Posted on 08/09/2015 1:34:52 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Levin asserted, “I think that we were all duped. The fact of the matter is that this was a ratings gambit.”
Levin claims that “We the people” were overlooked in the debate, and the event became a media spectacle with more emphasis on the show’s moderators than on discussing the important issues that face America. “Even today, it’s all about who has Megyn Kelly’s back. We the people, this is our process. We don’t get that many opportunities to go through the primary process. There are only nine debates,” he said.
“The Great One” pointed out that Fox had an opportunity to host one of these important debates, “And they took advantage of us, they took advantage of the audience.” Levin explained that Kelly”s “question two,” accusing Donald Trump of making inappropriate comments to Rosie O’Donnell and others, “was outrageous.” Levin suggested that Fox went to great lengths to engage in “oppositional research” on Mr. Trump.
“This isn’t a matter of who I support but a matter of basic fairness
Levin complained that Fox sifted through 185 shows and 14 seasons of Trump’s Apprentice and Celebrity Apprentice to come up with “a line that they had to take out of context about some lady on her knees. He didn’t tell her to get on her knees, They brought it up to him. He responded to it, but not in a sexual context.”
The conservative author expressed sincere disgust with Megyn Kelly for pointing to that incident as an example of misogyny. Levin said that Kelly was a “lawyer, she was law review, and she should know better.” He admitted that he blames Fox News management more than Kelly for the outrageous question. He said Fox turned the gathering into a “National Enquirer Debate, and not a Republican Debate.”
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Levin—not a Trump supporter—is right. It was a hit job with Turmp getting the most jabs, but others like Ted Cruz and others were hit hard with mocking blows about “Hearing god” and the “Life of the Mother”— It was worse than a WWE bout and just as fixed. Bush was to be the winner, others were to lose—Trump was to be finished off. It isn’t that easy to polish off the Donald! the RedState Conference was to be the last nail in his coffin—but he will rise up from this contest. The GOP/DNC Fix is in. This is the plan:
1. Bush III is set to get the nod as the most “Electible Man for the Independents—and Carly for VP because she’s a woman.
2. They will be ripped to pieces by the Clinton/Obama Ticket. they will not fight—they don’t know how.
3. Landslide for Hillary (or Biden) and a Democrat Congress.
4. More PC, More illegals, More Taxes, more Wars, more rape of the treasury as we watch the world go leftist.
DING DING DING! Was even one of the issues the American people care about addressed in a substantive way? This was tabloid tv at it’s finest.
MK started a controversy to *prevent* issues like Planned Parenthood from being discussed.
Google Megyn Kelly GQ photo shoot. That’s who she is. She shot that photo shoot when she was 39 years old (not a dumb kid) so she could get a big time job with FOX. And Ailes gave her the job. That says something about him too.
It was a debacle not a debate.
For years we’ve heard that its money that decides elections. Whoever has the biggest political war chest will probably win. I think the real lesson we’ve all learned in the last few months is that no, its the media that decides elections. Because if they don’t cover you fairly, or decide to not cover you at all, you cannot compete. The whole “money issue” is just the media’s cover for what THEY are really doing. Trump has spent very little money and is no. 1 in polls. So now the media is smearing him, because he has upset their applecart in lots of ways. Their next step, if they cannot get him to implode is to ignore him altogether.
The veil has been lifted, folks. And it hurts the eyes, but we’ve got to allow ourselves to see this ugly fact. The media is more corrupt and bought off than any of us ever imagined.
Trump needs to take to Youtube and bypass them altogether, hire people like the ladies on the Viewer’s View to talk directly to the American people, etc
Its the only way.
We wanted FNC because we naively expected something different from what we had had shoved down our thoats in past election cycles by other journalism outlets.Fox betrayed the confidence of the people who predominate in their own audience. But, there is a way for them to reverse that judgement. All they need do is for FNC or any other journalism outlet to put proportionately as much pressure on Hillary Clinton as FNC put on Trump.
By “proportionate,” I do not mean, “the same.” By “proportionate” I mean in proportion to the number and seriousness of the transgressions with which Hillary is credibly associated divided by the number and seriousness of the credible charges against Trump. IOW, if FNC had been truly fair and balanced, and if Trump and Clinton were onstage and FNC attacked Trump the way they did last Thursday, fairness would demand that FNC grill Hillary for an entire day on Servergate, Foundationgate, Benghazi, her role in suppressing “bimbo eruptions,” Travelgate, FBI Filegate, and enough other stink-to-high-heaven scandals to fill a handwritten page merely to name them all.
And yet we all fully know that until and unless Bernie Sanders or someone else attains enough critical mass to drive Hillary from the race the way Gene McCarthy drove LBJ from the race in 1968, Hillary will not get any more of a grilling from any news outlet than, say, Ben Carson got on Thursday. It is in that context that the FNC decision to launch an unremitting attack on Trump in particular and the entire field of Republican candidates itself stinks to high heaven.
I agree. It wasn’t really a ‘debate’. There was little time for that. It was more like a group interrogation.
Fine for what it was, entertainment, but it was not a debate. And the Trump/Kelly sideline was pure diversion from important topics that need open discussion.
I have in mind that those two are in cahoots to keep their trend ratings up on twitter and such. Both are publicity hounds.
Unfortunately no matter how the outcome the major networks simply have a lock on airing debates in order to give the candidates the viewership they need...
The only other thing is for the candidates to lease their own studio and chip in for costs and staff etc. I don’t see that happening....too late in the game as the horses are out the gate and running...
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