As usual, I’m with Michelle one hundred percent.
I can’t even watch the debates anymore, owing to the obvious prejudice of the moderators and the sense of injustice they generate, as well as the slimy feel of being barfed on by the networks with their unsavory and obviously partisan machinations.
Ms. Malkin nails it in the third paragraph:
“Masochistic Republican Party bosses let them get away with it year after year after year. “
That is why this year is (finally) different.
The GOP has a man running, who actually wants to take them on. How long, have we waited for someone who stood up, for real.
I am very much looking forward to this election.
First one in many years, I am so excited about. For real.
Way to go Michelle.
Any Republican who would agree to the media-circus of these biased “debates” should be considered too stupid to run for president. NO DEBATES would be better than these debates have been, because even if the GOP candidate wins, the media will dig up dirt to obliterate the victory, as they did to Trump. Hopefully, there will be no Republican Party next time to cave to the Democrats. We desperately need another choice.
When I look down the road to “after the election” I see a number of possibilities with fluctuating probabilities. Only one contains a future of more of these phony debates and the probability of that future is dimming by the minute. Enjoy this one because, IMHO, it is the last.
Nailed it again, Love Michelle!
Lighten up guys, Chris Wallace will do his ‘John Harwood’ best.
Trump loses, and I boycott all network TV forever. I’ve already canceled cable. So, I won’t see future debates unless they’re streamed. However, I’m hoping that the next debate I watch is as a Texan national in their first presidential debate.
President Trump needs to simply ditch the debates in 2020.
That being said, the Republicans have been nothing but either a bunch of total suckers, or else willing accomplices of the Dems.
Stupidity explains a lot (and the Republicans ARE the Stupid Party), but this level of stupidity over such a long period of time simply cannot be the explanation - it is “willing accomplices” IMHO.
There will be no more “debates.” There will be televised Media events disguised as “debates” between the UniParty’s pre-selected, bought-and-paid-for “candidates.” Political reality TV for the ignorant masses.
The New World Order.
The even bigger farce? Uniparty co-conspirator protected/elitist/political/criminal class assist each other.
/kabuki theater.
We stopped watching the Dog and Pony Show Debates way back. If this production is how people get their info to vote from I can understand how this country came off the rails. The debates are theater for the illegal immigrants who vote, cartoons they can understand.
I’m a lot more relaxed now that I’ve stopped watching national and local news for at least the last two months. I check the online sites for weather. I find it hard to forgive them for pushing Hillary and bashing Trump every chance they get. They’re destroying America. As for tonight’s debate, I don’t think I can sit thru Hillary’s bull. Good luck guys when she comes for your guns and your taxes soar to pay for illegals. Thank the dumb women who pass around screaming cat photos on Facebook with the caption Trump touched me, and giggle online over SNL getting Trump. I’ve unfriended a number of them.
There is only one logical way to do a debate. Mano a mano, moderated only by a chess timer to control the microphones.Broadcast journaLIBs would never stand for that, so the only way it could be done would be online. Therefore, it should be done online. If, please God, Trump wins - and chooses to run for reelection in ’20 - he should preemptively demand that - and nothing else. NO moderator.
But of course, we know that the journaLIBS will be having an unprecedented meltdown if God blesses us with a Hillary defeat.
Why do we even need moderators for debates? Who the hell wants to hear them anyway? Flip a coin to see who speaks first. Turn that candidate’s microphone on for 2 minutes. At the end of that time, turn it off and turn on the other candidate’s mic for 2 minutes. Rinse and repeat for 90 minutes (or whatever time is agreed upon). Candidates can use their speaking time to talk about whatever they want, can question their opponent, whatever; no rules about what they can or can’t talk about.
There would be no question about bias in that format and you’d probably see candidates have more actual dialog with each othervabout issues rather than just trying to score soundbite moments.
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 . . .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 . . .
The natural disposition is always to believe. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing.
. . . It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
Trump will call the poseurs out.
We have the best nominee to deal with these bias phonys ever. No worrys.
American political debates have ALWAYS been bad theater. Don’t watch them. They’re a complete waste of time.
Watching Chris suck up to Clinton. Let’s give Hillary the last word on Immigration.