Conspiracy between Newsmax and Donald Trump? Washington Whispers says YES!

Washington Whispers: Trump-Newsmax Conspiracy Is Real

When I opened my email this morning and saw this story, I burst out laughing. Had no plans to do another Trump story today but this one was too good to pass up.  Now we have a conspiracy (tongue in cheek) between Donald Trump and Newsmax. We have enjoyed the Washington Whispers part of the US News and World Report for years. Some background on Washington Whispers from US News and World Report:

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What we have learned this week is that the potential Trump candidacy has broken people into two camps --

The first camp where a lot of the grassroots belong is having a blast with the way Trump is handling the media and some establishment types in the GOP. It is awesome to finally see someone from the GOP get some traction who is not 'next in line' for a try at the Presidency. Trump is witty, smart, and understands the economy as well as dealing with foreign countries. He also could be called arrogant and brash but it comes off to a lot of people as refreshing that he says what he thinks. Heard several people say if they had his money, they would do the same thing.

IMO Trump has connected to those of us who live outside the huge cities of the East and West Coasts and Chicago also known in elitists circles as fly-over country. We consider Donald Trump refreshing and are having fun watching the inside the beltway elitists and establishment types go over the top with comments. Told someone this morning in an email that I have not had this much fun in politics in a long time. I am energized by a potential Donald Trump entry into the Republican primary for President.  At the same time I cannot quit chuckling at some of the ridiculous comments I have seen out of the chattering class on some of the websites and on the broadcast networks.

The second camp cannot help themselves but go over the edge of the cliff about Trump with some of their rhetoric which borders on ludicrous.  Most of the people in this second camp come from the cable media, alphabet networks, establishment Republicans and Democrats, and some libertarian leaning websites:

We have Charles Krauthammer, a huge Romney supporter, comparing Donald Trump to Al Sharpton. Now if that is not going over the edge, nothing is. We actually get a kick out of Rev Al and his humor -- he was the only person to make the Democrat debates bearable when he ran. We turned into watch the lifeless Democrat candidates compete with Rev Al. We are positive that is not the comparison that Krauthammer was looking for when he made the comment. As a huge Romney supporter who got mad at McCain for not picking Romney for VP and then went after Sarah big time, we are not surprised at his comments.

Why did Karl Rove go over the edge when he called Trump a 'joke candidate?' We will let The Donald speak on that subject from Fox & Friends this morning, when he fired back at Karl Rove for calling him a "joke candidate."

"One of the problems that Rove has is that he's devastated, I understand, that Romney's doing so badly.

He took a shot at me the other day, which was, I think, disgraceful, but he's devastated by the fact that Romney is doing so poorly.

.... Frankly, Karl Rove got more publicity from this than he has for anything in awhile."

Chris Matthews weighed in by slapping Trump and praising Romney for being a man whatever that means. Four months ago Matthews called Trump a racist according to reports because The Donald dared to question Obama's lack of providing his 'official' birth certificate.

These are just a few examples of the over the edge comments about Donald Trump from the pundits -- we will leave the website writer comments for a new post on another day when we need some more laughs. The anti-Trump camp is so ludicrous with their comments that all you can do is laugh at their ever the edge rhetoric. Donald Trump really has the Romney camp spooked along with pundits, political operatives, and the elitists who support Romney.

Maybe we should start a sidebar box for the most ridiculous comments of the week against Donald Trump. These week we would have multi winners!  That sounds like something to include when we move later this summer to a regular website in preparation for an extremely interesting campaign season that is no longer dull for Republicans.

Been tired for a long time of the typical Presidential candidate regurgitating the speech the speechwriter wrote that his campaign manager hands him to read from the teleprompter. If the candidate says something wrong, the spinners start in from the campaign. Teleprompter speeches are boring for the most part.  Would like to be there in person to watch some campaign manager hand a speech to Trump and tell him this is what you need to read from the teleprompter. Can see the "You're Fired" quickly following.

We remember what happened at the GOP Convention when Rudy's teleprompter went nuts -- he winged it and his speech was awesome as he went off the script.  We found Rudy refreshing as a candidate but Donald Trump even more so because he is a conservative on many issues including the social issues which mean so much to so many in our Party.

This quote from Christopher Ruddy in the article is so true:

"To us it's just a great news story in a very boring Republican Primary right now."

The minute Donald Trump said he was considering running, the Republican Primary became much more interesting and a lot more fun.  Read the article from Washington Whispers and ask yourself if you are not happy that there are websites like Newsmax willing to get out in front of stories like they have the potential Donald Trump run for President.

Washington Whispers

Trump-Newsmax Conspiracy Is Real
By Paul Bedard

Posted: April 19, 2011

Donald Trump is riding high in conservative Republican circles, thanks in part to the wall-to-wall coverage center-right Newsmax, the national magazine and heavily-trafficked website, is giving to his upstart and popular presidential candidacy.

Need proof? Time's story on Trump has The Apprentice host waving a copy of a Newsmax poll showing him in the lead and says Trump speaks regularly to conservative "force" Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy. And the liberal media watchdog Media Matters has suggested that the two are in cahoots.

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So is there a Trump-Newsmax conspiracy? "Yes," cheers Ruddy. "Trump realizes the great potential of Newsmax and has been using it very adroitly. We're well aware he's using it, happy he's using it" says Ruddy from the Newsmax HQ in Florida.

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"He's been really responsive to our news team here," says Ruddy, who calls Trump a "friend."

Recently, the potential 2012 GOP primary candidate dropped by Newsmax's West Palm Beach HQ and even chose it as the place to reveal his American birth certificate, part of his effort to call into question President Obama's birthplace. Ruddy doesn't back the birther movement and says he told Trump that he believes Obama was born in Hawaii.

Media Matters last week put a spotlight on the news site's coverage of Trump, calling it an "early and enthusiastic promoter of Trump's presidential ambitions."

Ruddy has no problem with that description. "Media Matters is right," he says.

But much more than Trump, says Ruddy, Newsmax is pushing all the leading candidates in the GOP field who see his site as a must-have interview. Those who've made the pilgrimage include Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Tim Pawlenty, Haley Barbour, and Mike Huckabee.

"I think that we're having an impact that no other media organization can have right now. Really smart political candidates realize that on the path to 2012, we are key," said Ruddy.

"We are the platform for any Republican candidate that wants to articulate a vision to the American people and the Republican Party, and Trump is articulating a vision and idea and he's catching fire," says Ruddy. "He is offering some views that people aren't hearing. When people say they want Donald Trump, they are saying they want something different, and that means it could be something different three months down the road. But right now he's touching a nerve."

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Newsmax has also won national attention for its Trump coverage because it's been advertising a Trump poll on several sites. So far some 800,000 have voted online. But Ruddy says that there is no formal or business relationship with Trump. "He did ask if he could change the name of the place to 'Trumpmax' I said no," joked Ruddy. "To us it's just a great news story in a very boring Republican Primary right now."

Is there a conspiracy between Donald Trump and Newsmax -- we hope so as we would like to see Newsmax be part of this extraordinary campaign because we have always respected Christopher Ruddy and his not giving into the establishment or Fox News. He is his own man and it shows. We haven't always agreed with some of the articles from Newsmax but that is not unusual for any media outlet. One thing about Newsmax is that you can always count on their reporters to do the hard hitting investigative reporting that other journalist ignore. When you hear the mainstream media squealing at their stories, you know they hit paydirt.