Posted on 03/31/2016 4:00:00 PM PDT by drewh
NBC won primetime in the key news demos last night thanks to Donald Trump, who took over the news cycle (yet again!) when he told Chris Matthews he wanted abortion banned, after which any woman who had the procedure should suffer “some form of punishment.” Matthews’ riveting “town hall” with Trump was part of a full night of town halls and interviews with four of the five remaining presidential candidates from both parties; only Ted Cruz declined.
John Kasich, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders spent a goodish chunk of their on-air time reacting to Trump’s headline-making statement. Trump spent a lot of time reacting to it too, first with a clarification and then with a statement in which he made a full 180, saying doctors who performed the procedure should undergo some form of punishment if abortion is outlawed, not women who have the procedure.
NBC clocked 400K viewers in primetime Wednesday night, to Fox News Channel’s 391K and CNN’s 340K. In overall audience, Fox News led the pack with 2.2M viewers, followed by MSNBC’s 1.6M and CNN’s 1M.
During Trump’s 8 PM hour with Matthews, MSNBC logged 1.7M viewers and 428K news demo viewers. FNC bested that in overall audience (2.2M), but trailed in the key demos (400K). CNN clocked 1M viewers and 300K news demo viewers.
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I was on a high school debate team who placed well at national competition and was scoring it as they spoke. Trump easily won on points.
As to subject matter at the time RoeVs wade was being decided. One week was given pro next week con. Won and had class in tears both weeks I know well both sides of issue.
I Choose pro life. Life options including prevention must be given to young women It is not currently In ghetto its used as birth control made cheaper so body parts can be sold for profit.
You guys’ desperation has no bounds! BTW, why don’t you ask your guy that?
I don’t think it was the kind of publicity that Trump would have liked! He has already walked back his statement.
But he’s a genius, doncha know?!?!
but he won the night on ratings
Rush made that point extremely well today Just listened a bit on way to grocery Agree.
It was purely a rhetorical question a debate team might use in that sense DT cleaned his clock Absolutely nothing appropriate for a town hall candidate vetting.
As one friends who saw it said. SO......another media gotcha question. American people are smart!
Yes, I agree. But the point is that if something is illegal there has to be some form of punishment for the crime.
It depends on how the crime is defined.
If the criminal act is performance of the abortion procedure, the criminal is the abortionist. The mother could even be considered a victim of the procedure.
However, if the crime is defined as an attack on the rights and person of the unborn baby, then the abortionist and the mother would be equally culpable.
Not if you are a progressive female journalist in florida !
( I agree with you)
I disagree. If abortion were to become a crime I think you would have to punish the people seeking to do it as well as the providers. We punish the drug users as well as the drug dealers. What is the difference?
Trump did not open a conversation. :-). It is a rather old topic for which Trump was unprepared. Actually Trump’s first answer was actually the best one. It makes sense that women getting abortions should be held accoutable (as should doctors). But there are political consequences so Trump caves and does a 180 and decides to agree with Cruz.
I have been thinking about this all day, and this is what I have concluded as of now. I could change my mind, being a woman, you know.
If I decide to hire a hit man to take out one of my children, shouldn’t I be punished? Murder is against the law, and I would be guilty, right?
Now, if I hire an abortionist to murder my unborn child, I should get a pass? I don’t think so! Does a father who doesn’t want his unborn child get a pass for kicking the mother in the belly until she miscarries?
The shame is that as a society, we now think we have a right to murder those unable to defend themselves., and that bothers me - that our shared cultural values have declined so much in the past 45/50 years.
I really do think that death panels are in the near future for our elderly and infirm, no matter how they or their families feel about it. That said, I have a living will with explicit instructions not to do all the crappy things they do to keep a terminal body alive, including CPR, intubation, tube feeding, etc.
Indeed, if we cannot protect the life and liberty of these smallest versions of ourselves, then Mother Teresa's words take on significant meaning.
How would the crime be defined?
I didn't say how it should be defined -- only pointed out two ways it could be defined.
And, since the whole issue is hypothetical, you're free to define the crime however you'd like.
How would the crime be defined?
I didn't say how it should be defined -- only pointed out two ways it could be defined.
And, since the whole issue is hypothetical, you're free to define the crime however you'd like.
It is a good question for both Trump and Cruz.. Do you believe marital infidelity should be considered as a factor for deciding who should be the next president??
as Irving Thalberg once said ‘no publicity is bad publicity’
This is a straight question that I’ve had to answer mores than once in life, but I’m asking you. No snark here. (I’m a man, by way of full disclosure, father of three daughters).
Should men just stay out of this debate altogether?
Have you been persuaded that abortion has to do with, “the females body”?
If you could ask a child in the womb if they were willing to sacrifice their life for the actions of another human, what do you suppose the unborn would say?
If I get a female pregnant, isn't the child also mine?
Ask a simple question. Get a bitter diatribe. Asking a question seems a civil debate attempt to understand. Responding to a question by disqualifying the questioner seems so . . . progressive. WTH is wrong with people at this site?
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