Trump Blasts Wolf Blitzer – Takes Shot at CNN’s Ratings During Fiery Exchange (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, May 29, 2012, 6:02 PM
Donald Trump took a swipe at CNN’s ratings following an intense exchange with Wolf Blitzer.
Donald Trump immediately attacked Wolf after his very biased introduction.
The Politico reported:
Donald Trump took a shot at CNN’s low ratings during a fiery exchange with Wolf Blitzer this afternoon, in which the two men called one another “ridiculous.”
During a phone interview from Las Vegas, Trump defended his ongoing claims that Obama may not have been born in the United States, a charge that Mitt Romney has sought to distance himself from even as he courts Trump’s support.
“Many people do not think [his birth certificate] was authentic,” Trump said. “Frankly, if you would report it accurately, you would probably get better ratings than you’re getting.”
Later in the segment, Trump accused Blitzer and CNN of covering the birtherism charge “because you feel its probably going to get a few more people watching your station, which they’re probably not doing.”
CNN has indeed been struggling in the cable news ratings race — and rather publicly of late. Earlier this month, the network experienced its lowest weekday primetime ratings in 20 years, averaging just 395,000 viewers for Anderson Cooper’s “AC360” and “Piers Morgan Tonight.”
Fox News averaged 2,049,000 viewers and MSNBC averaged 783,000 viewers during that same period.
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Valerie commented:
CNN let Eason Jordan run around to international conferences and tell other newsies that US troops were targeting journalists to kill them.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17462-2005Feb11.html
When some US bloggers finally caught him and demanded release of a tape of one of his speeches, CNN allowed him to resign, but did not release the tape.
Eason Jordan also said that CNN refrained from reporting about murders by Saddam Hussein’s regime, because they wanted to keep access to Mr. Hussein.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/the-news-we-kept-to-ourselves.html
Nothing has changed since that time, except CNN’s ratings.
Rachelle commented:
Wolf is the CNN genius who had his behind whomped by an actress on Jeopardy.
Without getting an interview with Trump every now and then Wolf’s ratings would be about 1, and that from his own DVR.
pagar commented:
CNN still has ratings. who knew?
bear commented:
The Donald might have mentioned that the fool-in-chief’s own lawyer (in Virginia) conceded that the BC released by the administration was phony, therefore it could not be used as evidence against the obamster’s eligibility. The court agreed.
The State of Hawaii did NOT reissue any document, when requested by the Arizona authorities. They merely “affirmed” (implied) that they had such documentation. Where IS actual proof that the obamster is an American citizen? We have yet to see it!!
Until Sheriff Joe’s investigation is complete, no cnn fool or george “rino” will can order me to believe what they refuse to produce. SHOW US THE PROOF!!!
Bill Mitchell commented:
Can anyone name one conceivable, possible reason why Obama wouldn’t not allow anyone to see the original of his birth certificate? Just one reason that makes any sense to anyone except the most dedicated liberal? Clearly, clearly it is a fake.
That being said, it doesn’t matter. Why? Because most Americans are MUCH more worried about the economy than they are about a relative triviality like Obama’s birthplace. So Romney is smart to stay away from this. It’s one of those situations where merely being right doesn’t mean you win the argument.
Romney needs to focus on one thing and one thing only – the economy.
Skinner commented:
Love Trump.
Making the lefties squirm so hard – they love the talking points away from Obamanomics, yet Trump just uses every soundbite to turn up the heat on Obama’s misery index.
Patriot, and rich enough to not give a damn what the backlash is when using his bully pulpit.
Keep on Donald.
You aint hurting Romney!
Perfected democrat commented:
The Democrats and lib press are such brazen hypocrites; we all know that if the same kinds of questions about this (long form) birth certificate issue had been about G.W. Bush, along with other anomalies concerning Obama’s selective service registration and social security number, travel documents concerning his early trip to Pakistan, and all in association with his college financial records (forget possible low grades), if this was about Bush, the Democrats, CNN, Wolf B. and all the rest would be all over this story; it’s brazen hypocrisy, the Democrats have a long sleazy history in their devolution from their roots as the early dregs of the KKK through their now complete left-wing betrayal of the constitution’s spirit and intent. This birth certificate issue is just one of many for which the Democrats need to be investigated and indicted for racketeering and treason.
noway commented:
i thought it was interesting that ole wolfie had those clips ready to go. he set it and was prepared. his intent was to try and make trump look foolish. but the opposite happened.
S. Wolf commented:
We really can’t blame Trump for thinking Hussein wasn’t born in the U.S., even Hussein doesn’t think he was.
‘It’s hard to mistake that Hawaiian scenery.
But President Obama apparently forgot where he was during his press conference Sunday on the outskirts of Honolulu — despite being born there.
The president mistakenly described his location as “Asia”
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Obama Mistakenly Refers to Hawaii as ‘Asia’ During Summit
I think he was born in Asia too.
jainphx commented:
triviality? How trivial would it be to find that the constitution means nothing, how trivial would it be to find that every bill he signed is illegal. How trivial would it be to find how many conspiritors there is needed to push this upon the unsuspecting people of this country. Trivial! Yeah that’s the ticket, lets trivialize the breaking of the laws of this once great country, and for what? To keep this malicious figure head in power, and for what, hasn’t he done enough damage already. Yeah trivial that old constitution thing is trivial, lets just revert back to survival of the strongest. Trivial? Man that’s just plain stupid. Tell all those that we celebrated yesterday, in all those cemeteries that they died for Trivialities.
jainphx commented:
Look he has a BC that’s a phony, he has a draft card from a state he never lived in, with a number that was never released in that form. Now I don’t know where he was born for a certainty, but damn it that’s the point, NO ONE DOES. All I want is to get to the bottom of it for many reasons. The constitution being the main reason, is that just too hard? What gives him the right to block all his records, we the people need this information, every aspect of this pos’s live should be out in the open. No more should we allow anyone that aspires to public office to be able to keep his life secret FOR ANY REASON.
We found a 30 year old DUI on GWB, a 50 year old hair cut on Romney, and here we have records that are sealed to public scrutiny for a man whose real name we don’t even know. Is it Soetero, is it Obama? Who knows.
Bill Mitchell commented:
jainphx,
Compared to the economy, in the minds of most Americans, yeah it’s trivial. Why do you think all of the Republican leadership has abandoned the fight on this? They have polled this to death and the bottom line is PEOPLE DO NOT CARE.
Romney needs to pick his battles. Raise your hand if you think Romney campaigning on Obama’s fake birth certificate is going to put Romney in the White House?
No, Romney is smart to stay a million miles from this.
NeoKong commented:
Trump fell right into Blitzer’s trap.
The way he had so many clips ready to go on the subject shows he is ambushing Trump and planned all along to ask him about the birther stuff.
The Obama supporting media are desperate to find any sort of controversy they can pin to Mitt Romney as all of their attack campaigns have been useless.
Ghost commented:
Remember when the internet was the, “Information Super-Highway” and all the concern was about who would have an on-ramp and who would get left behind? Well,…?
The challenge is there… here is a Perfect Issue that anyone, Anyone! can educate himself about instead of merely accepting the spoon-fed spin of agenda-driven repeaters (note, that it is not a mis-spelling, and Wolf Blitzer is not a reporter)
How can a 21st-century descendant of Zenger, Lovejoy and Murrow sink so low- to parrot, “but the State said… but the State said…” and to use newspaper coupons as Proof of Anything! Really? you would feel comfortable bringing a coupl’a newspaper coupons into a Courtroom? Really?!
There are many, many Great Patriots who have awakened and aroused themselves to dig into the Constitution and it’s founding principles- and will not be deterred either by The Left or by any who should be on our side but choose instead to demean and ridicule Patriots who are only concerned with a real, live, actual Usurpation that has happened right in front of us.
It’s easy enough to be amused at the lowly Wolf Blitzer, (boy! is he scared- the Obots are frightened that this eligibility issue will blow up on them) but why can’t George Will, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Erick Erickson, the Breitbart crowd, and many others Explain to us (WE’RE LISTENING!) why we shouldn’t be concerned about Maobama’s Constitutional Eligibility?
don’t shoo us away, telling us to focus elsewhere, give us sound reasoning… dammit!
if “natural born citizen” is merely a technicality, then what about the age requirement?
or, what other clause in the Constitution can we ignore? Can I choose which one I don’t like?
StrangernFiction commented:
George Will speaks the truth about Trump. Has he ever done so regarding President Musty Wet Pelts?
StrangernFiction commented:
Why do you think all of the Republican leadership has abandoned the fight on this?
Because they are pvssies……………at best.
StrangernFiction commented:
Where has the Republican leadership ever fought?
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