“Obama wasn’t one of the Republican Presidential candidates on the stage.”
No. But Hillary supports everything Obama does. The purpose of the question would be to condemn Hillary for supporting Obama’s policies in front of 24 million people.
They also should have asked about Keystone and Hillary’s position that she won’t comment on it until she is President. “By a show of hands, who supports Keystone?”
This was the debate to destroy the rat party in front of the largest television audience in a generation. Instead they played “gotcha” games.
Forgetting Trump, Fox News blew it.
They didn’t blow it, they did it on purpose.
They were there to destroy any Republican seen as a threat to Hillary.
Any lawyer or journalist knows that an open question asks who what where when how and why. A leading question suggests the answer and is specifically designed to suggest a particular answer to the Jury, without regard to the answer the witness might wish to give.
What Kelly and Co were trying to do was a cross-examination using questions which would never be allowed in a Courtroom.
If they wanted to hear answers from the candidates without deliberately building a whole raft of slanderous and pejorative inferences into the question, they could easily have asked them differently.
Such as:
How would you answer Democrat claims that the Republicans are Waging a war on women? Do you think you are vulnerable to such an allegation and if so why or why not?
What steps, if any would you take to improve the economy and the nations finances? Do you think your past business bankruptcies make you personally vulnerable to the suggestion that you do not have skill to improve Americas financial problems?
Have your positions on abortion changed over time and if so, how?, etc., etc.
If Kelly and Co wanted to be fair to the candidates while still getting the opportunity to allow the audience to see how they perform in the face of unfair, slanderous, leading questions, they might have prefaced with something like: how would you respond to a loaded, agenda driven, unfair question from hard left media, such as the following...
Instead they set the candidates and especially Trump up in a “fair and balanced”, professionally moderated “debate” on a network that was supposed to be conservative or at the very least neutral, and then repeatedly and viciouly asked them the most loaded, unfair questions possible, specifically designed to make them look, as Linsay Graham said, like the biggest bastard[s] on the planet, no matter what answer they gave, excluding Bush.
They even made specific plans to escort Trump off stage if he became angry about their little throat cutting game. They grimaced and smiled and rolled their eyes for the camera and did all they could to anger him so they could pull that trigger, but he was too smart for them.
It was the nastiest, ill-intentioned political assassination plan I have ever seen and other than Graham and Trump not one other candidate has called them out on it.
Well guess what Fox, Kelly and Co? You have mail!