Posted on 11/08/2015 12:22:37 PM PST by jimbo123
Fox News has announced the fourth GOP debate criteria, rules, and who the moderators will be. The debate, which will take place Tuesday, Nov. 10, will be moderated by Fox Business Managing Editor Neil Cavuto, Fox News Global Markets editor Maria Bartiromo, and Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Gerard Baker, according to Politico. Who is moderator Gerard Baker of Wall Street Journal? He has a strong track record as an economics writer, so he will definitely call the candidates out on economic plans that don't add up.
Fox News announced that there will be two debates, a main debate and an undercard debate, and both will focus on jobs, taxes, and the economy. The debates will be held at the Milwaukee Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Just prior to becoming the WSJ's editor-in-chief, Baker was the paper's deputy editor-in-chief from 2009 to 2013, according to his WSJ biography page. Before that, he worked for news institutions such as the Times of London, the Financial Times as a Tokyo correspondent, and he covered economics for the BBC. Baker was born and raised in Britain, where he was obsessed with politics as early as age 8, according to an interview with How Did They Do It, a series of interviews exploring success. He went on to attend Oxford University, where he studied politics, philosophy, and economics.
In college, Baker said identified "on the left," and was actually the vice president of the Labour student union, according to How Did They Do It.
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I suppose it is gonna be another dog and pony show.
Why do they need a panel of moderators? Have one person, ask broad based questions, and give every candidate 3 minutes to answer the same question in random order. If the candidates want to challenge each other fine. Save the media interrogation for one on one interviews.
WSJ.....nuff said
Moderator “Won’t Cater”= accusatory “When did you stop beating your wife?” loaded questions with a gallery of leering, smirking, lefty media gargoyles egging him on.
Baker and his British accent will lecture all the candidates about how how is so much smarter than everyone else because he has a British accent.
Baker's more moderate stance and experience in economics will allow him to challenge the candidates on the feasibility of their plans and hopefully make them sweat a little.
If I was them I'd boycott the Fox debate...They don't need the debate...
Fox even admits their goal is to tear the candidates proposals to pieces...Talk about an agenda...
I don’t know why it is that a Brit could read the back of a soup can and we would think it was Alistair Cooke doing `The Ascent of Man’ on PBS.
I’m convinced that if you woke up a limey by throwing a bowl of cold water on him, he would sputter and sound just like a normal person, like Cliff Claven.
Until he remembered he was English, then he would recover and put on that plummy BBC accent, “I say, this is highly irregular and cheeky you ... “.
According to Alexander Hamilton’s memoirs, they sounded normal when we were shooting them too.
Heh, not really. Labour party. Screw that.
Did we learn nothing? I thought we were going to have moderators from the right? Why keep asking for another hit?
Who says he can't vote?
Illegal alien Mexicans and other illegal aliens can vote.
The dead can vote.
Gerard Baker can vote!
The worse the mods, the better it will be for Trump.
I’m not giving it any ratings. Fox had it’s chance and proved what they are.
The debate moderators think they are the ones debating. They think its their job to go after the candidates and expose them.
I don’t know if I’ll bother to watch any more of them. What would be the point?
Gerard Baker, doing the socialist moderating American moderators are just too moderate to do!
What has struck me about the debates so far is that the candidates were cut off when they criticized Hillary.
Seemed like they were only allowed to criticize each other.
Didn’t watch the last one maybe it was different.
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