The Murdoch/Trump Twitter Feud Which Could Catch Fire
By Salon Staff, July 20, 2015 Salon
Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal have soured on Donald Trump. Now what will Fox News do?
On Saturday, after Trump crossed a line in the eyes of many Republicans with his comments on John McCain’s war record, Rupert Murdoch tweeted that:
That was followed this morning by a scathing Wall Street Journal editorial which argued that:
It came slightly ahead of schedule, but Donald Trump’s inevitable self-immolation arrived on the weekend when he assailed John McCain’s war record. The question now is how long his political and media apologists on the right will keep pretending he’s a serious candidate.
The piece also called out conservative magazine editors — Bill Kristol, we’d assume — for enabling Trump and his rise to the top of the GOP polls. (It did not mention a certain conservative cable news network which has also helped enable Trump.)
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