Posted on 09/01/2015 2:09:19 PM PDT by Sontagged
Baier even had a "nuclear option" at the ready for Trump...[The script] took a page from Trump's "Celebrity Apprentice" TV show. It went like this: "Mr. Trump, in your business you have rules. You follow rules. We have rules on this stage. We don't want to have to escort you to the elevator outside this boardroom."
"We're hoping we don't have to use it," Baier said later. "[But] we're locked and loaded."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
For all those who now want to hate Fox News ...hate away and deprive yourself of the free exchange of ideas .....it sure isn’t gonna hurt Fox News
Just want Freepers to understand how rigged these debates are.
For example, how George Stephanopolis’ debate question about contraception for Romney was the opening salvo for the Dem’s idiotic “War On Women” and Sandra Fluke.
That one question was the fruit of months of re-strategizing the Democrat’s attack plan after Sarah Palin didn’t run.
Correctio: “If Fox went more overboard here v. Trump, the brouhaha would have been epic against Fox.”
Dang. ;^)
Seems to me they were figuring (hoping) that he would be angry enough at their attacks to explode on stage. So set him up...and then take him down.
I am livid. I don’t watch them anymore and I was a faithful every night viewer.
This came out 3 days after the debate.
See the August 9 byline at the top of the page?
-PJ
True. Baier’s comments are disgusting. I am still annoyed with FOX and rarely watch. I am not a big Trump fan either. They overdid it with the bashing of a candidate. Trump beat them at their own game. Pathetic. Megyn Kelly is the biggest loser of all. I am done with FOX.
What’s the point of watching Fox News? The veil has come off and we see exactly what it is.
Unfortunately they are not done trashing Trump on behalf of their pals in the GOPe.
I posted this article to pull back the veil on all of the rigged debate preparation that is done.
CNN is doing the same thing right now.
It doesn’t matter that Trump wasn’t taken off the stage, what this article points out is there was a scripted contingency, with bouncer guards waiting, prepared in advance for Trump.
So you could say this was “debate malice aforethought”...
“Bret Baier is a p*ssy.”
Like I said....Murdoch executed the Prime Directive to Ailes, Ailes passed it down to all the dutiful whore underlings at Fox news.
” trickle down globalism”
Again, this isn’t a hit on Fox, per se, it’s to show how debates are rigged, and this also possibly explains why Trump was so furious for so long over what happened.
Who knows the truth?
Maybe just the LA Times kicking FoxNews in the head?
All their planning and gloating pre-debate is a part of the story that is never told post-debate. Fox intended to create controversy and ask questions that had no relevance to issues. It was a planned hit job.
Another aspect rarely mentioned: the Dims will not participate in a debate hosted by Fox this year, and I don’t think they ever have. So the Foxes have to show their rear ends when only the Republicans give them a chance.
Ha, ha! Brett dreamed doing to Trump what Trump did to Jorge Ramos, a fellow “reporter”. Too delicious.
I assume that they were responding to orders from someone up above. And, it did not surprise me that Wallace and Brett were so stupidly blatant about it because I don't think that either of them are too bright. But, I really think that Megan Kelly is bright enough to have known how obvious it would look to viewers. She should have done something. The three of them totally humiliated themselves. Who is Fox going to use in future debates? It's going to look very strange if the three of them show up again.
I’m Lovin It!
Good point.
Just another reason I don’t watch Faux News any more...................
The article was sourced before the debate, but only posted after the debate. I shudder to wonder what the journo left out?
From what I saw they did go after Trump but they also went after everyone else. I certainly did not see a setup.....
In fact after watching CNN asking puffball questions of anyone on the Left I was proud that Fox is tough
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