Posted on 09/27/2016 3:39:59 PM PDT by detective
The Debate of the Century, the first face-to-face matchup between presidential contenders Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, quickly turned into a three-way affair, with NBC moderator Lester Holt (shown at left) repeatedly taking sides with Clinton and badgering Trump. The hour-and-a-half debate, broadcast live Monday night on all the major networks from the Hofstra University campus in Hempstead, New York, was expected to attract 100 million viewers, a new record for a political event, and second only to the Super Bowl. From tabulations now available, it appears the final viewer count may come close to those predicted numbers. Another even more important prediction also proved to be accurate: that debate moderator Lester Holt would follow the familiar path of liberal media moderators in previous debates and throw support to the liberal-left Democrat.
At the start of the event, Holt announced that the planned six 15-minute segments would be directed at exploring three topic areas: "Achieving Prosperity," "America's Direction" and "Securing America." The debate, he explained, was being sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization. The commission had drafted the debate's format, and the rules had been agreed to by the campaigns.
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Martha the Mangler and Cooper the Super Pooper Scooper, just dayum!
More `journalists’?! And next time he has to fight off *three* of them? All they need is a reader/timekeeper.
Why can’t they find a neutral academic, skilled tradesman, lawyer, minister, mechanic or doctor? The MSM is rotten.
Trump should ignore their gotcha questions and spend his time presenting his positions, then pose Illary with the questions her MSM lapdogs won’t present to her.
Otherwise it will be the same song, second verse.
The whole thing was rigged from the git-go.
One article even claims Hillary was fed the kind of questions to expect a week in advance.
She's schemed and smugged her way thru dozens of these media rodeos going back to her Senate days.
This debate spectacle is brand new to Trump this year--he's a successful businessman--not a glinty-eyed politician. He simply has no background or training for this kind of one-on-one staged political debate.
With the deck stacked against him by the lamestream network and hired hitman, Lester "Candy-ass" Holt, Trump did remarkably well winging it and edged out a solid win.
With some serious coaching & training and the possibility of a semi-level playing ground, Donald Trump will completly destroy her next time.
I hate when she has that stupid grin on her face, like she is laughing at everyone. Hopefully, Trump will have the last laugh.
Trump and that Skank hes running against should each be able to choose a Moderator, and the two Moderators should have to take turns asking questions, and each candidate should be given three minutes to provide an answer. And, the Moderators should be forbidden to make ANY comments whatsoever during the debate. The way that so-called debate was conducted was a damn insult to the American people.
American Thinker article on the Commission on Presidential Debates:
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