I was waiting for somebody else to notice this. And the questions the panel gave him were combative and rather personl -- not on the issues of the day.
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Posted on 08/08/2015 3:02:33 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
I asked the staff on the other side of the glass exactly one hour ago to take a wild guess at who had the most camera time last night, who said the most, who had the most speaking time last night. I will admit it was a trick question. I did not say, "Which of the candidates...?" So the answers were the candidates, but that was not true. The Fox the moderators dominated the debate last night.
The candidate with the most airtime was Donald Trump. "Time analysis compiled by a university political researcher finds frontrunner Donald Trump dominated last night’s Republican presidential debate, that is, if you don’t count the moderators. Fox News debate moderators allowed Trump speak the most of all the candidates, clocking in at 10 minutes, 32 seconds of air time."
So you had... Stop and think about this, now. You have a two-hour debate. They took some time for commercial breaks. Let's say... It's an hour and 40 minute actual program time, and I'm guessing at that. The most time any of these guys had was 10 minutes 32 seconds, and he was not the most seen or most heard. The Fox moderators had more time... In other words, the moderators had more time to ask their questions than the rules permitted the candidates to answer.
"Former Gov. Jeb Bush -- stationed in the #2 podium due to his polling -- came in a relative distant second, with 8 minutes 31 seconds. The third-highest polling candidate -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker -- came in 9th place, being heard just over half of Trump's time. All told, the 10 candidates at the 9pm debate spoke 'a total of one hour, eight minutes, and 49 seconds …' According to Smart Politics, 'an equal distribution of speaking time would have been six minutes and 52 seconds per candidate.'".....
That headline says it all, that’s exactly what I was thinking. And, quite frankly, that audience count is a number that should scare the heck out of Hillary!
Although I will grant that Trump’s participation probably did a good deal to boost the audience. Why? I don’t know, but people do seem to get a kick out of him.
FOX tried to disguise their 1st question as a question to all candidates when it really was directed solely to Trump.
Yes.
It will make the Fox debate look like a cakewalk.
..that's what we'll call it.
“Watch the next one tank if Trump refuses to appear.”
Like him or not, you must admit he’s proven to be a tough strategist, because he has the RNC by the b#$$3. So, if they don’t play fair (by his definition) and give him the nomination if he wins primaries, he goes independent and Clinton probably wins unless she is in the Stripey Hole.
I was waiting for somebody else to notice this. And the questions the panel gave him were combative and rather personl -- not on the issues of the day.
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A third of the time was given to moderators pontificating dem talking points...
A question should be a question - not a mini debate statement. Shame on Fox.
Yes, good post. I may sit this election out if Jeb is the nominee. I hate to do that but sometimes my principles have GOT to win out.
Correct.
The real question now is: Will Americans get the change they want or will they get yet more of the same tired, old, corrupt political sh1t.
If the career pols in Washington get their way, it will certainly be the latter.
If that doesn't prove the Fox crew was working for the establishment, what would?
I've said from day one, if Cruz isn't the nominee, I'm staying home.
I later amended that to Trump, unless Cruz is the GOP nominee.
I think I would probably vote for anyone on the panel the other night but Bush - although maybe I would exclude Rand Paul who behaved appallingly the other night. He cut off Trump who should have demanded an extra 30 seconds for that little piece of nastiness.
In my mind, the fact that they were up there means they’ll “play the game” with the exception of Trump for obvious reasons, and Cruz who has actually gone after “the cartel.”
Palin got bi-partisian trashing for the same reason. She cleaned out the corrupt Republicans in Alaska.
There were guys at the golf course who had to leave to get home and “watch Trump.” Guys I never knew cared a whit about politics.
No, those numbers don’t indicate a desire for change, they were all about The Donald being on the debate.
I’ve always said that Cruz is the one I will support. I hope he can gain traction.
I have to agree with that - 23 million??? It was Trump.
Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace were boors, merely pimping for pop TV rather than substance. Bret B. showed some intelligence in his questions. Was mightily impressed with Carly Fiorina - would be a great ticket - Walker/Fiorina.
With Trump, they cared not for the questions to be relevant to the event...they just wanted to provoke him for sound bites and stories and they did accompllsh that.
Shame on them.
I was ticked off that Cruz wasn’t given more time. I’ll swear that he and Dr. Carson got much less time than the others. I don’t know who compiled this list but it doesn’t seem right to me.
Backing Cruz; support Walker as next in line and will donate if Cruz falls out and Walker's still alive, and won't hesitate to vote for Trump if it comes to that - he would be by far the best bet we had compared to McPain and Romney-I'm-a-nice-guy-without-a-conservative-predilection. IMO, McCain would have been an utter disaster akin to Obama, and Romney wold have been a bit more benign and wouldn't have moved us near as Left as Obama. It's a bit sad that trump may look like a good deal these days.
At any rate: GO CRUZ!!! Hang tough (and toughen up a bit in your public persona) Walker!
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