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- Manlobbi
Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
No. of Recommendations: 2
Don't do it on certain networks.
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/10/03/memo-to...Nor will one-minute rebuttals provide any more clarity to the slogan-and-quip-line answer to those questions, even when the moderators play it straight.
But of course, that rarely happens any longer. In fact, with one exception this cycle, media "moderators" turn out to be partisan advocates itching to debate rather than moderate. Jake Tapper and Dana Bash deserve credit for managing to restrain themselves from the "fact checking" exercise in the first presidential debate, but David Muir, Linsey Davis, Norah O'Donnell, and Margaret Brennan thought they belonged on the stage more than the two nominees. Their preening, partisan, and perjurious interventions all ran in the same direction -- to derail your candidate and protect your opponents.
The most recent debate had rules set against that as a condition of the agreement, which CBS News ignored. And then when your candidate called them out for their perfidy and attempted to correct the record, CBS cut their mics and Brennan smirked about it on camera. When they didn't bald-facedly call your candidates liars while ignoring falsehoods from your opponents, they framed the follow-ups to push Republican candidates away from a direct response during their rebuttal time, while simply allowing the Democrats to directly rebut what your candidates had argued. Brennan and O'Donnell did that all night long on Tuesday.ABC, C.BS and NBC are merely partisan mouthpieces for the democrat party. There's no point in allowing them any say in hosting a Presidential or any other debate. I never thought I'd actually give kudos to C freaking NN for being the most fair in anything...and yet here we are.
No. of Recommendations: 3
However, you have to take some ownership for this sad corruption of this TV-age tradition. You put broadcasters into a position of power and control over your candidates and messages. You kept engaging in this debate format even after the power you handed the Protection Racket Media corrupted them even more thoroughly. You assumed that the humiliation of Candy Crowley in 2012 for her attempt to debate the debaters taught media anchors a lesson. And indeed it did, but not the one you assumed. Now Crowley's innovation has become de rigueur for network anchors anxious for self-promotion and ego inflation, entirely at the expense of your candidates ... and your voters.
Had enough yet?
Ahh, 2012 and the 2nd Presidential Debate. Mitt Romney had Barack Obama on the ropes, beating the crap out of him on Benghazi, I believe it was. And then Candy Crowley went flying off the top rope with a "fact check" that was in fact...wrong and bailed Obama out.
No. of Recommendations: 5
HotAir advises “Stay In The Silo”.
It gets risky if we have to answer sneaky questions like “Did Donald Trump lose the election?”
No. of Recommendations: 3
<It gets risky if we have to answer sneaky questions like “Did Donald Trump lose the election?”
No. The questions are always rigged in the same direction; the other day was just the latest example.
Why won't Harris go on Fox? Or OAN? Or Newsmax?
Because she'd have to actually answer a question, that's why.
liberals are weak. Decades of having other people carry water for them tends to do that.
No. of Recommendations: 6
Why won't Harris go on Fox? Or OAN? Or Newsmax?</>
Why won’t Harris go on the networks that were sued by Symantec (and taken to the cleaners) for lying about the last election?
Hmmm- hard question.
One 3/4 billion dollar judgment and one undisclosed.
No. of Recommendations: 1
Why won’t Harris go on the networks that were sued by Symantec (and taken to the cleaners) for lying about the last election?
LOL. Say, let's ask Nick Sandman what his payday was.
Don't stand so close to your glass house while you're throwing stones.
No. of Recommendations: 4
FOX paid out on the order of $750M to Dominion. Wasn't aware of the suit by Symantec.
But your point is valid. Those aren't news organizations, they are propaganda machines. I wouldn't go on them either, were I running for office.
No. of Recommendations: 2
Those aren't news organizations, they are propaganda machines. I wouldn't go on them either, were I running for office.
Unless, of course, they were your propaganda machines.
Although, I will say that Pete Buttigieg held his own in the times he's been on Fox. That's a rare talent he has.
--Peter
No. of Recommendations: 2
lol. And there it is, the PA two-fer:
1. Give a leftist the excuse to never face hostile questioning, and
2. Accuse the other side of doing what the left always does.
No. of Recommendations: 2
FOX paid out on the order of $750M to Dominion. Wasn't aware of the suit by Symantec.
My bad. Symantec was the case settled last week for an undisclosed amount.
