friend of Ailes added. “He doesn’t have as many meetings with talent.”
As Rupert Murdoch’s sons — Lachlan and James Murdoch — have taken over their father’s media empire, Ailes’ role has been relegated to a secondary one.
In addition, the once-conservative network has embraced establishment candidates like former Gov. Jeb Bush, Sen. Marco Rubio and Gov. John Kasich. Meanwhile, the network has either marginalized or been hostile to candidates like businessman Donald Trump or Sen. Ted Cruz.
“I can tell you, my base is fed up with Fox,” former Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin said. In her recent book “Sold Out,” Malkin went as far as to call Murdoch a “treacherous bedfellow.”
However, she pointed out that even though Fox was becoming less conservative, there still weren’t many other options for conservatives looking to escape mainstream media’s liberal bias.
“After the big brouhaha with Trump, there was all the apocalyptic talk of the ratings cratering. But there’s still nowhere else on TV to go,” Malkin said. “There’s a big opportunity. These people are sick and tired of seeing (South Carolina Sen.) Lindsey Graham all over Fox.”
Rush Limbaugh agreed. As the man who set the blueprint for much of Fox’s punditry, Limbaugh is in a unique position to judge the network. He’s also in a unique position to judge Roger Ailes, too — Ailes was his producer during Rush’s foray into television in the early ’90s and remains a close friend.
However, Limbaugh recently said he “no longer watches cable news,” a quote a Limbaugh friend told reporters was directed specifically at Fox News.
People within conservative political circles have noticed the drift as well, the article alleged.
“I’ve joked to people that they’ll be doing a segment about kumquats in China and somehow they’ll mention Rubio,” an unnamed associate of Ted Cruz’s is quoted as saying.

Facebook employees fume after push to censor Trump posts rebuffed

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Some of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s posts on Facebook have set off an intense debate inside the social media company over the past year, with some employees arguing certain posts about banning Muslims from entering the U.S. should be removed for violating the site’s rules on hate speech, according to people familiar with the matter.
The decision to allow Mr. Trump’s posts went all the way to Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, who ruled in December that it would be inappropriate to censor the candidate, according to the people familiar with the matter. That decision has prompted employees across the company to complain on Facebook’s internal messaging service and in person to Zuckerberg and other managers that it was bending the site’s rules for Trump, and some employees who work in a group charged with reviewing content on Facebook threatened to quit, the people said.
“Facebook has never contacted us about employee complaints and has never removed a post,” a spokeswoman for Trump’s campaign said. “We are not concerned about the liberal Clinton elites who are so intolerant of conservative ideas that they would seek to censor the Trump campaign’s enormously successful Facebook engagement.”
In a statement provided Wednesday evening, a Facebook spokeswoman said its reviewers consider the context of a post when assessing whether to take it down. “That context can include the value of political discourse,” she said. “Many people are voicing opinions about this particular content and it has become an important part of the conversation around who the next U.S. president will be.”
On Friday, senior members of Facebook’s policy team posted more details on its policy. “In the weeks ahead, we’re going to begin allowing more items that people find newsworthy, significant, or important to the public interest—even if they might otherwise violate our standards,” they wrote.