Gosh – I simply don’t get it.  So what if Trump moderates a debate?  Mediaite has no problem with Wolf Blitzer moderating a debate and he interviews kermit the frog. 

People who want to watch it will watch it, mediate will report on it (well, they will snark about it), and Howie and his gang of lefties on CNN will laugh about it.  The liberal media will go nuts about it, but who cares?  The liberal media goes nuts about anything conservative anyway….so what does it matter.

I bet the questions will be a far cry better than anyone at Politico might pose, or NBCABCCBS for that matter.  At least we know they won’t be posed by Team Obama for once.  That is a good thing, imho.

A republican with integrity. How quaint. Thank you Ron Paul.

Your gripe is with Ron Paul, not mediaite. But you are right that the Trump debate could be a good one. After this debate the next one is being put on by Snookie.

and then Trump added, “and I’m on TV again, man you suckers are EEEEZZZZZZ.”

Ummm….it seems that it is the conservative media that is going nuts about it (Will, Rove, Scarborough) but as usual you ignore that and blame your one-size-fits-all bogeyman, the MSM.

and Jon Huntsman who declined first.

There’s supposed to be a Huntsman Gingrich debate shaping up that I’d like to see. 

Ron Paul has obviously gotten under Donald Trump’s skin.  Perhaps “The Donald” should stick to commercial real estate development where he has a clear edge and has demonstrated how effectively he can navigate the regulatory apparatus.  For example, somehow Trump has managed for many years to avoid having to obtain a zoning permit for his hairdo. 

Donald Trump is a joke.  His antics are purely entertainment for people who are amused by the asshattery of narcissistic sociopaths. 

I ceased to be amused by Trump over a decade ago.  I would boycott any event Trump was part of, and I would think less of anyone who would participate.

Ron Paul has made the right call – again. 

Ron Paul has always had excellent judgement.  It comes as no surprise that he will have nothing to do with Trump. 

Ahh…Trump has a new book out.  I didn’t realize that.
It all makes perfect sense now.
Another dimwitted charlatan using the presidential race to sell books to teabaggers.

Palin, Trump, Cain…birds of a feather.

donald trump is a steaming pile of crap and should be FIRED as moderator for his biased views.

YES! It’s a circus! I love it. I bet the rest of the GOPers are afraid to not participate now. LOL. This is f*cking awesome.

Scarborough is not conservative media…lets get that straight.  And yes, Trump will ask different and better questions than MSN (or Rove or Scarborough or Will).  He might even ask them if they would clean up DOJ after the F&F disaster, you might not konw about that story since the MSM spikes it regularly.

A no brainer. Trump is a spectacle that no serious candidate should have anything to do with. It speaks volumes that the rest of the muppets are attending. Again Ron Paul wins, and this time by opting out

Gosh – I simply don’t get it.

You should have stopped right there.

“Mediaite has no problem with Wolf Blitzer moderating a debate and he interviews kermit the frog. ”

Is Wolf Blitzer in a name-calling feud with some of the candidates and is he talking about running for president himself, because I must have missed all that.

We’ll Baggers I think Pokemon said it best!!

Maybe I’m crazy, but at 5:03, did Trump say:

“We’re like a laughingstock around the world, we’re like pussies.”? 

It looks and sounds like Fox tried to edit it out.

Wolf has made it clear on more than one occassion who he favors in this race and it is Obama.  He has no right to ever moderate a debate; he is on board with Team O and will do anything and everything to diminish a republican candidate.  He still stands by the rapist in chief and yet slandered Cain for allegations, but the slickster can play with cigars and an intern, and Blitzed has no problem.

The media have dug their own grave BFD; they have earned the right to be shunned by us conservatives.

Exactly, just like he dropped the F-word a couple of times during his Obama rant.

He can’t control his mouth, even more proof how unqualified he is to moderate a debate.

MODERATOR TRUMP:  “Newt, what will you do about China treating America like pussies?”

Donald still didn’t say what his investigators found…

“Wolf has made it clear on more than one occassion who he favors in this race and it is Obama. ”

Link please.

Third-rate? I guess Trump would know — he can probably see Third-rate from fifth-rate where he lives.

Wow Tina, you are a liar.  Wolf Blitzer is a Republican, and a conservative one at that. 

Can you please show where Blitzer favors Obama in this race.

If you can’t do that, then you’ve proven yourself once again to be the biggest liar here at mediaite.  

Once again, PROVE that Bluitzer favors Obama in the 2012 general election.

Thanks.

Paul, and even the venerable George Will, know a huckster when they see one. If you lived in NYC in the 1980s you would certainly know what a clown Trump is. And he marketed himself as a parody of himself with a reality show intended to mock himself, because it really is all about himself, and from that he is helping to choose the next GOP candidate, or perhaps, if he does not like the answers he gets, he will run himself, with Sarah, and cover the cost via syndication.

Donald is the new head of the republican party.

I guess judging by his hair-doo and this, Mr Chump has never seen a mirror.

He said we’re but he meant I’m.

…That’s mean.

An old Toupee.

You need to do more research on Ron Paul.   Specifically the racist/homophobic editorials  published in the Ron Paul newsletter. 

http://articles.cnn.com/2008-01-10/politics/paul.newsletters_1_newsletters-blacks-whites?_s=PM:POLITICS 

That is the type of surprise we do not need from the candidate that will run against Obama.  I also think it is a harder scandal to dodge than a sex scandal such as what happened to Cain.  

Paul has some good ideas, but his judgement is suspect at best and far from always excellent. Excellent judgement from Paul would have been supporting Gary Johnson.

Credit to Huntsman and Paul for not attending the Donald Trump Apprentice Debate/Reality Show. Who exactly is supposed to benefit from this? It is certainly not the voters.

Donald ‘Birther’ Trump has turned the serious business of choosing a Republican Presidential Candidate at worst into a extension of his own ego maniacal hubris.

The detrimental affects for Republicans will be felt long after he’s moved onto a new series of The Apprentice/Third Run Political Party or whatever new side show snake oil vending he chooses.

Not a Ron Paul supporter (Ronulan), but Ron has more class in his little finger than Trump will ever have!!

Tiny_Tampon, all the questions will be about Trump in some form or fashion. This does some harm to the credibility of the Teapublican candidates. Not much, but there wasn’t much to harm.

I would like a link to that as well. Sounds like paranoiac Conservative Victimization Syndrome to me.

Actually he didn’t personally write those editorials. He admitted some moral responsibility for them being published under his newsletter name, but many suspect Lew Rockwell was the actual author. It is clear Paul dislikes discussing anything related to racial issues and doesn’t like to catagorize and group people together. He consistantly states that he views them as individuals first and foremost.

These loons think wolfman isn’t and hasn’t been swimming in obamas tank. Funny ass sheeite.

Trump may be a businessman, but in the public forum he is always more a joke than serious entertainer.

Wolfman blitzkreig used to open his show every day with Bush’s approval rating and he hasn’t reported obamas approval sink a single time.  Naw, he’s not in obamas tank! LOL!

Arrests of illegal aliens under Obama plummet…

Trump thinks he’s Anoint-er-in-chief and everyone must bows and kiss his Ta-Ta and his gold ring before running off to the races! These Yayhoos have already compromised their principles with pledges to the like of Grover Norquist, Bob Vander Plaats, Edward H Crane and David Keene, to name just a few. Can the TEA-GOP-Republicans make any more of a fool of themselves than they have already? This TEA-GOP-Republican primary has already been entertaining enough, I wonder how much more there can be?

Of course, comparing wolf blitzer to a lying birther who has lied about his wealth, lied about obama’s birthcertificate, just lied and lied. I think if they picked snooki for this debate it would make the republicans look less like jokes. 

there’s a difference between being in someone’s “tank” and being a lying birther who is essentially using the debate as a way to sell a book. he finally got smart and took advice from your icons, Sarah palin, bachman etc. and decided that the gop base is the stupidest base and thus easy to exploit. Congrats on that, I hope you’re proud, maybe snooki can do the next debate. 

They’re making a mockery of the presidential election.

whatsamatta, widdle baby?

There is no need to to sink to their level and use a sexist name like “Tiny Tampon.”

Trump could and can never take critcism. He’s the most arrogant prick I’ve ever seen since I’ve been following politics in the mid 60s. Glad Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman wont be kissing his ass with this insane debate.

Asked and answered -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CoQWAXuUyI

No more mail on saturday! Nice job, obama!

Paul versus Trump-   AKA Bozo versus Clarabell

The Teabaggers are what turned the business of choosing candidates into a joke, John.

Poor nationman, is losing it again. What a crybaby liberal it is.

It has become a poor reflection of their whole party now.

…Sanity has left the building!

Bold prediction: The Trump debate will not take place.

You Libs below just hate it that more people are going to watch this debate probably because trump is moderating, rather than a hack like Scott Pelly, Donald and his family are a great American success story but again, we get it, you hate conservatives, especially white, black, or female, did I leave any out ? The debate will air on ( ION ) channel 16 brighthouse cable network in the all important I-4 corridor in central Florida.

Trumps another trolling birther tea bagger.  No one serious takes him serious..unless you are greta and fox and friends.

Trump’s a fool, he’s a fool, what is it that you don’t get.

Your representation of the Dems makes them look like JOKES

Before this election cycle is over, Trump will have noone left to insult.  I would be honored to be insulted by him myself.

So, then, FOX “news” has no right to ever moderate any Presidential debate involving using that pretzel logic.

You’re right – nobody takes him seriously.  Including most republicans.

Please quit with the tea bagger b.s.  it’s old, lame and people who use that phrase are stupid.  Do you want to be known as stupid?  

So grow up there chum.  

I wouldn’t be surprised if you are correct.  

Place a bet on that one Bob?

No. You’ve got it wrong. We hate pompous windbags with egos the size of Manhattan.

Tina_Tampa, just a quick observation looking at your comments.  Back in the sane world, I got to tell you, you are way out there.  Now I know you think you are being rational and all but the powers that influence you have taken you way to the far right… kind of like Aanakin Skywalker being seduced by the “dark side.”  Joe Scarborough not being a conservative?  Please child seek some counseling.  

You mean you hate Obama?

I couldn’t tell from your lionization of Obama.

It’s so obvious that it’s sickening.  Every night the death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan.  I guess nobody died as soon as Obama took over – no longer important.  Headline stories!

The examples of the bias are so glaring that to even attempt to claim they don’t exists is laughable and ludicrous.  

Tell you what… I will stop dropping the tea bagger thing, when I see you people stop with the 57 states BS.

You’ve proven yourself, yet again, to be nothing but a dim-witted troll.  My 8 year old nephew is more intelligent and better spoken than you.  There is something wrong with your brain.  And we here get see it on full display!  Troll.

Tina doesn’t get it. What a surprise. Are you seriously comparing Donald Trump and Wolf Blitzer? If he interviewed Kermit the frog while moderating the debate then it would be a problem. Hey, maybe Trump could interview that rat on top of his head.

Quit with the stupid name calling.  

The candidates were dumb to agree to so many debates.  I think they just wanted face time on the MSM to get their message out.  

Because she is a fool. Fools attract fools.

Trump is full of it. Why does anyone care what this huckster has to say? I’m calling BS on the billionaire bit too. How many times has he or his companies been bankrupt.

Good try. Obama may have an ego but he isn’t a pompous windbag.

You’re giving us news that’s 4 years old. Writings that were NOT written by Paul .This pig won’t fly. Go peddle your trash elswhere. Paul’s being pummeled by the religious right for not being tough enough on Gay marriage now he’s a homophobe ?
You Paul haters should be consistent.Gary Johnson? Yeah a guy with 18% in Iowa should support a guy with 0.5%. That’s brilliant.

Ah, Donald Trump. What a leader, picking fights with likes of Jon Stewart, Rosie O’Donnell and everyone in between. He should be president.

Wolf isn’t publicly stating that he might run as an independent third party candidate.  Neither is Wolf planning to endorse a candidate.

The GOP needs to understand the concept of conflict of interest.  Too many Conservatives simply don’t get this idea.

Well, then what’s your beef?  At best such a debate will give you more fodder for disdain and insults.

Frankly, I think this show of concern for the dignity of the process is just a pretext for covering some fear that Trump might gain some gravitas among the Great Unwashed, or at least more of a microphone.

So what.  Debates aren’t the stuff of holy sacrament and most of the media has roundly forsaken the notion that they should be unprepossessed  priests.

Roll with it…

.

I’m sure you wouldn’t mind producing a link to back up your claim, now would you, Tina?

They’re concerned about Trump being Trump and possibly wresting the microphone away for a day or two from someone more worthy of wielding it…

I see what you did there, you clever wordsmith.

It’s possible that Blitzer supports Obama.  The purpose of B_F_D’s post seemed to be to point out that “The Donald” has been actively involved in name-calling and talking about running for the office.  Large difference between that and Blitzer’s possible (hell, I’ll meet you more than half-way – probable) likelihood of voting for the incumbent.

You’ve accurately described obama, at least Donald ( the largest employer in NY and owner of much of manhattan ) has earned his ego. Not been given it.

He could try, but I think it’s been dead for decades.

Can we mention Obama didn’t even know what year it was when he signed that British guestbook,
Guess he needed a teleprompter for that too. He signed it Obama 08, someone should tell him that election is over.

I guess you are in perfect form all your life.  Even with horrible jet lag.

You sir, are a tea baggin racist troll.  (I tried!)

Trump just swings wildly at anyone and everyone who he thinks doesn’t like him.  His involvement with politics has been just one disaster after another.  He should stop immediately.

The only joke here is Donald Trump. How in the world can the GOP allow Trump to moderate the debate when he is endorsing candidates, still on the birther issue, still talking about running as a third party candidate and now calling Ron Paul a joke. Ron Paul and Jon Hunstman are the smart ones not getting involved in the debate. Donald Trump just want’s the attention and people will watch just out of curiosity. When Donald Trump refers to the people he has close relations with as “The Blacks” than maybe he should look in the mirror and see who the joke is. 

Forget your meds today?

HEY!!!

LIAR!

Obama’s illegal-immigrant crackdown fills prisons with Hispanics

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2011/1028/Obama-s-illegal-immigrant-crackdown-fills-prisons-with-Hispanics

Off topic-you can’t stand it can ya punk? LOL

I’m sure that if you look hard enough, you’ll see that most of the Republican candidates are “dumb” to begin with. Even without so many debates, that kind of idiocy can’t go unnoticed. And what’s wrong with calling a Teabagger a Teabagger? “Conservatives” thought that one up all by themselves. Now they get all bloody in the gash every when it’s used to describe them. What gives?

LOL Teabagger with hair on fire thanks to “conservative” idea of shutting down the Post Office because “we’re broke”. This comedy writes itself.

wow–you have come down to my level..
tiny tampon?
omg–that is funny–but gross~

how about tina-turdpond?

even i was a little taken back..RRE is so congenial and sophisticated..
i guess we all have that devil in us huh?>

well i have to agree that liberal should show the same disdain for was as they did with bush..
conservatives do not have a problem with government as long as they are in charge..
people need to be more consistent.. imho

the congress has been milking programs like SS and USPS to support tax cuts for the rich and pay for war and weapons..
fyi

Indeed, they are a success. I know of no one else to have filed bankruptcy three (3) times. 

He is justifiably proud of his three (3) bankruptcies.

Trump is an idiot and a fraud, but he’s right that Ron Paul has no chance. Nobody except a vocal minority of lolbertarian kooks are interested in voting in a guy that openly wants to end social security, minimum wage, medicare, and other basic things that virtually all first world nations offer.

The joke/circus that is the republican party!!!!!!!!

Trump the Hump

The debate is hosted by a globalist hump
Who goes by the name of Donald Trump
Newt and Mitt will be there
To adore the Donald’s hair
And hopefully get the idiot vote’s bump!

This world’s getting way too bizarre
Like Monica moistening Clinton’s cigar.
Next thing you know
They’ll have a new show
Where candidates have to Dance With A Star!

Why not just turn the debate over to Snookie,
Rather than Trump giving ‘em the third degree?
It’s the next inevitable step
In America’s ongoing schlepp
Toward establishing a total Idiotocracy!
_____________________________
Charles Ulysses Feney
 

It’s all about selling his moronic books and keeping his name in the media.
Pathetic little man with a silly hairdo.

The debate should indeed be canceled, not that it should have ever been scheduled. Debates should be sober, serious and informative events, not a reality show where Donald Trump gets to tell the candidates “you’re fired.” I have no doubt that anyone who has ever moderated a debate has had a political bent one way or the other, but the fact that Trump’s biases are so clear…to the point where he flaunts them and calls the candidates he doesn’t like “jokes”…he should be IMMEDIATELY pulled from the job. This gives an unfair advantage to the candidates he does favor and turns the debate into a debacle more appropriate for fans of Survivor or the Kardashians. This is degrading into nothing more than a circus freak show.

That Paul and Huntsman are declining to participate shows more than a great deal of class. It shows the true reverence they have for this election process. How petty and opportunistic will the other candidates look for participating?

And can you think of a time in our history where we have needed a more serious debate? That Trump would use such an important event to prop up his own ego, and it seems, promote a book, while desperate Americans are seeking to select a viable candidate to get our country back on track is especially disturbing and disgusting.

And furthermore, Trump has said himself he may still run as a third party. Why not have Obama or Biden moderate the debate, then? Can anyone else here see a conflict of interests??

This is just plain sad and embarrassing.

So I guess we’ll just get Herman Cain to moderate the next one?

If Romney doesn’t show-up it won’t take place. More than likely Romney won’t show-up.

Why is Trump so trumped up? Seriously.

four (1991, 1992, 2004, and 2009).  Ahh..the American Dream

   Absolutely. Romney is the key. Without him there will be no debate.

I’m sure if you look hard enough you might realize that we have a man in charge who can’t read a sentence without a teleprompter and yet you have the audacity (of hope nobody will notice) that it would be tough to be dumber than what we have now  

You’ve watched (or not watched) these candidates speak off the cuff and yes, they have been “misspeaks” as most people do who have to talk on their feet and have no idea what question is coming at them.  

Like Newt so eloquently stated.  He’d debate the guy and let him bring his teleprompter since he can’t even say good morning without it.  p.s.  remember the prompter in the classroom (6th graders).  So, don’t even try to put down anyone else’s intelligence.

It’s one thing dealing with Gingrich’s ego because, at least, Gingrich is a normal corrupt politican with some knowledge of how the game is run. But then, you have people like Cain and Trump who don’t have any idea of what the political world is about. Cain was guaranteed to implode but, after all, as we now know, it was really a publicity stunt. But Trump is a much whackier commodity. I work in real estate in New York and Trump has always been an outlier, even for New York real estate mogul types. He was always outrageous and got no respect. His behavior is now so bizarre that I think he’s on his way to a total breakdown.

Then, you have this completely nutso rightwing organization, Newsmax, who had the audacity to set up a debate with Trump as moderator. It’s pretty much on the level as Cain’s ad blowing smoke in our face. Didn’t Newsmax get the message that the publicity from this stunt would be much more negative than positive, and totally demeaning to the Republican Party. I don’t get it, the rightwing has all the money and corrupt connections and then they do this stupid stuff. How can they possibly win in 2012. Yes, there is a liberal God in heaven who loves America!

I see, so it’s alright for the President of the United States to go on the Jay Leno Show but it’s beneath a candidate for the Presidency to show up for a debate with Trump asking the questions? OK. Didn’t Clinton go on the Arsenio Hall Show and MTV? Wow. That was cool though, right? Hypocrisy! Hypocrisy! Hypocrisy! Hypocrisy! Hypocrisy!

Leno is a comedian and  what does Trump do? Oh, I forgot he’s inherited  his father’s wealth and manged to almost piss it all away…………Why is he even being aloud to shoot his mouth off again? Just makes this circus even more squirrelly, and any one who votes for Republicans, the party of the 1%, must be either brain dead or haven’t read a news paper, and lives in front of GOP(Fox) News……

Anyone who’s paying the least bit attention would know…Ron Paul has been a consistent advocate of peace, honesty, hard work, compassion since his awareness of the world the world around him

George Will is one the fairest and consistent journalists that the establishment lets us hear.

Donald Trump is an older male version of Paris Hilton with a dead animal on her head

I state facts and you call me names, what was racist in what I said, and I must say all you Libs seem to have a fascination with tea bagging ( are you suppressing some latent interests ).
So good job making the liberal point of view available for all to see.

Trump was probably driven to bankruptcy by the over valued union labor he was forced to hire.

As I said above, Donald was probably driven into bankruptcy by over valued union labor he’s forced to hire, incidentally I’m assuming your an Obama relative based on your posting moniker ?

Here’s some research for you too, BrokenTusk:

http://takimag.com/article/why_the_beltway_libertarians_are_trying_to_smear_ron_paul/#axzz1fSfv2CeC

On top of out of context tomfoolery, as others said, he didn’t write them. You would think there would be more evidence to someone’s racism in 30+ years of politics than a newsletter. Let alone the obvious butchering of some quotes to sensationalize the story even more so.

I can do it too! BrokenTusk supports Ron Paul! “You need to do more research on Ron Paul … Paul has some good ideas … Excellent judgement from Paul”

Unfortunately, it is indeed a hard scandal to dodge, but only because the media is antithetical to our laws (innocent until proven guilty). And posts like yours are the products of such machinations.

If Ron Paul is so irrelevant then why does the entire GOP appear at each others necks in a meltdown over his candidacy? Is it because the GOP power-brokers are starting to get anxious about Ron Paul?

Ditto.

His hair endorses……

Gary Johnson is awesome.

Thank you. Donald is envious of his support.  Paul has more support than the Trumpster thinks.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, so a magazine that is in Ron Paul’s name includes multiple anonymous editorials that are racist and homophobic.  You know Ron Paul’s excuse “It wasn’t me!” is not good enough for the national media and should not be good enough for his supporters. 
 
Either:  a) Paul knew about these editorials and is not qualified to be President because he is a crazy racist and a liar.
b) he did not know and is not qualified to be President because he is a bad manager. 
 
I know it isn’t fair, but he has no chance in a general election with a media that will be out to get him to begin with.  I believe this would be a scandal that dwarfs anything that happened to Cain.  Think of it this way- People can get away with cheating on their wives, but careers are ruined when people are racist or homophobic (see Mel Gibson or Michael Richards).
 
Also, there are other strange bits of evidence that will help the media keep the story going.  Like Paul taking money from (and reportedly meeting with) Stormfont.  Paul being endorsed by Stormfront and the American Nationalist Union.   Those types of things will let the media hammer away at Paul and keep the “Paul is a Racist” meme front page for long enough to make sure he gets destroyed in a general election. 
Which is why I said Paul and his supporters should have gotten behind Gary Johnson- who is basically Ron Paul without the history or age (Paul is older now that McCain was last election).

no beef, just don’t expect anyone to take your party seriously ever again. 

hey if you guys want to show the world just how dumb conservatives are, go ahead. no complaints over here. 

clever response, i bet your kindergarten teacher is so proud. 

Never say never…

what a dumbass you are. 

…………………………..never. 

Everything gets under Donald Trump’s skin.  It’s amazing Republicans are groveling before this pompous, egotistical, lying, publicity hound windbag.  Amazing.

Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman at least had the cajones to stand up to him.  Mitt, of course, will grovel along with all the other losers and participate in the circus because he just wants so badly for people to like him.  They don’t.

No wonder George Will and Karl Rove are embarrassed.  And Karl Rove is pretty despicable in his own right.

That’s not a hair do, that’s a hair don’t.

Yeah, I thought it was a mistake at first, but Ron again used good judgment–just the fact that the moderator would call your campaign a joke, when it is U.S. economic and foreign policy that is the joke right now–and Ron Paul’s support at grassroots is history-making, the impetus behind the Tea Party, etc., look at antiwar.com. Now there is a problem for the Republican and Democrat machines–the harder they try to suppress us, the more effort we make on his behalf.  Donald does not realize his limitations, I read his book and he is a very shallow guy, discusses Carl Jung like a High School student at best.