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To: Reaper19

Why should Trump or Cruz or anyone accept liberal moderators?

Liberals have a stranglehold on the legacy media. We need to fight that stranglehold, not accept it.

I honour Trump for pushing back against the false, toxic game that political debates have become.


13 posted on 01/29/2016 3:57:12 AM PST by agere_contra (Hamas has dug miles of tunnels - but no bomb-shelters.)
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To: agere_contra
We need to fight that stranglehold, not accept it.

as someone in the new media said the other day, we have the new media, let's use it. Forget about the LSM. They're over.

25 posted on 01/29/2016 4:13:42 AM PST by uncitizen
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I don't think the problem is as much with Liberal moderators, it is how these things are shaped. In effect, the idea is to draw in as much viewership as they can and load up on the ad prices. Getting the guy they want is secondary.

The hosts getting into arguments with the candidates is a reason I could never stand there. Frankly, I'd be likely to leave the podium and punch one of them in the mouth for some of the rhetoric that is made to disguise a TV promo as a debate subject. To me a “debate” is you ask a question to each as a jump ball and let them banter a few minutes each without interference from the moderator except when they go off subject. For example: what is you income tax plan? How will your foreign policy be different or the same as now? Do you support a balanced budget amendment and if so why or why not..... Not let me show you this video wherein you said in 1978 you were in favor of such and such and now you say something different, why is that. These clowns seem intent on doing a forced interrogation. I would never submit to anything like that if I were the GOP head. No one is consistent forever and worse when you have a parliamentary system, what someone does in the senate may not be exactly what they mean.

42 posted on 01/29/2016 4:47:52 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: agere_contra

I honour Trump for pushing back against the false, toxic game that political debates have become.


Me too. I’ve been dreaming of this since Bush 43 was running. It really makes me happy. I’m so surprised some FReepers find it cowardice.


59 posted on 01/29/2016 6:27:32 AM PST by Yaelle
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