Posted on 03/04/2016 7:33:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The Fox News Republican debates ended where they began: with a pledge.
During the first Fox-hosted Republican presidential debate in August, the candidates were asked whether they would pledge not to run as an independent if they lost the Republican nomination — a clear shot at Donald Trump, who was openly mulling the possibility.
Flash forward to Thursday night. The rival Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and Gov. John Kasich were pressed on whether they would support Trump if he secured their party's nomination.
Moderators Megyn Kelly, Bret Baier, and Chris Wallace threw the candidates off their talking points. Case in point: Despite railing against Trump for days on the campaign trail, both Rubio and Cruz said they would support the real-estate mogul.
Throughout the night, the Fox moderators managed to keep the candidates on their toes, using video clips to highlight perceived hypocrisies and fact-checking them in real time.
Despite Trump's repeated and loud past complaints accusing Kelly of being biased against him, the Fox moderator didn't relent in pressing the Republican presidential frontrunner, playing a highlight reel that showed Trump's contradictory foreign-policy statements.
"Mr. Trump, one of the things people love about you is they believe you tell it like it is," Kelly said. "But time and time again in this campaign, you have actually told the voters one thing, only to reverse yourself in weeks or sometimes days."
She also got Trump to acknowledge that he disagreed with part of his immigration platform that was still on his campaign website Thursday night.
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Even if it ‘s Romney from a brokered convention?
That’s really, really gonna be an impossible task for some of the TDS people here.
Moderators are not suppose to knowingly lie yet Kelly did. Moderators are suppose to be impartial not part of a 7 vrs 1 attack ad.
Better Business Bureau: Trump Right on ‘A’ Rating — Mostly
there was no pledge not to kill the nominee apparent from with in a veil of smoke and mirrors
It’s the establishment vs. Trump at this point.
Still do not get it. That is NOT the Moderators job. The story here IS the candidates, not which moderate can spin the best attack lie like Kelly and Wallace tried. And you wonder whey Fox News got booed at a GOP Deabte last night?
No the impossible task is to pry ope the welded shut minds to make them see that THEIR candidate in the future will get the same treatment if these sort of gutter scum tactics are not ruthlessly stomped on now.
This is the problem too many “Conservative” have, they are too busy looking to only the next election to consider the longer term consequences of actions that seem to benefit them now.
OK, I hate to be the one to observe the “fly in the ointment” here, but Trump is looking at one perspective and Megyn the other.
In other words, it’s not as simple as one wants to look at it.
The same NBC report you referred to tells us that :
“The BBB’s ratings are “dynamic” and are based on a constantly shifting algorithm, meaning they’re changing all the time. And over the years, the company’s rating had fallen as far as D-minus — an assessment Trump chose not to mention Sunday.”
According to Politifact:
Katherine Hutt, director of communications for the Council of Better Business Bureaus, said that as a matter of policy, they don’t provide any ratings from previous years. But the organization issued a statement that “Over the years, the company’s BBB rating has fluctuated between an A+ and a D-.”
We don’t know when the bureau might have given Trump University a top grade, but based on the Internet Archive, the last time the Better Business Bureau gave the university any rating at all was 2010, when it give it a D-minus. That assessment showed up in plenty of news articles.
That year, the New York Daily News reported that “the Better Business Bureau in January slapped a D-minus rating on Trump U., a rating now under review after Trump U. objected.”
CBS News said the same thing in an April 21, 2010, article.
And in May, 2011, the New York Times wrote “The Better Business Bureau gave the school a D-minus for 2010, its second-lowest grade, after receiving 23 complaints.”
The Washington Post had the same information in May 2011 when it reported that the New York State Attorney General was investigating the Trump Entrepreneur Institute. The Attorney General’s Office did file charges but stumbled on the grounds that the statute of limitations had passed. The matter is under appeal.
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I know only that I’ve been crapped on and lied to for longer than I can remember from the G-Oh-Pee. They promise the world but deliver nothing but sh!t and more promises if I vote for them ‘one more time.’
I no more owe, nor will give, allegiance to ANY of them. They as a party are dead to me.
Nope. Kelly is the moderator. Her job is NOT to posit an camapign attack but to make sure she has her fact correct. She not “looking at it differently” she knowingly omitting facts to the contrary, which is not the 1st time she has done it.
Odd how NOW the tactic is ok? Was not considered acceptable when it was Cruz as the target
Megyn Kelly ADMITS to Ted Cruz the record shows he DID NOT SUPPORT legalization in 2013 Amnesty showdown
Ted Cruz was on with Megyn Kelly right after the debate tonight and midway through the interview she brought up her question to him about his poison pill amendments in the 2013 showdown on amnesty in the Senate.
What I thought was noteworthy was that Kelly admitted to Cruz that after thoroughly reviewing his record on whether or not he supported legalization, she believes his record does support his argument that his amendments were really poison pill amendments and that he never actually supported legalization.
Agreed.
It was a simple yes or no and all of them launched into some sort of blah blah blah. Why can’t these people answer a simple question instead of going all out yakking.
“Still do not get it. That is NOT the Moderators job. The story here IS the candidates, not which moderate can spin the best attack lie like Kelly and Wallace tried. And you wonder whey Fox News got booed at a GOP Deabte last night?”
The public has been conditioned to expect entertainment above substance. It’ going to kill us.
Why can’t the moderators ASK simple questions instead of three minute attack ads pretending to be questions?
When the final question was asked of each of the candidates, re would you pledge to accept and vote for whomever is the last Republican standing, though they only showed the back of the moderator’s head, I noticed Chris Wallace turn to “Butch” Kelly and they both made a nod as if to say, “mission accomplished”. (And maybe I am using the wrong vowel in “Butch”.) I think that was something they wanted an affirmative on for the future, and they confirmed it between themselves, and it will certainly come up again should The Donald decide to run as an independent.
Meghan Kelly lied about Trump’s School rating
Meg Kelly IS the personification of a lie herself. I hope I get to see her reap what she’s sowing as all those who use lies to advance themselves eventually do. Every time she calls herself a “journalist” or refers to what she does as “journalism” is an insult and a lie.
RE: It was a simple yes or no and all of them launched into some sort of blah blah blah. Why can’t these people answer a simple question instead of going all out yakking.
Yes, but underneath the blah-blahs, the result was finally, “YES”.
I think the main mission of last night’s debate was to get Trump to agree NOT to run as an independent and vote for whomever is the last man standing in the Republican party (or whichever ringer they may bring in at a brokered convention). At that last question, you only saw the back of the moderator’s heads, and there was definitely a nod between “Butch” Kelly (am I using the wrong vowel here?) and Chris Wallace that seemed to indicate “mission accomplished”.
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