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Fox News throws up serious accusation against Trump campaign manager
Biz PAC Review ^ | 01/27/16 | Carmine Sabia

Posted on 01/27/2016 8:03:59 AM PST by Enlightened1

Fox News released a brutal statement Tuesday reacting to the announcement from the Donald Trump campaign that he would be bowing out of the next Republican presidential debate.

"As many of our viewers know, FOX News is hosting a sanctioned debate in Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday night, three days before the first votes of the 2016 election are cast in the Iowa Caucus. Donald Trump is refusing to debate seven of his fellow presidential candidates on stage that night, which is near unprecedented," the statement read.

The network accused the campaign of leveling terroristic threats against debate moderator and Fox News host Megyn Kelly.

"We're not sure how Iowans are going to feel about him walking away from them at the last minute, but it should be clear to the American public by now that this is rooted in one thing - Megyn Kelly, whom he has viciously attacked since August and has now spent four days demanding be removed from the debate stage. Capitulating to politicians' ultimatums about a debate moderator violates all journalistic standards, as do threats, including the one leveled by Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski toward Megyn Kelly.

"In a call on Saturday with a FOX News executive, Lewandowski stated that Megyn had a 'rough couple of days after that last debate' and he 'would hate to have her go through that again.' Lewandowski was warned not to level any more threats, but he continued to do so. We can't give in to terrorizations toward any of our employees," the statement continued.

But even with all of that, the network said it would still allow the current Republican presidential front-runner to attend the debate.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; accusation; campaignmanager; debates; election2016; fox4dnc; fox4killerbees; fox4obama; fox4romney; foxnetwork; foxnews; iowa; megynkelly; newyork; rogerailes; rupertmurdoch; trump; trumplessdebate
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To: Jedidah

I agree that a skilled candidate could finesse any such question.

But, the damage is already done, regardless of how skillfully they answer.

The moderators LIE (like Candy crowley) and purport to be stating facts and then start to argue with the the candidates. Millions of people are watching and the moderator controls the cutoffs.

The moderators have incredible power to either ask you some question to make you look stupid that no one knows the answer too, state some fact that is a lie as if it’s the truth, accuse the candidate of lying when in fact they are telling the truth, cut them off before they can finish, or not ask them questions to begin with, ect.

The point is we dont need hostile moderators at our primary debates who sole intent is to destroy our best candidates.

We should have conservative icons asking the questions.

Now the general election debates should be completely different. I think there should be two moderators at those one picked by each side. At that is the point when each will have to answer hard and loaded questions from the other side. Which will be just fine, because then it will be obvious what is happening.

But this whole game of the press pretending to be neutral while actually actively trying to destroy our candidates because they are really all far left activists is annoying.


101 posted on 01/27/2016 12:24:36 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: Mr Rogers

I wonder why the Maalox truck showed up at fox news this morning?


102 posted on 01/27/2016 12:27:08 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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