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How badly biased will Fox debate questions be? (Vanity)

Posted on 08/06/2015 12:37:53 PM PDT by Mount Athos

Megyn Kelly, Chris Wallace and Bret Baier will be asking questions with only 60 seconds for each to respond.

Hosts can ask each candidate very different questions. They can really throw the debate by asking hostile or leftist-perspective questions to those they do not like.

A foreshadowing of this might be seen in Kelly's recent interview of Cruz. Kelly raised the subject of Trump, and in response Cruz said something kind about his immigration position.

Kelly actually said "if you like him so much why don't you drop out and allow him to run".

She only asked one substantive policy question in an interview that lasted longer than the time Cruz will have in the debate. It was from a far left perspective about republicans supposedly wanting to curtail "women's healthcare" in the context of PP's human body part trafficking. She let Elizabeth Warren do the talking by playing her speech and asking Cruz to respond.

Murdoch has openly ridiculed Trump and even told his news exec to reduce coverage of his campaign.

Murdoch purged nearly everyone concerned with the immigration issue from Fox.

He even tweeted the big leftist whopper that illegal immigrants have lower crime rates than native born citizens.

It turns out that illegals actually have a crime rate 4 times greater than their representation in the population, even after immigration prosecutions are removed from consideration.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/07/illegal-immigrants-accounted-for-nearly-37-percent-of-federal-sentences-in-fy-2014/

(Illegals are estimated at 3.5% of the population, but account for 13.6 percent of all fed offenders sentenced in FY14 when all immigration prosecutions are removed)

Will the questions of candidates asked at the debate show gross bias to support those they like and smear those they don't?


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1 posted on 08/06/2015 12:37:53 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

Very.


2 posted on 08/06/2015 12:38:39 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Section 20.)
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To: Mount Athos

You can tell from Megyn’s remarks that they’re gunning for Trump, probably Cruz too. They’ll give softballs to kasich, christie, rubio, and paul.


3 posted on 08/06/2015 12:41:24 PM PDT by Kenny
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To: Mount Athos

I think Brett Baier is very fair and professional.

I think Chris Wallace sees himself as the next Tim Russert, the tough questioner always looking for inconsistencies.

Megyn Kelly, judging from her TV show, I think will be fine.

At least Candy Crowley won’t be there.


4 posted on 08/06/2015 12:44:16 PM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Mount Athos

Hosts can ask each candidate very different questions. They can really throw the debate by asking hostile or leftist-perspective questions to those they do not like.
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Yes!!!

A regular old Ted Cruz Briar Patch.


5 posted on 08/06/2015 12:44:35 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: Mount Athos

Might as well weed out the candidates now who can’t deal with a tough question. It isn’t going to get easier after they get nominated.


6 posted on 08/06/2015 12:44:59 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: Mount Athos
Watching the debates will be a waste of anyone's time.

Following one's favorite candidates and what they say over time is the only way one can get an honest assessment of who they really are..........

I can't believe all the hoopla this non event is getting........

7 posted on 08/06/2015 12:45:26 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (<i>)
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To: Mount Athos

Megyn will be nasty, the nastiest......she’s gunning for Trump, maybe Cruz


8 posted on 08/06/2015 12:45:28 PM PDT by Guenevere (If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do........Psalms 11:3..An Appeal to Heaven)
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To: Mount Athos
Hmmm. It's my recollection that Kelly, when interviewing the declared candidates a few weeks ago, only asked them their opinions of Trump's position on each issue. I remember being aggravated that I wasn't hearing the position of the candidate in the studio.
9 posted on 08/06/2015 12:45:58 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Mount Athos

There mission (except possibly for Brett Baier) is to bring a food fight, one that takes out Trump and restores the Establishment lip lock on truth, justice and the American way.

Their careers ride on messing with Republican contenders, destroying Trump, balkanizing Republican base voters backing them into their usual corners to fight among themselves, so Bush can run the gap.

The Republican Party, if they don’t play fair, will lose a huge swath of us to a Third Party or no party at all, but not to another UNIPARTY cram down.


10 posted on 08/06/2015 12:46:33 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: mad_as_he$$

They are using Facebook to judge response to the Candidates. How many Conservative males do you know that use Facebook?


11 posted on 08/06/2015 12:46:47 PM PDT by heights
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To: Mount Athos
I think after this evening, the number of remaining Fox fans around here will be drastically reduced.
12 posted on 08/06/2015 12:48:54 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: heights

“How many Conservative males do you know that use Facebook?’

Don’t know. I dropped Facebook the minute they announced Ohio for Obama.


13 posted on 08/06/2015 12:49:05 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Democrats are parasites. It really is that simple.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

With Trump on the dais, it will be anything but boring.

They are expecting a huge audience.

People will tune in for the entertainment value if nothing else.


14 posted on 08/06/2015 12:50:54 PM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Mount Athos

Their goal is to derail Trump. Look for them to have plenty of op Research handy.

Have the all stars named Bush the winner yet?

Pray America is waking


15 posted on 08/06/2015 12:51:09 PM PDT by bray (Cruz to the White House)
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To: Mount Athos
I expect Donald to say. "Now what kind of a question is that? This isn't third grade."

Remember...if you think of the apprentice...he always asks his "players" simple questions...like..."how did you decide"....."What was your biggest mistake"....Why did you....

He's a think tank man. He'll do just fine.

16 posted on 08/06/2015 12:51:13 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: heights

If they were smart, they’d use Twitter.


18 posted on 08/06/2015 12:52:05 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: Kenny

All Trump and Cruz have to do is point out the bias to all of national tv and FOX will back off immediately. Fair and balanced.


19 posted on 08/06/2015 12:53:06 PM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Post5203

I don’t think FNC would agree with you.

DT used to be a regular commentator on Fox and Friends.

They love him there.

DT is also a big favorite with Sean Hannity.

FNC has given Trump a big megaphone over the years.


20 posted on 08/06/2015 12:55:27 PM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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