Posted on 10/09/2020 2:18:51 PM PDT by Beave Meister
From the failed Chris Wallace-Biden tag-team attempt against Trump, to biased moderator Susan Page’s shrill interruptions of Vice President Pence, to the Presidential Debate Commission’s ridiculous and politically motivated effort to force a “virtual debate” on Biden’s behalf, patriotic Americans have caught on to the fact that there is something deeply unfair about the presidential debates.
This clear bias has justifiably led many observers to wonder what is wrong with the Presidential Debate Commission. Just yesterday, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany called out the Commission directly:
Kayleigh’s characterization of the Commission is of course correct. However, its corruption and bias goes beyond the simple fact that it’s in the tank for Joe Biden. The nominally Republican Chairman of Presidential Debate Commission, Frank Fahrenkopf, is both a co-founder and current board member of the International Republican Institute (IRI), a top “Color Revolution” propaganda outfit. The IRI was run by Never Trump neoconservative John McCain for decades. It is closely linked to the thoroughly discredited Steele Dossier at the center of the Russia Hoax.
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Many have noticed theoretical parallels and similarities between how US State Department and associated Atlanticist NGOs run color revolutions in foreign countries, and the sustained operations targeted against Trump in the United States. The case of George Kent — and many others to be exposed in this series — demonstrates that these similarities are not merely theoretical—they literally involve the same people! The very same people running cover revolution operations in Ukraine and Eastern Europe have been using the very same playbook to overturn 2016 and destroy the legitimacy of President Trump’s election.
And guess who runs the Belarus station at the State Department? If you guessed star never Trump impeachment witness George Kent, the “color revolution professional,” you might be right. [Revolver News]
In his tweet above, Twining favorably quotes David Kramer, his fellow board member at IRI who shopped the Steele Dossier. Kramer once served in a diplomatic post in Eastern Europe. In fact, almost every major operative in the effort to overthrow Trump has or has had a diplomatic post in Eastern Europe. Kramer happened to serve from 2005-2008 as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of European and Eurasian Affairs — working on issues related to Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. George Kent currently occupies this very same post. What a coincidence!
https://www.debates.org/about-cpd/
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Further, the [Commission on Presidential Debates] provides technical assistance to emerging democracies and others interested in establishing debate traditions in their countries. In recent years, the staff worked with groups from Bosnia, Burundi, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Haiti, Jamaica, Lebanon, Niger, Nigeria, Peru, Romania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, and the Ukraine, among others.
And Chris Wallass, Susan Page and Steve Scummy KILLED IT!! YEAH!
More BOOM!
Thanks, maggief, for your AWESOME research!!
AWESOME RESEARCH...YES.
so how come WaPo, NYT, CBS/NBC/ABC etc etc couldn’t do it?
Remarks by the Vice President at the John F. Kennedy Forum
October 3, 2014
The White House
Office of the Vice President
For Immediate Release
October 03, 2014
Harvard Kennedy School
Boston, Massachusetts
6:37 P.M. EDT
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, Dean, you did that introduction exactly like my sister wrote it sounds like. (Laughter.) Thank you. That was very, very generous of you.
And as we used to say in the Senate, please excuse the point of personal privilege. There are three reasons why I’ve won the races I’ve won and why I sustained winning, and they’re right here in this front row. The first one is my sister, but also the guy who got me through the 1972 campaign is one of the best political strategists I have ever known, and a man who is — as Frank — is that you, Frank, back there? Frank Fahrenkopf, the former chairman of the Republican Party. We’ve known each other a long time, back to the days when we really liked one another, Republicans and Democrats. (Laughter.) We still do. It’s great to see you, Frank.
But as Frank can tell you and anyone else can tell you that the one thing when you hire a political consultant that you most are concerned about — and I mean this sincerely — is will they reflect your values.
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Another great catch, Maggie...
Soooo....the guy who’s supposed to be ‘unbiased’ and Republican, on the Debate Commission....got Creepy Joe through his 1972 election.
Tangled web, and all.
bttt
Thick as thieves ...
https://www.unlv.edu/mgmppi/about/advisory-board
MGM Resorts Public Policy Institute at UNLV
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Advisory Board Members
Ms. Valerie Biden Owens
Vice Chair The Biden Institute at the University of Delaware
Valerie Biden Owens
Ms. Biden Owens serves as the Vice Chair for the Biden Institute, Biden Foundation and Beau Biden Foundation. She is one of the first women in the United States to have managed a modern U.S. Senatorial campaign as well as a Presidential campaign. She previously served as U.S. Senior Advisor to the United Nations 71 st General Assembly. While at the UN, she represented the United States government...
Mr. Frank Fahrenkopf
Co-Chairman Commission on Presidential Debates
Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr.
Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr., is President & CEO of the American Gaming Association (AGA). In his role as the chief executive of the AGA, Fahrenkopf is the national advocate for the commercial casino industry and is responsible for positioning the association to address regulatory, political and educational issues affecting the industry. A lawyer by profession, Fahrenkopf gained national...
Thick as thieves, indeed.
Thanks....keep ‘em coming.
bkmk
Sep 22, 2015
ST. LOUIS — Four universities were chosen Wednesday to host the 2016 presidential and vice presidential debates, including veteran host Washington University in St. Louis and, for the first time, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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Senator Bob Dol @SenatorDoleThe Commission on Presidential Debates is supposedly bipartisan w/ an equal number of Rs and Ds. I know all of the Republicans and most are friends of mine. I am concerned that none of them support @realDonaldTrump. A biased Debate Commission is unfair.
I just got a text from a volunteer at stand up America (soros) telling me are Ballots are being sent out here in Mi. Then the text says “have you got yours yet?” So why the hell is a Soros org involved in ballots being sent to people who haven’t requested them?
Posted on June 17, 2015
The Annenberg Working Group on Presidential Campaign Debate Reform – a bipartisan group of top officials from past presidential campaigns – released its recommendations to help democratize the presidential general election debate process ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
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The 16-person group came together at the suggestion of Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, and was co-chaired by Anita Dunn, a former White House communications director for President Obama and senior advisor to his campaign, and Beth Myers, senior advisor to Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign and campaign manager for his 2008 presidential race.
In addition to Myers, Dunn and Jamieson, the Working Group includes Robert Barnett; Robert Bauer; Joel Benenson; Charles Black; Rick Davis; Ben Ginsberg; Ron Klain; Zac Moffatt; Neil Newhouse; Jim Perry; Joe Rospars; Michael Sheehan; and Stuart Stevens.
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The Working Group also: discussed the history and value of presidential debates with Newton Minow, who played an indispensable role in the institutionalization of presidential debates. met with broadcast and cable network representatives as well as with the director of the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), Janet Brown, and separately with CPD co-chairs Mike McCurry and Frank Fahrenkopf. convened a group of debate scholars to assist the Working Group in evaluating debate formats.
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https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/8/2/iop-fall-2014-fellowa/
Former Governor, Biden’s Sister Among Fall IOP Fellows
August 7, 2014
Former Washington Governor Christine Gregoire and Valerie Biden Owens, the sister and campaign strategist of Vice President Joe Biden, are among the class of six fall semester fellows announced Wednesday by the Institute of Politics.
The fellows, who will lead study groups for undergraduates and community members, and attend other events on campus, also include two members of the media, Kristen Soltis Anderson, a columnist at The Daily Beast, and Phil Kent, the former CEO of Turner Broadcasting Systems.Frank Fahrenkopf, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Anton J. Gunn, a health care consultant who managed public affairs for President Obama’s implementation of the Affordable Care Act, round out the rest of this fall’s class.
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Needs repeating!
Tamales are GOOD!
You tellin’ me.....that’s part of our diet here in Texas. There was such a dust-up about Kam A la or Ka Mal la I just couldn’t resist......;)
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TranscriptAugust 1, 2016 | Lou Dobbs Tonight [Fox Business] (USA)
Author: Lou Dobbs, Howard Kurtz, Ed Rollins, Michael Goodwin, Laura Ingraham, Stephen Hayes, K.T. McFarland | LOU DOBBS TONIGHT
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ROLLINS: It’s time to abolish the commission. I basically helped set the commission up in 1984 when I threw out the League of Women Voters because they didn’t let the campaigns have anything to do with it.
The premise was you’re going to have the RNC chairman and the DNC chairman, the same chairman who was there, my friend Frank Fahrenkopf, who’s been there since 1984, (INAUDIBLE) the late Paul Kirk.
They haven’t changed it. It should be tied to the campaigns. These are vehicles for the campaigns. And they’re not anymore. They’re basically self-sustaining things. And the idea that you’re basically not going to let the campaigns say, We want to do this, we don’t want to do that is absurd.
DOBBS: One of the most ridiculous statements in a season of ridiculous was the response from the commission saying, Oh, well, it’s been in place since September 2015! Oh, that makes...
I’m an Arizonan, so I know!
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