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Lester Holt's Debate Bias: By The Numbers
hannity.com ^ | September 28 2016 | hannity.com staff

Posted on 09/29/2016 2:07:30 PM PDT by grundle

As was expected, Monday night’s presidential debate moderator, Lester Holt couldn’t exactly hide his bias towards Hillary Clinton….

The Daily Caller points out, “Holt interrupted Trump a whopping 41 times, either to “fact-check” the Republican nominee, or to ask a follow-up question. Clinton was only interrupted seven times during the course of the 90-minute debate.”

The so-called NBC journalist interrupted Trump 10 times during an exchange about the GOP nominee’s position on the Iraq war, and demanded at least 5 times why Trump thought he had better judgment than Clinton.

A Breitbart analysis of the debate transcript notes that Lester Holt only asked six questions directed at both candidates. Other than that, the “moderator” asked 15 questions exclusively of Trump and only TWO of Hillary Clinton….

I agree with Rudy Giuliani- Holt should be ashamed of himself.


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KEYWORDS: debate; lesterholt; media; mediabias; msm
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To: TheNext
Hillary had 6 Major Debate Cheats.

Can you kindly list them?

41 posted on 09/29/2016 3:19:14 PM PDT by HangUpNow
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To: bgill

I do not buy your theory. Trump is auditioning for the most powerful position in the world. If he can’t see or solve that problem then he has no reason running the world. Hillery be damned.

“not to mention that Hillary’s mike was extra-high and Trumps was extra-low (forcing him to hunch over to speak)”

Mic heights.


42 posted on 09/29/2016 3:33:53 PM PDT by Dacula (Southern lives matter!)
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To: HangUpNow

I’d advise him to bring out the 16 inch guns next time around. And make sure his mic placement and volume suits him. Lotta lessons need to be learned and applied from the first go-round.

Btw, I found out yesterday that WA state has an “honors system” when it comes to voting. No joke. No proof of citizenship required. Gee, ya think that if illegals primarily voted for Republican candidates there’d be an “honors system?” Chyeah right.


43 posted on 09/29/2016 3:35:51 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo ("To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." - Teddy Roosevelt)
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To: HangUpNow

HILLARY DEBATE CHEATS

{ Can you kindly list them? }

Certainly. This is the current comprehensive list.

HILLARY CHEATED 9 WAYS

1) Audio Tampering
1a) Higher Volume: eg sounds like Trump yelling
1b) Low Frequency Band eg sounds like Trump sniffling
1c) Feedback Tampering eg screech

2) Questions Ahead of Time
3) Hillary illegal hidden Earphone
4) Moderator Interruptions/Distortion eg 41 to 7
5) Microphone Height Tampering: eg Trump slouching

6) Moderator illegal Earphone eg attack instructions
7) Body/Hand cues: Moderator/Hillary

Nine cheats. Trump still won.

I have listed all these from various media reports.


44 posted on 09/29/2016 4:03:48 PM PDT by TheNext (Hillary Hurts Children & Women)
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To: TheNext

All those people willing to vote for H3llary. Because of who she actually is, I am both disgusted and dispirited.

This is our national Gettysburg/Vicksburg, and traitors support this monster.


45 posted on 09/29/2016 4:08:34 PM PDT by combat_boots (MSM: We lie to you sheep at the slaughterhouse to keep you calm during slaughter)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Honor? HONOR?

Among DEMOCRATS?


46 posted on 09/29/2016 4:10:06 PM PDT by combat_boots (MSM: We lie to you sheep at the slaughterhouse to keep you calm during slaughter)
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To: grundle

bkmk


47 posted on 09/29/2016 4:25:56 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: HangUpNow

1) Biased moderator.

2) Knew questions ahead of time.

3) Note pad full pre debate.

4) Microphone height.

5) Podium height.

6) Back camera angled so both candidates would be the same height.

7) Her own little lighted podium teleprompter.


48 posted on 09/29/2016 4:26:31 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: grundle

Lester dolt


49 posted on 09/29/2016 4:39:22 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (I)
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To: grundle

Well, yeah, but didn’t he make it obvious before the debate he was going to do this?


50 posted on 09/29/2016 5:21:13 PM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: grundle
Journalists are in the negativity business; “If it bleeds, it leads” is no joke.

Journalists are also in the persuasion business;

The man whom we believe is necessarily, in the things concerning which we believe him, our leader and director, and we look up to him with a certain degree of esteem and respect. But as from admiring other people we come to wish to be admired ourselves; so from being led and directed by other people we learn to wish to become ourselves leaders and directors . . .

The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)

One thing journalists are most eager to persuade the public of: the fatuous conceit that “all journalists are objective.” Journalism needs to sell that meme because without it, there is no trusting journalists in far-flung places whom not even the editors of the newspapers we read know. But since journalists know that they are negative, when they claim objectivity they are claiming that negativity is objectivity. And that is a perfect definition of cynicism.

Journalists are cynical about society - about we, the people. But they also sell naivete towards government:

SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil . . . - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)

Such being the case, it is utterly naive of anyone to be surprised that journalists and other socialists are birds of an ideological feather.

51 posted on 09/29/2016 5:26:12 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: grundle

The BIG problem is that Holt asked questions about trivia—”birther”, tax returns, “Miss Piggy”, etc., instead of the REAL issues of Hillary’s warmongering and unleashing of the barbarian invasions of the West, clinton-Foundation corruption, JOBS, illegal immigration, drugs, etc.

PHOOEY to him!!!! He gets a big “F” on his performance as a “moderator”!!!!


52 posted on 09/30/2016 7:13:32 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Ray76

That is excellent.


53 posted on 09/30/2016 7:21:09 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick

I thought it was pretty awesome too! That’s why I turned it into a gif, so it can be easily mailed or posted. I don’t know who made the video, of course that’s even better since it has sound and motion.


54 posted on 09/30/2016 7:56:56 AM PDT by Ray76
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To: TheNext; bgill
Thank you both for listing the specifics regarding Hitlery's DEBATE CHEATS. Excellent job.

The degree of over all cheating, questioning set ups, blatant moderator bias and nagging, and signaling between Holt and Hillary was blatant enough; The audio tampering were subtleties that still undermined Trump. This indicts NBC's tech stage crew for their part in the sabotage. Now WHY NBC was EVER accepted as a DEBATE venue to begin with is insane.

Trump's staff obviously needs a "Special Ops" brigade just for debates. I hope they wise up in time for the next debate ambush.

Perhaps we should start and maintain a thread dedicated to "HILLARY'S DEBATE CHEATS"; Other variations should be expected during the next two debates.

55 posted on 09/30/2016 9:32:16 AM PDT by HangUpNow
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

I just don’t want to see us being reduced to delusions like we were with Mittens.


56 posted on 09/30/2016 12:16:07 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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