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Another reason why Trump did not show up. It was more than just Megyn Kelly.
1 posted on 01/29/2016 1:10:26 PM PST by detective
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I’m sure they had teams working with those youtubers to work on the questions they would ask.


2 posted on 01/29/2016 1:13:45 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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When the first video was popped up, all the candidates should’ve stated that was not the way to run a “debate” and walked off...


3 posted on 01/29/2016 1:15:09 PM PST by Boonie ("Nuke 'em all...Let Allah sort 'em out...)
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“Another reason why Trump did not show up. It was more than just Megyn Kelly. “

Rancid Penis and the RNC should cancel any further party-related business like they did with NBC. They need to make a deal with One American Network and not use any of the so-called mainstream media outlets.


4 posted on 01/29/2016 1:15:18 PM PST by vette6387
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MSM are enemies of the State.

Keep in mind, though, Trump has been MSM elite as a celebutard for over a decade now.


5 posted on 01/29/2016 1:16:23 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Follow the money. Why is gotcha debating being used? It’s not the brainchild of the brainless three: they were TOLD to do it.

Think about it. Who should pick our candidates? Us? Or some cabal who owns (in one way or another) the propaganda mouthpiece (media)??


6 posted on 01/29/2016 1:17:16 PM PST by Yaelle
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That’s the whole point of debates. So moderators and other candidates can “sucker punch” each other. The people want to know how the candidates react to sucker punches, to unexpected developments. Because things like 9/11 and Pearl Harbor occur in real life.


8 posted on 01/29/2016 1:17:22 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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These old style debates need to be blown up.

No moderators needed, just time keepers. Each candidate submits a topic and they all discuss them.


9 posted on 01/29/2016 1:17:54 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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Look, the Networks treat Democrats and Republican differently. (Captain Obvious). Republicans need to grab the bull by the nostrils and do something about it. Trump did the right thing. Anyway, why can’t Republicans arrange a forum that is friendly to the cause? If the networks won’t stop from sending Candy Crowley and Megyn Kelly, then start your own network for the debates. Think outside the freakin’ box once in a while.


10 posted on 01/29/2016 1:17:55 PM PST by fhayek
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These are not debate moderators.

These are not debates.

Just inquisitions but mercurial and agenda driven “journalists” — who are accountable to no one.


12 posted on 01/29/2016 1:18:22 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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“Red Alert: Fox Debate’s Gotcha-Video Is Sign of Media Sucker Punches to Come”

Indeed it is. And the RNC should require that this particular gotcha technique is forbidden in the future. If not, then the candidates themselves should ban together and demand it.

These kinds of unmitigated gotcha attacks by the media have simply got to stop.


13 posted on 01/29/2016 1:18:34 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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Kelly and co have done two debates now and they have both been terrible. They seem to think debates are all about them , especially Kelly, but also they think it’s all about pitting one against another for arguments.

Fox business I thought did a good job, but Kelly and co had done the worst two debates I have seen thus far. They need to be banned from doing any.


15 posted on 01/29/2016 1:19:01 PM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.


17 posted on 01/29/2016 1:19:39 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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Bloody Kelly gave it away at the first debate.

Carson said something about not being asked a question for a while.

Bloody answered that they will get to him and he will probably be sorry they did.

That said it all.


19 posted on 01/29/2016 1:21:32 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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It is beyond dispute now, after the fact, that Trump's move was well-informed and brilliant. Can there be any doubt that Fox had a similar Trump video up their sleeve?

And no, this kind of gotcha savaging of candidates has nothing to do with the putative "debate" being held. So where is Reince Priebus, who is up to his arse in all this garbage? What does he have to say about all this?

20 posted on 01/29/2016 1:21:50 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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Trump does not need them

He’s proven that

I WISH HE WOULD TALK ABOUT CUTTING THE SIZE OF GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lets press that issue from now on and ignore everythign else


23 posted on 01/29/2016 1:23:12 PM PST by Mr. K
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WHY DO ANY OF THEM STAND FOR THIS CRAP?!

Debates are not required to be president. Candidates should get together and pick their own moderators like the dems do. And mutually agree on the question format etc. Or just don’t have debates at all.


25 posted on 01/29/2016 1:24:26 PM PST by bigtoona (Lose on amnesty, socialism cemented in place forever Trump is the only hope.)
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This is how debates used to be moderated: A Review of Presidential Debate Questions - Nixon v Kennedy.

-PJ

27 posted on 01/29/2016 1:25:22 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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It’s even starting to dawn on the likes of Rush Limbaugh:

“I think Trump is doing the same thing to certain elements to certain elements of the right-leaning media, “ Limbaugh explained. “People have made the mistake of thinking there are two different and very distinct medias - the drive-bys, the mainstream, and all of us in the whatever you want to call it - new media, conservative media, alternative media. But within that universe of the alternative media, new media, so-called conservative media, there are their own factions. And some of those people have been masquerading as conservative media, masquerading as conservative think tanks or conservative institutions.”

“Trump has come along and for whatever reason flushed out the not-quite-so-conservative conservative media types and their agenda is now exposed,” he continued. “So what has happened here is that agendas are being dragged out of the shadows everywhere, all over the place kicking and screaming. And people are learning that the places they thought were conservative may not be. People they thought were conservative may not be quite as conservative as they thought. Maybe some of them are much more tied to the establishment than they originally thought.”

“Just because we don’t see partisanship doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist,” he added.


31 posted on 01/29/2016 1:31:38 PM PST by TTFlyer
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What?- Wait! Propagandists @ FOX are doing some of their best PROGRAMMING.

(into my 4th year of NOT WATCHING FOX)


32 posted on 01/29/2016 1:32:20 PM PST by PGalt
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The MSM have routinely placed hits on conservatives, but I don’t ever remember a video clip being used in a debate. Has this ever occurred before?


34 posted on 01/29/2016 1:33:38 PM PST by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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