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Lester Holt's Debate Bias: By The Numbers
hannity.com ^ | September 28 2016 | hannity.com staff

Posted on 09/29/2016 2:07:30 PM PDT by grundle

As was expected, Monday night’s presidential debate moderator, Lester Holt couldn’t exactly hide his bias towards Hillary Clinton….

The Daily Caller points out, “Holt interrupted Trump a whopping 41 times, either to “fact-check” the Republican nominee, or to ask a follow-up question. Clinton was only interrupted seven times during the course of the 90-minute debate.”

The so-called NBC journalist interrupted Trump 10 times during an exchange about the GOP nominee’s position on the Iraq war, and demanded at least 5 times why Trump thought he had better judgment than Clinton.

A Breitbart analysis of the debate transcript notes that Lester Holt only asked six questions directed at both candidates. Other than that, the “moderator” asked 15 questions exclusively of Trump and only TWO of Hillary Clinton….

I agree with Rudy Giuliani- Holt should be ashamed of himself.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: debate; lesterholt; media; mediabias; msm
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1 posted on 09/29/2016 2:07:30 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

He isn’t going to be ashamed...he’s laughing all the way to the bank with some of that Saudi money flowing through the Clinton Foundation.


2 posted on 09/29/2016 2:10:10 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (I'm deplorable)
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To: grundle

This guy is fake, he looks like eddie murphy when he gets made up like a jewish guy.


3 posted on 09/29/2016 2:11:24 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Yes, the media pulled it off. With that dirty debate they managed to halt Trump’s momentum.


4 posted on 09/29/2016 2:11:43 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: grundle

Hillary requested the fact checking to get started and Lester began!


5 posted on 09/29/2016 2:15:13 PM PDT by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: grundle

The fix is in......all Hail, Queen Hillary!!


6 posted on 09/29/2016 2:15:15 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: grundle

not to mention that Hillary’s mike was extra-high and Trumps was extra-low (forcing him to hunch over to speak)


7 posted on 09/29/2016 2:15:34 PM PDT by blueplum ((March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?))
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To: grundle

Name your favorite Lester the Jester debate signal. Hillary’s seemed to be the fake nose scratch. Me I would have used the nose wiggle or the ever popular ear lobe pull.


8 posted on 09/29/2016 2:16:35 PM PDT by teletech
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To: grundle

Holt was proven to have known Clinton knew of the questions,
and he KNEW her cheat sheets would be removed,
and her special podium hidden.

NBC is nothing but a cheating racketeering PR-REP
of the Clinton Foundation and al Qaeda.


9 posted on 09/29/2016 2:16:40 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: grundle

None of Holt’s “fact checks” were correct were they?
The two I remember specifically were the “stop & frisk fact check” and the “supported Iraq war fact check.” Both totally false I believe.


10 posted on 09/29/2016 2:17:30 PM PDT by TigersEye (~Questionable Hillary thinks Putin made me post this!~)
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To: grundle

Holt is a disgrace. NBC should be so ashamed and fired him the very next morning.


11 posted on 09/29/2016 2:21:08 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: grundle

So much for claims that Lester would be an “unbiased” moderator. I am so sick of being lied to and insulted.


12 posted on 09/29/2016 2:22:15 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Sam Gamgee

“With that dirty debate they managed to halt Trump’s momentum.”

Oh, I think that is way over-stated.


13 posted on 09/29/2016 2:24:04 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (I'm deplorable)
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To: blueplum
"not to mention that Hillary’s mike was extra-high and Trumps was extra-low (forcing him to hunch over to speak)"

Mic heights.

14 posted on 09/29/2016 2:24:23 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
Ipsos Reid.
15 posted on 09/29/2016 2:26:50 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: grundle
Candy Holt


16 posted on 09/29/2016 2:29:54 PM PDT by libertarian27 (FR Cookbooks - On Profile Page)
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To: Sam Gamgee
Yes, the media pulled it off. With that dirty debate they managed to halt Trump’s momentum.

False, and that will be borne out over the next several days. They had to use a D+11 sample to make Hillary appear up by 6 points? Definitely no halt. At best, they blunted it a little.

Hillary is swimming against the current. Every time she pauses to catch her breath, she loses ground.

And that's probably the best rigged debate performance Hillary's going to be able to get away with. It's all uphill for her from now on.

Vote Trump!

17 posted on 09/29/2016 2:30:57 PM PDT by sargon (The Revolution is ON! Vote Trump!)
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To: teletech

“The ever popular ear lobe pull”

Too risky, her earpiece could have fallen out.


18 posted on 09/29/2016 2:32:38 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: Sam Gamgee

IPSOS was a +11 Democrat sample...44% of the entire sample was Democrat, 33% Republican, 23% unaffiliated.

If that is the turnout, there’s no Democrat in history that won’t carry all 50 states.

But the truth of it is that IPSOS is creating a fiction to match the narrative they want.

People need to stop freaking out over these polls, they are just as ludicrous as the unemployment figures the government puts out.


20 posted on 09/29/2016 2:38:14 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (I'm deplorable)
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