Posted on 10/29/2015 9:39:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In one moment, Senator Ted Cruz managed to do what no other candidate for the Republican nomination for president has done to this point: unite Republicans. He did so by pushing back against the ridiculously biased questions presented by CNBC moderators. The Hollywood Reporter transcribes:
“The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media,” said the U.S. senator from Texas, instantly earning applause.
“This is not a cage match,” he continued. “Look at the questions. ‘Donald Trump, are you a comic book villain;’ ‘Ben Carson, can you do math;’ ‘John Kasich, will you insult two people over here;’ ‘Marco Rubio, why don’t you resign?;’ ‘Jeb Bush, why have your numbers fallen?’ How about talking about the substantive issues people care about?”
Cruz contrasted moderators’ treatment of Republicans with their treatment of Democrats:
…every fawning question from the media was, “Which of you is more handsome and wise? …”
The audience loved it, erupting in raucous applause. Social media lit up as well, with Republicans of every stripe expressing gratitude that someone had finally pushed back.
Reports on the moment typically end there. However, the reaction from moderator Carlos Quintanilla proves just as significant. After laughing indignantly at both Cruz and the audience, Quintanilla comes back with the tried-and-true tactic of accusing Cruz of avoiding the question.
This is a question about the debt, which you have thirty seconds to answer if you choose to do so.
Quintanilla proceeds from an unspoken premise that candidates must answer any question posed no matter how it is presented and no matter what premise it is based on. That’s utter nonsense.
More candidates need to take their lead from Cruz and start objecting to the questions asked by media. By accepting questions as asked, candidates concede the premises upon which those questions are based. In this way, the media is able to make statements in the guise of questions, and thus offer a biased political narrative in the guise of an interview. Such rhetorical subterfuge is unacceptable and needs to be called out and countered, as Cruz did Wednesday night.
And he brought the Republicans together.
I think they could get A+E Networks to carry it on either A&E or History (or both); Trump and the superPACs could chip in and pay for the time if necessary, which each candidate's ads getting shown during the timeouts.
That audiographic memory really kicked in, didn’t it? Until recently I didn’t realize that he had that gift.
I’d hate to try to win an argument with him. His poor wife.:)
So? The next “Democrat” debate, can we have Rush, Levin and Savage asked the questions? (I had to thrown in Savage in lieu of any other popular conservative to show a little diversity). Like that would ever happen. Why does the RNC go along with the inquisition members of the Press? Don’t they have a choice? Can’t they refuse? Hillary’s people would be outraged if any network allowed a Conservative to ask her questions. I feel Bernie, would not, he wouldn’t care who asked the questions, so long as he could say what he wants.
I’d be speechless, too! I think his little girls have daddy wrapped around their little fingers.
“By accepting questions as asked, candidates concede the premises upon which those questions are based.”
Precisely! Something the GOPe has conceded almost universally since the departure of Newt Gingrich. While attacking Hillary, Bernie or whomever will become necessary at some point, answers to biased and leading questions should begin with, “First of all, I totally reject the fallacious premise on which your question is based.” In some cases, I might add, “OK smartass,...”
The question of the year.
AWWWWWW! He must be the biggest Hero ever to those little girls. SO Sweet!
Ding!
As I’ve been saying, the biggest loser from last night was the mainstream media, and deservedly so.
Jeb was next.
Yup!!
I’m sorry to tell you that A&E and the History Channel are part and parcel of the MSM, just like FOX is part and parcel of the MSM.
Clearly they adore him. I heard a radio interview the other night with, of all people, the gal who used to play Mary Ann on Gilligan’s Island. I loved her for saying what I finally recognized a few years ago: that a good father-daughter relationship is more important for girls/women than a good mother-daughter relationship.
couldn’t agree more. He’s on my radar a lot more after the debate. Trump really did nothing, but people still think he won... http://newsdailynow.com/2015/10/29/debate/ How can they think he won? He literally said the same things we have all heard a lot by now, nothing new.
Maybe she gives him the silent treatment. <<
That's exactly what the MSM is trying to do!....They know he'll kick their asses in any verbal exchange...avoid that at all cost...Watch poor lil perky katie get taken to the woodshed with her line of questioning....her body luggage changes and her smile disappears as she finally realizes it...lol...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_xVWfGjk0o
Classic Cruz!!
It is funny that the moderators ran to Kasic after Cruz’s beat down of them. They knew Kasic would not attack them.
Answer to the question of the year: Because it has nothing to do with ideology; it has everything to do with power ...obtaining it and holding on to it.
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