Posted on 09/27/2016 1:55:28 AM PDT by Zakeet
Donald Trump's main opponent in the first presidential debate wasn't Hillary Clinton. It was NBC anchor Lester Holt. Hillary, with forced smiles as brittle as china and an eerie fake laugh, continued her primary debate strategy of repeating canned talking points while waiting for the moderator to knock off her opponent. Hillary wasn't there to debate, but to once again seem like the only possible option.
Holt's job was to make her seem like the only possible option by targeting Trump.
There were fears that Lester Holt would be another Candy Crowley. That was unfair to Crowley. The entire debate was structurally biased. Its general topics were framed in narrow left-wing terms ...
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But Holt's overt bias also proved to be his undoing. Candy Crowley had been effective because her interjection into the debate between Obama and Romney had come as something of a surprise. Holt made his agenda clear at the outset. And it also made him easy to ignore, as Trump frequently did.
Like small boys jumping into a mud pile, media personalities had been urging each other on for weeks to abandon even the pretense of objectivity and just go after Trump. That's what Holt did in his awkward and impotent way. And it proved to be ineffective as he quickly lost control of the debate. Holt, like the rest of his media cohort, had failed to understand that overt bias makes them less effective.
Hillary’s role in the debate was to grit her teeth and smile awkwardly, then deliver a few scripted attacks and lines that would allow her media allies to hail her as the winner. It was an easy job that she botched.
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Um...........I am suppose to do the posting of the Daniel Greenfield articles. Thank-you!
Yeah, ol' Les looked up at Trump as if he expected Trump to come over and shake his hand and Trump just gave him a big FU.
That should be...
check one...Trump or Lester Holt and Hillary.
Realistically, what did anyone expect? The same as always. Remember Gwen Iffel and Candy Crowley just to name two.
If you looked at the hacked DNC emails, you'd see that the DNC tells the presstitutes what to do and say.
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