Posted on 09/28/2016 3:03:27 AM PDT by Biggirl
The first debate was a disgrace. NBC's moderator, Lester Holt, hurled attack after attack at Trump. Not only was the entire debate defined by a left-wing perspective, but Holt repeatedly threw character attacks at Trump and none at Hillary. Trump performed best when he turned those attacks around, whether on emails or on Libya. That should be the strategy for future debates.
Trump would be well advised not to waste time defending himself from attacks about his past. The only thing this accomplishes is to give the scandal airtime while making him appear defensive.
Since the moderators are likely to follow Holt's lead and refuse to discuss any of Hillary's many issues, the only way to incorporate them into the debate is to bring them up. Any attacks on Trump should be immediately redirected to questions about Hillary. This will make them an issue. Focusing on them will leave a biased moderator working to help Hillary with only two options. Either he can escalate the confrontation with Trump or pivot to actually discussing the issue out of the conviction that Hillary will do better in a discussion of more serious topics.
What the moderators cannot be allowed to do is conduct another one-sided inquisition as Lester Holt did last night.
Mainstream media moderators should never have been allowed to helm the debates. But presumably that is not about to change for this series of debates. (Though it could and ought to.) But moderators should be forced to choose between discussing Hillary's scandals and discussing issues. What they cannot be allowed to do is to repeat Holt's performance of allowing Hillary to discuss issues and Trump's scandals... and then insisting on limiting Trump to discussions of his scandals.
Romney made the mistake of trying to play the game. And he lost. Trump should not make the same mistake.
Anything relating to his character or past should be answered with this sentence; “I emailed that information to Mrs Clinton months ago. Did she not share it with you?”
How can they prove him wrong?
Isn’t the next debate going to be town hall style ? That means it will involve citizen participation and will be sure to cover those topics Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz forget or prefer to ignore.
IMHO, Trump is now is a much more favorable position.
Hillary was grinning and telegraphing her feelings of accomplishment when Trump was defensive and explaining his positions on the issues she contrived. He also explained enough to give his audience time to observe and consider her behavior as he persevered.
Trump is respecting the authority of the voter to decide the issue.
The tough part is getting Hillary to reveal her true arrogance while she is lying and accusing.
Trump was honest; Hillary was all DC.
Great observations. I agree.
He certainly has no shortage of ammo to counter those attacks.
For example...
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"The Whitewater controversy (also known as the Whitewater scandal, or simply Whitewater) began with investigations into the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim and Susan McDougal, in the Whitewater Development Corporation, a failed business venture in the 1970s and 1980s."
Whitewater Convictions
Jim Guy Tucker: Governor of Arkansas at the time, removed from office (fraud, 3 counts)
John Haley: attorney for Jim Guy Tucker (tax evasion)
William J. Marks, Sr.: Jim Guy Tucker's business partner (conspiracy)
Stephen Smith: former Governor Clinton aide (conspiracy to misapply funds). Bill Clinton pardoned.
Webster Hubbell: Clinton political supporter; Rose Law Firm partner (embezzlement, fraud)
Jim McDougal: banker, Clinton political supporter: (18 felonies, varied)
Susan McDougal: Clinton political supporter (multiple fraud). Bill Clinton pardoned.
David Hale: banker, self-proclaimed Clinton political supporter: (conspiracy, fraud)
Neal Ainley: Perry County Bank president (embezzled bank funds for Clinton campaign)
Chris Wade: Whitewater real estate broker (multiple loan fraud). Bill Clinton pardoned.
Larry Kuca: Madison real estate agent (multiple loan fraud)
Robert W. Palmer: Madison appraiser (conspiracy). Bill Clinton pardoned.
John Latham: Madison Bank CEO (bank fraud)
Eugene Fitzhugh: Whitewater defendant (multiple bribery)
Charles Matthews: Whitewater defendant (bribery)
Ultimately the Clintons were never charged, but 15 other persons were convicted of more than 40 crimes, including Bill Clinton's successor as Governor, who was removed from office.[40]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_%28controversy%29#Convictions
or,
https://web.archive.org/web/20090326122112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_%28controversy%29
Trump has been advised this many times. Trump’s problem, as many have pointed out, is that he just can’t resist taking the bait put in front of him.
Many see this personality weakness as being non-presidential as we don’t want a president who allows himself to be jerked around by this. Just as Holt can bait Trump, so Foreign leaders and Congressional leaders could bait him into reacting to his weakness.
Everyone that matters is on to the democrats game by now. How they are just out to destroy the republican no matter who it is. That any moderator is actually a water carrier for the democrats.
They think they can fool the voters by not bringing up Hillary and Obama’s F*****G up everything they’ve touched and by attacking Trump for tiny little mole hills compared to the treason, death and destruction we’ve all witnessed is ridiculous. It won’t fly and the more they try it the worse it looks for them. Trump can actually play it cool and breeze to victory it they keep this crap up. Which they will, because they’re that damn stupid.
Hillary and the Black Panthers: The Real Story [plus her internship for Stalinist lawyer and support of FALN Marxist terrorists]
Iirc in the primaries each time he was attacked or the MSM slighted him his numbers grew. Am expecting the same The American people are not stupid They are angry!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=65mOHnB8bZ4
She does have blood on her hands.
Would make a powerful TV ad.
"Good evening Ms. Raddatz and Mr. Cooper. I am here to debate Mrs. Clinton, not the two of you. So I trust that you will remain strictly neutral and unbiased."
Simple, brief, clear and non-argumentative.
Isn’t the next debate going to be town hall style ? That means it will involve citizen participation and will be sure to cover those topics Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz forget or prefer to ignore.
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Don’t bet on it.
Who picks the participants?
In the past, audiences for the so-called town halls were stacked in favor of the Democrats. The current co-chairs of the phony Commission on Presidential Debates are Mike McCurry, formerly Bill Clinton's press secretary, and Frank Fahrenkopf, former head of the Republican National Committee.
Let that sink in: Long-time Clinton shill, Mike McCurry is a current co-chair of the organization setting up these presidential debates.
Juanita Broderick, Gennifer Flowers, and Paula Jones, oh and Kathleen Willey all need to be at the next debate.
Don’t have them say or do anything. Just be there. Let Hillary sweat the whole time.
Invite Webb Hubbell too while they’re at it! Seat him right next to Chelsea so the world can see the clear resemblance.
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