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Not it did not.  Please stop conflating your retribution fantasies with actual reality.

Megyn Kelly's ratings soar despite Donald Trump's tweets

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-kelly-ratings-trump-20150825-story.html

Kelly (further) established herself as an independent, top-rated, take no-shit-from-anybody journalist via the Trump imbroglio.

I'd love to see her as Press Sec in the Trump administration, but she wouldn't do that because she's a real pro, not the simpering partisan hack you desire her to be.

I am sure Trump will be the next president. He will bring economic prosperity.

I am sure Trump will be the next president. He will bring economic prosperity.

CLEVELAND — Darkness fell in Cleveland.

Ronald Reagan, the candidate Donald Trump most aspires to be, cheerily conjured the image of "Morning in America" in both of his winning presidential campaigns, blunting the edge of the harder-edged conservatism of his earlier career. On the first night of Donald Trump's Republican National Convention — personally stage-managed by the nominee — a blackout curtain of unrelenting gloom was lowered on the Quicken Loans Center in service of his slogan "Make America Safe Again."

A majority of Americans see the country on the wrong track, for sure, but polls don't illustrate a population gripped by widespread death-metal doom. Yet for about two prime-time hours, viewers were hit with a relentless recitation of death, anger, danger, helplessness, blood, murder, fear and terror — graphic stories about Benghazi, crimes committed by illegal immigrants and out-of-control terrorism abetted by Hillary Clinton.

It was no surprise, given the country's-on-fire tone of Trump's primary message (his campaign book was titled "Crippled America," after all) and to some extent it was an unconventional rendition of a conventional convention tactic: vividly illustrating the perils so that the nominee, who speaks on Thursday, can offer his white-horse optimistic solution to the nation's problems.

Still, laying out the case for Trump in such stark terms illustrated the weakness of a campaign he calls "a movement" bigger than himself. There's a fragility to Trumpism in the absence of Trump's personal presence — what a bummer it was hearing all that lousy news without the leavening of the candidate's offbeat humor and the power of his personality.

Here are five takeaways from a first day filled with convention-floor conflict, poor stage management, flashes of powerful anti-Hillary messaging and Melaniagate.

1. Trump is an apprentice at running a convention. There were moments of clarity and power (Sheriff David Clarke delivered a clarion message for "Blue Lives Matters" — and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani talked about the candidate's "big heart"), but for the most part, the shaggy program wasn't up to the production standards of Trump's TV shows.

This is not a small matter.

All in all its pathetic, a clear reflection of real state of the American Republic... I have too high expectation for the USA... I should really lower them. The golden age is over... And no rebound in sight. I vote for herting as potus and Flynn as veepee... The rests are total jokes...

As for Megan Kelly, that incident pretty much washed her up, didn't it?

CLEVELAND (AP) — Republicans cast Donald Trump as the right man for turbulent times as they opened their presidential convention Monday against a backdrop of unsettling summer violence and persistent discontent within their own party.

The glue keeping Republicans together was disdain for Hillary Clinton. Convention speakers planned to relentlessly paint the presumptive Democratic nominee as entrenched in a system that fails to keep Americans safe.

While safety and security was the focus of Monday’s opening session, Trump was also trying to shore up Republican unity, in part by assuring party leaders and voters alike that there’s a kinder, gentler side to what many see as merely a brash businessman. Trump’s family is playing a starring role, beginning Monday with a prime-time speech by his wife, Melania Trump, who has kept a low profile throughout the campaign.

In a surprise, Trump announced he would come to Cleveland and go onstage on opening night to introduce her....

Late Show host Stephen Colbert appeared to take over a microphone at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland to mock presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump, before he was quickly escorted off stage by security.

The 52-year-old late-night host, in town to do live coverage of the convention for his struggling CBS program, was dressed in costume as Caesar Flickerman from the Hunger Games movies.

“[Trump] has formed an alliance with Indiana Governor Mike Pence,” Colbert began, before pausing and bowing his head for a moment as if he’d fallen unconscious. “Sorry, I blacked out there for a moment.”

“So it is my honor to hereby launch and begin the 2016 Republican National hungry for power games!” Colbert bellowed while banging a large gavel on the lectern, before he was approached by a security guard.

“Look, I know I’m not supposed to be here, but let’s be honest, neither is Donald Trump,” Colbert managed to sneak in before he was escorted off stage....

I don't know where the positivity of Hillary comes from. Both Hillary and Trump would be a disaster for inter(national) security.

It's pence... What a shame! A red hair Obama... The deception of the American people will terrible... TPP is a go, open border, fake wall...

At least with Hillary it was clearer since the beginning... Obama hope down, now the last hope is gone...

Very sad!!!

It didn't.  

They aired a mutually profitable interview in May:  http://nation.foxnews.com/2016/05/16/megyn-kelly-previews-prime-time-special-interview-donald-trump

Looks plausible to me.

As for Megan Kelly, that incident pretty much washed her up, didn't it?

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