Posted on 02/07/2016 8:12:39 AM PST by Helicondelta
Few people will talk about this, and fewer will even want to acknowledge it, but what Donald Trump did before the debate even began shows the measure of a real man's worth.
Trump and Carson
At the beginning of the ABC debate, each of the candidates were being introduced in a specific order. The first name called to the stage was Chris Christie. The applause was loud and lingered through the time when Martha Raddatz called the second candidate Ben Carson.
Dr. Carson did not hear his name called (easy to understand why when you listen to the video) and stood in the entry-way. The moderators, with their backs to the candidates, didn't notice his absence and called the third name on the list, Ted Cruz.
Ted walked past Dr. Carson and onto the stage. Carson remained in the awkward, and embarrassing position, 'no-mans-land', on-camera but out of sight of the live audience.
What happened next shows the remarkable character of Donald Trump.
The fourth name called was Donald Trump, but by then the back-stage crew and candidates were aware of Dr. Carsons' position. Trump slowly approached, and then realized the embarrassing position of a fellow candidate hanging in the wind.
Trump showed his leadership by standing right next to his friend, and not walking onto the stage.
The other names continued to be called, and proceeded as mentioned. But not Donald Trump, he remained with his colleague thereby reducing the internal anxiety felt by Carson.
It would have been very easy for Trump to walk by Ben, just like all the other candidates did. But instead he chose to wait, and remove the embarrassment factor by infinite magnitudes.
Then, like a boss, when Dr. Carson was called to the stage, Trump waited and allowed Ben to get the audience response and appreciation. It takes a lot of courage to make split second decisions like this, and it shows a remarkable insight into the man's character.
Yeah. What's up with that?
Why does Calgary Cruz make such classless comments?
Given the size of the hole in North Dakota's budget absent Keystone, its a conversation worth having.
Yes, Kasich was forgotten about. Was it Chris Christie who said: “Where’s Kasich?” and then to the broadcasters: “Can I introduce Kasich?”
so your point is that Trump won’t kick a man when he’s down?
They're as classless as the Manitoba Marionette.
Stop....yer killin’ me! Are you here all week?
Also, Bernie Sanders was featured last night. I have to say that Sanders' appearance on SNL was even better than Trump's. They had this skit where Sanders wouldn't shake the hand of a black woman supporter because she coughed into her hand before offering it for handshake. Bernie said "I'm not shaking a hand infested with germs." Then another supporter gets into a car accident on her way to vote for him in New Hampshire. He refused to pop her shoulder back in place, saying "I'm not a doctor." He ends up losing five votes this way and sure enough, he loses New Hampshire by exactly five votes and at the end of the skit, the five voters he dissed are all featured holding Shrillary signs on the news coverage.
I was kind of surprised Bernie would sign on to such a skit but it was definitely funny. I wonder if they had originally written it for Trump (being that he has a phobia about shaking hands).
what I noticed was it was names called by Martha that had trouble hearing ( I suppose) her tone over the applause.
Just as with during debate applause and it overriding what candidates are saying, I think debates and such events should hold all applause until all folks are introduced and then hold all applause until the end.
Any time I watch these sorts of events the applause is annoying, and or the discussion of why so and so got more applause then this other one. It’s most times staged and such so it’s truly of no real value in these settings.
It also showed the poor handling of the ABC people:
It seemed like they deliberately kept Carson out
of the discussion by not asking him many questions!
Trump stood there because he wanted to be the last, and get the most applause, not realizing, of course, Kasich had been forgotten.
How was Fox spinning it? Or did they acknowledge Trump’s class.
Maybe the point was that everyone else was willing to ignore someone when they were down...except one.
Though I will not vote for Trump for anything, I agree with this article.
Is that old windbag still on the air?
I saw Trump show himself as he is, while I saw jeb! show himself, shallow as he is.
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Like his shallow “tippy toes” stunt.
I’m not sure if Trump missed his first cue or not, but either way he was classy in his dealings with Carson — first with the comforting touch, then by refusing to exit when Carson finally did.
ABC handled this very poorly — someone should have been in charge of sending the candidates onstage, and the people calling out the names shouldn’t have kept going like that, much less try to pile Trump on top of Carson at the end and deny Carson entrance applause because of their screw up. I’ve worked backstage with amateur productions that did a better job.
I suspect ABC would have done better by the candidates had the candidates been Democrats. Certainly if it were the Democratic debate, the newspapers would recognize the screw up was that of the guys running the thing and not blame the candidates.
Carson wasn’t listening and missed his cue.
Trump was a stand up guy for standing by Carson.
Welcome back. There's a box of tissue backstage.
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