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To: adorno
I’ve never been fond of Trump. But to the extent that it was a debate, it was a debate between Kelly and Trump. And you are happy with the idea that the moderator can throw stuff on the wall at no risk of embarrassment for error. IMHO that is the root of the problem. “Moderators” who are presumptively above the fray - but who, all too predictably, are anything but.

You could spend the whole program throwing out things like "a woman on her knees” - which turns out to not have been said to the embarrassment of the woman in question - and what would the program accomplish???

The audience wanted something else - and the only people FNC played to were - the DNC and the MSM. They loved it - did you hear Debbie Washerwoman Schultz rave about it? But FNC’s core audience is hungering and thirsting for substantive policy discussion.

But hey - you heard validation of your disapproval of Trump, and I guess that’s what counts.

23 posted on 08/14/2015 2:17:10 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

The point remains that, it is Trump that felt attacked and then went on air with many different news outlets to complain about how he was treated. That’s a crybaby. Megyn just asked the questions that were bound to be asked sooner or later by many other news organizations, and even the regular folks. Trump was irritated by the line of questioning, especially related to the Rosie O’Donnell tit-for-tat of a few years ago. He needed to be ready for those questions, and he was not. So, he decided to find a villain from the debate, and Megyn was his target. That’s not the way to debate or to win an argument. You don’t kill the messenger ir the messenger did nothing wrong. I don’t like Rosie O’Donnell and I don’t blame Trump for going after her, but, whatever the situation was then, he should have been ready to take some flak, sooner or later.


24 posted on 08/14/2015 2:46:17 PM PDT by adorno (w)
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