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.'".....
I did! He agrees with me.
This wasn’t a debate. It was a culling session and attack. Not a Trump voter; but he gave the American voter an incredible gift. He woke them up. It’s time to stop being distracted by all the lies and cheap tactics being used by both parties and some of the candidates and get behind a real conservative who can help us cut this cancer out.
Frankly, Trump would have better off not even going. The format of this “debate” sucked.
And I don’t believe in debates between members of the same party, especially when the moderators are Democrats.
Walker got scr*w*d in terms of debate time. Mevyn’s whatever made her ignore everyone in favor of her attacks on Trump, and I wish I had heard more from Walker on Thursday
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