Posted on 12/06/2011 8:38:52 PM PST by Lazlo in PA
Speaking to radio host Steve Malzberg on Tuesday, Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum weighed in with his thoughts on Donald Trump serving as moderator of the Newsmax ION Television Presidential Debate in Iowa on December 27.
When asked how he felt about a Trump-hosted debate, Santorum explained that, given the recent string of left-leaning journalists who have served as moderators — some of which he has “not felt comfortable” with — Trump could not be any worse.
“Brian Williams, I wasn’t comfortable with,” started Santorum, adding, “and I had every right not to be, given the questions he asked.”
“You go down the list of all the people they’ve had, these reporters who have tried to make this debate about them and not about the candidates and what they believe in, and rearranging time to make sure the people that they wanted to have time, get time.”
“I can’t see, in some cases, where Donald Trump would be any worse than what we get from the mainstream media,”
Some of the reporters who drew scorn in the radio segment included Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer and Charlie Rose to name a few.
Santorum also blasted previous debates for asking for “silly 30-second answers on how to solve world peace.”
“They don’t really make any bones about hiding their opinion,” Santorum said in reference to the mainstream media. “It used to be that the media may have quietly kept their own counsel and tried to do a reasonably fair job of reporting the news. Now they’re very explicit about the positions they take and the criticisms they level against conservatives.”
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Makes a whole lot of sense to me. These debate moderators have been downright terrible. How much worse could Trump be?
Sorry. Audio at LINK. Not clip.
Gotta agree, there.
Trump may actually be better. The MSM does not take kindly to encroachment upon their annointed territory.
Wish we could have debates without their sorry #$@%$es.
True actually! It is just why should Trump have any sway over any Republican contestants. He is trying to do that and that is wrong when he does it this way. He can object or support a candidate - he should not have anymore sway than that.
For some reason, he has become more influential (thank you MSM) than that and well, it’s not supported by the voters.
He can have his thing, but it should not be assumed to be detrimental to those that do not attend.
As far as I can tell, the only ones not attending right now are Mittens and Paul. Who cares if they get dinged?
No kidding! Trump has to be better than 98% of the liberal hacks at those MSM debates. Why have any liberals involved in the Republican primary process? The Republican primary is for the Republican party not the nation as a whole.
Trump is a fraction of the threat to conservative discourse in a debate setting than the Ed Schultz types who wholly dominate today’s media elite.
It was the RINO establishment who dissed Trump, on the birth
certificate, and the conservative base who embraced his straight up approach to the facts on the table. Now, you have RINO ROMNEY, who is propped up by the RINO establishment, dissing Trump again by declining the debate invitation, certainly acting on orders from headquarters.
Maybe Trump has had enough, and though it is possible that he favored Romney, Trump may hand the RINO crowd their head and decide to go hard straight at them, by endorsing and showering cash upon Newt, or one of the other conservatives. Trump has been manhandled by the moderates and the establishment—the very people who own Romney. It is doubtful that he likes it very much.
Heh, Well... You made my point, didn’t you?
Exactly. Even Miss America gets more time than that.
You better believe that the GOP establishment circled the wagons when Trump called out Rove for the waste of space he is. They probably told Mittens to boycott for that slight to their golden boy.
Score! Excellent point, Rick.
This is discrimination of the worse degree! All blondes, a dirty blonde, and 0 Brunettes? 0 Redheads?
That is what I was thinking. If the GOP candidates have any FREAKING BRAINS, why would they demean/hurt themselves by attending some shitty %$#@@ LEFTY shows? like MSNBC and the lesbian there? WHY??????????????
When I am sure there plenty of other more respectable conservative organizations who would be willing to hold them?
WE DON'T NEED THE FU**** LEFT, holding Republican debates!
‘How much worse could Trump be?’
At least Trump doesn’t want Obama to win again.
I don’t even care for Trump, but I care even less for the Obama media robots.
Trump said, one of the things he will focus on is Red China, and he said it’s not covered, and they are taking our jobs, manipulating our currency, and China’s a huge reason why we are down.
It’s a good thing Trump is bringing this to the table.
Huckabee’s forum was actually a very good example of how to do it. Conservative questioners. Conservative moderator. (eh, more or less. It was Huckabee.)
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