Posted on 10/02/2020 8:32:25 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
I’ve repeatedly talked about the fact – and it is a fact – that the only real gauge for which candidate “won” a presidential debate is public perception. Debating points don’t matter. The considered opinions from cable news talking heads do not matter. All the talking points and spin coming from the respective campaigns afterwards do not matter.
What matters is public perception, because that is shaped by the voters, and the voters – not the media – will determine the outcome of the election.
The corrupt news media and its Democrat Party clients have been working overtime since Tuesday night to convince you all that the debate was somehow a “shit show” – in the words of CNN Democrat activist Dana Bash – because we saw a President fighting back against assaults and falsehoods coming not only from his opponent, but also from the “moderator” in the form of Fox’s resident communist, Chris Wallace.
Skip Ad Saturday News Roundup: Adios Tik-Tok, Bye-Bye Bolton Book Advance, and America's Garbage News Media VDO.AI You are all supposed to believe that President Trump “lost” the debate for the simple fact that he did not sit and wait his turn to speak as both Biden and Wallace repeatedly lied about him and his record. You are further expected to believe that the disruptions in the flow of the debate were all the President’s fault despite the fact that Wallace, acting on behalf of the Biden campaign, interrupted President Trump no fewer than 76 times, as compared to the 14 times he chose to interrupt Biden.
Wallace himself put it this way on Thursday: “I had the baked this beautiful delicious cake. And then, frankly, the President put his foot in it, and that was frustrating.” Nevermind that Wallace repeatedly interrupted the President during his answer to the very first question – it’s all the fault of that Bad Orange Man in the White House.
For his own part, Wallace revealed himself irreversibly to be the rank partisan hack he has become over the past four years. We should remember that Wallace, in focusing the third 2016 debate on issues rather than Trump’s personality, did the nation a tremendous public service by behaving as a true moderator should behave during these debates.
But of course, since that third debate – during which Trump absolutely dominated his demonic opponent from beginning to end – essentially sealed the election for the GOP nominee, Wallace came under tremendous fire from his media colleagues who view their roles as activists for the Democrat Party. That pressure and resulting snubs from all the best DC dinner party lists for some time, obviously had a huge impact on Wallace, who has essentially replaced the odious Shep Smith as the head leftwing activist host at Fox News.
The initial snap polling after the debate from non-network news sources strongly indicate the President clearly won in the realm of public perception. This was especially true among a couple of key demographic groups – Hispanic voters and Jewish voters:
This reality in part explains why the media has focused to intently on pretending that the President did not disavow white supremacists in the days since, even though he actually did that three times in response to Wallace’s loaded question and had done so probably 50 times before Tuesday night. The media believes it must work to tamp down any positive movement towards trump, especially from minority voters. Thus, the hyper-focus on this utter and complete non-issue.
Interestingly, Fox’s own John Roberts chose to attack the President perhaps more aggressively than any other reporter:
That’s right: Roberts’s own wife, Kyra Phillips, a reporter for ABC News, had gotten an outright disavowal from the President 24 hours before Roberts went into his rant during a Thursday White House press conference. Kayleigh McEnany’s responses to Roberts was so humiliating that the hack went into an on-air hissy fit on Fox Business later in the day:
Thus we see the slow disintegration of anything resembling objectivity throughout Fox’s entire news division continuing before our eyes. Outside of the evening talk shows, it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish Fox News from CNN with every passing day.
Amy Coney Barrett Tests negative. – The President’s Supreme Court nominee was tested for COVID-19 Friday morning, and the results came back negative, much to the dismay of everyone at CNN and the New York Times. Thus, the Democrats and their corrupt media toadies are denied their argument to delay Judge Barrett’s confirmation process.
As I pointed out in another post this morning, this entire episode is just one more reason why Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham should cancel any committee hearings on this nomination and take it to the floor for a vote asap. The Supreme Court convenes for its 2020/2021 session on Monday, and it is a justice short. The Senate should remedy that situation asap, especially given the fact that Judge Barrett was just vetted and confirmed on a bipartisan vote for the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals 3 short years ago.
The Democrat Party’s destruction of our election integrity is now official public policy in Colorado. – That is thanks to the efforts of Democrat Secretary of State Jena Griswold, who took to Twitter this week to urge media outlets to refuse to report any results on election night.
No, really, I’m not making this stuff up. Here are her exact words, courtesy of Brietbart:
Our democracy cannot be held hostage to a ratings race. If you care about our democracy, you will protect it. Full Stop. We are in the middle of a pandemic and the President of the United States has telegraphed that he may claim victory on election night, even when millions of ballots will not have been counted. Indisputable facts: 1. This is no normal election. A record number of Americans will be voting by mail. 2. Election “night” will be dramatically different than ever before.
We need an UNPRECEDENTED plan from the media for how they will cover an unprecedented election. That is why I am calling on national media networks to pledge to #PressPause for democracy and: 1. Make NO projections on election night 2. Announce NO election results on election night. In the coming days, I will ask election administrators, voting rights organizations, media ethicists, corporations, religious leaders, and all concerned Americans to stand with me in demanding media executives #PressPause for democracy.
We are in the middle of a pandemic and the President of the United States has telegraphed that he may claim victory on election night, even when millions of ballots will not have been counted.
— Jena Griswold (@JenaGriswold) October 1, 2020
That is why I am calling on national media networks to pledge to #PressPause for democracy and: 1.Make NO projections on election night 2.Announce NO election results on election night
— Jena Griswold (@JenaGriswold) October 1, 2020
In the coming days, I will ask election administrators, voting rights organizations, media ethicists, corporations, religious leaders, and all concerned Americans to stand with me in demanding media executives #PressPause for democracy.
— Jena Griswold (@JenaGriswold) October 1, 2020
Sec. Griswold has since deleted some or all of her tweets. Possibly that is because a big part of her job as Secretary of State is reporting actual election results as they are tabulated across her state. Thus, her advocacy for media outlets to refuse to report those exact same election results may have seemed a little, oh, maybe, inappropriate to fellow Democrat Gov. Ron Polis.
You just could never make these people up.
That is all.
Fox is trying to resuscitate Chris Wallace by having him make the rounds on their tv shows.
“Are Tucker and Hannity going to congratulate him on a job well done?”
That would be a cold day in hell. They already have had guests that did not think to highly of the “moderator”.
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