Trump cancels his own debate; whither Eason Jordan?
There is a Santa Claus.
Donald Trump is bagging on his own debate on December 27th in Des Moines, Iowa.
What will Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich (who called anyone not participating a coward) do now?
More pointedly, what will dictator-appeaser, troop-smearer and executive producer Eason Jordan do now?
Maybe Newsmax will hire him. They’ve done such a great job trying to rehabilitate the CNN left-winger’s image already.
Or maybe Trump 2012 spokesman?
Leave your own suggestions for new gigs for Eason Jordan.
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Side note: If Eason Jordan moderates the debate, maybe Ron Paul will participate after all…
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The Hill: Trump pulls out.
More:
Donald Trump says he’s withdrawing as moderator of a GOP presidential debate in Iowa.
The Dec. 27 debate in Iowa has been in jeopardy since Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are the only candidates willing to take the stage with the real estate developer – reality TV star.
The rest of the GOP field bowed out, with Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman making clear they believe the debate would be a spectacle with Trump as moderator.
“I believe this would not only have been the most watched debate, but also the most substantive and interesting debate,” Trump said in a statement.
Trump said he’s still not ruling out the possibility of running for president as an independent. He said he’s stepping aside as moderator of the debate sponsored by Newsmax, a conservative magazine and website, to avoid any conflict of interest.
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Man, and I was soooo looking foward to that debate. Now I’ll have to settle for watching a college football bowl game instead.
Good! I wouldn’t watch this debate with ‘the donald’ and jordan. I don’t like ‘the donald’ at all! BTW, ‘the donald’ is just a type slug that would go 3rd just to stick it to those who don’t like him, splitting the votes in 2012?
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I just want to know how Eason Jordan got picked in the first place????
Just happy it failed to happen!
Hmm, and eccentric and egotistical billionaire going 3rd party to screw up the election.
Deja vu all over again.
Baghdad Bob’s PR rep
Trump has had to back down on something? Who woulda thought? Of course, his excuse was “conflict of interest” because he might run for POTUS himself. If Trump runs, it will be traitorous, as he will ensure an Obama win. Or maybe not. Does ANYONE like Trump? Maybe he wouldn’t get one single vote!! Ha!!
He’s organizing the annual Toys-for-Tyrants gift list. Kim Jong Il only got a coffee cup from CNN, but Mexico got machine guns, Pakistan got a secret tail rotor, Iran got a shiny new stealth drone, and Lebanon 12 secret agents. And yes, Bill Clinton got eight maids-a-milking…
Well at least he isn’t a Marxist intent on wrecking the economy in order to bring about a Stalinist paradise.
Yeah but I’ve learned my lesson from the last time.
PPffffttttt – Trump isn’t going to run for president..Period! He just likes all the hoopla he’s creating…anyone who gives this attention whore a second of their time and attention is perpetuating this nonsense.
Exchange for our drone in Iran.
Gaddaffi only got part of a machine gun. The business end of it.
China gets Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island too, when we try to pay off the massive amount of debt we are currently living on.
Eason could be Bashir Assad’s media rep in the US. Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood are doing well all on their own right now with a little help from Obama.
Maybe Ambassador to Somalia.
He could stand on the street corner waving a sign for one of many mattress companies!
Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR and Al Queda are looking for clean cut caucasians to front their terrorist organizations. Eason has the overqualified résumé to support their agenda.
His biography pre-college is non existent. His work record pre-CNN is also non-existent. Just like Obama.
“Jordan serves on the Advisory Board of the International News Safety Institute and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Iraqi-American Chamber of Commerce, and the ONE Campaign.” He’s on the Iraqi-American Chamber of Commerce? He’s on the Council of Foreign Relations? I guess having the worst record will get you honors for those committees.
The guy admitted to voluntarily hiding information about Saddam Hussein’s torture and murders. He could have sneaked out video and info pretending it to be anonymous internal Iraqi dissidents, but chose to do nothing. That would have kept his beloved Saddam from kicking out his CNN reporters. He smeared US soldiers as targeting reporters in Iraq, yet he is honored at NewsMax.
Sure, why not team up… Trump-NewsMax-Jordan = The Bermuda Triangle debate. Do not enter or your candidate shall disappear too.
Not at all likely The Donald would run. But if he did, you can be sure he’d get some votes.
Clearly he’s the man to definitively prove that Iran is a peace-loving nation bent only on creating gobs of electricity to bless the world.
Isn’t that the job of the State Department?
He could be Obama’s new ‘body man’
Have you seen Hillary lately? I wouldn’t call that clean cut.
Hilarious. What a joke and circus this has become. You can’t beat Obama doing this dog and pony show. The only credible ones after this PR disaster are Huntsman, Bachmann, Paul and Romney.
How are those mental gymnastics going? It’ll be traitorous!! NOOOO, wait, he won’t get a vote! Obama will win..or maybe not!!
You said so many conflicting things in one statement. And you despise Romney. Ha!
The Donald!
Hey, this is Pasadena Phil’s guy.
Whaddya think of him now Phil?
First he bad-mouths a couple of GOP candidates and then wonders why they won’t come to his debate with his loony moderator.
Then he cancels the debate and says he might go independent third candidate, which in all likelihood would put Barky back in office.
NICE PICK PHIL!
why would anybody go to a donald debate? this guy i think is planning on pulling a perot, and give four more years to obama. somebody needs to tell donald to fuhgetabout it!
Well, happyscrapper does have some difficulty in keeping all the voices in his/her head in order.
He oughta give Docu Dan Rather a call over at HDNet – Mark Cuban’s cable snooze fest. Rather fits right in with Girls Gone Wild and other tasteless drivel – but it’s a job. I think he’s rated 3,245th on cable – right behind Bavarian Bowling.
You may remember Cuban for producing DePalma’s “Redacted” – a pathetic twaddle about rogue Marines raping and murdering poor innocent Iraquis. Got rave reviews in France. Played 3 days here and was dropped. De Palma kinda forgot this was a 1 in millions event and played it like it was business as usual for Marines. Also left out the perpetrators were tried, convicted and sentenced to 110 years. Kinda like a Dan Rather investigation.
Phil’s hype notwithstanding, there is no scenario by which helmet hair would get the nomination.
The Donnie is as patriotic as his bottom line. The only reason he would run would be to get as many cameras pointed at him as possible for as long as possible.
It’s all shtik – for profit. I’m very pleased this lame game debate crashed and burned. Shmuck.
Just like Ron Paul, he’d run independent because he couldn’t possibly win the Republican nomination. You’d think that these guys would take a hint that they’re not electable.
This is just fun and games for Trump. He wants some stupid legacy of having run for president. What a douchebag.
Once, just once, I’d like to see Limbaugh moderate a debate.
I’m sick of seeing the DNC media in charge of GOP events.
Show me where I endorsed Trump. Do a little research and provide me a link.
You nose holders are so desperate. You can’t lie, cheat and steal you way to virtue but that’s all you guys have.
Let’s see how you oxygen-depriced nose holders feel once the polls come out to again prove that the GOP establishment poindexters are so weak that they couldn’t even beat Trump.
The only reason Obama looks so strong is because the GOP insists in again stuffing a liberal Democrat down our throats. Good luck with that. That is what Trump proved the first time to no avail. Now he might do it again.
The RINO stampede is beginning to evolve into an all-out stampede. We might very well see three big-name independent candidates challenging two utterly unacceptable “big” party candidates. I can’t wait.
Nope. Phil loves Trump, promotes him often, but he wouldn’t actually support any candidate who might upset Obama.
Know what Phil, OK Loyalist is absolutely 100% correct – you are a complete liar!
I cannot be bothered to go to the archives to look, but I know damn well that it is there.
You said that only Trump has the cajones to call out Obama and that he was your man and totally had your support for President.
If you cannot remember or choose not to remember, you are either
1) a liar
2) suffering from a debilitating disease
Go get the proper help that you so richly deserve. Meantime, leave the rest of us alone, because your words
apparentlymean nothing.Consider any differences you and I may have had resolved. May you and yours have a wonderful Christmas and prosperous New Year. Cheers!!!
Seeing how there’s only a percentage point of difference between Gingrich, Paul, and Romney, and nobody likes Newt and Mitt, then why don’t we get behind the only statesman of the lot. Search your heart, you know it to be true.
Darth Vader? If he’ll run, he’s got my vote!
You are a funny man, LOL
Rogue, rest in your heart, should RP make the GOP nomination, I voting for him w/o hesitation.
Not my guy, for various reasons, but 11BB (I think) pointed out something I believe, belittling him and his supporters gets none of us nowhere.
Down the line line we are going to need each other.
Should he choose to run 3rd party, all this changes and disdain fills the vacuum.
Lets see if I have this right. Three big names that can’t beat two utterly unacceptable big party candidates in a primary will suddenly challenge two utterly unacceptable big party candidates in a general and you expect a different result? How does that work?
I’ll give you one good reason for it:
As our beloved hostess pointed out 4 years ago, and I only recently put together with Paul’s claim of the Bush administration reacting with “glee” to 9/11 attacks. Ron Paul is one “death ray” comment away from solidly confirming himself a 9/11 truther.
Sorry. Can not support. Insupportable. Nuh uh.
I didn’t say anything about supporting him, I’d vote for him under one and only one condition.
If Romney, Gingrich or Perry fail to get the Republican nomination, then Trump will run independent, aka run interference for Obama.
We’re not going to be allowed to get a conservative anywhere near the White House. Not if they can help it.
Who is they ?
the progressives. In both parties.
How so ?
Is that a serious question?
He can hold Anderson Cooper’s Tea Bags.
I thought Trump prided himself on his Human Resources skills lol
Linked @ my place:
‘Right-Wing Social Engineering’- Now WHY Would Newt Go and Say a Thing Like That?
“the donald” is a loser. He’s everything that’s wrong with America. He built places like “Trump Towers” and people say that’s amazing, but he went bankrupt so many times and had the government have to pick up the tab. He’s a joke. As for Trump’s net worth… you and I are worth more than Donald Trump… his finances are minus millions. A living joke.
And if his finances aren’t minus, it’s because of his stupid tv show… which people only took seriously because they thought he was an actual businessman. A total con.