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How Fox anchor Bret Baier prepared for the GOP debate and got aninstant headline out of Donald Trump
The L.A. Times ^ | August 9, 2015 | By STEPHEN BATTAGLIO

Posted on 09/01/2015 2:09:19 PM PDT by Sontagged

Baier even had a "nuclear option" at the ready for Trump...[The script] took a page from Trump's "Celebrity Apprentice" TV show. It went like this: "Mr. Trump, in your business you have rules. You follow rules. We have rules on this stage. We don't want to have to escort you to the elevator outside this boardroom."

"We're hoping we don't have to use it," Baier said later. "[But] we're locked and loaded."

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bretbaier; fox; foxfauxnews; foxvsamerica; killerbbaier; killerbees4fox; megynkelly; trump
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To: Sontagged; stephenjohnbanker; hoosiermama; RoosterRedux
Interesting read, so thanks for the posting.

Baier, Kelly and that smarmy Chris Stires were so damn proud of their "gotcha questions," that the arrogant, prideful trio bragged on air about the "gotcha questions" they'd cooked-up prior to the debate. Nothing like warning the candidates ahead of time.

In contrast, the first debate was much more adult, and also much more informative and interesting, because Martha and Bill didn't stoop to the gutter-gotcha-ya level of Megyn & company and both asked serious questions.

61 posted on 09/01/2015 2:47:23 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE DO YOUR PART TO HELP COMPLETE THIS FReepathon!)
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To: Sontagged

62 posted on 09/01/2015 2:47:56 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: cornfedcowboy

Quote:

“Is it just me, or do we have planted Dems that are posing as Freepers and trying to drive a wedge between conservatives and Fox News, using their much needed Donald Trump as the tool. I’m not sure what else can explain the unbridled enthusiasm to trash Fox News.”

It’s just you. I’m “trashing Fox News” because they earned it. They’re so in-the-tank for the GOPe Stevie Wonder can see it.


63 posted on 09/01/2015 2:48:36 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: Will88

You bring up an unstated question: where are the Dem debates right now?

It’s a similar question as to why the 2012 GOP debates started in MARCH 2011.


64 posted on 09/01/2015 2:49:31 PM PDT by Sontagged (Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you...)
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To: onyx
Trump took Megyn and Brett and Chris to the woodshed.;-)

Here's the latest photo of Trump...


65 posted on 09/01/2015 2:51:12 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Mahatma Gandhi)
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To: Sontagged

Im sure you will accuse me of being a GOPe plant before its over... but I was on FR the night Dan Rathers document unravelled live from some fellow Freepers. and it was exciting as hell.

What you are claiming about that is off the wall nuts in my estimation.

Did you know that Bush Cheney set up the WTSC on 9/11 thing?

(that is sarcasm in case you don’t understand)


66 posted on 09/01/2015 2:51:56 PM PDT by woofie
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To: cornfedcowboy
Is it just me, or do we have planted Dems that are posing as Freepers and trying to drive a wedge between conservatives and Fox News, using their much needed Donald Trump as the tool. I’m not sure what else can explain the unbridled enthusiasm to trash Fox News.

LOL.

FR always has demonic-rat plants, but they don't waste their time trashing FoxNews!

I've quit watching Fox 'n Friends and started watching Morning Joe, where Trump is welcome and BTW, Trump likes the hosts of FnF, and vice-versa, but Murdoch doesn't want to give Trump air time.

67 posted on 09/01/2015 2:52:36 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE DO YOUR PART TO HELP COMPLETE THIS FReepathon!)
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To: Sontagged

Since many on Free Republic don’t like FOX News to ask tough questions of Trump I suggest Megan ask him for an interview and she should ask him such questions as “what is your favorite color and if you were a tree what kind of a tree would you be?” That way free republic folks will want to play with Fox again.


68 posted on 09/01/2015 2:53:44 PM PDT by 429CJ (.wh)
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To: Bryanw92

“Now we know that “Fair and Balanced” really means “Both sides of the Uniparty...ONLY””

Donald Trump has done us all a favor of inestimable value by smoking out all the turds on Fox! Fox has been “playing” us for years.


69 posted on 09/01/2015 2:53:48 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: cornfedcowboy

Did you watch the debates? That is the reason we are trashing Fox so enthusiastically.


70 posted on 09/01/2015 2:54:11 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Mahatma Gandhi)
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To: onyx

Yes very very true.

And remember how Fiorina was only knocked to the lower tier debate at the very last minute? This is GOPe strategy, too.

Fiorina led the opening charge against Trump in the both Fox debates by asking her disingenuous “I didn’t take a call from Bill Clinton” statement.

(P.S. Carly took more than a phone call from Bill. She worked with Clinton Foundation on climate change type issues. She’s a Bushbot RINO.)


71 posted on 09/01/2015 2:54:23 PM PDT by Sontagged (Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you...)
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To: onyx

I would love to see some examples of blowing the covers off Dem plants here on the board. Are their any archived for our enjoyment?


72 posted on 09/01/2015 2:55:47 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: 429CJ; RoosterRedux

Wow, I could’ve sworn Kelly asked Jeb what his favorite color was.


73 posted on 09/01/2015 2:56:19 PM PDT by Sontagged (Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you...)
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To: cornfedcowboy

their=there good grief.


74 posted on 09/01/2015 2:57:13 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: cornfedcowboy

Yay!! lets hate Fox News for a while!!!!!

Note: For the purpose of this contract the “GOPe” shall consist of any and all present and former members of the Republican Party, living or dead,which forthwith will be described as Party of the First Part.
Further the “Real Conservatives” of the GOP shall consist of any and all present and former members of the Republican Party, living or dead,who having passed the “Real Conservative Test” forthwith will be described as Party of the Second Part.

It is therefore resolved that a dispute having arisen within the Body Politic wherein the party of the First Part formerly known as the Party of the Second Part and having been castigated as the Party of the First Part by the Party of the Second Part shall henceforth disavow any claim stated or unstated to resemblance of or to the Party of the Second Part.

Likewise the Party of the Second Part having lost claim to said term shall consists primarily of those who having been tested and found wanting by those in the Party of the Second Party and been castigated as the Party of the First Part shall hence be considered the Party of the First Part disavowing any claim stated or unstated to said term Party of the Second Part.


75 posted on 09/01/2015 2:57:15 PM PDT by woofie
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To: Sontagged

This is rich considering CNN just altered the rules (with the RNC blessing) to have Fiorina in the next debate.

Rules mean nothing.


76 posted on 09/01/2015 2:58:39 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: RoosterRedux

Though it’s a lot of fun, I guess we shouldn’t feed the RoveTrolls.


77 posted on 09/01/2015 2:58:42 PM PDT by Sontagged (Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you...)
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To: cornfedcowboy; wagglebee
I would love to see some examples of blowing the covers off Dem plants here on the board. Are their any archived for our enjoyment?

Yes, I think so...LOL.

The very next time, I spot a ZOT, I'll try to remember to ping you.

wagglebee might recall a recent one!

Sometimes they go straight for the gold by a posting a vanity!!!

78 posted on 09/01/2015 2:59:23 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE DO YOUR PART TO HELP COMPLETE THIS FReepathon!)
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To: Sontagged
feh...
79 posted on 09/01/2015 2:59:42 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: woofie

The GOPe are those RINOs who have aided and abetted Obama since 2008. Were you against the Tea Party, too?


80 posted on 09/01/2015 3:00:14 PM PDT by Sontagged (Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you...)
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