Posted on 09/28/2016 7:47:09 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Back when I was a pup in the newspaper business, legendary reporter Peter Kihss gave me lifetime advice about covering politicians. Remember, he said, there are no such things as stupid questions, only stupid answers.
Which brings us to Lester Holt and the accusations that the moderator tipped Monday’s debate in favor of Hillary Clinton. Holt’s bias was obvious, but the impact was not inevitable. It mattered largely because, shockingly, Donald Trump was shocked that Holt was in the tank for Clinton.
How could Trump not see that coming? And if he did, why wasn’t he better prepared?
Holt never pressed Clinton with any substantive follow-ups, while Trump repeatedly was asked to defend or explain what he had just said or said in the past.
Holt insisted repeatedly Trump had supported the Iraq War, despite the candidate’s denials, and asked pointed questions about his taxes and the Obama birther issue. Yet Clinton got only one obligatory question on the email scandal, and not a single one about the Clinton Foundation, her Wall Street speaking fees or her health — all of which have figured far more prominently in the campaign than Iraq or the birther issue.
It was outrageous — but no surprise. After all, Holt is part of the Big Media establishment that has uniformly protected President Obama and broken all its own standards to trash Trump and elect Clinton.
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Exactly my point. The media’s support of Hillary is costing the media viewership, but it’s not costing Hillary voter’s. Those that still watch are getting pro-Hillary messages. And Hillary voters love the media. There is a downside for the media, but not for Hillary.
Signals, like in baseball.
Outstanding post. Thank you.
For every time the mainstream journalists try to attach a detrimental association to Trump, they are reminding the American people how much more they are attached to Hillary.
But it’s not likely to cost Hillary voters.
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I disagree. The American people are sick and tired of being lied to. Thanks to the internet and interest in foreign countries, this election is under a magnifying glass like never before. What worked four years ago is not working now. We are wiser and we are awake. Trump is going to win in a landslide the likes of which has not been seen since Reagan.
Trump has been saying for a long time that the system is rigges and that the media is dishonest. I hink he did a wonderfuljob of proving in the debate that both are true. Remember all his years on The Apprentice. Trump was not going to let a “moderator” put him on the hot seat. He did a beautiful job of bobbing and dodging and Hillery nor her accomplice ever laid a glove on him. Next go round Hillaey will bite the hook and in the third, Trump will reel her in.
I had to look it up. Guess that is an advantage of not getting newspapers:
“Since The Arizona Republic began publication in 1890, we have never endorsed a Democrat over a Republican for president. Never. This reflects a deep philosophical appreciation for conservative ideals and Republican principles.
This year is different....
...Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of State was a mistake, as she has acknowledged. Donations to the Clinton Foundation while she was secretary of State raise concerns that donors were hoping to buy access. Though there is no evidence of wrongdoing, she should have put up a firewall.”
The drawback to not getting a newspaper is that I cannot now boycott them!
I think it boils down to this: Many Republicans are fully on board The Cheap Labor Express! There is no doubt in my mind that many of Arizona’s elite Republicans - the ones who love McCain and McSally and loved Jim Kolbe - REALLY love cheap labor. And cheap labor means importing it from Mexico, or exporting manufacturing. Things Trump opposes.
SO I’m sure I understand why the Arizona Republic did it. They have THEIR interests at heart. But I think they will be disappointed to find out many Arizonans prefer jobs to cheap labor...after all, many of us live here and don’t have millions to live on.
True that. And when there in NO pretense of objectivity, even the LIV can figure it out.
Here’s an article that the media wrote, it could really hurt her when it gets out, she forgets there are people who ‘save’ things:
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/hillarys-165-billion-arms-sale-fundraiser/
“Was Hillary using hand signals?”
Sure looks like it.
This video needs to go up on twitter.
If enough of our fellow citizens UNDERSTAND WHY that is so, we MIGHT be able to turn things around here and KEEP them moving BACK to the Founders’ vision for us. If that doesn’t happen, start practicing those ankle gripping exercises!
This long forgotten – or completely UNKNOWN among the “snowflakes” and “yutes” — HISTORY of the close relationship between the leftist “educated” (indoctrinated is more like it) “pseudo elite” dumb asses being churned out of colleges and universities here and the Marxist socialism (which, if not strangled in its crib, has ALWAYS morphed into communism) that has failed everywhere it has been tried may aid your understanding of the media’s vicious hatred of Trump and his supporters (the now infamous “DEPLORABLES”).
The sad fact is that the media here is overwhelmingly populated by these deluded dumb asses! Any nefarious, otherwise disreputable act by them is acceptable — even encouraged — because, according to Marxist/socialist methodology, all that matters is “THE STRUGGLE” for their insane Utopian workers’ paradise where all will be equal but some — including most of THEM — will be more equal than others!
You may be growing weary of hearing this but I’ll keep reminding folks until we reach the critical mass needed to defeat them. During Hitler’s rise to power as head of the Nazi (National SOCIALIST) Party in the 30s, he was greatly aided by one Ernst Rohm, head of the SA. Once Hitler had gained total control of Germany, in 1934 he purged (that’s be KILLED!) the party of EVERY member he felt might challenge his position. His old friend, Herr Rohm was rewarded for his help with a bullet in his brain in a jail cell!
Should this — this — WOMAN and her criminal crew prevail in November, it is my fervent prayer that those who aided her rise suffer similar fates — especially those in the media who have committed countless acts of the sort now the norm in the mendacious media here.
Impossible say you? The most dangerous phrase in ANY language is “Why THAT could NEVER HAPPEN HERE!”
I believe the expression that best characterizes the relationship between the media and the Clintons is the old one from the 50s: FELLOW TRAVELLERS! You “snowflakes”and “yutes” will need to look it up as I doubt your teachers brought it to your attention.
Years ago, Dr. Gary North predicted that the radical left would capture America with the insane and human nature denying goal of “transforming” it into an egalitarian unicorn and rainbow Utopia by “capturing the ROBES”. By that, he meant those institutions we granted various levels of authority over us and our affairs: The clergy, the judges... and the ACADEMICS.
The roots of the problems in academia flow back to something referred to as the Frankfurt School and their 1935 move to COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY and the spread of Marxist thought (now there’s an oxymoron for ya’!) into every area of learning here.
A prime example of the rot now endemic in the academy is the COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF “JOURNALISM”. It is THE premier center for spreading Marxism here in America and it has been incredibly successful in its destruction of traditional and American values. Not only do its direct graduates permeate the media here, but many of them also double as teachers in lesser known institutions of media instruction. Herein lies the genesis of Limbaugh’s descriptive expression “Driveby Media”. Now you know why virtually every so-called “journalist” HATES folks like us.
The Wikipedia entry says that the “...FRANKFURT SCHOOL was founded in 1923 by Carl Grünberg, a Marxist legal and political professor at the University of Vienna,[10] as an adjunct of the University of Frankfurt; it was the first Marxist-oriented research center affiliated with a major German university.[3] However, the school can trace its earliest roots back to Felix Weil, who used money from his father’s grain business to finance the Institute. “
Isn’t it fascinating that here is an early instance of a Marxist ANTI-CAPITALIST organization financing itself with the hated PROFITS of a capitalist business? The hypocrisy is mind-boggling and a precursor to how the wealthy capitalists here fund the Clinton and other leftist machines!
More recent examples of that dichotomy would be the offspring of John D. Rockefeller who have largely spent their lives promoting socialism (using other people’s money, of course). And recently Bill Gates treated us to the wisdom that only SOCIALISM can solve the woes of this world. What these folks refuse to acknowledge that even THEY do not possess sufficient personal wealth to make a dent in those woes if the recipients of that largess are incapable of sustaining themselves once the largess stops flowing or is exhausted.
If one examines the life of Karl Marx, we find a bum who abandoned his wife and family to advance the socialist struggle and never worked or dirtied his hands at day in his life. That sort of thing was for the bourgeoisie, not such an exalted personage as himself. His guilt over that abandonment probably explains Karl’s fondness for state welfare paid for by the labor of others so that his abandoned family wouldn’t perish (not that a mensch like Karl gave a rat’s ass).
Dick Bachert
Oh my!
Trump is no George W. and i imagine the MSM, and GOPe for that matter, are scared witless knowing a President Trump will not be afraid to confront them.
People are waking up to the fact that the media is lying to them. But that’s not costing Hillary voters. What’s costing Hillary voters is the facts are getting out despite the media.
Nobody is saying if the media is for Hillary, then I’m not voting for her. They are saying, I’m not voting for Hillary and then they are realizing how biased the media is.
Once upon a time, there really were legendary reporters. The closest we’ve gotten in the last 50 years is Woodward and Bernstein, and even they gave up long ago.
Rigged debate, Hillary signals Holt.
Signaled and Triggered #RiggedDebate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XSuG5aCFGs
I was wondering how she was so ready for every question and response. The globalist had this all worked out. This was entirely rehearsed. Moderator uses Clinton campaign talking points disguised as questions, Clinton uses signals to steer moderation, and recites prepared retorts.
I’m not sold on the ear piece, but her responses did sound like she was reading them. I wouldn’t put it past her though.
Newspaper says “private email server...mistake”
Ha!
It was an integral part of the Clinton’s Crime Family operations.
That is like saying the Valentine’s Day Massacre was a “mistake” by Al Capone!
I wonder if Trump allowing Lesser Dolt to badger him this way is a calculated means to have any “hits” scored in such a manner backfire on Clinton.
Trump has thrown every other “rule” in the book out - so why not this one?
Hey Trump. Wake up. Attack Hillary AND the “Moderators.” Attack them mercilessly. Destroy them. They are freedom’s greatest enemy. Attack.
Very interesting and convincing analysis. This deserves its own thread for typical Freeper analysis.
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