Posted on 10/11/2020 7:35:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
Ever since the formation of the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) in 1987, there has been incredible bias against Republican candidates. The moderators and format have always favored the Democratic presidential candidates. Thus, it has been incredibly foolish for GOP presidential candidates to agree to participate in such an unfair process.
Once again, this year, the Trump campaign allowed the CPD to schedule and organize four debates, three involving the presidential candidates and one featuring the vice-presidential candidates. Not surprisingly, all the moderators selected were unabashed liberals.
The first presidential debate was a fiasco. It was moderated by the long-time liberal Fox News anchor Chris Wallace. He embarrassed himself with a stunningly biased performance. He interrupted President Donald Trump 76 times, as opposed to only 15 interruptions of former Vice President Joe Biden. The questions were slanted towards Biden and the only tough questions were directed at President Trump.
Wallace interjected almost every talking point for the Democrats. He asked about old issues such as the 2017 Charlottesville, VA rally and demanded that the president once again condemn white supremacists. Even though all the riots in 2020 were led by radical leftist organizations like Antifa and Black Lives Matter, Wallace was uninterested in discussing it.
Instead, he wanted to explore issues such as Covid-19, climate change, and anything that could possibly be detrimental to President Trump. Of course, Biden received a pass on his son’s questionable consulting contracts, his interference in prosecutions in Ukraine, his friendship with white supremacist Democrats in the United States Senate, his “manifesto” with radical socialists in the Democratic Party, his constant flip-flopping, his lack of law enforcement endorsements and his delay in condemning the Antifa riots.
The vice-presidential debate was not much better as liberal moderator Susan Page of USA Today showed her bias with her questions and her treatment of the two candidates.
The next presidential debate was supposed to be moderated by liberal Steve Scully of C-SPAN. Yet, his ideological preferences are easy to determine by looking at his resume. Scully once served as an intern to Biden when he was a U.S. Senator representing Delaware and was a staff assistant to former U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA). Clearly, his work for two liberal United States Senators shows that Scully is not impartial.
He also was pictured at the “Biden Beach Bash ‘16” with his arm around the former Vice President, tweeting “Gotta love the @VP.” This week, it was reported that Scully sent a tweet to Trump hater Anthony Scaramucci asking him how to respond to the president. While Scully claimed his Twitter account was hacked, an FBI investigation is not needed to determine his clear bias.
Thankfully, the second Trump-Biden debate has been canceled. The president rightfully declined to participate in a virtual debate, which was unilaterally announced by the CPD without consultation with either candidate. The CPD was supposedly worried about exposing the debate audience and the staff to President Trump, who has recovered from Covid-19. Despite the president’s doctors clearing the president to participate in events and his lack of symptoms, the CPD wanted to force a virtual debate on the American people.
Such a debate would have been a joke. Biden would have had a teleprompter with coaching from his aides. The president would have had his microphone easily turned off and it would have been difficult to connect with a town hall audience.
Currently, there is one more Trump-Biden debate scheduled on October 22 in Nashville. Another liberal reporter, Kristen Welker of NBC News, was selected to serve as moderator. To prevent embarrassment, Welker has already erased her Twitter account, undoubtedly, to prevent her liberal tweets from being uncovered. If the debate occurs, she will show her bias against Trump with her questions and treatment of the candidates.
The president should probably participate because it will be an opportunity to reach a large group of voters. The first debate achieved an audience of 73.1 million Americans. The final debate may reach an even greater audience. In addition, the president is accustomed to battling multiple foes at one time. He did it during the 2016 debates and he does it every time he conducts a press conference.
Going forward, the problem with the CPD must be addressed. White it is advertised as being impartial, it is composed of Democrats and Trump-hating Republicans. This week, 1996 GOP presidential candidate, former U.S. Senator Bob Dole (R-KS), identified the real problem with the CPD. He tweeted, “The Commission on Presidential Debates is supposedly bipartisan w/ an equal number of Rs and Ds. I know all of the Republicans and most are friends of mine. I am concerned that none of them support @realDonaldTrump. A biased Debate Commission is unfair.”
Well done Bob Dole! The CPD is totally unfair and should be scrapped. If it refuses to disband, the GOP should disavow any future affiliation and withdraw from working with the CPD, a total sham of an organization.
Future presidential debates do not need a liberal moderator pretending to be fair, but truly working in a feverish manner to help the Democratic nominee. Both candidates should participate in a Lincoln/Douglas style debate with equal time for each of them.
Moderators are biased, distracting, and unnecessary. After the disastrous results of the 2020 debates, this kind of unwelcome interference can no longer be tolerated. The Republican presidential candidates deserve better, but, more importantly, so do the voters of America.
The other guys fight to win. Our guys whine about the "rules".
The rules are in Article II and Amendment XII. Those are the "rules".
Everything else is allowed.
4 random people picked out of the phone book would have made better and more fair moderators.
Say no to rigged debates.
WALLACE: “Are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups…”
TRUMP: “Sure…”
WALLACE: “And to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha, and as we’ve seen in Portland”
TRUMP: “Sure, I’m prepared to do it, but I would say almost everything I see is from the left-wing not from the right-wing. I’m willing to do anything, I want to see peace…”
WALLACE: “Then do it, sir.”
BIDEN: “Do it, say it.”
TRUMP: “What do you want to call them? Give me a name.”
WALLACE: “White supremacists and right-wing militias”
BIDEN: “Proud Boys”
Trump: “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by. But I’ll tell you what, somebody’s got to do something about Antifa and the left.”
Our President was set up.
It was the commission who announced it was killing the debate format, and instead imposed a virtual debate.... This change was made with no consultation with the Trump campaign, let alone approval for such a dramatic election-influencing shift........these people reek of what we can expect from the arrogance of a collection of establishment figures averaging 73 years of age!!!
Screw the debates... Trump should appear on Hannity and have a debates with the lefty media thugs who are supposed to moderate the debates. Cut to the chase... Who needs Sleepy Joe when you can debate them instead?
> Once again, this year, the Trump campaign allowed the CPD to schedule and organize four debates... <
And that’s a big part of the problem. Trump and the GOP had four years to fix this problem. But they evidently chose to just ignore it instead.
Why not demand that each candidate gets to pick two panelists? And then agree on a neutral moderator, whose only job is to keep time. Nothing could be fairer.
So, exactly why has it taken so many years to just find out the CPD, like most of our major institutions (media, education, large corporations, etc.) are a wing of the dem party. DUH?
The dems want to add more states. Well, maybe we can so a swap! 10 or 20 states will drop out and the dems can have all the new states they want. I mean, if we can bring ‘em in why can’t we drop ‘em off without another war?
To be fair, I want Tucker Carlson to be a debate moderator. Biden can choose a moderator too. Both moderators get to ask the candidates questions. Would be fair, informative, and entertaining. All reasons why such a scenario would never unfold.
I don't think its fair to casigate those folks because of their youth and inexperience.
D.C. (89)
/SARC
Another quote to add to my FR quotes.
That would be interferring with the election by changing the format without approval of the candidates.
Had there been a second debate, I would have advised President Trump to say something in his opening statement to illustrate this point: "So does one of my former interns get to moderate the third debate?" The American people are smart enough to recognized the potential for bias even if the commission isn't that smart.
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