Posted on 01/29/2016 1:10:26 PM PST by detective
During Thursday night's Republican primary debate, in order to attack and bloody both Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Fox News used selectively-edited video montages of both senators saying stuff. Video is the most powerful propaganda weapon ever conceived, and not only is the use of gotcha-video in a presidential debate highly prejudicial and subjective, a debate setting is not the proper venue for any sort of gotcha question.
Save the cheap gotchas for interviews. Debates are about issues, the differences between the candidates, and the differences with one another that they wish to highlight.
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Trump’s on their team.
Hang on are you saying Trump with Ailes etc agreed to do this in order to attack Cruz?
Please tell me that is not the case.
Trump was right to walk away and I wanted Cruz to do the same. It should have been those two on the debate last night and to hell with Kelly and FOX.
I knew Cruz would be slammed if Trump was not there and FOX wanted to ambush Trump, but had to settle for Cruz.
Rubio’s’ campaign has people are Fox high up it was revealed last night. Nah no bias there hey FOX.
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
“Keep in mind, though, Trump has been MSM elite as a celebutard for over a decade now.”
Keep in mind that just a few weeks ago, Trump singularly upset the whole election apple cart!
Trump set the national agenda by opposing illegal immigration and bringing up other issues that the GOPe and their allies desperately wanted to avoid, and now they can’t.
The GOPe was not prepared for this, and as a consequence they don’t have a clue about what to do, hence their almost universal collapse into a pile of quivering jello, flip-flopping like a bag of Mexican jumping beans dumped on a hot griddle.
Trump has exposed those who pretend to be conservative but are really just fronts for big money establishment campaign donors who purchase their candidates with campaign “donations”.
Trump, by actually being a real man, has exposed the other candidates (Cruz excepting of course) and their allies for the weak little sniveling sellouts that they really are.
Trump’s vociferous truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media have been the catalyst that triggered a massive revolt amongst conservative voters who are infuriated at the GOPe Congress doing absolutely ZERO to stop Obama’s agenda, and suddenly the GOP RINO leadership is in full blown panic mode and in full blown retreat, and the SMALL conservative House contingent smelt blood in the water, took heart, and charged in against a weakened, frightened and paralyzed GOPe leadership, and Boehner was taken out as a sacrificial lamb.
Trump is absolutely correct when he says that without Trump in the race, everything would be same-ol’, same-ol. The Joyful Tippy-Toes Turtle would be creeping closer to the finish line, Boehner would still be safely ensconced as Speaker, and there would be no mention of illegal immigration are any of the issues surrounding it by any politician in either party, other than possibly how critical it would be to pass immigration “reform”.
The media are loath to make the connection, but it’s obvious that the Boehner resignation was yet another falling domino, toppling due to the Trump Effect, because Trump’s unabashed truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media triggered a revolt amongst the great unwashed GOP masses which emboldened a few conservative Congress critters to grow a few pairs.
And our nation wouldn’t even be having ANY of these conversations about illegal immigration and the myriad of other Obammunist issues destroying our country if it wasn’t for Trump. Instead, we’d simply be debating which RINO, GOPe squish would be least likely to be stomped by Hillary, and the GOPe would once again be exhorting the “base” about how critical it is for us to once again vote for the “lesser of two evils”, that is, vote for the GOPe side of the Uniparty coin.
And do note that ALL of the oligarchs and plutocrats are frightened to death of Donald Trump because the billionaires and millionaires can’t buy him like all of the other politicians they routinely purchase, because Trump doesn’t need nor want their money, and the kommie media is frightened to death of him because he isn’t afraid of them either, the bottom line being that Donald Trump can not be controlled by the rich and powerful or the corrupt media, so for anyone who is truly for campaign finance reform and wants to take money out of politics, voting for Trump is the only reasonable choice.
President Trump is really the last hope for this country: if he can’t undo any of the damage wrought by the Obammunists, the U.S.A. is done.
So least we forget, the above, and much more, are called “The Trump Effect”.
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.
Oh please. Trump has taken all kinds of crap from them. Cruz finally took some real shots and this is the best you can do?
That debate was planned by the RNC and FOX to take out Trump.
When Trump didn’t submit, they went after Cruz.
-PJ
I agree.
Great post, you are 100% correct!
Yep...In fact, it isn’t even a true debate...A true debate has a topic or issues that are questioned equally to debaters...Not the hodge-podge of questions and innuendos that FOX and CNN and other so-called journalists put forth...
Yes, I’m a Trump supporter, but that said, I’d vote for any of the republican candidates before any one of the democrats...
Hell, I’d vote for a dead cat before any of them...
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.
What?- Wait! Propagandists @ FOX are doing some of their best PROGRAMMING.
(into my 4th year of NOT WATCHING FOX)
Absolutely. This was a despicable act made all the worse by the fact that one participant refused to attend because of this very type of assault.
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?
EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!
That is hilarious, I hope the name sticks.
Very well-stated, catnipman. Thanks. BTTT!
These have gone from debates, if they ever were, to inquisitions by the media.
NAIL ON HEAD WELL SAID.
I’m with ya; calling Pat Paulsen!
The Fox debates, especially, seemed like a group cheering on a beating by a bunch of gang bangers; first Trump, then Cruz and Rubio. Can they REALLY be pushing for Christy or that moron Kasich?
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