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Aug 27, 2015, 7:45:17 PM8/27/15
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"Had [Ramos] waited for Trump to call on him, he could proudly claim credit
for the aggressive line of questioning. Instead, he hijacked the press
conference for his own purposes." Of course this made him a hero among his
Reconquista compadres...
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Why Jorge Ramos crossed the line in confronting Donald Trump

Howard Kurtz
August 27, 2015

If Jorge Ramos looked like an activist disrupting an event the other night,
perhaps that is no accident.

The Univision anchor has devoted much of his career to crusading on the
issue of illegal immigration. And he clearly wanted to force a confrontation
at Donald Trump’s Iowa news conference.

Anyone who buys Ramos’ claim that he was just a reporter trying to ask a
question hasn’t watched the tape carefully enough.

Ramos broke in without being called on—and I’m sorry, that’s not some polite
society rule, that’s basic civility when a presidential candidate is taking
questions.

And this was no mere interruption. Ramos kept talking—shouting, really—when
Trump told him to sit down. And he wasn’t attempting to ask a question, he
was lecturing Trump: “You cannot deport 11 million people,” “You cannot
build a wall for 1,900 miles.” And he continued to shout as a Trump security
guy escorted him out.

That’s not exactly the behavior of a news anchor just trying to get answers.
It was a stunt, one that virtually guaranteed that Ramos would be making the
TV rounds yesterday.

For those who are cheering what Ramos did, imagine how you’d feel if a
conservative reporter had done exactly that to a liberal politician.

Actually, you don’t have to imagine. In 2012, after he took unilateral
action on immigration, the Daily Caller’s Neil Munro interrupted President
Obama while he was making a statement.

“Why’d you favor foreigners over Americans?” Munro demanded.

“Excuse me, sir. Uh, it’s not time for questions, sir,” the president said.

“Are you going to take questions?” Munro countered.

“Not while I’m speaking,” said Obama, who eventually answered the question.

Some on the right cheered, but many on the left were appalled.

While Trump had the right to boot Ramos from the presser, he quickly
realized that it would look heavy-handed in the next morning’s headlines.
When reporters, especially NBC’s Kasie Hunt, pressed him on the eviction,
Trump shrewdly said he was open to talking to Ramos, and later engaged him
in what amounted to a five-minute debate.

The Donald turned some questions back on the anchor, asking him if it was
all right if he deported gang members who are here illegally.

It was an “I paid for this microphone, Mr. Green” moment for Trump. He was,
after all, seen taking on an agenda-driven journalist on his own signature
issue.

And those kind of fireworks are precisely why Fox, CNN and MSNBC were
carrying his presser live—something that no other candidate is afforded—as
they did with his events last week in New Hampshire and Alabama.

But Ramos' ploy worked as well, bringing him an avalanche of publicity that
played well with his Univision audience.

I understand that for Ramos, a legal Mexican immigrant, this is a very
personal issue. But there's a difference between being tough and just being
rude.

Ramos has a history of combativeness. In an interview last year, he told
President Obama that "you have destroyed families" by not easing
deportations sooner and that the president was known as the
deporter-in-chief. Does that sound like a journalist or an advocate?

At a House presser that year, Ramos demanded to know why John Boehner was
"blocking" action on immigration reform and urged him to call a vote,
saying: "You can do it, Mr. Speaker."

Journalist or advocate?

And there's a bit of personal history between him and Trump, who is
generally portrayed negatively in Spanish-language media. Trump posted a
handwritten interview request that included Ramos' cellphone number. And, as
The Donald pointed out in their exchange, he is suing Univision for $500
million for dropping his beauty pageants.

Ramos is probably quite pleased with himself. Had he waited for Trump to
call on him, he could proudly claim credit for the aggressive line of
questioning. Instead, he hijacked the press conference for his own purposes.

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Aug 27, 2015, 9:07:41 PM8/27/15
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On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 18:45:19 -0500, "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote:

>"Had [Ramos] waited for Trump to call on him, he could proudly claim credit
>for the aggressive line of questioning.

Had he done so---Frump might have kept a FEW latino voters

As it is---FRUMP Shot his own balls off (if he has any left)

Whattya going to suck now, BYKER?

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founding fathers.

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