Posted on 09/11/2024 5:45:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Megyn Kelly comments on the moderators' performance at Tuesday night's presidential debate: (video at link)
MEGYN KELLY: I'm disgusted. I'm ashamed of those moderators at ABC News. They did exactly what their bosses wanted them to do. The person who runs ABC News is a close personal friend of Kamala Harris and is responsible for Kamala Harris and her husband meeting. They did Dana Walden's bidding tonight. It was three against one on that debate stage this evening.
Hi, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. A special program tonight for you, reacting to the debate. It was three against one. It's very easy to look like you know what you're doing when both moderators are entirely on your side. Trump did the best he could under the circumstances, but it really was like three fighters in the ring pummeling one opponent, and Trump tried to take them all on. He did fine. He did the best he could. He was thrown off a few times, to the point where he was unnecessarily defensive and getting angry. And so was I. Were you?
This was a mistake to trust ABC News with this debate. The Republicans must learn from this mistake the same way the Democrats never, ever agree to do anything with moderators they don't entirely trust. This should be the last time the Republicans ever do this because those two moderators tried to sink Donald Trump tonight.
The numerous fact-checks on what he said and none on what she said -- none. I don't remember a single fact-check of anything she said, and she lied repeatedly. She just got away with it in the moderators' eyes. That was Donald Trump's job to fact-check her. That's correct, except you didn't employ that same tactic when it came to Trump....
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Kelly’s been doing rehab for years since she botched her debate gig.
I have never seen a debate this bad before.
She wants to be the moderator. That’s what she said anyway.
These people are nothing more than TV clowns who do whatever they're told by their employers. They are not serious people; they have less intelligence and wisdom than your average truck driver.
The guy running abc news is no more in charge of his company than those moderators are in charge of questions. Ratings mean nothing to any of the media. CNN has prime time viewers in the hundreds of thousands not millions
Fairness and justice certainly don’t play any role
Republicans would continue to shove their candidates in to this dog and pone show to select whatever candidate is prescribed
Trump is not playing the same game they are. He would never win in a 3:1 fight.
This is something different
Ambushed, dishonest moderators, etc…..fact is everyone knows what Kamela is, what she represents and how she made it to the top of the most corrupted administration in US history.
President Trump turned our county around, Kamela destroyed it. All the debates, all the hatred for Trump and our country, can not change Trump’s accomplishments and qualifications.
Kamela began her career lifting her skirt, and now ends it by lie after lie.
It was not 3 against 1! The two ABC moderators had access to computers and a whole crew who researched counter arguments as Trump spoke and eviscerated Kamala. So it was probably 3 + 3 or more minions against 1.
Disaster for America. THe communists will retain control.
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Sheesh. That was 8 years ago. She has obviously changed. Are you Megyn haters ever going to let it go?
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You are 100% correct. Life has a way of teaching you things. Some things you have to learn by making stupid mistakes. 10 years ago, Megyn thought she was above it all. She thought she REALLY mattered. She found out differently. She knows she effed up bigtime in that 2016 debate. I am convinced her return to decency is genuine. I want her on my side.
What upset most Fox viewers was that Kelly and Baier seemed to follow Chris Wallace's lead in treating the Republican candidates exactly the same way that the ABC moderators treated President Trump last night when we all thought we would finally have a fair forum where our side can present the Republican agenda to the viewers who won't get it from the traditional "mainstream" media.
Maybe Kelly learned how badly she messed up when she got the McCain treatment once the liberal media had no more use for her. She moved to NBC News and lasted only until she spoke of children dressing up in Halloween costumes wearing blackface when she was a child. That was the opening for the rank and file at NBC to have Kelly ousted from the network. We would see this tribal behavior repeat itself years later when NBC News hired Ronna McDaniel.
-PJ
Trump should have been ready for the ambush. He had the perfect opportunity after 30 minutes of the three against one antics to say: “I’m sorry, but if I continue on this stage, I am legitimizing the alliance between the corporate media and the Democrat Party. What you are perpetrating tonight is an example of why you, the corporate media, are hated and despised by so so many. My further participation will only further legitimize this corruption. It is time for it to stop: and it stops NOW.” And the proceed to walk off the stage. He played, again, by the rules of the Swamp - which tells me he’s learned nothing from his first term.
That Kamala Harris can not even attempt to take on Donald Trump without the full and complete support of both moderators.
She has demonstrated that she is incapable of handling strong adversarial world leaders. She will be a disaster as President.
Amazing to me is the unforgiving attitude held by so many on this supposedly nominally “Christian” board. People sometimes change. Make mistakes and learn from it. Apparently that is an unknown phenomenon to many on this board.
Similarly I noticed in the debate discussion thread last night, many on this board are as intolerant of alternative viewpoints or opinions as the Democrat Underground.
As Trump might say: Sad!
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Defending yourself is like saying you are sorry. Trump knows better than that!
I wish he had spoke about the incredible calm and courage of the crowd in Butler The was no panic, hysterics or stampede. There was only compassion and fight in those beautiful MAGA people!
Good marketing plan !
She ought to know. She did the EXACT SAME THING to Trump in 2016.
WORD! I am glad she has come around, but she should have acknowledged that she did the EXACT same thing.
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