important issues.
Posted on 08/09/2015 1:01:17 PM PDT by nikos1121
I've agonized, like many here, these past couple days. I honestly believed there was a concerted effort to embarrass and knock Trump off, a conspiracy if you will, but I’ve come full circle and now feel differently, very differently.
I don’t think there was any conspiracy. I think the Fox trio, worked hard to challenge the candidates, and independently from Rupert Murdock or Ailes or anyone else.
Right out of the gate it was great TV. After the opening salvo, you didn’t want to turn your tv off.
And what happened? Each candidate was hit with a zinger. Trump was hit the most, and I doubt that anyone else running for office could have answered like he did.
He swatted their best shots as well as Newt would.
And what else happened? Fox tried to take the rest of the group out with tough questions. And they all rose to the occasion, except maybe Bush, who seemed to play it safe...perhaps Walker too.
I think all in all Fox showed why the interviews of Obama are a big joke. Obama or Hillary could never stand up to the barrage that our side took last week.
And I am proud of everyone, including Chris, Kelly and Brett... and all of our candidates.
I pray that eventually we will all coalesce and unite. I think Trump can and will do that. It makes no sense to run third party... makes no sense. He's way ahead now, and he's taking shots left and right.
What is left now, is for someone to sit down with him, and ask him some serious policy questions about our country, and how he sees us winning. He can tell us. It's right there in his book, Making America No. One Again.
I'm waiting for some one like Kelly to have read the book and ask him questions on what he says in the book.
The bottom line, if you can't handle Chris, Kelly and Brett, how in the heck are you going to handle Putin, the Chinese, the Iranians etc?
I hope Trump rises to the occasion and doesn’t op out on any future debates. I hope he remain himself.
I think he will. He fired his manager, who apparently was a milktoast.
If Kelly is smart she'll find some way to make it right with Trump. She'll invite him back on her show.
He'll refuse of course, then eventually he'll accept, and it will be the biggest show of her career, and the two will be best of friends.
You know why? because she is a lot like Trump.
She's a class act. She could taken Erickson's invite, who btw is a classless act, a joke and a loser.
In short, I am excited. The top four, Trump, Cruz, Carson and Carli and all outsiders. What does that tell you folks!!!!?
Rising to the occasion in the face of boorish and low-brow behavior is to be commended.
But I do think the FOX moderators were unprofessional at best. The event was called a debate, which my dictionary defines as a formal discussion under a specified procedure. The FOX debacle was a lightning round of “gotcha” questions designed to destroy the candidates and make news. Equal time was not given, especially since the snarky moderators ate up a third of it.
Many million viewers tuned in to see it, including many low-fo voters. Did they learn, perhaps for the first time, about Hillary’s criminal email scandal, that the IRS is being used as a gestapo or that our nation is in debt to the tune of trillions and may go the way of Greece? That Obamacare is wreaking havoc on personal finances and is not a success, or that the work force participation is at a forty-year low? That we still do not know where Obama and Hillary were the night our ambassador was killed in Benghazi?
Not likely, since the questions were mostly of the Barbara Walters variety. I’m surprised Megyn Kelly didn’t ask Ted Cruz “if you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?”
important issues.
Here’s your pancake.
Hahaha.
Good catch. What a maroon.
Faux has always been an unprofessional news organization. Always late when it comes to breaking news stories.
The world is exploding and Kelly asks doctored Rosie questions without mentioning the nationally aired attack by her on his children, wife and other family.
Also she doctored the knees question making it sound sexual when in the show she was begging on her knees from a fellow player to get a pass.
Kelly is horrible.
I don’t think she was the class act you make her out to be...or the harpy that Trump is trying to make her out to be. All in all I don’t think the Fox panel was all that good.
Yep, she’s very good at being an Attention Ho’.
Bump 100%!
Everyone is entitled to their opinion. WRT the thread title, mine differs from yours.
I have no crush on her, but I actually wish I had a girlfriend like her....
“and have a computer randomly select them and display them on a jumbotron for all the candidates to answer.”
Johny Five is alive! :)
Be nice....:-)
What was the first question - who will not pledge to support the republican candidate whoever it is and not run as a third party, correct?
Which candidates other than Trump had mentioned the subject? This obviously targeted Trump.
How can anyone ask for the support of an unidentified presidential candidate?
It was nonsense. The debates are now reality TV by design.
You are simply wrong. Google a transcript of the debate, look at the questions that were asked, and come back and try to say that again with a straight face.
Oh Yeah. She was real classy when she appeared on the Howard Stern show talking about her sex life, her husband’s penis, and her breast size.
The question to Trump was similar to - “when did you stop beating your wife?” question. I looked up the incidents and she took them way out of context. One was on a segment of the “Apprentice” show with a Playboy model. Another man made the comment about the Playboy model being down on her knees begging. Then Trump made his comment. This was a set up piece by the producers to garner laughs. The Playboy model says she doesn’t even remember the incident and she remembers Trump as a real good person.
Megyn continued to argue with Trump. She’s supposed to be a moderator. This had nothing to do with the issues.
I don't even think it mattered to her that Trump was her target that night. If Trump was not participating, no doubt she would go after one of the other candidates just as ferociously. Perhaps she would have had some "gotcha" zingers ready for Ted Cruz or Chris Christie.
Megyn is no class act but an attention-seeking media whore who hijacked a debate and made it all about her. Journalism took a back seat that night and just take a look at the picture below to see how full of herself she is.
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