I’ve watched Special Report for years. Unlike some of his FNC colleagues, Brett is usually very friendly and dignified in his political interviews even as he asks tough questions. This was the case during his interviews with Obama. Last evening, I thought he was loaded for bear in the aggressiveness and condescension of his questioning. At times, Baier seemed agitated that he could not pin Cruz down and he would just not accept the answers. For his part, Cruz did substantively well, but did get flustered for a moment at Brett’s disdain and contentiousness, which was probably unexpected.
My problem with this episode is that Baier’s behavior and approach was so different from previous interviews with Cruz and other candidates. He clearly had a goal, which was to damage Cruz...to bring him down a notch by impugning his truthfulness over amnesty. The beneficiary of this attack is Rubio! Since the FNC crew consistently fawns over Kid Marco while Hume, Krauthammer, and others periodically slam or marginalize Cruz, it appears that Baier has moved from a master journeyman journalist, so-called “Fair & Balanced”, to a typical MSM political hack, in the tank against a Cruz Presidency, IMHO. This was very disappointing!
The other side is that Cruz was in lawyer smoke and obfuscation mode. Cruz chose to avoid answering and disclosing the flip flop he has made. Cruz is at fault, not Brett.
Bret is not a presstitute of the MSNBC or Old Gray Whore school where he blatantly covers up. He asked an important debate follow up and cruz chose to obfuscate rather than come clean. Bret you could tell from his facial expression as a master journeyman continued to no avail.
Had he given up, there would bepeople here blaming him for bias.
The antiFox bias dogma is misplaced sour grapes