Posted on 06/25/2024 6:51:17 AM PDT by Starman417
I could summarize this post easily in a short sentence- the fix is in.
In three days, Donald Trump and Joe Biden will participate in a debate. It’s been engineered to favor Biden. They get to sit, have to remain quiet while the other speaks and will have the mics shut off if they run over time. Remember that one- it’s going to be used to cut Trump off early and often. They get potty breaks. One of the participants needs it more than the other.
Biden cannot stand for two hours and chew gum, let alone sound coherent. He really can’t even stand for two hours. But CNN has already given us a glimpse of what’s to come. And that glimpse tell us that this debate is not really about Trump and Biden. It’s about Bash and Tapper.
CNN’s Kasie Hunt provided that clue when she cut off Karoline Leavitt part way into an interview.
Hunt asked Leavitt how Trump is going to handle the debate differently compared to the 2020 election.Leavitt touched a nerve in Hunt, but Leavitt has a point- Tapper has quite the history of savaging Trump as Tapper did indeed compare Trump to Hitler.“President Trump knows what he wants to say, and he’s going to relay his vision to the American people to make this country strong, safe, secure and wealthy again. He’s been doing that across this great nation to all corners of this country,” Leavitt responded. “And that’s why President Trump is knowingly going into a hostile environment on this very network, on CNN, with debate moderators who have made their opinions about him very well known over the past eight years and their biased coverage of him.”
Hunt said her colleagues, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, are professionals and interview Republican and Democratic newsmakers.
In response, Leavitt said moderator Jake Tapper had compared Trump to Adolf Hitler.
“Well, first of all, it takes about five minutes to Google Jake Tapper, Donald Trump to see that Jake Tapper has,” Leavitt said before Hunt jumped in and told her she would end the interview if she continued attacking her CNN colleagues.
“Ma’am, we’re going to stop this interview if you’re going to keep attacking my colleagues,” she said.
Leavitt kept speaking and Hunt ended the interview.
Tapper, the network’s lead Washington anchor, has called the 45th president a “desperate electoral loser” in the past, suggested Trump spread “Russian propaganda” — and has said that if re-elected, the former president will try to “kill democracy.“He did try to kill democracy once, and he’s going to try to do it again,” Tapper said on air in December 2021. “But this time with a little help from his friends.”
Tapper also has compared Trump’s language about “poisoning the blood of our country” to Hitler’s manifesto “Mein Kampf,” and in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 riots, suggested that Trump incited a “terrorist attack” on America.
Watch for yourself
Tapper is also currently being sued for defamation.
The court’s decision succinctly summarized the background of the case: “On November 11, 2021, CNN’s ‘The Lead with Jake Tapper’ aired a video segment by reporter Alex Marquardt about Afghans attempting to flee the Taliban via private evacuation operators like Young. Over the next few days, Marquardt’s reporting was republished on another CNN program, disseminated on Facebook and Twitter, and repackaged into a digital article on CNN’s website.”The public is rather dubious about the debate hosts and their network. Only 45% have a favorable view of CNN, only 30% view Tapper favorably and only 25% have much regard for the appropriately named Bash.Young sued CNN for defamation and trade libel, arguing his reputation was damaged by the news station’s coverage. “Specifically, Young alleged CNN repeatedly accused him of operating in a ”black market” and mischaracterized his work as exploitative because he charged “exorbitant” fees Afghan citizens could not pay. Young claimed he was particularly harmed because he was the only private evacuator profiled in the reporting,” the decision reads.
Bash is no better. Here she is complaining that Trump was allowed to remain on the ballot.
Bash, also CNN’s host of “Inside Politics,” has made sniping remarks targeting Trump, too.Followed by this amusing little tidbit:She has argued that “unfortunately for America,” the US Supreme Court decided to keep Trump on the Colorado ballot and suggested that the former president incited “war” domestically during his first term.
“Maybe he didn’t start any new wars abroad, but he completely incited battle after battle and even, I would say, war domestically,” Bash said in January 2021 in response to Trump’s White House farewell video.
Bash also criticized the first Trump-Biden 2020 presidential debate for being a “s–t show” because of the former president.
She argued that the debate was a “bad reality TV show” and that Trump “took it too far” with his aggression during the match-up.
A CNN spokesperson told The Post that there is “no two people better equipped” than Tapper and Bash to moderate the debate.Well, yeah, I guess. No two people outside the Biden campaign are better equipped to aid Biden.
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It will be very clear that three people will be constantly attacking Trump. As long he he maintains focus, and doesn’t try fight them all at once, he’ll do great.
Objectively, everything you say is correct. But, they can't help themselves! The CNN moderators have a different agenda, and it is not about how the debate informs the American people. The moderators are most interested in showing their media colleagues that they have made their attack at Trump.
Look at it this way, if CNN was the least bit concerned about ratings, they would have changed their approach long ago.
Smart.
I guess you’ll just have to listen on shortwave radio, then. :)
They could but the fact remains that Trump has agree to debate on networks and with moderators who hate him and wish to destroy him.
His calculus may be something like this: 'Virtually everyone who watches OAN, RSB and Real America's Voice will vote for Trump. There may be Independents who will watch the CNN and ABC debates but not the conservative outlets. These Independents and even some democrat watchers may be positively influenced by Trump's performance.'
IMHO - Although Trump's debating on TDS networks may be well intended, by agreeing to these debates he foolishly allows TDS networks, TDS moderators and post-debate TDS network opinion(s) to frame him. He's taking an unnecessary risk and gamble. At the very least, why didn't Trump insist on having non-TDS moderators in all debates?
I remember when Trump was elected in 2016, I thought that when Sean Spicer was the press secretary that Sean would only take questions from conservative outlets. That was a good idea but never lasted if even implemented at all and they should have. This was planned as Trump was always railing on how biased the fake news media was portraying his rallies, so it was understood he was going to fight back by not taking the fake news outlets questions at the daily press conference, and at the least revoke the press pass for the obvious TDS reporters (Acosta).
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